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news diversifying psychology virtual recruitment event september 13 2022 diversifying psychology virtual recruitment event the department of psychological and brain sciences at texas a&m university is hosting a virtual recruitment event for students from demographic backgrounds underrepresented in psychology on wednesday october 5 2022 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm ct the purpose of this event is to provide students with information about the psychology phd programs specifically how to apply for our phd programs the experience of being a phd student at texas a&m resources available on campus and life in college station texas attendees will hear from administrators faculty and graduate students from diverse backgrounds and have the opportunity to ask questions as a department we are committed to fostering a diverse inclusive and equitable academic environment students interested in justice equity diversity and inclusion can engage with various organizations within our department including the diversity science research cluster and the diversity advocacy anti-racism and transformation (daart) committee our program offers phds in behavioral and cellular neuroscience cognition and cognitive neuroscience clinical industrial/organizational and social and personality psychology applications for these programs are due on december 15 2022 we also offer a masters degree in i/o psychology with applications due on february 15 2023 this recruitment event is free to attend but those interested should pre-register using this link family members are also welcome to attend the live event those unable to attend but who would like to receive information from the event should also pre-register; the presentation but not the q&a session will be recorded questions may be addressed to dr isaac sabat (he/him/his) associate head for diversity climate and inclusion or sejal mistry (she/her/hers) graduate assistant for diversity featured stories dei diversity equity inclusion msiop phd recruitment
news stopping to smell the roses can give your life meaning may 12 2022 stopping to smell the roses can give your life meaning new research shows that we can find meaning in life by simply appreciating the beauty thats all around us joshua hicks is a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at texas a&m and he joins host krys boyd to discuss why appreciating small significant moments can lead to a sense of purpose happiness and better connection with the world around us his article a new dimension to a meaningful life – co-authored with frank martela – was published in scientific american featured stories news
news sociology colloquium 3/1/2023 february 23 2023 sociology colloquium 3/1/2023 you dont look like a lawyer dr tsedale melaku baruch college city university of new york this talk will highlight the often-hidden mechanisms elite law firms utilize to perpetuate and maintain a dominant white male system by weaving the narratives with a critical race analysis it exposes this exclusive elite environment demonstrating the rawness and reality of black womens experiences in white spaces this framework allows us to hear the voices of black women as they tell their stories and perspectives on working in a highly competitive racialized and gendered environment and the impact it has on their advancement and beyond tsedale m melaku is a sociologist assistant professor of management at the zicklin school of business baruch college (cuny) and author of you dont look like a lawyer: black women and systemic gendered racism which reflects the emphasis of her scholarly interests on race gender class workplace inequities intersectionality and organizations dr melakus work has been featured in various outlets including the harvard business review new york times the washington post bloomberg law the boston globe and fortune as well as peer-reviewed journals her interdisciplinary research on women in the workplace unites three strands of significant sociological and management inquiry: diversity in the workplace women in leadership positions and the impact of systemic racism on advancement opportunities dr melaku is working on her second book the handbook on workplace diversity and stratification while also researching the impact of race and gender on the experiences of various marginalized groups in the workplace to learn more follow her on twitter @tsedalemelaku or visit her website wwwtsedalemelakucom march 1 2023 wednesday 12:00pm zoom meeting meeting id: 946 2546 0029 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news black women critical race analysis elite environment lawyer white male system
news sociology colloquium 2/15/2023 february 13 2023 sociology colloquium 2/15/2023 violence against social activism and the rise of criminal politicians in colombia dr camilo nieto-matiz university of texas at san antonio in civil conflicts violence is instrumentally used to govern populations sanction certain behaviors and preserve the status quo can selective assassinations affect the quality of democracy in the long term this paper argues that violence against social and political activism facilitates the rise of criminal politicians in the long run by destroying local communities organizational capital and ability to form a political opposition by focusing on the cycle of mobilization and subsequent violence during 1980s colombia i find that towns exposed to higher levels of violence against political activists and social leaders in the eighties were more likely to witness the rise of politicians allied with paramilitary groups in the 2000s in exploring the effects of violence on affected communities i find that municipalities with higher levels of selective violence experienced less social protest and higher displacement of the population prior to the 2000s this paper stresses the critical role of social leaders for democracy and underscores selective assassinations as a contributing factor in the entry of low-quality politicians february 15 2023 wednesday 12:00pm zoom meeting meeting id: 965 0834 1773 passcode: 517823 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news colombia criminal politics social activism violence
