Sociologists study social organization (structure) and shared meaning (culture) in human groups. We most often study the United States, but we do our work all over the world. Besides the United States, Sociology faculty at Santa Clara have lived and worked in Latin America, Asia, and Europe. At its conceptual heart, sociology studies the way in which patterns of shared meanings and systems of social organization are created, maintained, and transformed over time, and the consequences which result from those particular patterns of shared meaning and systems of social organization.
Submissions from 2024
Who Authors Social Science? Demographics and the Production of Knowledge, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, Molly M. King, and Christin Munsch
Structure, status, and span: gender differences in co-authorship networks across 16 region-subject pairs (2009–2013), Kjersten Bunker Whittington, Molly M. King, and Isabella Cingolani
Submissions from 2023
Paying Attention to the Pandemic: Knowledge of COVID-19 Facts by News Source and Demographics, Molly M. King
Creating Sociological Knowledge and the Next Generation of Sociological Thinkers in Faculty-Directed Research with Undergraduate Research Assistants, Molly M. King and Megan K. Imai
Name-based demographic inference and the unequal distribution of misrecognition, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, Molly M. King, and Christin Munsch
What Students? Which Mission?, Laura Nichols
Employment and the Structure of Colleges as Barriers to College Match and Degree Completion for Latinx First-Generation College Students, Laura Nichols and Maria Valle
Submissions from 2022
REDI for Binned Data: A Random Empirical Distribution Imputation Method for Estimating Continuous Incomes, Molly M. King
Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice, Molly M. King and Maria A. Gregg
Teaching & learning guide for disability and climate justice, Molly M. King, Maria A. Gregg, Ana V. Martinez, and Emily Y. Pachoud
The Undergraduate RA: Benefits and Challenges for Sociology Faculty and Research Assistants, Molly M. King and Megan K. Imai
Introduction: Mediating crisis: COVID-19 and beyond, Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Massimo Ragnedda, Noah McClain, Maria Laura Ruiu, Molly M. King, and Aneka Khilnani
Submissions from 2021
The Pandemic Penalty: The Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Scientific Productivity, Molly M. King and Megan E. Frederickson
“I don’t bang: I’m just a Blood”: Situating gang identities in their proper place, Patrick Lopez-Aguado and Michael Lawrence Walker
Submissions from 2020
Alternative Spirituality among Global Scientists, Di Di, Simranjit Khalsa, Robert A. Thomson, and Elaine Howard Ecklund
Madres emprendedoras, entrepreneurial mothers: Reflections from a community-based participatory action research course with Mexican immigrant madres in the Silicon Valley, Jesica S. Fernández, Alma R. Orozco, Patricia Rodriguez, Irene E. Cermeño, and Laura Nichols
Shape Shifting into Blackness in the Post–Civil Rights Era, Margaret Hunter
Addressing Exclusion in Organizations: Social Desire Paths and Undocumented Students Attending College, Laura Nichols
Submissions from 2019
Introduction: Science and Religion Around the World, Elaine Howard Ecklund, David R. Johnson, Brandon Vaidyanathan, Steven W. Lewis, Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Robert A. Thomson Jr., and Di Di
Technologies of Racial Capital, Margaret Hunter
Submissions from 2018
Paths to Enlightenment: Constructing Buddhist Identities in Mainland China and the United States, Di Di
Global spirituality among scientists, Elaine Howard Ecklund and Di Di
The Indian Information Technology Sector: The New Caste Inequality Frontier, Marilyn Fernandez
Institutionalizing Transparency, Jeremy Freese and Molly M. King
Undocumented: The Stress of Status, Terry-Ann Jones and Laura Nichols
Participatory Action Research (PAR) Training, Course, and Community Based Projects, Patricia Rodriguez, Alma R. Orozco, Jesica S. Fernandez, and Laura Nichols
Submissions from 2017
Countercultural Happenings: The Performance of Revolt in Brazil’s Tropicália Movement, John Baldwin, Phillip Chidester, and Laura Robinson
Producing Sacredness and Defending Secularity: Faith in the Workplace of Taiwanese Scientists, Di Di and Elaine Howard Ecklund
