The Sociology Faculty engage in research on many topics. Use this page to learn about our areas of specialization.
Pick a Topic: Children & Youth, Environment, Gender & Sexuality, Higher Education, Immigration, Race & Ethnicity, Cultural, Economic, Sociological Imagination, Religion, Statistics & Research Methods, Miscellaneous
Children & Youth
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. Temple University Press. 2019.
Donoghue, Christopher & Lisa Meltzer. 2018. Journal of Adolescence, 68, 87-93.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. . In Youth, Jobs and the Future: Problems and Prospects. Lynn Chancer, Christine Trost and Martin Sanchez Jankowski Oxford University Press (December 2018).Book Reviews:
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. Philadelphia Inquirer January 31, 2018
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin, Ed. 2016.. ASA Section on Children and Youth.
Raia-Hawrylak, Alicia and Christopher Donoghue. 2016. “” Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, 20, 167-184.
Donoghue, Christopher, Consuelo Bonillas, Jeniffer Moreno, Omara Cardoza and Melissa Cheung.2016. . Sex Education. 17, 1, 73-85.
Donoghue, Christopher and Alicia Raia-Hawrylak. 2016. “.” Children and Schools, 38, 1, 30-39.
Donoghue, Christopher, Dina Rosen, Angela Almeida, and David Brandwein. 2015. “” Qualitative Research in Education, 4, 1, 26-44.
Donoghue, Christopher, Angela Almeida, David Brandwein, Gabriela Rocha, and Ian Callahan. 2014. “” International Journal of Emotional Education, 6, 2, 40-53.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. 2014. . PA: Temple University Press.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. 2013. “” Contexts 12: 42-47.
Cassino, Daniel R. and Yasemin Besen-Cassino. 2009. . Associated University Presses, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: New Jersey.
Besen, Yasemin-Cassino. 2008. “” Sociology Compass 1(1).
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. 2008. “Work as an Alternative to School? Confidence in the Education System and Youth’s Labor Market Entry Decisions.” Education & Society 26(1).
Besen, Yasemin. 2006. ” Regional Labor Review 9(3).
Besen, Yasemin. 2006. “” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35(3).
Besen, Yasemin. 2005. “” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 49(1).
Besen, Yasemin. 2005. “” Contexts 3(4).
Environment
Freund, Peter. 2010. “” Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. 21(2):112-121.
Freund, Peter and George Martin. 2009. “” Bulletin of Science, Technology, and Society.
Martin, George. 2009. “” in J. Conley & A. Mclaren, eds., Car Troubles. Ashgate.
Martin, George and Peter Freund. 2008. ” Social Theory and Health 6: 309-22.
Martin, George. 2008. “.” UGEC Viewpoints 1: 14-17
Freund, Peter and George Martin. 2007. “.” Mobilities 2:37-49.
Martin, George. 2007. “” Area 39:66-73.
Martin, George. 2005. “The Global Diffusion of Motorized Urban Sprawl: Implications for China and Shanghai,” pp. 122-29 in H. Feng, L. Yu & W. Solecki, eds. Urban Dimensions of Environmental Change, Science Press, 2005.
Thomas, Tanesha A. 2019. “ Environmental Sociology 6(2).
Gender & Sexuality
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. . American Journal of Sociology, September 2018.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. . Guardian March 14, 2018.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. Work and Occupations, Spring 2018.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. 2008. “” National Women’s Studies Association Journal (NWSAJ) 20(1).
Kimmel, Michael S. and Yasemin Besen-Cassino. 2008. . Paradigm Publishers: CO. Reprinted (2013) in Getting In is Not Enough: Social, Political, and Economic Aspects of Women’s Access to Work edited by Terri Fredrick and Coeltte Morrow. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Presser, Harriet, Janer Gornick, and Sangeeta Parashar. 2008. “” Monthly Labor Review 131(2): 83-103.
Besen, Yasemin-Cassino. 2007. “Men at Work.” Equal Opportunities International 26(3).
Besen, Yasemin-Cassino. 2007. “” Journal of Men Masculinities and Spirituality 1(3).
Besen, Yasemin-Cassino and Gilbert Zicklin. 2007. “.” Journal of Men Masculinities and Spirituality 1(3).
Wang, Yong. 2007. “” Journal of Man, Masculinity and Spirituality. 1(3).
Besen, Yasemin and Michael S. Kimmel. 2006. “” Equal Opportunities International 25(3).
Bird, Sharon, Jacquelyn Litt, and Yong Wang. 2004. The National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 16(1).
Higher Education
Donoghue, Christopher. (2015) “.” Journal of Emerging Learning Design. 2, 1-6.
Allard, Faye and Sangeeta Parashar. 2013.“” The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal.
Allard, Faye and Sangeeta Parashar. 2012.“” The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal.
Hadis, Benjamin, 2005. “” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 11.
Hadis, Benjamin, 2005. “” Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 30(1).
Immigration
Ruszczyk, Stephen P. 2019. . In Narrating Perspectives on Childhood and Adolescence, edited by Mery Diaz and Benjamin Shepard, Chapter 3. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Ruszczyk, Stephen P. 2018. . Comparative Migration Studies 6 (33).
Ruszczyk, Stephen P. 2018.. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Ruszczyk, Stephen P., and Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa.2017. Migration Studies 5 (3): 445–56.
Ruszczyk, Stephen and Guillermo Yrizar Barbosa. 2016. “” Migration Studies.
Gonzales, Roberto G., Veronica Terriquez, and Stephen P. Ruszczyk. 2014. “” American Behavioral Scientist 58.14: 1852-1872.
