The Department of Sociology at Yale University provides concentrations in the fields of Comparative and Historical Sociology (CCR), Cultural Sociology and Social Theory (CCS), and Social Stratification and Life Course Research (CIQLE). In addition our faculty publish and teach in the areas of Gender and Sexuality, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Economic Sociology, Urban Sociology and Ethnography, and Chinese Society.
Department News
Jeffrey Alexander – In The Company of Scholars Lecture
November 10, 2009 Jeffrey Alexander will give a lecture titled “Barack Obama Becomes a Hero: Performing the Democratic Struggle for Power in 2008,” at the Graduate School’s In the Company of Scholars Lecture series. The event will take place on Tuesday, November 17, at 4 p.m. in room 119 of the Hall of Graduate Studies. A reception will follow in the McDougal Center Common Room. Hosted by Jon Butler, Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Poster.
Mourning Burton R. Clark - Professor of Sociology at Yale 1966 - 1980
October 30, 2009 Burton R. (Bob) Clark died yesterday after five months of illness. Bob Clark served as a Professor of Sociology at Yale for 14 years, beginning in 1966. While here, he was Director of Graduate Studies and Chair of the Department. He left in 1980 to become the Allan M. Cartter Professor of Higher Education at UCLA, where he had received one of the first Ph.D.s ever awarded by the UCLA Department of Sociology. Bob wrote many books about higher education and in 2008 the Johns Hopkins Press brought out a collection of his selected writings from 1956 through 2006. Bob was a dear friend to his former colleagues and will be missed. Adele Clark, his wife of many years, survives him. Burton Clark Bio.
Immanuel Wallerstein Receives 15th Honoris Causa
October 23, 2009 Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Sociology has recently returned from an October 12-17th visit to Bolivia. Professor Wallerstein was there at the invitation of Vice-President and Sociologist Alvaro Garcia Linera’s office and the Ministry of Economics and Finance to give a public seminar. His seminar consisted of three lectures in Spanish on the "Causes and Consequences of the Present World Economic Crisis." During Professor Wallerstein’s visit, the Universidad Mayor San Andrès, Bolivia's leading university, awarded him a Doctor H.C. This is his 15th honorary degree.
Jeffrey Alexander Releases New Volume: Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate
September 22, 2009 Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander’s controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and following up with challenging and equally provocative responses to it, this book offers a sweeping historical reconstruction of the Jewish mass murder as it evolved in the popular imagination of Western peoples, as well as an examination of its consequences. Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate, with Elihu Katz and Ruth Katz, Martin Jay, Bernhard Giesen, Michael Rothberg, Robert Manne and Nathan Glazer, Oxford University Press. Read more...
Yale Graduate Students Ates Altinordu and Sebastian Schnettler Receive Awards
August 18, 2009 Ates Altinordu has won the 2009 Reinhard Bendix Student Paper Award of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of ASA for his paper ‘The Politicization of Religion: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparison.’ Sebastian Schnettler has won a Returning Scholars Fellowship (Rückkehrstipendium) from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Hannah Brückner and Natalie Nitsche Paper Highlighted in ASA Press Release
August 10, 2009 The American Sociological Association featured research by Natalie Nitsche and Hannah Brückner in a press release announcing their paper, Opting out of the family? Social Change in Racial Inequality in Family Formation Patterns and Marriage Outcomes among Highly Educated Women. The paper was presented at the annual meeting of the ASA in San Francisco, CA, August 8th 2009.
