New Sociology Courses Available for Fall, 2015
The new Department of Sociology will offer three new undergraduate courses in the fall of 2015
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Three recruits join new sociology department
Three newly recruited professors will teach three classes offered in the new sociology department next semester.
New faculty member Jake Rosenfeld's research in the New York Times
Union decline associated with rising income inequality. Professor Jake Rosenfeld expresses his opinion.
Fazzari: Inequality Affects Job Creation
Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari, researchers on consumer behavior and how it effects the economy, wrote an op-ed for the St. Louis Post Dispatch in October 2007 in which they predicted that an end to the relentless trend of rising household debt and a subsequent crash in household spending could lead to a killer U.S. recession.
In Troubled St. Louis Area, Economist Helps Revive Sociology Department
After doing without a sociology department for nearly 25 years, Washington University in St. Louis has reinstated the department and chosen a longtime faculty member at the institution, Steven Fazzari, to be its first chair.
Fazzari to chair new sociology department in Arts & Sciences
Steven Fazzari, PhD, a leading scholar on the relationship between rising income inequality and macroeconomic trends in the United States, will chair the recently re-established Department of Sociology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Barbara A. Schaal, PhD, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has announced.
How Tests Make Us Smarter - New York Times
Washington University to re-establish sociology department
Washington University in St. Louis is re-establishing its sociology department after a nearly 25-year hiatus, Barbara A. Schaal, PhD, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, has announced.
What Unions No Longer Do
What Unions No Longer Do shows in detail the consequences of labor's decline: curtailed advocacy for better working conditions, weakened support for immigrants' economic assimilation, and ineffectiveness in addressing wage stagnation among African Americans.
The Middle Class is Steadily Eroding
New York Times article "The Middle Class is Steadily Eroding" based on research by Sociology department chair Steve Fazzari.
Rising Inequality, Consumer Spending, and the Economy
Income inequality has emerged as a central fact of the modern U.S. economy, one that President Obama is expected to denounce as a growing threat to the American dream of upward mobility in his State of the Union address next week.The paper by Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari says that stagnant income for the “bottom 95 percent” of wage earners makes it impossible for them to consume as they did in the years before the downturn.
Poverty in America is Mainstream - New York Times
Professor Mark Rank talks about poverty in America is mainstream.