Letter from the ChairDear Sociology Community, I hope this message finds you well as we find ourselves in the middle of another exciting term. Given the tumultuous national landscape, sociology is more vital than ever in helping us understand and respond to pressing social issues. The work profiled in this newsletter shows how members of our community are analyzing social structures, institutions, and collective behaviors to shed light on pressing societal problems and inspire meaningful mobilization for social change. This semester, undergraduate students are engaging with these topics by taking courses such as Social Movements, Sociology of Sexualities, High Tech Regions in Comparative Perspective, Nationalism and Identity, and Big Data on the Social World. Our graduate students just successfully wrapped the 17th Annual Sociology Graduate Research Symposium, presenting on innovative topics such as computational and network data methods, demography of class and gender, and health and social behavior. Additionally, we have an exciting slate of events coming up in April: Paul DiMaggio (Princeton), Cristobal Young (Cornell), Michèle Lamont (Harvard) and Bart Bonikowski (NYU). Also, at the end of April, we will host a Soc Social pizza party for the undergraduate Sociology majors, and anyone who is interested in learning more about the major. The Dragon Day Parade is tomorrow and the Sociology community is invited to watch the parade from the Grad Lounge (best view in town!). Thank you for being part of our vibrant sociology community. Sincerely, Laura Tach Chair, Department of Sociology
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