University of Wisconsin-Madison
Critical Sociology Abstract: As anyone who has met Michael Burawoy can tell you, he remains very, very British – from his unflagging loyalty to Manchester United, to his very British ‘flat cap’, to his consistent repetition of ‘bloody brilliant’ as the highest compliment he can offer to his dozens of grateful advisees. But despite his …
The 2024 annual meeting for the Population Association of America (PAA) took place in Columbus, Ohio. Demographers from around the world met to present and discuss their latest research. Three of our sociologists received awards: Julia Thomas received a poster award for her project, “Legacy of the ‘Forgotten Dead’: Lynching of Hispanics and Risk of …
Fabien Accominotti, Léonie Hénaut, and Jennifer C. Lena published “Polyoccupationalism: the unexplored world of workers’ occupational identities” in Work In Progress. This article is a write up of their recent publication, “Polyoccupationalism: Expertise Stretch and Status Stretch in the Postindustrial Era,” which was published in America Sociological Review.
Kerryann DiLoreto (MS 2001), Senior Project Director with the UW Survey Center, has been awarded Distinguished Status by UW–Madison. Distinguished status is awarded to academic staff members with extensive experience, and advanced knowledge and skills. The conferral of Distinguished status is reserved for a small number of academic staff who demonstrate superlative accomplishments evidenced by …
An article by Theodore Gerber, Jane R. Zavisca and Beth Mitchneck, “Housing and integration of internally displaced persons: The case of Ukraine in 2018” was published in Migration and integration: Tackling policy changes, opportunities and solutions, published by Frontiers Media. Abstract: Housing is a widely recognized yet understudied domain of integration of internally displaced persons …
Term: Fall 2024 – Spring 2025 (Soc 320, Section 278) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Molly Clark-Barol at clarkbarol@wisc.edu. It is available for 2-3 credits. Description: This mixed-methods action research project is in collaboration with a community partner: FREE, a statewide organization of formerly incarcerated women. We will be looking at factors related to the …
Theory and Society Abstract: This paper presents a new approach to theorizing and empirically investigating a phenomenon variously described by sociologists as internalized oppression or symbolic violence. Located at the intersection of internal worlds and external reality, the intrapsychic and the interpersonal and social, this object of inquiry—here termed self-negation—is crucial to many forms of societal …
Sara Ronnkvist, Brian Thiede, and Emma Barber received an IPUMS Research Award for best grad student led paper using IPUMS Global Health data. Their paper, “Child fostering in a changing climate: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa,” was originally published in Population and Environment.
Daniela Campos Ugaz received the Social and Economic Rights Associates-Law and Society Association (SERA-LSA) Dissertation Research Grant. Daniela’s research interests lie at the intersection of labor studies, economic sociology, global and transnational sociology, law and society, and cultural sociology. She employs a broad range of research methodologies, including statistical analysis (administrative data and surveys, including …
Social Science & Medicine Abstract: Current studies have indicated that the number of individuals living with pain has risen in recent years, with nearly half of all adults in some countries living with some form of pain. Such trends have prompted researchers to explore differences in pain across different sociodemographic groups, with a dominant focus …