news sociology colloquium 1/25/2023 november 25 2022 sociology colloquium 1/25/2023 corporate social performance in the face of institutional de-prioritization of sustainability policies dr debtanu lahiri nova school of business and economics lisbon the study examines firms response to sudden changes in the institutional environment whereby the rules and regulations pertaining to the adoption of socially responsible practices is considerably muted using trumps victory in the 2016 us presidential elections as an exogenous event that led to ‘institutional de-prioritization of sustainability policies this study reveals that us firms proactively improved their corporate social performance in response so as to shield themselves against the potential consequences of the burden of de-legitimacy this improvement was significantly lower for firms having no ideological predispositions since they are likely to be less constrained by socio-normative expectations theoretically this study uses both the insurance-risk view and the corporate culture view to arrive at a nuanced understanding of firms motivation for adopting csr practices debtanus interests are corporate political activity social activism corporate social responsibility geo-politics and global strategy areas referred to as institutional strategy or non-market strategy he earned his doctorate in strategy and business policy from hec paris debantu was born and raised in india where he obtained a bachelors degree in civil engineering and a masters in human resource management january 25 2023 wednesday 12:00pm zoom meeting meeting id: 987 6892 4948 passcode: 420900 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news corporate social performance institutional environment presidential elections trump united states
news sociology colloquium 11/16/2022 november 8 2022 sociology colloquium 11/16/2022 sociology and the threat to american democracy dr samuel cohn texas a&m university american democracy is facing potential triple threats: threats to the very existence of democracy itself threats of the disenfranchisement of a large percentage of the population and the threats of a major legitimation crisis some of those threats are avoidable others are really going to happen – with grim consequences macrosociology has a lot to say about all three of these dangers the news is not necessarily good november 16 2022 wednesday 12:00pm location: liberal arts social sciences building (lasb) 317 colloquium news american democracy macrosociology sociology united states
news sociology colloquium 10/26/2022 october 22 2022 sociology colloquium 10/26/2022 do self sufficient refugees start from nothing paul scholes texas a&m university are refugees blank slates or do their characteristics matter for economic outcomes the refugee studies literature makes conflicting predictions about refugee outcomes what strategies help refugees become economically sufficient refugees are different from migrants and are selected resettled and live through different processes they utilize different strategies and experience different outcomes because the strategies that migrants use are often impossible for refugees how do the outcomes of refugees resettled to the united states compare to canadian refugee outcomes how do these similar systems compare to each other do external shocks like terrorist attacks presidential changes funding changes and economic recessions affect refugee economic self-sufficiency paul scholes only found evidence for one of these mechanisms october 26 2022 wednesday 12:00pm location: liberal arts social sciences building (lasb) 317 colloquium news canada economic outcomes refugees united states
news sociology colloquium 10/19/2022 october 15 2022 sociology colloquium 10/19/2022 politics of nationhood and the decay of the media in turkey dr defne över texas a&m university existing studies of democratic backsliding highlighted the silent revolution in values the breakdown of norms due to polarization and the malleability of laws and constitutions as triggers for institutional decay adopting a cultural approach this paper presents the role played by the politics of nationhood in the breakdown of democratic institutions politics of nationhood refers to the discourses and actions that constitute a political actors efforts to redefine insiders and outsiders of a nation exploring the turkish medias decay under the rule of justice and development party (akp) the paper demonstrates that akps politics of nationhood lead to the breakdown of the media from within by reconstructing the cognitive and emotional worlds of journalists between 2007 and the 2010 akp upended the previous construction of the nation through political trials and property seizures in this context pro-islamic and liberal journalists came to think of their news practices as a means to empower the excluded and attacked the secularistsoften at the expense of violating journalistic standards–; secularists resigned founded new outlets or exercised self-censorship under increased feelings of uncertainty; and kurds and leftists confused by the possibility of punishing the perpetrators of previous exclusion refrained from acting in solidarity with the newly contentious secularists and often used their journalistic agency to attack the previous power structure altogether these forms of journalistic practice not only degraded the media from within but also contributed to the formation of the information environment that passed the 2010 referendum a milestone in turkeys story of democratic backslidingthis argument builds on narrative evidence collected via in-depth interviews between 2012 and 2014 newspaper articles and journalists memoires october 19 2022 wednesday 12:00pm location: liberal arts social sciences building (lasb) 317 colloquium news media nationhood politics turkey
