The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations Across the Americas (2013 Cornell University Press), written by Kathleen C. Schwartzman, professor of sociology, explores the impact of globalization—and NAFTA in particular—on the North American poultry industry. It focuses on the displacement of African American workers in the southeast United... Read more
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Monday, February 17, 2014 Looking for a Social Cancer: Inequality, Poverty, or Both? Discussant: Kate Anderson, Graduate Student Abstract: In 2009... Read more Post date: Fri, 02/07/2014 - 18:23 |
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Date: Friday, February 7th, 2014 The Social Determinants of Tuberculosis – Theories and Interventions Abstract: One-third of the world's population is infected with... Read more Post date: Wed, 02/05/2014 - 17:14 |
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Check out the podcast with Professor Lane Kenworthy speaking on his new book, "Social Democratic America." Airdate: January 30, 2014 Post date: Wed, 02/05/2014 - 17:04 |
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Folks interested in identity, boundaries and formal methods of cultural analysis should come and learn at the next Arizona Culture Workshop. Location: Social Sciences, Room 415 Topic: (Re)Envisioning America: An Application of the Optical Model of Identity to the U.S. Case by Taylor Danielson, doctoral student. Abstract: Dominant... Read more Post date: Wed, 02/05/2014 - 16:52 |
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Wednesday, February 12 from 6:30 – 8 p FREE and open to the public. Doors open at 6 pm. Please join SBS and Arizona Public Media for a panel discussion moderated by Neal Conan (former host of Talk of the Nation) featuring Lane Kenworthy, Professor of Sociology, and members of the Mayor of Tucson’s Commission on Poverty. For more... Read more Post date: Tue, 02/04/2014 - 03:17 |
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The UA Sociology brownbag for this Friday is hosted and sponsored by the Eller College of Management. Speaker: Brian Uzzi Title: "Atypical Combinations in Scientific Impact." When: Friday, January 31, 2014; 11... Read more Post date: Wed, 01/29/2014 - 10:20 |
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The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is working with the City of Tucson and its nonprofit collaborators to address poverty in Tucson. Watch Arizona Public Media interview with Professor Lane Kenworthy... Read more Post date: Thu, 01/23/2014 - 17:32 |
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The Undergraduate Studies Committee seeks nominations for the 2014 William K. Bunis Graduate Student Instructor Teaching Award. NOMINATION DEADLINE: 4:00pm., Friday, February 14, 2014. The award recognizes sociology graduate student instructors for teaching excellence at the undergraduate level. You can pick up a nomination form from the Sociology Main Office, Social Sciences Building, Room 400... Read more Post date: Thu, 01/23/2014 - 17:27 |
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Last semester, The Arizona Culture Workshop kicked off with tremendous success! This Spring, we have even more great events planned. We’ll first be hosting a Faculty Auxiliary Session on Wednesday, January 22 at Noon in Social Sciences 415 with Albert Bergesen, UA School of Sociology Director, to discuss his publication "Turning Durkheim on His Head: A Reply to Peterson and Bjerre." Professor Bergesen will talk about the substance of this article, but also about the... Read more Post date: Sat, 01/18/2014 - 11:35 |
