sociology

Brian K. Gran, associate professor of sociology, was chosen as chair elect of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Human Rights. The section “seeks to promote and support critical, interdisciplinary, and international engagement with human rights scholarship, teaching and practice, as...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University recently had an article published in The Gerontologist. Eva Kahana, Distinguished University Professor and the Pierce T. and Elizabeth D. Robson Professor of the Humanities, and Mike Slone and Kaitlyn Barnes Langendoerfer, both doctoral students in the...

Brittany Rabb, a sophomore majoring in sociology, was awarded a 2016-2017 Welter-Muzic Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Child Studies. Her project is titled "The Role of Neighborhood Cohesion in the Likelihood of Intervening in Suspected Child Maltreatment." Jessica Kelly-Moore, associate prof...

Two faculty members teamed up to write about paid parental leave in an op-ed for The Plain Dealer. Karie Feldman, a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, and Brian K. Gran, associate professor of sociology, wrote the article, titled “With paid parental leave on both Hillary Clinton and Donald Tr...

Study: Older men adhere closely to an idealized masculinity script that is incompatible with the realities of later life As men age, they continue to follow dominant ideas of masculinity learned as youth, leaving them unequipped for the assaults of old age, according to a new study. The mismatch be...