Undergraduate Chair Dr. Irenee Beattie coordinated the presence of the Sociology Department at UCM Homecoming on October 21, 2017.
Sociology graduate students and undergraduate representatives from the Sociology Club tabled for the entire day.
Everyone is invited to a special event featuring UCLA Professor Jemima Pierre, speaking on “Africa and the Project of Black Studies” as part of a workshop entitled “The Critical Politics of Diversity in the Multiversity: Towards Africana Studies in the UC System.”
Pierre, a professor of...
On Friday morning, the sociology colloquium series sponsored a talk by Professor Jennifer Singh from Georgia Tech University with dozens of students and faculty in attendance. Drawing on the analytic framework of intersectionality developed by Black feminist scholars, Dr. Singh presented her...
Faculty, graduate students, and family celebrated the incoming academic year with a picnic at Lake Yosemite. New faculty members, graduate students, and sociology club officers were introduced at the evening activity.
Professor Charlie Eaton has joined UC Merced Sociology as its newest faculty member. Charlie received his PhD from UC Berkeley. He studies how organizations shape inequality through politics, public policy, and the economy. His current research traces how financialization has led to new...
Professor Dodson recently published a study in Social Forces that examines how economic downturns can mobilize class conflict over tax policy. He finds that during periods of economic distress, manual workers advocate shifting the burden of paying taxes to the more affluent. Conversely...
UC Merced PhD Student Marcus Shaw has accepted a tenure track position in Fresno State's Department of Criminology. Marcus was a member of the inaugural cohort of PhD students at UC Merced that began in the Fall of 2013. His research examines the impacts of mass incarceration for families...
Professor Flores' Social Problems article, "Grow Your Hair Out: Chicano Gang Masculinity and Embodiment in Recovery," won the ASA Section on Body and Embodiment's honorable mention for best publication. The article challenges functionalist-oriented perspectives on gang desistance...
Tanya Golash-Boza’s 2016 article, “Parallels Between Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation: An Intersectional Analysis” published in the Journal of World-Systems Research, won an Honorable Mention for the Race, Class, Gender Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship...
Young undocumented Latinos who gain legal status, even on a temporary basis, experience significant positive effects on their psychological well-being, according to a new study published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.
UC Merced Professor Whitney Pirtle and UC Davis Professor Caitlin...
