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William Hoynes is Professor of Sociology on the Jane Baker Nord ’42 Chair in Media Studies at Vassar College. Hoynes served ...

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Often, instructors are tasked with career advising for our majors. Check out this review by Catherine Solomon in Teaching Sociology of The Employable Sociologist: A Guide for Undergraduates (Martinez ...

Listen to Jon Wynn discuss how he “tweaked the formula” for engaging different audiences by writing fiction inspired by and using sociology and social theory via this “Give Theory a Chance” podcast!

Deploying sociological theory is a core part of our teaching in cultural studies. Indeed, one of our most prominent theorists ...

Daniel Chambliss joins us to discuss The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on the Stratification of Swimmers, ...

A large, circular library with reading desks and seating in the middle. Photo by Tamás Mészáros is licensed under CC BY 2.0 ...

In the last few hundred years, dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes in an effort to dehumanize them and justify their oppression and exploitation. This is familiar to most Americans as ...

The power of social media to burrow dramatically into our everyday lives as well as the near ubiquity of new technologies such as mobile phones has forced us all to conceptualize the digital and the ...