PNAS Abstract: Trends in life expectancy and marriage patterns work together to determine expected lifetime years married. In 1880, adult life expectancy was short and marriages were more likely to end by death than divorce. …
Year: 2023
Frequently Asked Questions about Depositing your Sociology Thesis
Why would I want to deposit my thesis? Answer: Get credit for your work. Demonstrate to potential graduate programs or employers that you have completed a finished research project. Why might I be required to …
Submitting Your Sociology Thesis to MINDS@UW
These instructions are for people who wish to deposit their sociology master’s theses OR their sociology senior honors theses to the online repository at https://minds.wisconsin.edu/ (Doctoral dissertations are deposited with ProQuest.) You may find it helpful …
Taylor Laemmli Awarded Honorable Mention from the ASA Sociology of Consumers and Consumption
Taylor Laemmli was awarded an Honorable Mention from the ASA Sociology of Consumers and Consumption section for their graduate student paper award for her paper “Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work, and Relationships.” Congratulations, Taylor!
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2023: First-Generation and Working-Class Graduate Students’ Stories of Pursuing Higher Education: A Life Histories Interview Study
Term: Fall 2023 Status: Open Working With: Alexis Dennis adennis2@wisc.edu Meets: via Zoom, day and time TBD. Topic: First-Generation and Working-Class Graduate Students’ Stories of Pursuing Higher Education: A Life Histories Interview Study Using life histories interviews …
Fabien Accominotti Awarded Morton Deutsch Best Article Award for 2022 by the International Society for Justice Research
Fabien Accominotti was awarded the Morton Deutsch Best Article Award for 2022 by the International Society for Justice Research for his paper “Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic …
Questioning Identity: How a Diverse Set of Respondents Answer Standard Questions About Ethnicity and Race by Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, Cameron P. Jones, Tiffany S. Neman, Nora Cate Schaeffer, & Dorothy Farrar Edwards (May 2023)
Field Methods, Online First Abstract: Ethnoracial identity refers to the racial and ethnic categories that people use to classify themselves and others. How it is measured in surveys has implications for understanding inequalities. Yet how …
Sadie Dempsey Awarded 2023 Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant
Sadie Dempsey has been awarded a 2023 Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant! This RSF initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas. Dempsey will investigate why many …
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing by Max Besbris & Gary Alan Fine (2023)
Theory & Society, May 2023 Abstract: Drawing on models of the interaction order, we describe how planning is an inherently social activity. We argue that planning as a practice involves five core elements: mirroring, identifying, …
Grieving in the “Golden Cage”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar by Kristina Fullerton Rico (2023)
Social Problems, May 2023 Abstract: In the past four decades, the United States has created a population of long-term unauthorized immigrants. As this population ages, issues of death and dying are increasingly salient. Though we …