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Department of Sociology
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Department of Sociology
Welcome to the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus. Our community consists of 30 faculty, approximately 80 graduate students, and more than 500 undergraduate majors. During our 100 plus year history, many of our graduates have made distinguished contributions. As one of the premier departments in the College of Liberal Arts, we offer stimulating courses and conduct renowned, leading-edge research.
News
New Approach to Teaching Theory
January 31st, 2012
In Social Theory re-wired: New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives, Wesley Longhofer (Ph.D. 2011) and Daniel Winchester's (Ph.D, candidate) combine the structure of a print reader with the flexibility of an interactive website with a wide variety of innovative material including interactive annotations of key readings; summaries of key concepts; biographies of theorists and schools; writing activities with interactive capabilities; and an array of supplemental texts and videos. Uggen Receives Equal Justice Award
Chris Uggen was honored by the Council on Crime and Justice with their 2011 Equal Justice Award recognizing those who provide exemplary leadership in helping to create safer, stronger, and more just communities. He was selected for ensuring that injustices in society remain at the forefront of public thought and discourse until they are resolved, particularly through his research and advocacy work in offender reentry and felon disenfranchisement.
December 1st, 2011Books Recently Released
Doug Hartmann and Chris Uggen have edited the 2nd edition of The Contexts Reader containing more than 60 of the best articles from the award-winning Contexts Magazine. New to this edition are articles from the magazine while it was edited at the University of Minnesota.
In At this Defining Moment, Enid Logan provides a nuanced analysis framed by innovative theoretical insights to explore how Barack Obama's presidential candidacy both reflected and shaped the dynamics of race in the United States.
In Entitled to Nothing, Lisa Sun-Hee Park investigates how the politics of immigration, health care, and welfare are intertwined and how the concept of "public charge" or "public burden" continue to influence our conception of who can legitimately access public programs. She shows the consequences for the immigrant community and makes important policy suggestions for reforming our immigration system.
In The Slums of Aspen, Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Pellow, use a wide range of sources including extensive interviews with town officers, school teachers, immigration-control officials, social-service providers and many Latino immigrant workers and their families, to report on the paradox of social contempt for and economic dependence on immigrant labor, as they reveal its root causes and impacts. Some of the press they have received include an opinion piece in the Denver Post.
October 18th, 2011
In American Memories, Joachim Savelsberg and Ryan King rigorously examine how the United States remembers its own and others' atrocities and how institutional responses to such crimes, including trials and tribunals, may help shape memories and perhaps impede future violence.
Announcements
Contexts Leaving Minnesota
We have had the honor of editing Contexts for the past four years. Beginning with the 2012 volume, Contexts will move to its new editorial office under the direction of Jodi O’Brien (Seattle University) and Arlene Stein (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey). In the Fall 2011 issue, civic recreation and fitness fundraisers, challenging the myth of the lonely genius, and the sociology of death and dying are explored as well as international adoption, images of everyday life, and the marketing of “closure”.
Spring 2012 Sociology Workshop Series
The spring schedule for the Sociology Department Workshop Series is now available. This series in an opporunity for our graduate students, faculty and visiting scholars to present their research. Workshops take place on Tuesday from 4:00-5:15 pm in 1114 Social Sciences unless otherwise noted.
Grads on the Market
View U of M Ph.D. candidates now on the job market.
Research News
Motherhood Wage Penalty
Jeremy Staff (PhD 2004) & Jeylan T. Mortimer examine whether the motherhood wage penalty results from differences in the accumulation of work interruptions and breaks in schooling in their recent Demography article, Explaining the Motherhood Wage Penalty During the Early Occupational Career.
February 9th, 2012Many Resist Census Race Labels
Carolyn Liebler was recently quoted by the Associated Press regarding the 2010 Census racial categories where at least 1 in 14 went beyond the standard labels and wrote how they self identity.
February 2nd, 2012
