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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. Department of Sociology |
"The Evolution of Divorce"- Professor Brad Wilcox has a new essay in the inaugural issue of the new journal, National Affairs, which reports on marriage rates of the wealthy and highly educated versus the poor and working class. View Prof. Wilcox's essay. Hot Off of the Press - Professor Allison Pugh's new book from the University of California Press, Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture, seeks to make sense of explosive spending on children in recent decades. [More Info on Prof. Pugh] The Politics of Regret - Professor Jeff Olick's book is featured in a review essay by Patrick Hutton in the latest issue of History and Theory. View review here.
Josipa Roksa has been named the National Forum Fellow
As a Fellow, she will participate in the National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education funded by the Teagle Foundation. The three-year program is designed to identify and prepare a core national group of emerging academic leaders to guide the future of the liberal arts. For more information on the Forum, click here. 
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