Department of Sociology

Resources and Links
Selected Ongoing Research Projects


Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public
-- an interdisciplinary center funded by the Pew Foundation drawing together the various professions and the public they serve in a common effort to address fundamental conflicts in values, practices, and perceptions in the increasingly religiously plural United States. Sociologists J. Kenneth Benson and Edward Brent are among the researchers involved in this center.


Culturally-Sensitive Models of Stroke Recovery
-- Working with a team of qualitative researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the project aims to document the experiential pathways and everyday recovery benchmarks used by white, Hispanic, and African-American stroke survivors over one year following discharge from the hospital. Jay Gubrium.


Social Predictors of Longevity
-- A cross-national study with Sweden that follows 6,000 elders for 30 years. Social networks/support work through the immune system to extend the life span. Also, findings support the postponement of morbidity prior to death for the longest lived elders. Richard Hessler.


The Governance of the Global Economy
-- A study to identify transnational organizations that have a role in defining and/or implementing controls of the international economy, describing their activities and constitutencies, and describing their agendas. This involves both documentary analysis and observation of meetings. Andrew Twaddle.

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