A Catholic Science? Italian ScientistsConstruct Religious Identity during Religious Shifts, Elaine Howard Ecklund and Di Di
Nicki Minaj and the Changing Politics of Hip-Hop: Real Blackness, Real Bodies, Real Feminism?, Margaret Hunter and Alheli Cuenca
Pierre Bourdieu: theorizing the digital, Gabe Ignatow and Laura Robinson
Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across fields and over time, Molly M. King, Carl T. Bergstrom, Shelley J. Correll, Jennifer Jacquet, and Jevin D. West
The Double-Edged Sword: Guanxi and Science Ethics in Academic Physics in the People’s Republic of China, Steven W. Lewis, Di Di, and Elaine Howard Ecklund
Public Sociology, Laura Nichols
The Role of Catholic Schools in Reducing Educational and Economic Inequality, Laura Nichols
Getting, Staying, and Being in College: The Experiences of Students, Laura Nichols and Maria Guzmán
Neighborhood Priority or Desegregation Plans? A Spatial Analysis of Voting on San Francisco’s Student Assignment System, Lorien Rice, Mark Henderson, and Margaret Hunter
Venture Labor, Media Work, and the Communicative Construction of Economic Value: Agendas for the Field and Critical Commentary, Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz
Submissions from 2016
Women’s Underrepresentation in Academic Physics in the People’s Republic of China, Di Di, Elaine Howard Ecklund, and Steven W. Lewis
The Effect of Mothers’ Educational Credentials on Children’s Outcomes: Does Being a First-Generation or Continuing Generation College Graduate Matter?, Susan A. Dumais and Laura Nichols
A Gendered Approach to Science Ethics for US and UK Physicists, Elaine Howard Ecklund and Di Di
Colorism in the Classroom: How Skin Tone Stratifies African American and Latina/o Students, Margaret Hunter
Responding to Richard: Celebrity and (mis)representation of science, David R. Johnson, Elaine Howard Ecklund, Di Di, and Kirstin R.W. Matthews
“I Would Be a Bulldog”: Tracing the Spillover of Carceral Identity, Patrick Lopez-Aguado
The Collateral Consequences of Prisonization: Racial Sorting, Carceral Identity, and Community Criminalization, Patrick Lopez-Aguado
Pushing and Pulling Emerging Adults through College: College Generational Status and the Influence of Parents and Others in the First Year, Laura Nichols and Ángel Islas
Collective memory: September 11th now and then, Laura Robinson
Eliciting Frontstage and Backstage Talk with the Iterated Questioning Approach, Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz
Sociology of Culture, Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz
Security-Autonomy-Mobility Roadmaps: Passports To Security for Youth, Jeremy Schulz and Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2015
State of the States’ Health, Sarah A. Burgard and Molly M. King
Reducing Poverty in California…Permanently, Conway Collis, David Grusky, Sara Kimberlin, Courtney Powers, Sandra Sanchez, Marion Coddou, Erin Cumberworth, Jonathan Fisher, Jared Furuta, Jasmine Hill, Molly M. King, Yana Kucheva, Ryan Leupp, Ana Matosantos, Natassia Rodriguez, and Rachel Wright
Why is there so much Poverty in California? The Causes of California’s Sky-High Poverty and the Evidence Behind the Equal Opportunity Plan for Reducing It, David Grusky, Marion Coddou, Erin Cumberworth, Jonathan Fisher, Jared Furuta, Jasmine Hill, Sara Kimberlin, Molly M. King, Yana Kucheva, Ryan Leupp, Marybeth Mattingly, Natassia Rodriguez, Charles Varner, and Rachel Wright
Mind the Emotional Gap: The Impact of Emotional Costs on Student Learning Outcomes, Kuo-Ting Huang, Laura Robinson, and Shelia R. Cotten
Response to Daniel K. Finn, Laura Nichols
Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Suffering, Laura Robinson
Digital inequalities and why they matter, Laura Robinson, Shelia R. Cotten, Hiroshi Ono, Anabel Quan-Haase, Gustavo Mesch, Wenhong Chen, Jeremy Schulz, Timothy M. Hale, and Michael J. Stern
Where we’ve been and where we are going, Laura Robinson and Apryl Williams
Submissions from 2014
Health Inequality, Sarah A. Burgard and Molly M. King
Social Desire Paths: An Applied Sociology of Interests, Laura Nichols
Social Desire Paths: A New Theoretical Concept to Increase the Usability of Social Science Research in Society, Laura Nichols
A “Paired Cases Contrast” Method in the Absence of Reliable Metrics in Organizational Research: Proof of Concept, Charles Powers and Marilyn Fernandez
