Graduate student Candas Pinar has a new article out in the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. In it, she argues that unifying notions of Islam often undermine meaningful differences. She analyzes Turkish parliamentary debates to show that the Justice and Development Party privileges a totalizingRead more...
Paul DiMaggio to deliver Hollingshead Lecture
Fri, 01/10/2014
The Department is pleased to announce that Professor Paul DiMaggio will deliver this year’s Hollingshead Lecture, titled “Analyzing Environments of Representation: Using Topic Models to Study Cultural Change”. DiMaggio is the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at PrincetonRead more...
Gallopin Interviewed on French TV
Fri, 12/27/2013
Graduate Student Jean-Baptiste Gallopin recently appeared on France24 news as a political analyst and Sudanese specialist, speaking on the conflict in South Sudan. Watch his interview in French here, and in a second interview in English here.
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Uneasy Settlements: Reparation Politics and the Meanings of Money in the Israeli Withdrawal from Gaza
Fri, 12/27/2013
Graduate student Shai Dromi just published new research in the journal Sociological Inquiry on the communicative functions of money in the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. In it he argues that, through demands for compensation, settlers resisted shame and devaluation when evicted by the state throughRead more...
“We wanted to understand the problem and look for data-driven solutions”: New Op-ed on Gun Violence
Mon, 12/23/2013
An op-ed on gun violence written collectively by Yale’s new “Guns in the United States” course has been published in the Hartford Courant. The course was led by Professor Andrew Papachristos from our department and Professor Tracey Meares from the Law School, and authors included, amongRead more...
Anderson Keynote Address at Criminology Conference
Wed, 12/11/2013
Professor Elijah Anderson was invited to deliver a keynote address about the case of Trayvon Martin at the recent meeting of the American Society of Criminology. In his talk, he argued that in the minds of many Americans, the ghetto is where “the black people live,” symbolizing an impoverished,Read more...
New Yale Journal of Sociology
Fri, 12/06/2013
The Yale Journal of Sociology for 2013 has been released and is now available online from our homepage. As is customary it features items from authors at the two ends of academic hierarchy. Professor Charles Camic of Northwestern University provides our offering from a leading figure while 2013Read more...
Papachristos on Networks and Violence in the Washington Post
Wed, 12/04/2013
Professor Andrew Papachristos has published a new op-ed in the Washington Post drawing on his research with Professor Christopher Wildeman on social networks and gun violence. He argues that “by studying gun violence like we study disease, we, as a society, can improve our chances of discoveringRead more...
Rene Almeling's op-ed "The Unregulated Sperm Industry" published in Sunday's New York Times
Sat, 11/30/2013
Professor Rene Almeling wrote an op-ed that appeared in Sunday’s New York Times. In it, she argues that the changing technological and economic landscape of sperm donation has produced uncertainty about how many donors there are in the United States, how often they donate, and how many children areRead more...
New Work on Avant-Garde Theatre
Tue, 11/26/2013
A new article in Theory, Culture & Society by Professor Jeff Alexander is out now online ahead of print. In the article, Alexander considers avant-garde theatre as a challenge to theories of social performance, and suggests a new perspective on drama and society. Congratulations, Jeff!
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