Sociology

Across the American republic, pundits, politicians, and social scientists alike have studied and speculated about the rising tide of partisan divisiveness threatening to [...]

By using a unique combination of survey data (International Social Survey Program 2003) and qualitative case study, this dissertation investigates how much importance ind [...]

In the 1980s, "A Nation at Risk" kicked off forty years of education policy directed at providing excellent education to all students. Since that time and despite substan [...]

A large body of literature documents the increasing adoption of fee-for-service models, competitive marketing strategies, corporate governance structures, and business rh [...]

This research examines strategies for social change in an authoritarian context that precludes avenues for direct political engagement, such as protests and public conten [...]

My dissertation investigates public opinion and the nature of the public sphere in China by studying online discourse between 2009 and 2017. I ask what consensuses and cl [...]

Despite a highly centralized government, why do conflicts between the state religious and federal civil courts become politicized and even turn violent in some states mor [...]

This dissertation explores the production and maintenance of place reputation using three Chicago neighborhoods with different reputations: Wicker Park and reputational h [...]

First-generation and low-income students in the U.S. are attending four-year colleges and universities at unprecedented rates. This demographic shift comes, in some part, [...]

While qualitative research provides many insights into how gendered interactions operate at the level of interpersonal interactions and institutions, gender regimes, or p [...]