University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jimin Gim received the Student Paper Award from the 2025 International Conference on the Sociology of Korea (I-CSK). She presented her paper “Optimizing Motherhood: How Mothers Understand and Manage Childcare Outsourcing in Contemporary South Korea” at the 2025 I-CSK, hosted by Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
Congratulations to Sarah “Frankie” Frank for receiving a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award! Each spring, the L&S Honors Program solicits student nominations of faculty members who have had a special impact as instructors of Honors-designated courses, mentors of Honors projects, or as supervisors of Honors research experiences. Frankie was selected from a record number of nominations …
The Sociological Quarterly Abstract: Dualistic approaches that separate the natural from the social have long been the norm in sociology, but they are flawed in an era of ecological crisis where the interconnections between humans and nature have never been thrown into starker relief. Natural entities—animals, plants, and even rivers—are not simply facets of ecology …
Allison Daminger’s book, What’s on Her Mind: The Mental Workload of Family Life, is now available through Princeton University Press. Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and men think? What’s on Her Mind provides …
TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology Abstract: This course sociologically analyzes historical and recent ethnic/racial conflict and movements in the U.S., including the relations between European Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The class introduces fundamental theories of social movements and prepares students to think critically about the resources, …
PBS News Hour interviewed Nicholas Mark about the pronatalism movement encouraging Americans to have more children. Even though the U.S. fertility rate is at an all time low, Nicholas Mark says that “People should not be concerned about the U.S. population into the future.” The segment is available to watch online.
Term: Fall 2025 (Soc 320, Section 064) Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Jungmyung Kim jungmyung.kim@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2-3 credits. Description: This project is designed for a review paper on the methodological approaches to study decoupling, which is a classic phenomenon in organizational sociology that describes …
Social Forces Abstract: Child maltreatment and foster care placement are common, unequally distributed, and consequential for life-course outcomes. Yet, little is known about how foster care placements vary across children who experience different types and frequencies of maltreatment, and about the adulthood consequences of experiencing specific combinations of maltreatment and foster care placement. In this …
Research by Ang Yu and Felix Elwert about social inequalities caught the attention of the Institute for Diversity Science, who published a piece focusing on their work. It touches on the roots of inequalities, a “new” driver of inequalities, and causal claims about factors contributing to inequalities.
The Journals of Gerontology: Series B Abstract: Objectives People tend to choose marital partners who are similar to themselves, and spouses become increasingly similar in some respects due to shared life experiences. However, it is unknown whether spousal similarity contributes to the health of married people in later life. This study investigates whether and how …