Professor David Cunningham discusses the violence in Charlottesville and the white supremacist movement – its roots, its supporters, its growth and its political power.

Over the last year, several news stories have surfaced describing allegations of sexual assault against professors. While the details varied, the general outlines of the stories were pretty much the same: women who were graduate students or junior faculty accused tenured male faculty members of sexual harassment and/or sexual assault.

Over the last decade, the gap between what American women earn compared to their male counterparts has hovered around 20 percent — that is, for every $1 a man gets, a woman gets 80 cents. Towards this topic, professor Jake Rosenfeld shows just how persistent that culture of secrecy remains.

Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, and more than 70 percent of moms with young children are working. Yet women earned only 82 percent of what men made in 2017 and have far less upward mobility, as evidenced by the fact that only 5.2 percent of S&P 500 companies’ chief executives are female.

What can local public sociology look like, and what does it accomplish? This essay tracks the origins, makings and impacts of the book Invisible in Austin to evaluate its model of public sociology: as a collective enterprise with a local aim.

Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield answers "how the model minority myth hurts people at work": racism affects the professional potential of Asian people from the time they become students. While Korean, Chinese and Japanese people have made it part-way into managerial ranks, Hmong, Laotian, Cambodian, and Filipino Americans remain overrepresented in low-wage jobs.

At the current rate of progress, it could take nearly a century before the gender pay gap is closed in Britain. So the government is trying to speed up the process. Professor Jake Rosenfeld's finding that salary transparency raised wages, in part because “even being cognizant of gender pay disparity” can change norms is quoted.

When conducting research on this chapter of history for his acclaimed book Klansville, Professor David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist named Pete Young, who in the 1960s attempted to understand what was happening in North Carolina. He shares some of this history and describes how Young's insights could hold lessons for today.

After Donald Trump’s presidential victory, many left-leaning politicians and commentators started considering what sort of message would help them regain political power. Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield discusses about this topic.

The sociology department is ahead of schedule in its faculty recruitment plan, with six tenured and tenured-track faculty members and three postdoctoral fellows hired within the first two years of the department’s reestablishment.

Missouri became the 28th US state Monday to adopt so-called right to work legislation, whereby employees can no longer be required to pay dues to a labor union, yet are still able to benefit from any deals procured by such a union. Professor Jake Rosenfeld comments that “right to work doesn’t seem to have much of an impact one way or another.”

When it comes to “right to work,” there’s widespread disagreement about the policy’s potential effects on Missouri’s economy. But there’s no question that Missouri’s unions are about to experience seismic change. Ptrofessor Jake Rosenfeld discusses the practical implications of right to work – and why the policy may not be a death knell to organized labor in Missouri.