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Almeida's Book Reaches Best Seller List in El Salvador

November 15, 2015
The Spanish translation of Paul Almeida's book, Olas de Movilizacion Popular, was listed as a top 10 Best Seller in El Salvador. The study focuses on the rise and fall of waves of popular mobilization and social change in El Salvador between 1925 and 2010. A national radio show dedicated to the...

Dodson Publishes New Article in Sociological Perspectives

November 1, 2015
Professor Dodson’s article on the importance of economic threat for protest participation was recently accepted for publication at Sociological Perspectives.  The articles demonstrates that the mobilizing influence of economic threat (in this case, rising unemployment) is strongest when...

Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

October 14, 2015
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents. But new research from the University of California, Merced, shows that when a young woman’s achievement level doesn’t live up to those expectations, the result can be an increase...

Standout Sociology Program Earns Approval for Grad Degrees

October 5, 2015
Current and prospective graduate students have new degree options at UC Merced, which recently received approval from the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission for both master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology. Sociology students at UC Merced previously could only obtain...

Standout Sociology Program Earns Approval for Grad Degrees

October 5, 2015
Current and prospective graduate students have new degree options at UC Merced, which recently received approval from the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission for both master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology.   Sociology students at UC Merced previously...

Sociology Graduate Student Awarded UC MEXUS-CONACYT Fellowship

September 12, 2015
First year sociology graduate student Benigno Merlin has been awarded a four year fellowship from the UC MEXUS-CONACYT Program. The Fellowship will support Benigno's studies toward a PhD in Sociology at UC Merced. Merlin also was recognized with an Honorable Mention in the Ford Foundation's...

Professor Hamilton Wins Early Career Award

August 20, 2015
Laura Hamilton is the first winner of the now biannual American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Section Doris Entwisle Early Career Award. This award went to the most influential scholar in the sociology of education nominated within five years of receiving their PhD.

Laura Hamilton becomes joint recipient of Major American Sociological Association Award

August 15, 2015
Laura Hamilton’s co-authored book, Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality, has won the 2015 American Sociological Association Distinguished Book Award. This award is only offered to one book a year, in sociology. The book has also been awarded five other awards...

Blog Post on Movement Activism by Prof. Dodson

August 1, 2015
Professor Dodson recently contributed a post to Mobilizing Ideas, a blog sponsored by the Collective Behavior and Social Movements (CBSM) section of the American Sociological Association.  The blog post “Too Far or Not Far Enough?” considers whether scholarly definitions of what...

Graduate Dean Zatz co-authors book on Immigration Policy with UC Press

June 15, 2015
Dreams and Nightmares takes a critical look at the challenges and dilemmas of immigration policy and practice in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform. The experiences of children and youth provide a prism through which the interwoven dynamics and consequences of immigration policy...

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