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A New View of Consumption

When her first book came out, Allison Pugh hoped it would create a stir but feared no one would notice.

Her hope won out. Longing and Belonging has been honored by the American Sociology Association with both the 2010 Distinguished Contribution Award from the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological Association and an honorable [more...]

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Martín Sánchez-Jankowski Wins C. Wright Mills Award

UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Martín Sánchez-Jankowski has devoted his career to studying the very thing he once tried to escape—poverty.

Born to indigenous and mestizo migrant laborers in Sonoro, Mexico, Sánchez-Jankowski moved to Michigan with his family when he was a child.

“Obviously when you live in (poverty), you want to get out of it,” he said, [more...]

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