Announcing the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology, a biannual grant recognizing students in the social sciences who incorporate visual analysis into their work
When Astrid Eich-Krohm first speaks to her students about immigration, Connecticut is rarely the first state that comes to mind.
How do behaviors spread in social networks? This is of interest to the corporate world, where companies want to get the word out about their products in the most efficient … [Read more]
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As part of a series of major academic events marking the twentieth anniversary of CEU, the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and the Department of History are hosting an International Interdisciplinary Workshop Competing and complementary
Sociology
Full Proposal Target Date: October 15, 2011
Dissertation Research
Program Guidelines: PD 98-1331
The Department of Sociology in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (3620 S. Vermont Ave., Kaprielian Hall 352, Los Angeles, California 90089-2539) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology position in the area of Social Demography, with an anticipated start date of Fall 2012.
Studies of social influences on behavior have led to the idea that a range of characteristics from loneliness to obesity might be contagious. A significant problem for the field has … [Read more]
NIH leadership discusses the need for renewed efforts to increase diversity in the U.S. biomedical research workforce.Authors: Lawrence A. Tabak, Francis S. Collins
Hunter Professor of Sociology Janet Poppendieck, author of books such as Free for All: Fixing School Food in America and Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement, was selected as one of 10 inaugural recipients of the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award.
International Sociological Association Research Committees RC04 (Education) and RC34 (Youth) invite paper proposals for an ISA Interim Conference, "Transitions," Jan. 13-15, 2012, Tampa, Florida.
Abstract Deadline: Sat. Oct. 1 ...