Endowed, Entrepreneurial, and Empowered-Strivers: Doing a lot with a lot, doing a lot with a little, Laura Robinson
Freeways, detours, and dead ends: Search journeys among disadvantaged youth, Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2013
Critical connectivity in banking networks, Agam Gupta, Molly M. King, James Magdanz, Regina Martinez, Matteo Smerlak, and Brady Stoll
Working between two worlds: Gang intervention and street liminality, Patrick Lopez-Aguado
Net Time Negotiations Within the Family, Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz
Shifting grounds and evolving battlegrounds: Evaluative frameworks and debates about market capitalism from the 1930s through the 1990s, Jeremy Schulz and Laura Robinson
The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship, Jevin D. West, Jennifer Jacquet, Molly M. King, Shelley J. Correll, and Carl T. Bergstrom
Submissions from 2012
Latinos and the Skin Color Paradox: Skin Color, National Origin, and Political Attitudes, James Faught and Margaret Hunter
Race, Gender, and Skin Tone, Margaret Hunter
The Consequences of Colorism, Margaret Hunter
Testing Parsons: Evidence from an Organizational Subunit and Implications for Structural Functional Theorizing, Charles Powers and Marilyn Fernandez
“Pelones y Matones”: Chicano Cholos Perform for a Punitive Audience, Victor M. Rios and Patrick Lopez-Aguado
Information-Seeking 2.0:The Effects of Informational Advantage, Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2011
Health Information Technology, David A. Dorr and Molly M. King
Turning on the Care Coordination Switch in Rural Primary Care: Voices from the Practices -Clinician Champions, Clinician Partners, Administrators, and Nurse Care Managers, Lyle J. Fagnan, David A. Dorr, Melinda Davis, Paul McGinnis, Jo Mahler, Molly M. King, and LeAnn Michaels
Buying racial capital: skin-bleaching and cosmetic surgery in a globalized world, Margaret Hunter
Shake it, Baby, Shake it: Consumption and the New Gender Relation in Hip-Hop, Margaret Hunter
Homelessness and the Mobile Shelter System: Public Transportation as Shelter, Laura Nichols and Fernando Cázares
Addressing Policy Dilemmas with Community Based Research and Assessing Student Outcomes, Laura Nichols, Fernando Cázares, and Angelica Rodriguez
Information-Channel Preferences and Information-Opportunity Structures, Laura Robinson
New Fieldsites, New Methods: New Ethnographic Opportunities, Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz
Submissions from 2010
Hunger For Healing: Is There a Role for Introducing Restorative Justice Principles in Domestic Violence Services?, Marilyn Fernandez
Media Ecologies, Heather A. Horst, Becky Herr-Stephenson, and Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2009
Women of Color in Hip Hop: The Pornographic Gaze, Margaret Hunter and Kathleen Soto
Using Department Protocols as Indicators of Emergent Organizational Reality in a Ground‐Level Administrative Subunit: A Modest but Important Basic Research Development, Charles Powers and Marilyn Fernandez
A Taste for the Necessary, Laura Robinson
Brazilians, French, and Americans Debate 9/11: Cultural Scripts of Innocence and Culpability, Laura Robinson
New avenues for sociological inquiry: Evolving forms of ethnographic practice, Laura Robinson and Jeremy Schulz
Submissions from 2008
Homeless Women with Children in Shelters: The Institutionalization of Family Life, Kathryn Feltey and Laura Nichols
The Cost of Color: What We Pay for Being Black and Brown, Margaret Hunter
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project, Mizuko Ito, Heather A. Horst, Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Patricia G. Lange, C. J. Pascoe, and Laura Robinson
The Moral Accounting of Terrorism: Competing Interpretations of September 11, 2001, Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2007
The Persistent Problem of Colorism: Skin Tone, Status, and Inequality, Margaret Hunter
Imagining the Urban: The Politics of Race, Class, and Schooling, Zeus Leonardo and Margaret Hunter
Self-Efficacy of First-Generation College Students and the Relationship to Academic Performance and College Adjustment, Lucila Ramos-Sánchez and Laura Nichols
The cyberself: the self-ing project goes online, symbolic interaction in the digital age, Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2006
The Economic Resource Receipt of New Mothers, Laura Nichols, Cheryl Elman, and Kathryn M. Feltey
