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News and Events
| David Karp Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award |
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Professor David Karp won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASA Section on Emotions. The award will be presented at the August 2008 ASA annual meeting. The award honors someone with a record of several years of scholarly work of exceptional merit and who has developed and extended the sociology of emotions empirically, theoretically, or methodologically. |
| Graduating Sociology Majors Honored |
Patrick Denice and Thomas Laidley were honored as Scholars of the College for their excellent theses. Patrick wrote on the study abroad experience and how it affects students' subsequent consumption. Tom wrote on changing transportation behaviors in response to the threats of global warming. Tom's thesis won the McCarthy Prize (in social sciences) which is given for the best scholar of the college thesis in those disciplines.
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| Malak Yusuf Wins Asian-American Scholarship |
 Sociology major Malak Yusuf ('09)won the Asian-American scholarship, given to a student who demonstrates superior academic achievement, extracurricular leadership, community service, and involvement with the Asian-American community and Asian-American issues both on and off campus.
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| SC357 Social Change in Action Featured in Heights |
 Darcy Leach's Social Change in Action Course is featured in a recent issue of the BC Heights, which describes the structure of the course and this term's "Sweatbanned" project, an attempt to pressure the BC administration to partner with the Designated Supplier Program (DSP), which requires factories producing university logo clothing to pay their workers an hourly living wage.
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| Advocating for Climate Change Awareness |
 Juliet Schor was invited to present her research on consumption and worktime reduction to Al Gore and leaders of the Alliance for Climate Protection at the Climate Solutions Summit in Nashville, TN on May 15, 2008.more
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| Sociology Major Named "Person of the Year" by BC Heights |
 Jessica Young, a sociology major in her senior year, is one of five young women who form the Senior Board of Ecopledge, which has just been recognized by the BC Heights as the 2008 “Person of the Year.” Throughout the year, Ecopledge has been working on campus to help increase Boston College’s environmental awareness and sustainability. more
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| Sociology Research Professor Lisa Dodson Present at the National Civil Rights Project |
On May 8 Sociology Research Professor Lisa Dodson and her collaborator Wendy Luttrell of Harvard Graduate School of Education will present their research, “Family Ties and Blind Policies: Mothers and Children Climb Together,” at the national Civil Rights Project held at UCLA. The Civil Rights Project’s new initiative, "The Future Rests on Working Moms," looks at the work and family struggles of low-income families from a civil rights perspective.
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| Birthday Presents Get a Timeout From Parents |
Sociology Professor Juliet Schor is quoted in a Boston Globe article that highlights a growing trend of anticonsumerist children's parties. more
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| Undergraduate Research Honors |
Two Sociology majors were among seven Boston College undergraduates who were invited to attend the ACC “Meeting of the Minds" conference at Florida State University. As Provost Donald Hafner noted, "The students first have to participate in the Undergrad Research Symposium…and then they have to be judged by the faculty moderator to have given a strong (preferably the best) presentation on their panel."
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| What Does it Mean to Call McCain a "War Hero" Candidate |
 Sociology Professor Charles Derber co-authors Christian Science Monitor article, which discusses how "playing the war hero card has long been a political strategy to elect Republicans; legitimize imperial wars; and portray Democrats and peace activists as weak, cowardly, or traitorous."
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