This specialty is known for its vigorous program of research. There are several elective courses and seminars, as well as training experience in research apprenticeships on major studies. These projects run the gamut from historical and comparative studies of inequality to mathematical and econometric modeling of mobility and achievement processes; demographic approaches to stratification and inequality; the development of inequalities through schooling; and organizational treatments of racial and ethnic integration. The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study of the 1957 Wisconsin high school graduation cohort continues to enrich our knowledge about the process of social stratification. Studies of brothers and sisters in the cohort describe the complex pattern of family effects. The 1992 wave of the WLS expanded its content to include mental and physical health, social comparisons with significant others, and exchange relationships with kin. Many other areas of stratification are also studied.
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Personal Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My work, which lies at the intersection of cultural sociology, economic sociology, and stratification research, explores the making and unmaking of status hierarchies and how they sustain inequality in society. Empirically, I focus on unsettled fields, uncertain markets, and complex organizations, which …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am an economic, environmental, and urban sociologist interested in questions of stratification and decision making. Empirically, I study residential mobility and immobility, housing costs and housing market intermediaries, and how climate change is impacting housing markets more generally. In my work, I employ various methods and …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: Carlson’s primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. She has explored the changing composition of families and aspects of their functioning. Her early work explored how family structure was associated with child …
Home Page Department of Community & Environmental Sociology More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Dr. Katherine J. Curtis is Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work is centered in demography and extends to spatial, environmental, rural, and …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Additional Online Resource Alternate Webpage Biography Research Interest Statement: My research focuses on gender inequality in family life. In much of my work, I ask a version of this question: as support for egalitarianism grows, why does gender continue to shape the benefits we enjoy and burdens we bear as members …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: Felix Elwert, Ph.D., is a scholar of social inequality, social demography, and applied statistics. He develops methods of causal inference and conducts research on the contextual drivers of inequality, income, education, and health. Ever on the lookout for ways to coax causality from data, Elwert collaborates with …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Education: Ph.D., Sociology University of California-Berkeley, 1995 Departmental Areas of Interest: Demography and Ecology, Education, Methods and Statistics, Social Stratification Classes: Soc 360 Statistics for SociologistsSoc 496 Topics: Population and Society in Contemporary RussiaSoc 633 Social StratificationSoc 923 Social StratificationSoc 952 Log-linear, latent class, and finite mixture models.Soc 971 Migration and Migrants Other Campus Affiliations: Center for Demography …
More Information Curriculum Vitae Biography Research Interest Statement: I am Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies, co-director of EdSHARe (Education Studies for Healthy Aging Research, an umbrella that includes the national cohort studies High School and Beyond and the National Longitudinal Study of the Class of 1972) and Co-Director of the Madison Education Partnership, a research-practice partnership between the …