Colloquium: Alexis Dennis, UNC Sociology Odum Award Winner
ZoomRacial Differences in the Influence of Socioeconomic Resources on Depressive Symptomatology across the Early Life Course. Abstract: Prior scholarship documents that having more socioeconomic resources is associated with better mental health. Yet, accumulating work shows that Black Americans do … Read more
Colloquium: Jennifer Jones, University of Illinois Chicago
ZoomThe Browning of the New South: Race, Immigration, and Minority Linked Fate Abstract: The U.S. Southeast has become a harbinger of twenty-first-century immigrant integration and race relations. Its unique characteristics of rapid demographic change, an explosion of anti-immigrant policies, cooperation … Read more
Colloquium: Jennifer Glass, UT Austin
ZoomBreadwinning Mothers: Understanding the Magnitude and Consequences of Mothers’ New Economic Responsibilities for Children Abstract: Over 40% of minor children in the U.S. rely exclusively or primarily on their mothers’ earnings for financial support in cross-sectional surveys. Yet cross-sectional data … Read more
Colloquium: Amin Ghaziani, University of British Columbia
ZoomMatters of Culture: The Connective Power of Culture for Cities, Inequality, and the Nighttime Economy Abstract: Culture as a concept denotes many shades of meaning, and different visions of culture express themselves differently across subfields of sociology. Inspired by … Read more
Colloquium: Erin Hatton, SUNY Buffalo
ZoomCoerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment Abstract: What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. In this talk … Read more
Colloquium: Jayanti Owens, Brown University
ZoomDouble Jeopardy: Teacher Biases, Racialized Organizations, and the Production of Racial Disparities in School Discipline ABSTRACT: Bridging research on the social psychology of individual bias with scholarship on racialized organizations, this article introduces the concept of “organizational disposition” as … Read more