news video about sociology at texas a&m university october 13 2022 video about sociology at texas a&m university for further information on studying sociology at a&m please contact our department by email (sociology@tamuedu) or phone (979-845-5144) news department sociology texas a&m university
news dissertation defended dr michael upchurch october 12 2022 dissertation defended dr michael upchurch please join us in congratulating dr michael upchurch on his successful defense of his dissertation entitled historical residential segregation in the los angeles metropolitan area: an exploration of location attainment in 1940 la dr upchurch defended his dissertation on october 11th the committee members consisted of ernesto amaral arthur sakamoto alex mcintosh and mark fossett dr upchurch dissertations results provide detailed insights into the nature of racial-ethnic segregation in los angeles in 1940 that extend beyond previous quantitative research because he use previously unavailable restricted-access data the results provide the best available systematic assessment of white-latino segregation in los angeles 1940 the main findings are that pan-ethnic minoritized groups are segregated from non-hispanic whites with african-americans experiencing the highest level of segregation followed by asian-americans and latino-americans among these groups latino co-residence with whites is more strongly shaped by spatial assimilation dynamics black co-residence with whites is only minimally shaped by spatial assimilation dynamics and asian co-residence with whites falls in between the findings of his analysis for 1940 los angeles closely reflect residential attainment patterns observable in recent years news demography historical location attainment los angeles residential segregation
news sociology colloquium 10/5/2022 october 3 2022 sociology colloquium 10/5/2022 empowering indigenous women for leadership in their rural communities nereyda ortíz osejo texas a&m university nereyda worked as a consultant on a usaid- and microsoft-funded project that aims to increase economic opportunities for indigenous women in ten communities in huehuetenango guatemala by providing them access to electricity internet connectivity and training programs in digital financial and leadership skills through the digital community centers (dcc) to achieve the objective the team project is (a) organizing the committee of leaders to manage the dcc in ten communities of huehuetenango; (b) establishing ten new dccs with access to solar power and internet connectivity; and (c) co-creating sustainable business models with women from target communities to provide useful business services to the community and local institutions through the dcc october 5 2022 wednesday 12:00pm location: liberal arts social sciences building (lasb) 317 colloquium news economic opportunities guatemala huehuetenango indigenous rural communities women
news sociology colloquium 9/28/2022 september 23 2022 sociology colloquium 9/28/2022 spirit of capitalism in medicine: what drives opioid epidemics in the us megumi tanabe texas a&m university opioid overdose is a persistent public health problem in the us which killed over 68 000 in 2020 the first wave of the opioid epidemic began pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to opioid pain relievers and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates (hhs 2021) the us experienced the second wave of crisis in 2010 with the rise in the overuse of heroin and the third wave in 2013 with the overuse of synthetic opioids recent research tends to focus on the social determinants of the opioid crisis or the peoples misuse of the drugs although this topic has been gaining more and more attention i argue that the root cause of the problem has been overlooked: the relationship between money and opioid dispensing by medical professionals in this talk i will go over how important it is to look at not only the user end of opioids but also the providers characteristics in regard to this social issue september 28 2022 wednesday 12:00pm location: liberal arts social sciences building (lasb) 317 colloquium news capitalism epidemics medicine opioid united states
news sociology colloquium 9/21/2022 september 16 2022 sociology colloquium 9/21/2022 how do countries become global success stories dr rachael sullivan robinson american university rachel sullivan robinson is a sociologist and demographer and professor in the school of international service at american university in washington dc she studies organizations development and global health interventions in sub-saharan africa focusing on reproductive health sexuality education and sexual and gender minority populations she is the author of intimate interventions in global health: family planning and hiv prevention in sub-saharan africa (cambridge university press 2017) and has also published in journals such as world development global public health and demography september 21 2022 wednesday 12:00pm zoom meeting meeting id: 959 7252 0940 passcode: 524286 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news
news dr joe feagin featured in article about ethno-racially diverse cities september 8 2022 dr joe feagin featured in article about ethno-racially diverse cities dr joe feagin was featured in wallethubs recent article about the 2022s most & least ethnically diverse cities in the us https://wallethubcom/edu/cities-with-the-most-and-least-ethno-racial-and-linguistic-diversity/10264#expert=joe_r_feagin news cities diversity ethnicity race
