Household Financial Returns to College Quality: Race, Gender, and Social Origins Abstract: College quality—a close substitute for terms such as selectivity or prestige—is a consistent predictor of economic returns throughout the life course. Yet, most research considers these outcomes only … Read more
Dyke Bars Never Last’: Gentrification, Critical Nostalgia and the Commemoration of Lost Dyke Bars in Four Cities Abstract: Drawing on data from a four-city ethnography, the talk explores why we remember and mourn dyke bars today, as well as why … Read more
Panelists will be UNC Sociology grad alumni: Lindsay Guzowski, Partner at Falcon and CEO at The Crucible, has been with Falcon since 2012 and its sister company The Crucible since The Crucible’s inception in 2020. She leads assessment, diligence, and … Read more
Presentation Title: Inequality without Groups: Contemporary Theories of Categories, Intersectional Typicality, and the Disaggregation of Difference. Bio: Ellis Monk is Assistant Professor of Sociology. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in … Read more
Double 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
Coerced: 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
Matters 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
