UC Santa Cruz - Sociology Department

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Rethinking Recess: Creating Safe and Inclusive Playtime for All Children in School is available for pre-order now! Use code F19RRC for a 20% discount. Celebrate and play on Oct 29!

CVFS

Building Student Research and Community Engagement Skills in the Central Valley. Stay Up To Date!

No Place Like Home

A community-initiated student engaged research project about the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz. TELL US YOUR STORY

Jenny Reardon

Examines fundamental questions of knowledge and justice raised by genomics. In New Book

Lindsey Dillon

Seeks social and environmental justice by tracking valuable scientific data showing shifts in missions. Read How in Inquiry Magazine

Critical Sustainabilities

Competing Discourses of Urban Development in California. Learn more at critical-sustainabilities.ucsc.edu

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Sociology Events

Oct 24: Stephanie Malia Hom on "The Island in the Middle Sea: Lampedusa, Migration, and the Ripple Effects of Empire"
Oct 29: Rebecca London Book Launch: Rethinking Recess
Oct 30: Science & Justice Works-in-Progress with Luz Cordoba
Nov 6: SJRC Training Program Informational Meeting

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Faculty Publications

Julie Bettie | Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity, With a New Introduction (2014)

Hiroshi Fukurai | Japan and Civil Jury Trials The Convergence of Force (2015)

Deborah Gould | Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT Up's Fight Against AIDS (2009)

Miriam Greenberg | The City Is the Factory New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age (2017)

Rebecca London | Rethinking Recess Creating Safe and Inclusive Playtime for All Children in School (2019)

Steve McKay | New Routes for Diaspora Studies (2012)

Jenny Reardon | The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, and Knowledge After the Genome by Jenny Reardon (2017)

Dana Takagi | The Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics (1993)

Sociology News

October 1, 2019Debates on the wild frontier of genomics reveal where the real frontier lies
September 13, 2019The greening imaginary: urbanized nature in Germany‘s Ruhr region
September 1, 2019Policy Brief! Deportation Discretion: Where are County Jails Most Likely to Cooperate with Federal Immigration Officials?

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SOCIOLOGY AT UCSC

At UC Santa Cruz, we take scholarly leaps into the dynamics of social action: agency and governance, politics and mediation, identity and difference, social justice and ethics, democracy and sustainability, technologies and environment, affect and politics.

For sociologists at UC Santa Cruz, these transgressive modes of research open new frontiers for research, new intersections for theory building and new possibilities for change.

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