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Berkeley’s Sociology Department is known around the world for its excellence in research and teaching. For the past six decades, we have consistently been ranked among the world’s top sociology departments, and in 2013 we were #1 in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. We are proud to contribute to the world’s leading public university, to international sociology, and to the life of the mind beyond the academy. Our faculty teach and do research in most sociological specialties. Our PhDs are leaders in universities and research centers across the US and in many other countries. And our BAs populate the ranks of innumerable professions, bringing with them the skills and special perspective of Berkeley sociology.

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Faculty Spotlight

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Ann Swidler
Special Interests:
Culture, religion, theory, institutionalization, African responses to HIV/AIDS

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  • Loic Wacquant
Simbiosi Mortale
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  • Thomas B. Gold
Social Connections in China
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  • Neil Fligstein
The Transformation of Corporate Control
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  • Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society
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  • Raka Ray
Handbook of Gender
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  • Loic Wacquant
Punishing the Poor
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  • Kim Voss
Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement
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  • Irene Bloemraad
Civic Hopes and Political Realities
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  • Thomas B. Gold
State and Society in the Taiwan Miracle
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  • David J. Harding
Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys
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  • G Cristina Mora
Making Hispanics
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  • Claude S Fischer
Still Connected: Family and Friends in America Since 1970
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  • Loic Wacquant
Les Prisons de la Misère
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  • Claude S Fischer
Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character
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  • Irene Bloemraad
Becoming a Citizen
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  • Kim Voss
Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement
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  • Cybelle Fox
Three Worlds of Relief
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  • Loic Wacquant
Prisons of Poverty
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  • Arlie R. Hochschild
The Outsourced Self
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  • Loic Wacquant
Pierre Bourdieu in the Field
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  • Ann Swidler
  • Claude S Fischer
  • Kim Voss
  • Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
  • Michael Hout
  • Samuel R. Lucas
Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth
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  • Loic Wacquant
Commodifying Bodies
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  • Martin Sanchez-Jankowski
Cracks in the Pavement: Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods
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  • Ann Swidler
Talk of Love
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  • Neil Fligstein
Euroclash
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  • Raka Ray
Social Movements in India
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  • Raka Ray
Fields of Protest
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  • Neil Fligstein
A Theory of Fields
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  • Thomas B. Gold
  • Victoria Bonnell
The New Entrepreneurs of Europe and Asia: Patterns of Business Development in Russia, Eastern Europe, and China
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