Graduate student and teaching assistant Amirhossein Teimourigerdeh recently had a paper published in the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society.
From the abstract: "...This study examines the depoliticization of public intellectuals and particularly religious public intellectuals, during Iran’s 2013 presidential race. The political authority of public...
Professor Emeritus Norbert Wiley recently had a paper published in The American Sociologist. The paper discusses the initial push in 1976 from Professor Wiley and his colleague, Norm Denzin, to "broaden and democratize" the scope of what was published in the American Sociological Review. Professor Wiley attended a Council meeting of the ASR and...
Congratulations to PhD student Mona Khneisser on being awarded the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award from Critical Sociology. "In his memory and in recognition of his commitment to nurture junior scholars, the Editorial Board of Critical Sociology has created the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award recognizing an...
A collaboration of Professor Caitlin Clarke's, “Olympic Music and Cultural Taste: Olympic Ice Dancing in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games," was recently published in the Sociology of Sport Journal. (2020) Abstract: "This cultural-interpretive essay offers critical commentary on Koreanness, racial ideology, hegemonic racial power, and racialized cultural...
In the "Faces of the Pandemic" Dossier from Books and Ideas. Incoming professor Matthew Soener recently published an article discussing the influence austerity politics in Europe are having on the course of the coronavirus pandemic. "The Covid-19 virus follows years of austerity politics...
"The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe." (2020, Indiana University Press) Edited by Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincyte and Zsuzsa Gille What does the good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in...
By Department Head Tim Futing Liao in Sociological Methods and Research. In common sociological research, income inequality is measured only at the aggregate level. The main purpose of this article is to demonstrate that there is more than meets the eye when inequality is indicated by a single measure. In this article, Dr. Liao introduces an alternative method that evaluates individuals’...
By Department Head Tim F. Liao, Roger Yat-Nork Chung, and Eric Fong. This article discusses an innovative method of collecting survey data on a special population, migrant live-in domestic workers, for which it is difficult to define an appropriate sampling framework. These migrant workers, however, have regular gatherings in public spaces within a certain period of time during the weekends. The...
By Department Head Tim F. Liao and Rebecca Yiqing Gan. This article presents a portrayal of Filipino and Indonesian female domestic workers’ life courses in migration, using the life history calendar data from the 2017 survey of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. Applying sequence analysis, we first analyzed migration trajectory features such as individual migration...
By Dr. José Atiles. Published March 10th, 2020 in the journal Latin American Perspectives This paper is a socio-legal analysis of the sources of Puerto Rico’s fiscal and economic crisis points to the use of the colonial state of exception as an economic development policy facilitating the creation of a tax-haven-like economy and normalizing a series of a colonial-state–corporate...