Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Josh Seim (Boston College) for his talk titled:    The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City   Abstract: Despite claims that we live in a “post-welfare society,” welfare offices remain vital not only for those who depend on them for benefits but also those who depend on them for a paycheck. This theory-driven case study of the Los Angeles County Department of Public…

Join the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies for their Friday Speaker Series as they host our own Emily Tingle and her presentation: "Knocking on the Door of Power: Gendered Boundaries in Political Space" 

Please join the Computational Social Science Workgroup of the Owens Institute for Behavioral Research and UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Trenton D. Mize (Purdue University) for his presentation titled: "The Problem With “All Else Equal”: Generalized Marginal Effects and Better Answers to Real-World Causal Questions" Abstract: To quantify effects, health and social science researchers typically estimate a regression model and interpret the…

Join us on April 1 at 10AM as we welcome Dr. Sarah Mosseri for her presentation of: "Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us"  Sponsored by the UGA Sociology Colloquium Committee In this talk, Sarah Mosseri draws on findings from her book, Trust Fall: How Workplace Relationships Fail Us (University of California Press, 2026) to explain the paradox of high workplace trust amid declining societal trust.  Drawing data…

Join UGA Sociology on April 14 as we welcome Dr. Jan E. Stets, Distinguished Professor of Sociology (University of California, Riverside) for her talk titled: "Morality in Social Life" Sponsored by the Sociology Graduate Student Society Abstract We live in a very polarized society. How do we understand morality today when opposing groups equally claim the moral high ground? Taking a broad sociological view, I argue that we need to understand…

Join UGA Sociology on February 27th as we welcome Dr. Kristina Brant (Penn State University) for her talk titled: "The Impacts of Severe Floods on Substance Use in Rural Appalachia" In this talk, Kristina will present her current research on the impacts of severe floods on substance use-related harms. When conducting ethnographic fieldwork in rural Eastern Kentucky in 2021, Kristina witnessed the first of three severe floods to hit the region in…

Join UGA Sociology as we welcome Dr. Amy Spring (Georgia State University) for her presentation of: Moving with Family in Mind: Kinship and U.S. Mobility Family is an enduring force in American life and factors prominently into migration and settlement patterns. This presentation explores key themes from my research using a novel multigenerational kinship database derived from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), which has followed…

Please join the Sociology Department in presenting a job talk by Doctoral candidate Keely Fox entitled: "Naming the Unnamed: An Exploration of Menopausal Symptom Recognition and Care-Seeking."

"Law and Order Leviathan: A Theory of America’s Extraordinary Penal State”Abstract: Why is America, that storied land of liberty, home to mass incarceration, police killings, and racialized criminal justice? My lecture traces the structural sources of America’s extraordinary penal state and the community-level processes through which they impact crime and policing. I argue that America’s carceral regime will remain an international outlier until…

Sponsored by the Sociology Graduate Student Society, please join us as we welcome Dr. Lisa Wade from the University of Tulane for her talk titled "Tested: Life with Covid at an American Party School" What is the value of social science to STEM? Dr. Lisa Wade argues that knowledge based in the STEM fields—science, tech, engineering, and math—cannot be successfully deployed in a vacuum. Using a case study of students navigating co-residence,…