Jacob Hibel joined our faculty as an assistant professor, effective August 2009. His areas of interest include Early-Life Course Stratification Processes, Sociology of Education (school readiness, early academic inequality, school organizational practices), Immigration and Inequality, and Quantitative Research Methods.
Department of Sociology
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Welcome to the Department of Sociology
Employment
Sociology is hiring a new Department Head. Please see our advertisement for more information.
Events
Sociology Department Colloquium
Professor Edward T. Walker will speak on:
Replacing Members with Managers? Non-Membership Advocacy in the U.S.
Wednesday Feb. 10, 3:30 p.m. BRNG 1284
Professor Timothy Eatman from Syracuse University and Imagining America was a keynote speaker for Purdue’s Scholarship of Engagement Workshop. Purdue is a member of Imagining America. JoAnn Miller is the University’s Representative.
Videos and slides from the presentations and discussions may be found at this location.
News
Professor Fenggang Yang is the Director for the Center on Religion and Chinese Society here at Purdue. The Center’s newsletter can be found here.
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Our faculty and students are often featured in the award-winning magazine, THiNK. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/news/magazine/
Welcome to Winter!
We hope you browse the Department of Sociology’s web pages, to gain an overview of our undergraduate and graduate programs. Watch for frequent changes in content.
We highlight recent publications, grant activity, and other notable accomplishments of our faculty.
The work of the department is completed by excellent committees -- especially the graduate committee, the undergraduate committee, the colloquium committee, and the teaching committee -- that bring curriculum changes, reports on incoming students, and ideas for the future to the department meetings for discussion and vote. Anyone interested in how the department is governed is encouraged to read our by-laws, on the Resources page. There, you will also see the large number of professional associations, to which we belong.
If you are making return visits to the Sociology web page, you will see new features. We now give our readers overviews of graduate students on the job market. We will keep you informed of their progress, and the news and events of the department.
Our faculty specialize in diverse fields including social movements, globalization, medical sociology, stratification, politics and economics, sociology of religion, family, sex, and gender; stratification, social psychology, aging and the life course, juvenile delinquency and criminal justice, family violence, social networks, statistics, and theories and perspectives. The department hosts the Social Research Institute that facilitates the collection and analysis of all forms of sociological data. http://www.cla.purdue.edu/sociology/sri/
We publish an annual electronic department newsletter. Stay tuned for the Spring 2010 edition. Please send us news and information to include in the newsletter. We hope to hear from hundreds of alums.
JoAnn Miller
Interim Head (2009-2010) and Professor of Sociology
Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs and Engagement, the College of Liberal Arts
New Books
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Adkins Covert, Tawnya and Wasburn, Philo C. (2009). Media Bias: A Comparative Study of Time, Newsweek, the National Review and the Progressive Coverage of Domestic Social Issues, 1975-2000. (Lanham, MA: Lexington Books).
Useem, Bert; Piehl, Anne Morrison (2008). Prison State: The Challenge of Mass Incarceration. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Miller, JoAnn and Johnson, Donald C. (2009). Problem Solving Courts: New Approaches to Criminal Justice. Rowman & Littlefield.
Reger, Jo; Myers, Daniel J.; Einwohner, Rachel L., eds. (2008). Identity Work in Social Movements. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Moghadam, Valentine. Globalization and Social Movements: Islamism, Feminism, and the Global Justice Movement. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009).
Robert Perrucci and Carolyn C. Perrucci. America At Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring. Rowman & Littlefield 2009.
Dr. Kevin Stainback joined our faculty as an assistant professor, effective August 2009. His areas of interest include Social Inequality (race, class, gender) and Work and Organizations.
Kenneth F. Ferraro, Principal Investigator (Sarah Mustillo, Co-investigator). "Enduring Effects of Early Adversity on Adult Health?" August, 2009 - July 2011. Funded by the National Institute on Aging. Budget: $525,829; grant # R01AG033541.