Sociology
- The award, considered one of the College of Arts and Sciences' highest honors, is given to students for academic achievement and service
- Decades-long CU Boulder-led study shows access to family planning shapes lives for generations.
- Survivors of events like the recent Marshall Fire may face what sociologist Lori Peek called "the long tail of disaster-related trauma"
- Gangs have changed in the decades since ‘West Side Story’ first came out—they are deadlier, and their demographics are different—as are the means law enforcement use to control them.
- A new paper out of the CU Boulder argues it may be time to stop hyper-focusing on economic growth as a leading indicator of a society’s success, because we may be headed for a long-run decline in growth this century, whether we like it or not.
- CU Boulder sociologists who teach courses on the sociology of horror talk about their podcast, why horror films are popular and their favorite scary movies.
- CU Boulder research finds that carrying a pregnancy to term is riskier than having an abortion, especially for non-Hispanic Black women.
- A new study from CU Boulder finds that focusing on the ‘big’ picture by reducing the emissions of super-polluting power plants could drastically reshape the climate crisis.
- What the pandemic revealed about gender inequalities—and what needs to change.
- Sociology graduate student has won a grant from the American Sociological Association for her work with housing recovery among Houston-area immigrants.