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Happening Now at USC Sociology
Department Articles
Check out the recent work from our faculty and graduate students!
Reforming the shadow carceral state
by Professor Brittany Friedman, Gabriela Kirk-Werner & April D. Fernandes
*first published online November 18, 2024
Finding a Home during the Affordable Housing Crisis: How Social Ties Shape Renters’ Housing-Search Outcomes
by Postdoctoral Fellow Steven Schmidt
*first published online November 9, 2024
Orchestrating National Occasions: The formation of the Irish American athletic league in New York City (1904–1920)
by Professor Dan Lainer-Vos
*first published November 7, 2024
Flexible Austerity: Negotiating the Unequal Effects of Resource Shortages in Racialized Organizations
by Professor Alexandra Brewer
*first published online September 21, 2024
Trajectories of Public Islam: Public Religious Expressions among American Muslim Advocates
by Graduate Student Valentina Cantori
*published September 6, 2024
The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide: Authoritarian Networks, the Façade of Democracy, and Neo-Repression
by Professor Deisy Del Real and Cecilia Menjivar
*first published online August 28, 2024
Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians
by Graduate Student Demetrius Murphy
*first published online August 2, 2024
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