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How do lesbian and gay parents navigate in a world where heterosexuality is still the norm? Rafael Colonna, a Ph.D. student in sociology, has been interviewing same-sex parents across California to find out. In the process, he’s discovered that in family life, “small practices” such as assigning family names and titles, “have a lot of meaning behind them.”
Tag: sociology
Sociologist a KQED Asian Pacific American ‘local hero’
May 21, 2013:
Each May KQED radio honors a number of ‘local heroes” of Asian Pacific American heritage. Among its 2013 honorees is UC Berkeley sociologist Evelyn Nakano Glenn, cited for groundbreaking scholarship on the intersectionality of race, gender, citizenship and labor.
Ten Berkeley faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2013:
Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.
Groundbreaking sociologist, playful spirit
April 12, 2013:
In her consciousness-raising scholarship on work, family and emotional labor, Arlie Russell Hochschild has reshaped popular understandings of society and social change. Her alma mater, Swarthmore College, profiles the Berkeley professor emeritus, a leading feminist sociologist of her generation, in its alumni magazine.
Sociologist, in latest book, questions ‘intimate outsourcing’
May 24, 2012:
In a new book titled The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times, sociologist Arlie Hochschild, professor emeritus, explores how even the most intuitive human acts have increasingly become work for hire — offered by eldercare specialists to “name-ologists,” potty trainers, even “wantologists who help us figure out what we want.”
Berkeley Ph.D. wins top sociology prize for dissertation on sex work in Vietnam
May 9, 2012:
Kimberly Hoang, who earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in 2011, has won the American Sociological Association’s “best dissertation” award for her dissertation on sex work in Vietnam.
Political scientist Harold Wilensky dies at age 88
November 1, 2011:
Harold L. Wilensky, professor emeritus of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, died at his Berkeley, Calif., home on Sunday, Oct. 30, after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 88.
What if we lived most of our lives under one president?
June 16, 2011:
Nearly 80 percent of Libyans have known no other leader than Moammar Gadhafi. His 42 years in office would be the same as if Richard Nixon were still in the White House today. Sarah Cowan, a doctoral student in sociology and demography at UC Berkeley, has published a chart on CNN Opinion showing the number of years world leaders have been in power.
So much for digital democracy: New study finds elite viewpoints dominate online content
June 7, 2011:
Anyone with Internet access can generate online content and influence public opinion, according to popular belief. But a new study from UC Berkeley suggests that the social Web is becoming more of a playground for the affluent than a digital democracy.
Top graduating senior a rags-to-academic-riches story
May 10, 2011:
The life of über-scholar and cellist Aaron Benavidez, just named the top graduating senior at UC Berkeley, is nothing short of dramatic – from his impoverished and turbulent childhood in California’s Central Valley, to playing the cello in Europe’s elite concert halls, to finding his “Ithaca” in the field of sociology.
Three faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 19, 2011:
Sociologist Claude Fischer, cognitive scientist Michael Jordon and theoretical chemist Martin Head-Gordon have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Teaching kids gratitude instead of entitlement
November 22, 2010:
Drawing from research and personal experience, parenting expert Christine Carter — director of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Parents program — shares insights on how practicing gratitude, not just at Thanksgiving but year-round, can make for happier families.
