sociology

The Department of Sociology will host a talk titled “Examining the Health Consequences of Race, Skin Color, and School Context” Friday, Feb. 26, at 12:30 p.m. Taylor Hargrove, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the presentation. Hargrove’s research ...

Years: Fourth-yearsMajors: Biology and sociology (Kiana Loo) and political science and sociology (Vanessa Pilatova) For fourth-year students Kiana Loo and Vanessa Pilatova, volunteer work and community involvement have been key themes during their time at Case Western Reserve University. In fact, t...

Heather McKee Hurwitz, lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences, recently had a book published titled Are We the 99%?: The Occupy Movement, Feminism, and Intersectionality. Through the book, she explored inequality, activism and intersectional feminism amidst radic...

The pandemic has exposed the abhorrent and deadly conditions inside our prisons. Join the Department of Sociology to hear from a panel of scholars and activists discussing the history of prison movements and their prospects for addressing the crisis today. The event, titled “Prison Resistance: Insid...

Join the Department of Sociology Friday, Oct. 9, from 12:45 to 2:15 p.m. for its first virtual colloquium of the semester, "Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: History, Theory, and Lessons for the Present," with Charisse Burden-Stelly of Carleton College and the University of Chicago. The event is co-spo...

Brian Gran, professor in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, has been selected as a National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Jefferson Science Fellow (JSF) by the U.S. Department of State. During his year-long fellowship, Gran, who has secondary appointment...

At first blush, the word that Tim Goler uses to describe his mentor, Eva Kahana—as “family”—would seem to belie their dissimilar backgrounds. Kahana is a Hungarian Jewish refugee who survived Nazi occupation, the Holocaust and a brutal Communist rule in her native country to become a sociology scho...

Heather Hurwitz, a full-time lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, challenged students in her Sociology 101 classes to perform acts of kindness and compassion and then post about their experiences on a class discussion thread. The result was an outpouring of goo...

Cassi Pittman Claytor, assistant professor of sociology, says the bias against black customers at retailers of all kinds goes beyond just the high-profile stories that appear periodically in the news. PIttman Claytor's piece, "'Shopping while black': Yes, bias against black customers is real," appe...

When Brian Gran began his career in academia nearly 20 years ago, “collaboration” wasn’t as common a term or practice as it is today. But his areas of expertise—law and society, human rights and health policy—couldn’t fit into a single discipline if they were to be taught effectively, Gran said. In...