November 2023 News

CCS Director Jeffrey Alexander addressing the 2023 Meeting of the Civil Sphere Working Group held in October in Heidelberg, Germany

Tue, 11/28/2023

The Civil Sphere Working Group is composed of theorists and empirical social scientists who share the goal of developing and revising Civil Sphere Theory, fifteen years after its seminal formulation in Jeffrey C. Alexander’s The Civil Sphere (Oxford UP, 2006). Read more...

Recent Sociology Department Graduate and current CCS Faculty Fellow Todd Madigan Shares Newest Publication

Tue, 11/28/2023

CCS Faculty Fellow Todd Madigan most recent publication, “Inverted Totems: On the Significance of “Woke” in the Culture Wars,” has recently been published in the journal Religions - part of the Religions Special Issue “Culture Wars and Their Socioreligious Background” co-edited by CCS Faculty Read more...

CCS Director Jeffrey Alexander, has been awarded the honorary academic degree of doctor honoris causa at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Mon, 11/27/2023

Elijah Anderson published an essay on White backlash against Black success in the Atlantic.

Thu, 11/09/2023

Elijan Anderson, Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies at Yale, and a recent Stockholm Prize Laureate, published an essay in the Atlantic magazine on “Black Success, White Backlash” and how that affects life for people of color in the U.S. Read more...

Philip Gorsky interviewed on the influence of Christian Nationalism on American politics by Meghna Chakrabarti on NPR’s “On Point.”

Tue, 11/07/2023

Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Yale Sociology Department was interviewed about the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and the influence of Christian Nationalism on American politics by Meghna Chakrabarti on NPR’s “On Point.” Read more...

Philip Gorski Quoted in NYTimes on New House Speaker

Thu, 11/02/2023

Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Yale Sociology Department was quoted in the New York Times in a guest essay on the new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson entitled ‘The Embodiment of White Christian Nationalism in a Tailored Suit’. According to Gorski Read more...

Professor Rene Almeling's research featured in Wall Street Journal