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Dodson Publishes New Article in Social Currents

December 1, 2015
Professor Dodson’s research on gender and protest activity was recently published in Social Currents.  In the article, he shows how shared beliefs about gender influence the kinds of protest in which men and women participate.  In contexts where the public holds more traditional...

Handbook of Latin American Social Movements Presented at ALAS

November 30, 2015
Paul Almeida and Allen Cordero presented their recently published edited volume the Handbook of Social Movements across Latin America (2015) at the Latin American Sociological Association Meetings on November 30 in Costa Rica.

Professor Golash-Boza's book Deported discussed at the Economic Policy Institute

November 19, 2015
The Economic Policy Institute hosted an event to present a new book on deportations which explores how they have become a tool in a broader strategy to police immigrant workers and keep them exploited in the name of global capitalism. Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza, the author of Deported: Policing...

Almeida's Book Reaches Best Seller List in El Salvador

November 15, 2015
The Spanish translation of Paul Almeida's book, Olas de Movilizacion Popular, was listed as a top 10 Best Seller in El Salvador. The study focuses on the rise and fall of waves of popular mobilization and social change in El Salvador between 1925 and 2010. A national radio show dedicated to the...

Dodson Publishes New Article in Sociological Perspectives

November 1, 2015
Professor Dodson’s article on the importance of economic threat for protest participation was recently accepted for publication at Sociological Perspectives.  The articles demonstrates that the mobilizing influence of economic threat (in this case, rising unemployment) is strongest when...

Study: Skewed Academic Expectations Linked to Sexual Risk

October 14, 2015
Scholars and educators alike believe raising expectations leads to higher achievement and self esteem among adolescents. But new research from the University of California, Merced, shows that when a young woman’s achievement level doesn’t live up to those expectations, the result can be an increase...

Standout Sociology Program Earns Approval for Grad Degrees

October 5, 2015
Current and prospective graduate students have new degree options at UC Merced, which recently received approval from the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission for both master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology. Sociology students at UC Merced previously could only obtain...

Standout Sociology Program Earns Approval for Grad Degrees

October 5, 2015
Current and prospective graduate students have new degree options at UC Merced, which recently received approval from the UC system and the WASC Senior College and University Commission for both master’s and doctoral degrees in sociology.   Sociology students at UC Merced previously...

Sociology Graduate Student Awarded UC MEXUS-CONACYT Fellowship

September 12, 2015
First year sociology graduate student Benigno Merlin has been awarded a four year fellowship from the UC MEXUS-CONACYT Program. The Fellowship will support Benigno's studies toward a PhD in Sociology at UC Merced. Merlin also was recognized with an Honorable Mention in the Ford Foundation's...

Professor Hamilton Wins Early Career Award

August 20, 2015
Laura Hamilton is the first winner of the now biannual American Sociological Association Sociology of Education Section Doris Entwisle Early Career Award. This award went to the most influential scholar in the sociology of education nominated within five years of receiving their PhD.

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