Recent Work
The Department of Sociology at the University of California, Davis offers graduate and undergraduate programs leading to BA, MA, and PhD degrees. Theoretical, methodological, and substantive pluralism characterize the research and teaching interests of the 29 Davis faculty members. The department specialties include community/urban sociology; complex organizations; culture, religion, and ideology; demography and ecology; family and kinship; law, deviance, criminology and social control; political economy/development/economic sociology; political sociology; race and ethnic relations; sex and gender; social movements and collective behavior; social psychology; social stratification; work, occupations and professions. The department is home for Theory and Society: Renewal and Critique of Social Theory, an international journal of interdisciplinary social science.
There are 7 publications in this collection, published between 2004 and 2020.
McCourt, David M: American Power and International Theory at the Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-54, 2020
Abstract: Between December 1953 and June 1954, the elite think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) joined prominent figures in International Relations, including Pennsylvania’s Robert Strausz-Hupé, Yale’s Arnold Wolfers, the Rockefeller Foundation’s William Thompson, government adviser...
Grodsky, Eric; Kalogrides, Demetra: The Declining Use of Race in College Admissions Decisions, 2007
Lo, Ming-cheng M.; Bettinger, Christopher P.: Civil Passions: Cultural Challenges of Public Spheres amidst National Identity Controversies in Hong Kong and Taiwan, 2006
Grodsky, Eric: Compensatory Sponsorship in Higher Education, 2005
Halfmann, Drew; Rude, Jesse; Ebert, Kim: The Biomedical Legacy in Minority Health Policy-Making, 1975-2002, 2005
Grattet, Ryken; Bravo, Carlos A; Murrain, Fernando A; Quach, Angela B; Vercoe, Robert: Bias Crime in Sacramento, 1995-2002, 2004
Grodsky, Eric; Jones, Melanie: Real and Imagined Barriers to College Entry: Perceptions of Cost, 2004