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The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia is committed to a program of research and teaching that is both firmly grounded in the classical tradition of the discipline and addressed to contemporary issues. The Department's intellectual distinction is based on work that is macro-sociological, theoretically driven, and empirically grounded. To take some representative examples, current research includes studies of the culture of science, organizations, and the city; collective memory, and the collective identities of race, ethnicity, and nation; gender and inequality in global perspective;religion and the family; care and caregivers; class and education; economic and historical sociology. While theoretically varied, our work is fully empirical and draws on a broad array of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Members of the Department are also committed to the enhancement of interdisciplinary approaches.

"A man is well educated when he knows where to
find what he doesn't know." - Georg Simmel,
German Philosopher and Sociologist 1858-1918



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Spotlight on Sociology

Welcome - Professor Sabrina Pendergrass will join the Sociology Faculty for Fall 2012. She has a dual appointment with the Carter Woodson Center. View more about Professor Pendergrass here.

RC28 Conference - UVA is hosting the RC28 (Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, International Sociological Association) meeting, August 13-15, 2012. For more information, see: http://pages.shanti.virginia.edu/rc28conference/

Congratulations! Sociology PhD Candidate Christina Simko's paper, "Rhetorics of Suffering: September 11 Commemorations as Theodicy," has been officially accepted for publication in the American Sociological Review!

Congratulations! 2012 Sociology PhD Graduate Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl received 2nd place at the Grad Days Annual Huskey Research Exhibition competition!

Congratulations! Sociology Grad Student Andrew Lynn receieved an Honorable Mention in the NSF-GRFP competition!

Congratulations! - Professor Donald Black's recent book, Moral Time, has won the inaugural Outstanding Published Book Award of the new Section on Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity of the American Sociological Association.


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