A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment by Jason P. Robey, Michael Massoglia, & Michael T. Light (July 2023)

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Demography Abstract: Mass incarceration fundamentally altered the life course for a generation of American men, but sustained declines in imprisonment in recent years raise questions about how incarceration is shaping current generations. This study makes three primary contributions to a fuller understanding of the contemporary landscape of incarceration in the United States. First, we assess …

Sociology MINDS@UW Senior Honors Thesis Repository

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We have created an on-line repository for sociology senior honors theses at https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/84081  in the Minds@UW framework. Deposit of your thesis is optional, not required for your degree, but we think many students will want to take advantage of this option. If you deposit your thesis to Minds@UW, it will be given a permanent URL …

Lifetime years married held steady for men with a BA degree since 1960 but dropped to lowest level since 1880 for men without a BA by Christine Schwartz, Rodrigo González-Velastín, & Anita Li (July 2023)

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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. Since then, although there have been substantial life expectancy gains in adulthood, marriage has been increasingly delayed or forgone and …

Frequently Asked Questions about Depositing your Sociology Thesis

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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 deposit my thesis? Answer: If your research is federally funded, you are required to make your results available to the …

Submitting Your Sociology Thesis to MINDS@UW

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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 to consult the library’s information pages including Getting Started with MINDS and Guide to Depositing Your Work. Below we give …

Taylor Laemmli Awarded Honorable Mention from the ASA Sociology of Consumers and Consumption

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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

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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 of 47 current and former graduate and professional first-generation students who identify as having come from working-class or economically poor …

Fabien Accominotti Awarded Morton Deutsch Best Article Award for 2022 by the International Society for Justice Research

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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 Inequality” published in Social Justice Research in April 2022. Accominotti co-authored the paper with Kate Summers, Tania Burchardt, Katharina Hecht, Elizabeth …

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)

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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 people self-identify may not conform to the categories standardized survey questions use to measure ethnicity and race, leading to potential …

Sadie Dempsey Awarded 2023 Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant

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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 politically engaged citizens hold low levels of trust in the government. Read more about Sadie’s research supported by this grant …