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Welcome Jane Pryma!

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Jane Pryma has joined our department.  Professor Pryma is a sociologist of health and medicine who received her PhD from Northwestern and comes to us from the University of Connecticut. She is teaching a special topics course (SO 208) on Gender & Health this semester. Welcome to BU […]

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Sarah Sullivan (CAS, 2011) to Speak at 2022 Convocation Ceremony

We are excited to announce our 2022 commencement speaker: Class of 2011 BU Sociology graduate Sarah Sullivan! Sarah Sullivan specializes in transforming government by centering the voices and experiences of real people in the design of public services. Since 2019, Sarah has served as the Senior Director at Think of Us, where she works to […]

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Professor Stephen Kalberg Publishes New Book

Professor Stephen Kalberg has written a new book titled The Social Thought of Max Weber.  The work–published by SAGE Publishers Inc–details the life and thought of one of sociology’s most important founders, Max Weber. The Social Thought of Max Weber is one in a series called Social Thinkers Series. 

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Professor Julian Go Co-Editor of New Book

  Professor Julian Go has co-edited a newly published book, Fielding Transnationalism, with Monika Krause (University of London). Working with a series of essays written by prominent experts across a variety of eras and specialties, Fielding Transnationalism, “establishes field theory as a lens through which one may inquire about patterns and institutions in the social world.”

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Associate Professor Emily Barman Publishes New Book

Professor Emily Barman’s latest book, Caring Capitalism: The Meaning and Measure of Social Value in the Market has recently been published by Cambridge University Press. In this work, Barman explores how the growing emphasis of “social value” in the marketplace has shifted the way organizations and companies determine and demonstrate the social value of their goods and services. […]

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Alumnus Wayne Batchis (CAS 1996) Publishes New Book on “The Right’s First Amendment”

Wayne Batchis (BA Sociology and Political Science, 1996), Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Delaware, has published a new book entitled The Right’s First Amendment: The Politics of Free Speech & The Return of Conservative Libertarianism (Stanford University Press, 2016).  Based on examination of six decades of the writings of conservative thought […]

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