news sociology colloquium 9/7/2022 september 5 2022 sociology colloquium 9/7/2022 racially organized housing entities: a new segregation within integrated spaces james baldwin texas a&m university in 1903 web du bois discussed the black stranger in baker county georgia liable to be stopped anywhere on the public highway and made to state his business to the satisfaction of any white interrogant if he fail[ed] to give a suitable answer or seem[ed] to be independent or sassy he may be arrested or summarily driven away almost 120 years later despite the passage of civil rights legislation and other forms of racial progress my fraternity brothers and i were interrogated and made to state our business to the satisfaction of white interrogant my story ended with being summarily driven away from the place but others end differently (eg trayvon martin or ahmaud arbery) my research and presentation centers on how the methods of segregation and racial stratification change over time while maintaining the underlying social relations in addition i take a deeper dive into the connection between residential segregation the inequitable dissemination of resources and the link between residential segregation and racial inequality as such building off victor rays racialized organizations i propose racially organized housing entities (rohes) as a framework/concept for examining contemporary segregation and its effects september 7 2022 wednesday 12:00pm location: liberal arts social sciences building (lasb) 317 colloquium news housing race racial stratification residential segregation
news sociology colloquium 8/31/2022 august 29 2022 sociology colloquium 8/31/2022 critical race theory: the theory and the politics dr wendy moore texas a&m university on september 4 2020 the executive office of president trump issued a memorandum directing federal agencies to cease and desist funding any federal training programs that used critical race theory (crt) this action brought crt into the public eye created a truculent if uninformed public debate about the role of critical race theory in education the vociferous outcries concerning critical race theory have received so much attention that in its 2021 season the famous comedy show saturday night live featured the topic of critical race theory in the shows cold open at least three times but the appearance of critical race theory on snl is indicative of the current politicization of critical race theory that is neither new nor about the actual theory but is the latest tactic in a project of white retrenchment (or white backlash as some have called it) that actually began early in the post-civil rights era in this talk i discuss the theory and politics of critical race theory as well as some key tenets of crt that offer important interventions for sociology and other social sciences august 31 2022 wednesday 11:45am zoom meeting meeting id: 992 2472 6763 passcode: 362231 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news critical race theory crt politics white retrenchment
news daw clawson activist-scholar award june 18 2022 daw clawson activist-scholar award dr nancy plankey-videla is a co-winner of the inaugural dan clawson activist-scholar award given by the asa labor and labor movements section the call for nominations states that the award should go to someone who demonstrates a long-standing commitment to engaging in scholarship and activism that directly addresses social and economic justice in addition to a strong record of scholarship the nominee should actively engage in movements for positive social change and demonstrate some of the core values central to dan clawsons life: collegiality mentorship kindness and generosity the committee believes that dr plankey-videla exemplify both the balance between research and political engagement and these important core values an excerpt of the citation reads we all know that nancy is the author of the award-winning book we are in this dance together: gender power and globalization in a mexican garment firm and many scholarly articles in social forces and other venues what you may not know is that she is a founder of and tireless leader in the brazos interfaith immigration network (biin) founded in may 2011 in bryan-college station texas ‘to promote the human dignity and well-being of all immigrants nancy has been integral to biins programs she has taught spanish language citizenship classes led legal workshops helped organize the sanctuary in the streets response to ice raids worked tirelessly to promote the worker rights of local immigrants especially in the area of wage theft and helped to establish the centro de derechos laborales congratulations to dr plankey-videla! news asa dan clawson activist-scholar award dr plankey-videla labor movements
news masters thesis defended madison adams june 16 2022 masters thesis defended madison adams big congratulations goes out to madison adams who successfully defended her masters thesis today (june 16 2022)! madison was advised by dr theresa morris the thesis committee included dr sarah gatson and dr tasha dubriwny (department of communication) madisons thesis is titled science technology and sexual harassment it assesses how stem culture impacts how sexual harassment is prevented handled and addressed in graduate programs more specifically it seeks to capture how stem graduate programs grapple with sexual harassment and how graduate students perceive their departments attitudes toward sexual harassment to do so madison used exit interviews with graduating stem graduate students findings reveal a lack of communication and a culture of silence in stem when it comes to sexual harassment congratulations madison! news graduate students sexual harassment stem
news job search workshop june 10 2022 job search workshop we will be hosting a job search workshop next week on wednesday june 15th at 2pm on zoom for sociology graduate students please contact dr heili pals (hpals@tamuedu) for zoom link information if you are planning to start a job search soon or even if you are still far from it we encourage you to participate the workshop will give an idea of the process of job search what kinds of documents are needed etc this workshop focuses specifically on academic jobs (though we will talk both about research oriented and teaching oriented academic jobs) specific line-up of experts who will join the workshop will be announced at a later date news job search sociology workshop