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sociology department
News and Announcements 2012-2013
 Sociology major Philip McHarris won BC’s 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Scholarship (see Chronicle and Heights articles). Sociology majors Patrick Williamson and Steven Jefferson were also finalists for the award. |
 Lisa Dodson has been invited to the Massachusetts State House to present her coauthored new study, which shows that teens whose parents have low-income jobs are at greater risk for obesity, dropping out of school and prolonged poverty. |
 Brian Gareau’s analysis of the challenges facing global environmental governance appears on e-International Relations. |
 Paul Schervish, director for the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, discussed how the budget deal affected rates of giving after the fiscal cliff on WGBH Boston Public Radio. |
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David Karp received the 2012 George Herbert Mead Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI). The award was given at the Annual Meetings of the Society in Denver at their annual awards banquet on August 18.
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Bill Gamson received the 2012 ASA W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, honoring scholars who have shown outstanding commitment to sociology and whose cumulative work has contributed in important ways to the advancement of the discipline.
New sociology faculty member