News: Department of Sociology
In her University Forum lecture, sociology professor Georgiann Davis discusses how intersex people navigate their lives.
UNLV professor Bo Bernhard — a keynote speaker for UNLV Research Week Oct. 12-16 — explains how the science of intelligence bends in the direction of UNLV.
Area 51, global climate change, archaeology and American fashion among topics discussed at free public lectures.
Graduate student focuses on EDM's shift from avant-garde to mainstream media.
Got Red Sox fever? Here’s why you’re a devoted fan.
The new ethnographer explores the reasons it's so hard to escape poverty.
Forty percent of Las Vegans surveyed say they'd leave Nevada if they could live anywhere they wanted. One local leader is taking a step to change that.
Students put down books and pick up passports for unique learning experiences.
Like religion, sociologist Michael Ian Borer says, baseball and Fenway Park give Bostonians something larger than themselves to believe in, "something that transcends the here and now."
Designed to encourage faculty collaboration and acquisition of external grant funding, the President’s Research Award has also sparked intriguing research projects on subjects ranging from nanotechnology to volcanoes.
UNLV professor Bo Bernhard is counting on research to help in the prevention and treatment of problem gambling in Southern Nevada and beyond