Columbia University and the Obama Foundation are pleased to announce that the Columbia Center for Oral History Research has been selected to produce the official oral history of the presidency of Barack Obama (CC '83). This project will provide a comprehensive, enduring record of the decisions, actions, and effects of his historic terms in office. The University of Hawaiʻi and the University of Chicago will partner with Columbia in this project. The University of Hawaiʻi will focus on President Obama’s early life, and the University of Chicago will concentrate on the Obamas’…
A collaborative project of sociology MA students, Dispatches from the Field is a series of chapbooks designed to engage readers directly with qualitative research data. This year’s edition includes a series of reflections that refer to the American Dream, or rather, a set of differing American Dreams and their elusive promises.
The aim of this lecture (and the edited volume from which it springs) is to show what Gulf cities can substantively teach: how world places connect to one another through new patterns of real estate investment, design, and human migration.
Please join colleagues and friends of Prof. Priscilla P. Ferguson to celebrate her life and scholarship.
Hosted by the NYU Department of Nutrition and Food Studies
Multimedia artist Umberto Crenca is the founding artistic director of AS220, a nonprofit arts organization that serves as a national model for arts and culture-based community building and urban renewal. Crenca will provide an overview of the success and relevance of AS220 and will discuss his “compost theory” of arts and culture: a means to an end or a means to a means? This theory is about creating nurturing environments that create opportunities where anyone can realize their full creative potential without trying to predict outcomes.
In their recenlty published ASR article, School-to-Work Linkages, Education Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes, Prof. DiPrete, Christina Ciocca, and co-authors Thijs Bol and Herman G. van de Werfhorst, find that workers have higher earnings when they are in occupations that match their educational level and field of study, but the size of this earnings boost depends on the clarity and strength of the pathway between their educational credential and the labor market.
Prof. Shamus Khan writes that kids from rich families — not just famous ones — have all sorts of advantages in applying to school in this Washignton Post op-ed, The college admissions game is rigged. Arresting cheaters won’t change that.
PhD candidate Joss Taylor Greene's paper "Categorical Expressions: How
Racialized Gender Regulation Reproduces Reentry Hardship" was published
this week in Social Problems.
Moses Adams, Sociology Ph.D. Candidate discusses midterm elections in his Washington Post opinion editorial.
Full article here.
Alondra Nelson, professor of sociology and president of the Social Science Research Council, discusses negotiating access to Facebook and building a new scholarly infrastructure with The Chronicle.
In Working for Respect, Adam Reich and Peter Bearman examine how workers make sense of their jobs at places like Walmart in order to consider the nature of contemporary low-wage work, as well as the obstacles and opportunities such workplaces present as sites of struggle for social and economic justice. They describe the life experiences that lead workers to Walmart and analyze the dynamics of the shop floor.