Race & Ethnicity
Ruane, Janet. 2017. Sociological Forum. 32(S1):1127-1139.
Singh, Vikash. 2017. Stanford University Press.
Singh, Vikash. 2017. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41(15), pp.2693-2710.
Singh, Vikash. 2017. Social Sciences, 6(3), 84.
Donoghue, Christopher. 2014. “” In Diditi Mitra and Joyce Weil (Eds.), Race and the Lifecourse: Readings from the Intersection of Ethnicity and Age. Palgrave MacMillan Publishers.
Parashar, Sangeeta. 2014. “” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 34(11/12): 747-770.
Singh, Vikash. 2014. “” Subjectivity, Vol. 7, No.3, pp.234-53.
Singh, Vikash. 2014. “” Ethnography.Vol.15, No.4, 469-92.
Parrillo, Vincent and Christopher Donoghue. 2013. “” Sociological Forum, 28 (13).
Singh, Vikash. 2013. “” Sociological Forum, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 283-307.
Donoghue, Christopher and David Brandwein. 2012. “” The Journal of Multiculturalism in Education 8(2): 1-19.
Cerulo, Karen and Janet Ruane. 2011. “Pearl Sydenstricker Buck: At the Intersection of Sociocultural Worlds.” Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren (eds.), . Santa Barbara: Praeger.
Ruane, Janet. 2011. Ron Eyerman. Social Forces.
Roberts, Carl W. and Yong Wang. 2010. “” Comparative Sociology, 9: 463-494.
Vermeylen, Saskia, George Martin, and Roland Clift. 2008. “” International Journal of Cultural Property 15: 201-21
Wang, Yong. 2008. “.” American Journal of Semiotics: Special Issue on Chinese Semiotics.
Martin, George and Saskia Vermeylen. 2005. “” Capitalism Nature Socialism 16:273-86.
Religion
Wang, Yong 2022. “Totalitarianism as Religion.” In Interpreting Religion: Making Sense f Religious Lives, p.180-198. Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK.
Social, Cultural, Economic
Singh, Vikash & Sangeeta Parashar. 2019. Contradictions/Kontradikce.
Ruane, Janet.2017.. Sociological Forum. 33(1):239-242.
Livingston, Jay. 2016. “,” Contexts.
Cerulo, Karen and Janet Ruane. 2014. “” Social Psychology Quarterly 77(2): 123-149.
Hadis, Benjamin. 2014. “” Health, Risk and Society 16(5).
Parashar, Sangeeta and Yong Wang. 2014. Divisions and Integrations: The Expansion of Global Capitalism. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Singh, Vikash. 2014. “” in Chancer, Lynn, and John Andrews (eds), The Unhappy Divorce of Sociology and Psychoanalysis: Diverse Perspectives on the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan.
Freund, Peter. 2011. “” Social Theory and Health.
Parashar, Sangeeta and Yong Wang. 2011. Inequality in a Globalizing World: Perspectives, Processes, and Experiences. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt Publishers.
Roberts, Carl W., Cornelie Zuell, Juliane Landmann, Yong Wang. 2010. “” Quality and Quantity, 44: 230-257.
Freund, Peter. 2009. “” Body and Society 15: 22-31.
Freund, Peter. 2009. “.” Capitalism, Nature, and Socialism. 20(2): 126-129.
Carl W. Roberts, Cornelia Zuell, Juliane Landmann, and Yong Wang. 2008. “
” Quality & Quantity 42.
Thomas, Tanesha A. 2015. Seeds of Freedom: Liberating Education in Guatemala by Clark Taylor. Contemporary Sociology 44(2): 293-4.
Thomas, Tanesha A. 2015. International Crime in the 20th Century: The League of Nations Era, 1919- 1939 by Paul Knepper. Contemporary Sociology 44(2): 291-2.
Sociological Imagination
Ruane, Janet and Karen Cerulo. 2019. Forthcoming. Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Ruane, Janet and Karen Cerulo. 2014. . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Ruane, Janet and Karen Cerulo. 2011. Second Thoughts: Seeing Conventional Wisdom Through the Sociological Eye. 5th Edition. LA: Pine Forge Press.
Ruane, Janet M. and Karen Cerulo. 2008. . Pine Forge.
Ruane, Janet M. and Karen Cerulo. 2008. “” Sociological Forum 23(1)
Ruane, Janet M. and Karen A. Cerulo.2008. . Third Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press
Hadis, Benjamin. 2008. Edited by Leticia Glocer Fiorini. Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina & Lugar Editorial, Buenos Aires.
Ruane, Janet M. 2008. “” In Vincent Parrillo (Ed) Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Sage Publications.
Rule, James B. and Yasemin Besen-Cassino. 2008. “The Once and Future Information Society.” Theory & Society 37(1).
Wang, Yong. 2008. “” Sociological Forum, 23(3).
Wang, Yong. & Carl W. Roberts. 2006. “” Comparative Sociology. 2006, 5(1): 45-63.
Wang, Yong. & Carl W. Roberts. 2005. “Actantial Analysis: Greimas’s Structural Approach to the Analysis of Self-Narratives.” Narrative Inquiry 15(1): 51-74.
Statistics & Research Methods
Healey, Joseph and Christopher Donoghue. 2021. . Cengage Learning, Stamford: CT.
Besen-Cassino, Yasemin. . Routledge 2018
Ruane, Janet. 2016. . Malden, Mass: Wiley
Ruane, Janet M. 2005. Wiley-Blackwell
Miscellaneous
Wang, Yong 2022. “.” International Journal of Zizek Studies, Vol. (6), p. 1-9.