Yale Journal of Sociology
The Yale Journal of Sociology (YJS) was launched in 2000 to promote the work of the Department’s undergraduates. In 2003 it was extended to include research by the wider Yale departmental community. The final issue was published in 2013.
Funding for the Yale Journal of Sociology was provided by the Rose Sociology Resource Fund.
Fall 2013 / Volume 10.
Full content: YJS-Fall-2013.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
Philip Smith - From Discipline to World: The Gift of Dual Membership
Charles Camic - Deconstructing Aurora: How Hollywood Averted Cultural Backlash in the Face of National Tragedy
Deandra Tan - Corporate Social Responsibility in China: A Snapshot From the Field
Amy Tsang - Sociologies of Empire: Concepts, Continuities and Questions
Nicholas Hoover Wilson
Fall 2012 / Volume 9.
Full content: YJS-Fall-2012.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
Philip Smith - The Politics of Religion, the Religion of Politics, and the Good Society
Immanuel Wallerstein - Causal Sex: Sexual Ethics and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Jeffrey Hudson - “It’s Not Her Fault!”: Miley Cyrus, Fan Culture and the Neutralization of Deviance
Monica Qiu - “People Like Us Don’t Go There”: Local Culture and College Aspirations in Rural Nebraska
Benjamin M. Robbins - World Systemic and Kondratieff Cycles
Kristin Plys - Sex, Gender, and the 2012 Struggle over the Presidency of the University of Virginia
Andrea Press
Fall 2011 / Volume 8.
Full content: yjs_fall_2011.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
Philip Smith - August B. Hollingshead’s “Four Factor Index of Social Status”: From Unpublished Paper to Citation Classic
Julia Adams and David L. Weakliem - Four Factor Index of Social Status
August B. Hollingshead - Teacher/ Police: How Inner-City Students Perceive the Connection Between the Education System and the Criminal Justice System
Cara McClellan - Constructing Public Preschool: Women, Poverty, Politics, and the Development of Public Preschool in the United States
Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith - Providers’ Perspectives on the Role of Race in Maternal Health
Ariel Franks - Surviving the Forest: Ethnography of New Haven’s Tent City
Andrew Udelsman - A Memo on Style: Reflections on “Style” as a Sociological Concept
Scott A. Boorman
Fall 2007 / Volume 7.
Full content: yjs_fall_2007.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
Ivan Szelenyi - Education and Aids: How HIV and AIDS Influence Attitudes to Education and Affect Students in Poor, Urban South Africa Townships
Janine Morna - Diversity in Classroom and Curriculum? Discourses of Race and Homosexuality in Elm City High School Social Studies Classrooms
Elizabeth Humphries - Intergenerational Mobility by Race: Can the Black Middle Class Reproduce Itself?
Sarah Ireland
Fall 2006 / Volume 6.
Full content: yjs_fall_2006.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
Ivan Szelenyi - Understanding Global Embeddedness: Discourses on Self, Work and Globalization Among Kenyan Apparel Workers
Andrea Chinyere Ezie - Patrolling the Cuckoo’s Nest
Molissa Farber - Normative Dissonance and Anomie: A Prospective Microlevel Model of Adolescent Suicide Ideation
Jennifer Lee - Academic and Social Motivators for Public and Private School Choice: A Case Study of a Small Town
Ann Martin
Fall 2005 / Volume 5.
Full content: yjs_fall_2005.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Class and Culture: What the Sneetches Can Teach Us
Julia Adams - Against the Wal-Martization of America: Lessons for the Labor Movement from the ILWU and UFCW in California
Sam Bernstein - Labor Markets in Transition: Gender, Unemployment, and Labor Force Participation in Poland and Hungary
Christy M. Glass and Janette Kawachi
Fall 2004 / Volume 4.Special Feature: Yale Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course (CIQLE).
Full content: yjs_fall_2004.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Assessing the Trends: African-American Endeavors into the Medical Profession
Karintha Holifield - In Search of an Aphrodisiac: Putting the Romance into Models of Marriage
Averil Y. Clarke - Returns to Skills: Vocational Training in Germany 1935-2000
Matthias Pollmann-Schult and Karl Ulrich Mayer - Increasing Risks of Stigmatization: Changes in School-to-Work Transitions of Less-Educated West Germans
Heike Solga
Fall 2003 / Volume 3.Special Feature: Yale Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS).
Full content: yjs_fall_2003.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Editors’ Preface
Martin de Santos and Iván Szelényi - I Live Here: Neighborhood, Identity, Space and Control in Urban Centers
Candace McKinley - Towards a New, Macro-Sociological Theory of Performance
Jeffrey C. Alexander - Critics as Mediators of Authenticity: Eichmann in Jerusalem
Ates Altinordu - Performances in Search of an Author: The Symbolic Life of an Economic Indicator
Martin de Santos - Setting the Stage: A Cultural Approach to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Tanya Goodman - Discourse and Practice in a World of Strangers
Jason Mast - Structural Hermeneutics and the Possibility of a Cultural Science
Isaac Reed - On Television and the Death of News (and why I am not in mourning)
Ronald N. Jacobs - Constructing Culture: Women Patrons and the Concert Halls of Los Angeles
Lisa McCormick - Marcel Proust as Successor and Precursor to Pierre Bourdieu: A Fragment
Philip Smith
Fall 2002 / Volume 2.
Full content: yjs_fall_2002.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- The World Bank and Sustainable Development: A Marriage of Convenience or True Love?
Emi Lesure - Looking for Hip Hop: Seeing the Body Communicate in Everyday Social Encounters and Visual Commodity Culture
Kristina Toth
Spring 2001 / Volume 1.
Full content: yjs_spring_2001.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Introduction
Roger Gould - Resource Mobilization in Schismatic Movements: A Case Study of Corpus Christi Catholic Church
Damon W. Mayrl - Behind the Numbers: Why Black Women Withdraw Early from Selective Colleges and Universities?
Ayanna M. Johnson