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 2017
Countercultural Happenings: The Performance of Revolt in Brazil’s Tropicália Movement, John Baldwin, Phillip Chidester, and Laura Robinson
Pierre Bourdieu: theorizing the digital, Gabe Ignatow and Laura Robinson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Submissions from 2012
Information-Seeking 2.0:The Effects of Informational Advantage, Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2011
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
Media Ecologies, Heather A. Horst, Becky Herr-Stephenson, and Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2009
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
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
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
Online Art Auctions à la Française and à l'Américaine, Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2005
Debating the Events of September 11th: Discursive and Interactional Dynamics in Three Online Fora, Laura Robinson
Submissions from 2004
Giving Students a Voice: Learning Through Autobiography, Laura Nichols
Hop on the Bus: Driving Stratification Concepts Home, Laura Nichols, Joshua Berry, and Demetra Kalogrides
Moving Beyond the Client Role: Helping Human Service Organizations Identify Program Participant’s Assets, Laura Nichols, Shannon Gleeson, and Sandra Figueroa
Submissions from 2003
The Woman is Not Always the Bad Guy: Resistance in the Discourse of Battered Women, Laura Nichols and Kathryn M. Feltey
Implications of Welfare Reform on Housing and School Instability, Laura Nichols and Barbara Gault
Submissions from 2002
Bridging and Bonding Capital: Pluralist Ethnic Relations in Silicon Valley, Marilyn Fernandez and Laura Nichols
Participatory Program Planning: Including Program Participants and Evaluators, Laura Nichols
Digitization, the Internet, and the Arts: eBay, Napster, SAG, and e-Books, Laura Robinson and David Halle
Submissions from 2000
Family Influences on Absenteeism: Testing an Expanded Process Model, Rebecca J. Erickson, Laura Nichols, and Christian Ritter
Submissions from 1999
The Only Thing You Really Got is this Minute: Homeless Women Re-visioning the Future, Kathryn M. Feltey and Laura Nichols
Involving students in the development of a peer education program for college women, Laura Nichols and Linda Lumley
Submissions from 1996
Ecological Approach in Practice: A Case Study of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, Marilyn Fernandez and Laura Nichols
