Coming of Age in the Other America Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African Americans, still have difficulty entering the middle class, in part because of the disadvantages they experience living … Read more

A Legacy of Loss: Race Differences in Timing and Exposure to Death of Family Members in the U.S. Longstanding racial differences in U.S. life expectancy suggest that Black Americans would be exposed to significantly more family member deaths than White … Read more

Karen Gerken and Youn Lee, "Navigating the Non-Academic Job Market"

Stressors and Strains of Diversity: A Case of Multichurch Racial Pastors

Jonathan Horowitz, Phil Morgan, Kate Weisshaar; "Making the Most of Conferences"

Innovation in a “culture of planning”: HPV vaccines and translational research in the National Cancer Institute   This talk explores the role scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a US federal science agency, played in researching and testing vaccines … Read more

Presentations represent some of those made by UNC Sociology graduate students at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Montreal August 12-15,2017. Students: Samuel Fishman: Burning with Ambition: A Latent Variable Approach to Understanding Ambition’s Role in Educational Attainment Alanna Gillis: Enthusiasts, … Read more

The Subaltern School Brown will introduce her new research project, The Subaltern School, in which she proposes a global socio-historical examination of segregated schooling and its intergenerational effects in this integrated, post racial era. Operationalizing the construct of “the subaltern” … Read more

A Dynamic Model of Self-Employment and Socioeconomic Mobility among Return Migrants: The Case of Urban Mexico   Return migrants engage in high rates of self-employment, which scholars commonly attribute to the accumulation of financial and human capital while working abroad. … Read more

Making Gigs Work: Workers, Platforms and Labor Market Strategies Technological advancements have always changed both the demand for certain types of workers and the nature of the employer-employee relationship. In the last decade, increases in internet availability and the meteoric … Read more