In the News

In the News

What Is Your Risk of Poverty?

3.22.16

Sociologist Mark Rank, with his co-author Thomas Hirschl, have developed an on-line poverty risk calculator. You can enter information about your personal situation and learn what social science data tell you about the risk of poverty you face over different future horizons.

Jake Rosenfeld quoted on new forms of labor organizing

3.8.16

Technology is often tough on labor, whether it’s automation eating jobs or “gig economy” platforms undermining the traditional social contract between employer and employee. Now, some workers are trying to leverage social media and other online networks to their own ends. Professor Jake Rosenfeld comments on this issue.

Prof. Adia Wingfield Published on Fortune

3.7.16

As the #BlackLivesMatter campus protests have swept across some 60 colleges nationwide, American students, especially the most liberal ones, are being criticized for their intolerance of free speech. Recent data show that 43% of incoming freshmen in 2015 thought it should be a college’s right to ban extreme speakers; 71% supported prohibitions against racist and sexist speech.

Prof. Mark Rank Wins 2016 Book Award

2.25.16

Mark Rank, PhD, the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received the 2016 Society for Social Work and Research Book Award for his book “Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes.”

Prof. Adia Wingfield Published in The Atlantic

1.8.16

Ever since Anita Hill testified in front of Congress about her experiences working for Clarence Thomas, then the chair of the EEOC, the issue of sexual harrassment has received significantly more attention. The difference between the workplace culture Hill encountered then and many (though not all) corporate workplaces today is stark.

Prof. Adia Wingfield Published in ASA Publication

12.7.15

Despite recent debates around public engagement and the value of our work, there are indications that sociology is still valued and vibrant. One such indication is the return of sociology to Washington University in St. Louis.

Student Life

9.7.15

The sociology department, re-formed this semester after a nearly 25-year hiatus, currently consists of three professors, all new or returning inhabitants of St. Louis: David Cunningham, Jake Rosenfeld and Adia Harvey Wingfield. Each has unique expectations for the department and for the University.

Faculty Recruiting 2016

7.30.15

The Department seeks applications for two tenured positions at the associate professor (possibly early full) level. The 2016 search targets scholars who use state-of-the-art quantitative methods in their research with a focus on either (1) inequality and stratification or (2) social movements and political sociology.

New Faculty Join in Fall 2015

4.15.15

New Sociology Courses Available for Fall, 2015

3.17.15

The new Department of Sociology will offer three new undergraduate courses in the fall of 2015

Three recruits join new sociology department

3.5.15

Three newly recruited professors will teach three classes offered in the new sociology department next semester.

New faculty member Jake Rosenfeld's research in the New York Times

2.25.15

Union decline associated with rising income inequality. Professor Jake Rosenfeld expresses his opinion.