Sociology @ Carolina Online News 2011

Our Online Department Newsletter, Sociology @ Carolina, provides information about our most important accomplishments, in publishing, research presentations, and other noteworthy achievements, for the benefit of alumni and friends of the Sociology Department and the University of South Carolina. Scroll down or click on an item. 

People | Grants | Publications

People

Jason Cummings joined the Department as Assistant Professor.

Barry Markovsky received the 2011 (National) Advisor of the Year award from the Secular Student Alliance.

Lala Steelman and her co-authors of the book, Counted Out (Russell Sage 2010), received the William J. Goode award of the ASA, the Distinguished Book Award of the Midwest Sociological Society, and the Distinguished Book Award of the North Central Sociological Society.

Grants

Barry Markovsky received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project on “Web-based Tools for Developing and Accessing Sociological Theory.”

Jimy Sanders received a grant on "Acculturation, Socioeconomic Status, and Body Mass Index Trajectory Among Children of Immigrants in the United States" from the Office of the Provost, University of South Carolina.

Brent Simpson received a grant on “The Logic of Collective Action in Large Groups” from the National Science Foundation.

Publications

Jason Cummings co-authored a chapter on “Health Disparities and the Black Middle Class Paradox” in The Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, & Healing: Blueprint for the 21stCentury

Mathieu Deflem and Stephen Chicoine wrote on the sociology of human rights in the journal Development and Society.

Barry Markovsky co-authored “Inferring just rewards” in Sociological Methods and Research

Brent Simpson, Barry Markovsky and Mike Steketee wrote “Power and the perception of social networks” in Social Networks.

Brent Simpson co-authored “Perceptions of Unfairness in Allocations between Multiple Recipients” in Cognitive Psychology.

Irena Stepanikova, Jennifer Triplett, and Brent Simpson wrote “Implicit Racial Bias and Prosocial Behavior” in Social Science Research.

Patrick Nolan co-authored Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology Eleventh Edition (with a New Teaching & Learning Supplement on the Future).

Irena Stepanikova wrote "Physician Trust in Patients: An Important Methodological Contribution" in Annals of Family Medicine.

Shane Thye co-authored “What Predicts Religious Participation and Giving? Implications for Religion in the United States” in Sociological Spectrum. And he co-edited Advances in Group Processes, Volume 28.

David Willer, Eric Gladstone, and Nick Berigan. wrote “Social Values and Social Structure” for the Journal of Mathematical Sociology.

Lala Steelman co-authored in the Journal of Educational Research.

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