Sociology at Northern Kentucky University

06/23/2015

These job opportunities are great for recent soc grads!

Appalachian Voices is accepting applications for an experienced Development/Fundraising Coordinator to orchestrate and advance the many varying, integrated, and moving parts of the organization’s expanding major gifts, foundations, and membership activities. There is a very strong preference for the…

09/21/2014

NKU Sociology's Dr. Joan Ferrante is quoted in this article about the founder of local Sunrock Farm:

Frank Traina connected hundreds of thousands of area children to the world around them.

09/07/2014

What can pop culture tell us about the power of social groups? The sociology of "Mean Girls":

The movie has such enduring power and is quoted so much because it sheds some incredible light on real sociological phen…

09/02/2014

Sociologists featured in this Washington Post article discuss research on kids in poverty- how they can get out, why they often don't: "Over time, their lives were constrained — or cushioned — by the circumstances they were born into, by the employment and education prospects of their parents, by the addictions or job contacts that would become their economic inheritance."

A study over decades of young Baltimoreans offers insight into who succeeds and why.

01/21/2014

Do young adults lack a sociological imagination? This author thinks so, and argues that the world would be better off if people connected their private troubles with public issues.

But though he?s left Wall Street behind, Polk has not been nearly as successful in escaping the affective and ideological spaces of neoliberalism.

09/27/2013

Check out this upcoming event if you can! Dr. Mike Nellis, internationally known scholar of surveillance studies and collaborator and friend of our own Dr. Lilly, is giving a public talk on October 9 at noon in the Digitorium titled, "I Am Not a Number, I Am a Free Man": Responses to the Surveillance Revelations of Edward Snowden.

08/19/2013

Welcome back, students! Here's to a great first day of classes and a productive semester!

08/15/2013

Sociology in the news! Did you know that those who grow up with more siblings tend to have more stable marriages as adults?

On Tuesday morning, three sociology professors from Ohio State University presented an intriguing result at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association: Having more siblings reduces your chances of getting divorced as an adult. In fact, each additional sibling you have (up to a...

07/26/2013

With less than a month to go before classes begin (eek!), Do you feel the need to brush up on your sociological theories and concepts? Here's a fun little graphic to get you started.

07/17/2013

Hello out there! If you're keeping cool by staying indoors and checking out what's up on facebook, you might be interested in this blog post about social media, sociology, and technology.

The future of engagement introduces sociology into the marketing strategy. Technology is just that, technology. The tools will change. The networks will evolve. Mediums for distributing content will grow. Along with it, behavior will too continue to adapt.

06/07/2013

Environmental sociologist Dr. Robert Bullard will be speaking about the environmental justice movement next week at the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati. More info here:

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE LECTURE WRITING TO CHANGE THE WORLD Tuesday, June 11 7:00 p.m. Reception: refreshments 8:00 p.m. Lecture Robert Bullard is the Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas. He is often described as the father o...

05/31/2013

Check this out: NKU soc prof Bob Lilly gets a shout out in the New York Times! (He's quoted at the top of the second page.)

“What Soldiers Do: S*x and the American G.I. in World War II France,” a book by the historian Mary Louise Roberts, documents r**e and other misconduct among the greatest generation.