News
The Department of Sociology is very active on campus. Every semester we participate in dozens of events that may be of interest to sociology students. Check back often as we add announcements regularly. If you have an event you'd like to announce, please contact Professor Gould.News & Events Spring 2008
Professor Carolina Bank Muñoz has a new book, Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender, and Shop-Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States, now available.
Professor Kenneth Gould has a new book out, Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology, with Tammy L. Lewis.
Congratulations to Fior Rodriguez Quero for winning the Sidney Aronson Memorial Award this year.
Professor Alex Vitale has just published a new book, City of Disorder, with NYU Press.
Professor Kenneth Gould has a new book, The Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy, with David Pellow and Allan Schnaiberg, appearing in May.
Congratulations to Lawrence Chang and Heather Squire for winning the Charles Lawrence Memorial Award this year. Excellent work!
We are pleased to announce that our student, Fior Rodriguez Quero, has been selected to participate in the ASA Honors Program in Boston this summer. Congratulations Fior!
Politics by Other Greens: Transnational Movement for Environmental Justice,
a lecture by Dr. David N. Pellow, Professor of Ethnic Studies, and Director of California Cultures in Comparative Perspective University of California, San Diego, MONDAY, APRIL 14TH, 6:20PM-8:00PM, Woody Tanger Auditorium, Library.
Professor Vitale quoted in The Village Voice, Minnesota Cops Promise a Kinder, Gentler RNC.
A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn,a book discussion with the author, Professor Craig Wilder, Dartmouth College, Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm in the Maroon Room of SUBO.
Civil Rights and Constitutional People,
a lecture by Dr. Robert P. Moses, founder and president of the Algebra Project Inc., and Eminent Scholar at the Center for Urban Education & Innovation at Florida International University in Miami. March 26 at 1:30 p.m. in Gershwin Hall.
Scenes of Brooklyn, various photographers.
Events Fall 2007
A Special Screening of 'Brooklyn Matters',
Tuesday December 4th, 2007, 1.00-3.00PM, Woody Tanger Auditorium, Library, 1st floor.
Guest Speaker: BC Alumnus Barry Hill Senior Counsel for Environmental Governance,
United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Co-sponsored with the Magner Career Center. Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 1:30 Ð 3:30pm, State Lounge, Student Center.
Congratulations to Daniel Arroyo and Heather Squire,
who presented papers at the New York State Sociological Association's 55th Annual Meeting on Friday, October 5, 2007 at St. Francis College. Daniel's paper was titled, "Fulton Mall: More Than Meets the Eye", and Heather's paper was titled "Race, Class, and Hegemonic Cultural Capital: The Redevelopment of Fulton Mall".
Congratulations Professor Zukin!
Dr. Zukin was awarded the Robert & Helen Lynd Award for Lifetime Achievement in the field of Urban & Community Sociology by the Community & Urban Section of the American Sociological Association. Previous winners, besides the Lynds themselves, authors of the classic study Middletown, include Herbert J. Gans, Jane Jacobs, Richard Sennett, Manuel Castells, and the Sociology department's distinguished former member, now retired, Sylvia G. Fava.
The 2007 Charles Lawrence Memorial Lecture
This year's lecture was delivered by Dr. Frances Fox Piven (CUNY). Dr. Piven will talk on 'Popular Power in Globalizing World' on Wednesday November 7th, 2007 at 4.00PM.
Congratulations George Cavalletto!
This semester his book 'Crossing the Psycho-social Divide: Freud, Weber, Adorno and Elias' was published by Sage. Dr. Cavalletto is an adjunct in the department.
Events Spring 2007
Conference: The Roots of Modern Brooklyn
A day-long event was held on Monday, April 26th. Panel moderators were keynote speaker John Mollenkopf (CUNY Graduate Center), Ron Shiffman (Pratt Institute), Robert Viscusi (Wolfe Institute for the Humanities, Brooklyn College), and Alair Townsend (Crain's New York Business). Department of Sociology participants included Dr. Jerry Krase and Dr. Sharon Zukin.
Guest Speakers: Free Trade and Immigration
David Bacon and Juan Manuel Sandoval came to speak about free trade and immigration at Brooklyn College on Monday, April 26th from 12:15-2pm Room TBA. The speakers were invited by Dr. Carolina Bank Munoz.
Guest Speaker: Environmental Justice
Dr. Robert Bullard (Clark Atlanta University) gave two talks (day and evening) on 'Environmental Justice After Toxic Wastes and Race 1987-2007' in the Department on Tuesday, April 19th, 2007 from 12.15PM to 1.30PM and 6.20PM to 8.00PM (Earth Day was April 22nd). Dr. Bullard is a sociologist, and the leading scholar in the field of environmental justice. The speaker was invited by Dr. Ken Gould.
Guest Speaker: Race, Ethnicity and Class
Dr. WIlliam Julius Wilson (Harvard University). Dr. Wilson is America's pre-eminent African American sociologist and a former President of the American Sociological Association. His new book is 'There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and their Meaning for America'. His discussion focused on issues impacting black males. The talk was co-sponsered by the Sociology Department.
Guest Speakers: Economic development in Brooklyn: the Fulton MallAllison Dean, an anthropologist and filmmaker, showed a preliminary version of her documentary film-in-progress on Fulton Mall at Prof. Zukin's senior seminar, Soc 90, on Thursday February 22. This presentation was followed on Tuesday February 27 by a talk by Samantha Imperatrice, Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, a social organization that is pressing to maintain Fulton Mall as a low price shopping opportunity and one that attracts African American, Caribbean, and Latino shoppers. The speakers were invited by Dr. Sharon Zukin.