Sociologists Join Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies Panel on Gun Violence
Wed, 02/06/2013
The Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS) will host a panel, “Preventing Gun Violence: What Research and Experience Can Tell Us About What Works,” on Thursday, February 7, from 6:30-7:30 PM in LC 102. Professor Andrew Papachristos and Michael Sierra-Arevalo, a doctoral student inRead more...
ASA Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award Recognizes Professor Elijah Anderson
Tue, 01/29/2013
Elijah Anderson, William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology, has received the prestigious Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association. The award recognizes work in the tradition of African-American scholars W.E.B. DuBois, Oliver Cromwell Cox, Charles S. Johnson, and E.Read more...
CCR Biannual Grad Conference at New Haven Lawn Club
Sat, 01/26/2013
The biannual Grad Student Conference of the Center for Comparative Research (CCR) was held on January 26 at the New Haven Lawn Club. This year’s special program, “The Meaning of Location; The Location of Meaning,” saw grad students from Yale, Brown, CUHK, NYU, Columbia, and Harvard presentRead more...
Nicholas Christakis, Frederick F. Wherry to Join Faculty in 2013
Tue, 01/15/2013
Frederick F. Wherry will join the Yale faculty as Professor of Sociology on July 1 2013. Professor Wherry, currently at Columbia University, is the author of several noted books on the intersection of culture and economic processes, including The Culture of Markets(Polity, 2012), The PhiladelphiaRead more...
“Emmett and Trayvon:” Elijah Anderson Article in Washington Monthly
Mon, 01/14/2013
Emmett Till, 14, who was murdered in 1955, and Trayvon Martin, 17, slain in 2011, have become symbols of some of the challenges that have faced young black men in America. Professor Elijah Anderson compares their killings, and “different strains of racial tension,” in an article in WashingtonRead more...
New Book, Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, edited by Phil Gorski
Mon, 01/14/2013
A volume of essays, Bourdieu and Historical Analysis, edited by Professor Philip Gorski, has just been published in the Politics, History, and Culture Series of Duke University Press. The volume focuses on Bourdieu as a theorist of social transformation and historical change. Duke Press >> Read more...
Ron Eyerman Featured on Mobilizing Ideas
Thu, 12/20/2012
Professor Ron Eyerman’s recent post on “Youths, Spittle, and Reflections on ‘Emotion in Motion’ ” can be found on Mobilizing Ideas, produced by the Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame. Read his essay here >>
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Jeffrey Guhin Dissertation Featured in GSAS News
Sat, 12/15/2012
Jeffrey Guhin’s dissertation research draws on both his intellectual interest in the sociology of religion and education and his own personal history. His thesis, “Moral Technology: Science, Religion, and Right Action in Evangelical and Sunni Schools,” is a comparative ethnography of fourRead more...
2012 Yale Journal of Sociology Now Available Online!
Tue, 11/20/2012
Edited by Professor Philip Smith, the 2012 Yale Journal of Sociology is now available on this website, Download the new journal, and past editions here >>sociology/yjs.html. The YJS publishes a range of topics and styles of work, in the form of undergraduate senior theses, articles by YaleRead more...
Peter Salovey to be Yale's Next President
Mon, 11/12/2012
The Sociology department congratulates Peter Salovey on his new appointment! See Yale news >>. Salovey, who is currently Yale’s Provost as well as the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology, is also due to begin a courtesy appointment in Sociology in 2013. In addition to his PsychologyRead more...
