June 2025 News

Professor Rene Almeling's book GUYnecology featured at ASA

Mon, 09/19/2022
Professor Rene Almeling’s latest book, GUYnecology: The Missing Science of Men’s Reproductive Health (University of California Press, 2020) was one of fourteen books chosen for a Book Forum session at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in Los Angeles last month Read more...

Newly Added Courses for Fall 2022

Tue, 08/09/2022
The following courses have been added to the Sociology department course list.   Politics and Culture; SOCY 205; Yasmur Karakaya Sports and Society;  SOCY 103; Alex Manning Sociology of Education; SOCY 329; Grace Kao   Read more...

Yagmur Karakaya Appointed as Associate Director of the CCS

Thu, 07/21/2022
CCS Co-Directors Jeffrey Alexander and Philip Smith are pleased to announce that Yale Sociology Assistant Professor Yağmur Karakaya has been appointed  Associate Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology.  More information on the CCS Website at https://ccs.yale.edu/news/yagmur-karakaya- Read more...

A paper examining the effect of remote work on parents' time use patterns written by Thomas Lyttelton (Yale soc PhD), Yale faculty Emma Zang, and Kelly Musick (Cornell) has won an IPUMS Time Use Research Award

Tue, 06/21/2022
The paper Telecommuting and gender inequalities in parents’ paid and unpaid work before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by Thomas Lyttelton, Emma Zang, and Kelly Musick won an IPUMS Time Use Research Award. Lyttelton and colleagues use data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the Current Read more...

Mustafa Yavas Awarded the 2022 Sussman Dissertation Prize

Mon, 06/13/2022
The 2022 Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize was awarded to Mustafa Yavas, PhD, who is currently a a postdoctoral scholar at NYU Abu Dhabi. In a dissertation entitled “White-Collar Blues?: The Making of the Transnational Middle Class in Turkey,” Yavas asks: how do “good jobs” endow elite workers Read more...

Sociology Chair Phil Gorski and co-author Sam Perry were featured in an interview in New York Magazine on Christian Nationalism and American Democracy

Thu, 06/09/2022
Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, co-authors of the new book The Flag and the Cross, were featured in an interview in New York Magazine on the threat to democracy of White Christian Nationalism.          Read more...

Sociology Chair Phil Gorski published an op-ed, along with Samuel Perry, coauthor of "The Flag and the Cross", on the expansion of White, Christian Nationalism

Wed, 05/25/2022
Phil Gorski,  Frederick and Laura Goff Professor and Chair, Sociologyand Samuel L. Perry published an op-ed, “With the Buffalo massacre, white Christian nationalism strikes again” in the May 20th Washington Post on the toxic ideology, and spread of White Christian nationalism.   Read more...

Sociology Chair Philip Gorski, quoted in New Yorker article.

Phil Gorski
Wed, 05/25/2022
Phil Gorsky, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor and Chair, Sociology, was quoted in a New Yorker article concerning Pennsylvannia candidate for governor Doug Mastriano, a prominant leader in the “Stop the Steal” campaign, who also espouses religious right beliefs that God - and the Founders - Read more...

Sociology Chair Phil Gorski interviewed for Washington Post story on "great replacement" theory.

Wed, 05/25/2022
Phil Gorski,  Frederick and Laura Goff Professor and Chair, Sociology, was interviewed for a May 16 column in the Washington Post on the mainstreaming of formerly fringe beliefs about a deliberate plot to replace native-born White Americans with Democratic-voting immigrants, a theory which appears Read more...

Phil Gorski, was quoted in the Washington Post, on "Christian nationalism" in the Doug Mastriano campaign for governor of Pennsylvania.

Wed, 05/25/2022
Phil Gorski,  Frederick and Laura Goff Professor and Chair, Sociology was interviewed for a May 16 Washington Post religion article on Doug Mastriano, a retired Army colonel and Jan. 6 marcher, running for governor of Pennsylvania, who is part of a “Christian nationalist” movement, that argues that Read more...