Ranita Ray (Sociology) gave an invited presentation at the UCLA Department of Sociology Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series Ethnography Working Group in February. Titled "Making of a Teenage Service Class," the talk related to her upcoming book with University of California Press.   Abstract: Many of the stereotypes of low-income urban youth…

Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) is the author of the article "Measuring Positive Attitudes Toward Persons with Dementia: A Validation of the Allophilia Scale," which appears in the journal Dementia. The abstract states "Efforts to combat ageism typically focus on negative attitudes toward members of an out-group. Changing attitudes also requires…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) recently published an article, "Re-sensing Las Vegas: Aesthetic Entrepreneurship and Local Urban Culture," in the Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, which now is available online before it is published in print in the next few months. In this article, Borer …

Robert Futrell, chair of the department of sociology, was recently cited in an article in The New Yorker, "San Bernardino and the Mechanics of a Double Life," drawing on his work with UNLV Sociology alumnus Pete Simi on extremists. 

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is organizing a symposium titled "Hyperconnected Individuals, Accelerated Society: Tensions and Transformations" with the International Center for Research on the Hypermodern Individual and Society, ESCP Europe, which will take place in Paris in June.

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) has published a book chapter titled "Playing Music" in the edited book Popular Culture as Everyday Life (Routledge, 2015). 

Georgiann Davis (Sociology) brought her intersex expertise, both professional and personal, to the CBS daytime audience as a special expert guest on the Dr. Phil television show Nov. 30. In addition to publishing numerous articles on intersex in both scholarly and popular press outlets, she is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) delivered the 2015 George Herbert Mead Lecture during the annual convention of National Communication Association (NCA) at the Rio Conference Center in November. Borer’s lecture was titled, “Sensuous Knowledge and the Rise of Aesthetic Urbanism.” In the lecture, he noted that cities are chock full of…

Barb Brents (Sociology)  participated in the panel on California Prostitution Law at Stanford University on Nov 11. Other panelists were Casey Bates, deputy district attorney for California's  Alameda County; Maxine Doogan, president of the Erotic Sex Providers Legal, Education and Research Project; and Shelby Quast, policy director for…

Doctoral student Erick B Lopez and professor Takashi Yamashita (Sociology) published their paper, "Acculturation, Income and Vegetable Consumption Behaviors Among Latino Adults in the U.S.: A Mediation Analysis with the Bootstrapping Technique" in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.

Simon Gottschalk (Sociology) is the author of a new book, Inter-face-work: Symbolic Interaction in the Digital Age, which has been published by Kurumuny Edizioni. The rapid colonization of everyday life and consciousness by technologies of computer-mediated communication both multiplies the risks of miscommunication and compromises the…

Michael Ian Borer (Sociology) was honored with the Early-in-Career Award by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). This newly designated award is given to “scholars who have made significant contributions within the first 10 years since the completion of their PhDs.” In that time period, Borer has published a solo-authored book…