Sociology
Research by Clark’s sociology faculty focuses on a wide range of topics, including cultural identity, religion, social movements, family relationships, social stratification, genocide, and the sociology of sport.
Submissions from 2024
“We are Fighting Nazis”: Genocidal Fashionings of Gaza(ns) After 7 October, Zoé Samudzi
Submissions from 2023
Black newspapers and the Black public sphere: The utility of cartoons in the context of World War II, Joseph Guzman and Brandon Moore
Cultural Threat and Market Failure: Moral Decline Narratives on the Religious Right and Left, Jack Delehanty
Multiple measures of structural racism as predictors of U.S. county-level COVID-19 cases and deaths, Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Nathan A. Ahlgren, and Philip J. Bergmann
Submissions from 2022
County-level societal predictors of COVID-19 cases and deaths changed through time in the United States: A longitudinal ecological study, Philip J. Bergmann, Nathan A. Ahlgren, and Rosalie A. Torres Stone
The Educational Trajectories of Latinx Undocumented Students: Illegality and Threats to Emotional Well-Being, Alessandra Bazo Vienrich and Rosalie A. Torres Stone
Submissions from 2021
Unchurched Christian Nationalism and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election*, Samuel Stroope, Paul Froese, Heather M. Rackin, and Jack Delehanty
Perceptions of Patient-Provider Communication Across the Six Largest Asian Subgroups in the USA, James B. Kirby, Terceira A. Berdahl, and Rosalie A. Torres Stone
Movers and makers: Uncertainty, resilience and migrant creativity in worlds of flux, Parminder Bhachu
Submissions from 2020
Becoming “People of Faith:” Personal Moral Authenticity in the Cultural Practices of a Faith-Based Social Justice Movement, Jack Delehanty
Social Critique as Religious Formation: Relational Practices in Faith-Based Activism, Jack Delehanty
“To know one's chains for what they are is better than to deck them with flowers”1, 2, Shelly Tenenbaum
Sociology of legal consciousness and hegemony, Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey
Submissions from 2019
Mastering menopause: Women's voices on taking charge of the change, Deborah M. Merrill
Christian America? Secularized Evangelical Discourse and the Boundaries of National Belonging, Jack Delehanty, Penny Edgell, and Evan Stewart
Submissions from 2018
The meaning of work for young adults diagnosed with serious mental health conditions, Rosalie A.Torres Stone, Kathryn Sabella, Charles W. Lidz, Colleen McKay, and Lisa M. Smith
The Emotional Management of Progressive Religious Mobilization, Jack Delehanty
Submissions from 2017
The association of dietary quality with colorectal cancer among normal weight, overweight and obese men and women: A prospective longitudinal study in the USA, Rosalie A. Torres Stone, Molly E. Waring, Sarah L. Cutrona, Catarina I. Kiefe, Jeroan Allison, and Chyke A. Doubeni
Consciousness and ideology, Patricia Ewick
Narrating social structure: Stories of resistance to legal authority1, Patricia Ewick and Susan Silbey
Submissions from 2016
Diaspora Conversations: Ethics, Ethicality, Work and Life, Gargi Bhattacharyya and Parminder Bhachu
Submissions from 2015
Law and Everyday Life, Patricia Ewick
Submissions from 2014
The dilemmas of social movement identity and the case of the Voice of the Faithful, Patricia Ewick and Marc W. Steinberg
The challenge of interdisciplinarity: A conversation about introductory courses to jewish studies, Lori Lefkovitz, David Shneer, and Shelly Tenenbaum
The invisibility of diasporic capital and multiply migrant creativity, Parminder Bhachu