2020-01-22
- Professor Buckley was recently featured on an episode of the podcast "The 21st." In the episode, she discusses population loss in the state as well as her work with the watchdog organization The Census Project, whose goal is to ensure a fair and accurate 2020 US Census. To listen to the episode, click here...
2019-12-05 - Sociology Colloquium A persistent challenge in democracies, particularly in industries controlled by professions, is for citizens and critics to be able to understand an industry sufficiently well to regulate it. This challenge is magnified when one body of expert knowledge—such as theology—is applied to another body of expert knowledge—such as the products and services of the finance...
2019-11-19 - PhD student, Mona Khneisser, recently published an article in Jacobin about the uprising in Lebanon. Find the article here: ...
2019-11-19 - Ms. Kathleen Ernst PhD student of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, United States delivered a significant donation of equipment for the Room for the Care of People with Special Needs "Frank Emilio". The donation was received by Eliani de la Torre Puig, Head of the General Service Room "Domingo Figarola Caneda" and Esperanza Rijo, a specialist for the Care of People...
2019-09-11 - Poverty tourism, also known as slum tourism, often refers specifically to guided tours through the urban “slums” of the Global South. The practice has become a popular form of “development,” in a number of cities across the Global South, with the townships of Johannesburg and the favelas of Rio de Janeiro receiving the most traffic. However, in this chapter, I draw attention to the similarities...- 2019-08-22 - 2019, American Sociological Association, History of Sociology Section, Lifetime Achievement Award Norbert Wiley, Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. Throughout his long and successful career, Professor Wiley has produced several dozens of texts, a considerable number of which have become cornerstones in scholarly fields concerned with the history of sociology and...
- 2019-02-12 - See the full article at Zippia, "These Are The 10 Best Colleges For Sociology Majors In Illinois For 2018".
2018-10-04 - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Rebecca Sandefur, a professor of sociology and of law at the University of Illinois, has been awarded a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a “genius grant,” from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The fellowship carries an unrestricted $625,000...
2018-08-23 - Ruby Mendenhall discusses a point during a meeting last spring with collaborators on an art exhibition, one of her many interdisciplinary projects. See the full article at the Illinois News Bureau.
2018-08-21 - See the full article at the Illinois News Bureau.
2018-06-05 - To read more about the award, see the full article on the MSU website.
2017-10-19 - Employers weigh internships more heavily in hiring than where you went to school, your grades or your major – that’s the essence of a quote pinned outside the sociology department’s academic advising office at Illinois. It may not be universally true; it’s the conclusion of just one study four years ago. But for Nicole Holtzclaw-Stone,...- 2017-10-18 - Thousands flooded streets and squares in the Arab Spring of 2011, and dictators fell. But true revolution never came, or has been thwarted since. University of Illinois sociology professor Asef Bayat, in a new book, argues that activists never thought out or planned for true revolution – at least not the 20th-century kind, as in Russia 100 years ago or Iran and Nicaragua six...
- 2017-10-18 - For much of America’s history, the middle class has been a useful paradigm for understanding what is meant by "the American dream." But across the country, definitions of the middle class are changing, and income data recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau prompts questions about the differing experiences of who identifies as part of the middle class. The Census Bureau data says the 2016...