News: Department of Sociology
The new ethnographer explores the reasons it's so hard to escape poverty.
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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.
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Students put down books and pick up passports for unique learning experiences.
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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."
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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.
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UNLV professor Bo Bernhard is counting on research to help in the prevention and treatment of problem gambling in Southern Nevada and beyond
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The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project is documenting, preserving, and disseminating the stories of those involved in one of the most technologically sophisticated yet controversial endeavors in Nevada’s history