As many scholars can attest, this year’s ASA President Christine Williams is one of the most influential sociologists of the last half century. With almost too-many awards to count, Williams has challenged …
Read More >by Aliya Hamid Rao, author of Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment As of April 2020, the unemployment rate in the U.S stands at 14.7% (4 percentage points higher than the …
Read More >This guest post is published around the Joint Annual Meeting of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and the Association for the Study of Food and Society in Madison, WI, occurring June …
Read More >We are deeply saddened by the recent death of Anthony Bourdain, whose television shows and books took people both behind the kitchen door as well as around the world to explore the …
Read More >Over the past few days, we received an influx of requests from faculty for books that provide context around the tragic events in Charlottesville. We’ve curated the list of titles below. Our …
Read More >by Andrew Jorgenson, founding co-editor of Sociology of Development and associate editor of the Sociology of Development Handbook This guest post is published in advance of the American Sociological Association conference in Seattle. Check back every …
Read More >The following is excerpted from the introduction to a new special issue published by Sociology of Development on “Migration and Development in the Twenty-First Century” (Vol. 2, No. 2). The introduction is written by the issue’s guest-editor, …
Read More >University of California Press offers hearty congratulations to three of our authors that were the recipients of 2016 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers last week in Washington D.C. Aldon D. Morris …
Read More >We were taught that American sociology originated with the Chicago School. What if we were wrong? In honor of Black History Month, let’s consider a counterview posed by author Aldon Morris—that W. E. …
Read More >Join University of California Press this fall at the 2015 American Society of Criminology. The meeting convenes November 18-21 in Washington, DC. Visit us at our booth in the Washington Hilton Hotel …
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