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A Wider Discipline for a Smaller World
Mar 31 2022
In response to the International Studies Association’s annual theme–A Wider Discipline for a Smaller World-we offer a few reflections on how tapping into a broader array of disciplines and subjects can bring clarity and enhanced insights into our understanding of the urgent challenges of our times.
Technology and Global Change: A Q&A with Global Perspectives Section Editor Josephine Wolff
Sep 20 2021
"You can imagine how if we wanted to create algorithms that could help inform judicial decisions or credit scoring systems or employment decisions and we did so by training those algorithms on existing, human-made decisions in these areas, then all of the biases underlying those human decisions woul
A Q&A with Andrew Jorgenson and Jeffrey Kentor, Editors of Sociology of Development
Jul 27 2021
"Advance Articles is important for two reasons. First, it makes the article accessible to the journal’s diverse readership in a timelier manner. Second, it enables authors to get credit for their publications more quickly. This is especially helpful for junior faculty who are coming up for promotion
Civic Sociology Call for Papers: The Quest for Normativity: Challenges and New Directions in Social Research
Jul 15 2021
Civic Sociology aims to be a forum for the cultivation of normative inquiry within the discipline, and to offer a space for the many conversations that different ethical turns have spurred.
Call for Papers: COVID-19 and the Anthropocene
Apr 09 2020
The global coronavirus pandemic has already affected most of the planet in innumerable ways. Beyond its devastating human health toll, we are witnessing atmospheric, resource use, ecological, cultural, economic, and political consequences materializing in many places and at a scale that is unprecede
“We cannot afford to not think about our responsibility as social scientists” — A Q&A with Civic Sociology Associate Editor Elisabeth Becker
Aug 09 2019
Elisabeth Becker is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Religion & Its Publics project at the University of Virginia and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Culture, where her research focuses on Muslim migrant/post-migrant responses to exclusion in urban contexts. She is also Associate Editor of
Civic Sociology Associate Editor Siobhan McAndrew on “what ‘civic sociology’ means to me”
Aug 08 2019
Siobhan McAndrew is a lecturer with the University of Bristol’s School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, where her research interests focus on the social science of culture, religion and value change. She recently joined the editorial team of Civic Sociology, an open-access journal f
What does “civic sociology” mean to you? A Q&A with Rubén Flores, Associate Editor of Civic Sociology
Aug 07 2019
Rubén Flores is a sociologist at University College Dublin whose research has contributed to the sociology of compassion and care. He recently joined the editorial team of Civic Sociology, a new open-access journal from University of California Press.
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What does “civic sociology” mean to you? A Q&A with Civic Sociology Associate Editor Rhiannon Leebrick
Aug 05 2019
Dr. Rhiannon Leebrick is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wofford College. Her research interests include environmental sociology, political economy and globalization, and social theory. She recently joined the editorial team of Civic Sociology, an open-access journal from University of Californi