Sociology -- the systematic study of social life and social transformation -- is thriving at Yale.
In 1875, Yale professor William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) offered the first American course titled “Sociology.”
Today's department spans a wide array of areas and specialties, balanced with an emphasis on the core concepts, theory and methods of the discipline. Much is new since Sumner's day, but the Yale department still offers an overarching vision of the field, its future, and its relationship to knowledge of our changing world.
February 6, 2012 This year's Hollingshead lecture is presented by Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago. Tuesday, February 28th, 2012. 4pm-5:30pm. Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall. Download Poster >>
January 24, 2012 Professor Elijah Anderson's The Cosmopolitan Canopy Has Been Nominated for an NAACP Image Award, under the category of "Outstanding Literary Work: Non-Fiction." The awards ceremony takes place on February 17th. Congratulations, Eli!
January 18, 2012 The Winter 2011 issue of Habitus is out, in hard copy and on line [link here]. As a publication, Habitus was invented and designed by Yale sociology undergraduates, and the most recent issue foregrounds movements: social, political, intellectual. It's a great read! Check it out here...
January 17, 2012 Professor Hunter responded to a New York Times column by Joe Nocera on the "NCAA's Justice System." See his letter on Black Student-Athletes here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/opinion/black-student-athletes.html?emc=eta1
January 12, 2012 We are delighted to announce that Dr. Andrew Papachristos will be joining the Sociology faculty this July 1st. Andy, whose website can be found here http://www.papachristos.org/Welcome.html, holds a 2007 Ph.D. from University of Chicago, and specializes in the study of social networks; neighborhoods, crime, and public health, and the use of violence and honor as measures of social control. We look forward eagerly to his arrival!
December 22, 2011 Elizabeth Breese, currently completing her dissertation in the department, spoke on the current crisis of American journalism, as this fall's annual Association of Yale Alumni assembly marked Yale’s awarding of the first PhD in North America in 1861. The day-long event attended by over 400 leaders from across the University’s alumni community. For more, see Yale Graduate News >>
December 14, 2011 The Sociology department is delighted to announce that Dr. Lloyd Grieger will be joining Sociology and the Jackson Institute for International Affairs as Assistant Professor this July 1st. Dr. Grieger received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Policy in 2010 from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He specializes in social demography, and conducts research in both the United States and South Africa. Welcome, Lloyd!
December 13, 2011 Professor Ron Eyerman's new book, The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination: From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Congratulations, Ron!
December 3, 2011 The November 2011 issue of Perspectives, the newsletter of the ASA Theory section, features items from section chair Philip Gorski (“After Kant: Protestant Ethics and Social Theory”), Jeffrey Alexander (“Morality as a Cultural System: On Solidarity Civil and Uncivil,” and a review of Isaac Reed's (Yale Ph.D. 2007) new book, Interpretation and Social Knowledge. Read more ...
November 10, 2011 Professor Elijah Anderson will deliver a talk on race and civility on Tuesday, Nov. 15, giving the first speech in a series of distinguished lectures organized by the School of Public Policy and Administration (SPPA) to commemorate its 50-year anniversary. Anderson’s lecture, which will take place at 5 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Bayard Sharp Hall, will examine his new book, The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life.
November 1, 2011 Edited by Professor Philip Smith, it is now available on this website, sociology/yjs.html, and will soon be up on EBSCO as well. The YJS publishes a range of topics and styles of work, in the form of undergraduate senior theses, articles by Yale faculty, grad students, emeriti, and visiting scholars.
October 28, 2011 The editors of Habitus, an exciting undergraduate publication that serves as a forum for examining and commenting on the social world, has issued a new call for submissions. The theme? Movements. Last year's issue can be found here.
October 2, 2011 On Tuesday October 4, Bernice Pescosolido (Yale PhD '82) will speak on “Reining In Complexity: A Sociological Vision of Collective Life,” in Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, at 53 Wall Street. Bernice Pescosolido is Distinguished and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and Director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Later that evening she will receive the highest award of the Yale Graduate School, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, given annually by the Graduate School Alumni Association to a small number of distinguished alumni. It recognizes outstanding achievement in scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public service, areas in which the legendary Dean Cross excelled.
September 21, 2011 Friday, September 23rd, 4:30p–6:30p, 493 College Street. Families Welcome. Please Join us! For additional information please contact Kim Kuzina: kimberly.kuzina@yale.edu, or call 203-432-3320. Download Poster>>
September 20, 2011 Professor Rene Almeling has published Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm. In Sex Cells, Professor Almeling provides an inside look at how egg agencies and sperm banks do business. Press and media coverage: The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Newsweek, NPR, Yale, Read More>>
September 18, 2011 Professor Hannah Brueckner addressed the collective level of vulnerability in turbulent times in a speech delivered at the plenary session of the same name at the European Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Geneva. In “Vulnerability, Sociology, and Intervention,” she argued that sociologists are uniquely qualified to study the social and cultural mechanisms by which a particular vulnerability, for example a genetic one, results in negative outcomes.
September 17, 2011 As a follow-up to his new book, Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power, Bloomsbury USA, Professor Jeff Alexander is in Cairo, Egypt, conducting interviews and writing a daily blog, accessible on the Center for Cultural Sociology Website
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