http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Fri, 17 May 2013 21:06:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:28 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34527 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/ten-uc-berkeley-faculty-named-to-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/feed/ 0 http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=1052 http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=1052#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:01:14 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34398 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.]]> http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=1052/feed/ 0 http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/uc-berkeley-sociologist-questions-trend-towards-intimate-outsourcing/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/uc-berkeley-sociologist-questions-trend-towards-intimate-outsourcing/#comments Thu, 24 May 2012 18:48:08 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=31069 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."]]> http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/05/23/uc-berkeley-sociologist-questions-trend-towards-intimate-outsourcing/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/09/best-dissertation-award/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/09/best-dissertation-award/#comments Wed, 09 May 2012 20:28:00 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30297 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/09/best-dissertation-award/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/01/political-scientist-harold-wilensky-dies-at-age-88/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/01/political-scientist-harold-wilensky-dies-at-age-88/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:04:35 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=19523 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/01/political-scientist-harold-wilensky-dies-at-age-88/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/29/lesbian-and-gay-parents/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/29/lesbian-and-gay-parents/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:10:32 +0000 Cathy Cockrell http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=13586 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."]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/29/lesbian-and-gay-parents/feed/ 0 http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/15/cowan.long.serving.leaders/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/15/cowan.long.serving.leaders/index.html#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 18:18:04 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=12939 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.]]> http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/06/15/cowan.long.serving.leaders/index.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/07/digital-democracy/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/07/digital-democracy/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:39:05 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=12554 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. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/07/digital-democracy/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/10/medalist2011/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/10/medalist2011/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 16:32:16 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=11303 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/10/medalist2011/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/19/three-uc-berkeley-faculty-members-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/19/three-uc-berkeley-faculty-members-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:02:53 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=9802 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/04/19/three-uc-berkeley-faculty-members-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/22/gratitude/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/22/gratitude/#comments Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:21:40 +0000 Yasmin Anwar http://dev-newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=1238 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.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/11/22/gratitude/feed/ 0