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Keen on kindness Economics major and Dalai Lama scholar Jasmine Fang sponsors Kindness Month at UCI this May
New study finds conditions favorable for revitalization of the labor movement Findings appear in the April 2010 issue of the American Sociological Review
What can social security teach us about health care reform? UCI sociologist Edwin Amenta explains
An inside look at the U.S. Census UCI sociologist Judith Treas provides insight on the decennial count and her role in this year’s survey design
Greenhalgh receives Association for Asian Studies Levenson Book Prize Honor recognizes her book, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China, for “original scholarship and rigorous analysis”
Thinking global, acting local Global Connect director Ellen Schlosser receives Orange County Department of Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education
SPOTLIGHT EVENT - Anthropology Bookfest  Thursday, April 15, 2010 @ 3:30-5:00 p.m. Read On... SPOTLIGHT EVENT - Celebrate UCI 2010: Campuswide Open House and Wayzgoose Festival  Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Social sciences will be hosting an information session for freshmen, transfers and their families at 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in Social Science Lecture Hall 100. Read On... SPOTLIGHT EVENT - UCI Political Scientists Offer Perspectives on California Politics  Thursday, April 29, 2010 @ 7:00-9:00 p.m. Read On... |
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Last summer, UC Irvine senior Jasmine Fang traveled to the rural Dominican Republic province of Elias Pina to build latrines for residents and teach public hygiene. She learned something too: the value of community.
The role of labor unions as employee advocates and management watchdogs has waned in recent years with membership levels dropping to about 12 percent of the total workforce – down from its 32 percent high during the early 1950s and the height of labor union involvement. According to a new study by UCI sociology professor Judith Stepan–Norris, current developments within the U.S. labor movement, along with changing economic and political conditions, may result in a revitalization of union membership.
President Obama’s final signing of the newly enacted health care reform law has been met with equal parts applause and calls for repeal as both the plan and events leading up to its passing have deeply divided the American public and equally polarized the country’s two-party political system. This is not the first time, however, that such sweeping legislation has caused a nationwide raucous, says Edwin Amenta, UCI sociologist and author of When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. He notes that recent events surrounding health care reform have much in common with the enactment of the social security program 75 years ago. Here, he offers insight on what the history of social security can teach us about the potential future of health care reform.
Census forms arrived in more than 120 million U.S. mailboxes last month. Results from the 10 question survey – one of the shortest in the form’s 220-year history – will help the U.S. government determine where to channel more than $400 billion in Federal funding and direct potential shifts in Congressional seat allotments due to population changes. Aiding in the research and design of this decade’s census was Judith Treas, UCI sociology professor and director of the Center for Demographic and Social Analysis. Here, she gives a snapshot of the survey’s roll in government and her involvement in the process.
Susan Greenhalgh, anthropologist and author of Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng’s China, has been awarded the Association for Asian Studies’ Joseph Levenson Book Prize for the Best Book on China Post-1900. She received the award, which carries a $1000 prize, at the association’s annual meeting, held March 25-28 in Philadelphia. Since its publishing in 2008, the book has also received a 2009 honorable mention in the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s competition for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize, and has been positively reviewed in more than a dozen publications, including Nature, Science, and the Times Literary Supplement. Click below to read the Association for Asian Studies citation presented to Greenhalgh upon receipt of her most recent award.
In her nine years directing UCI’s Global Connect, Ellen Schlosser estimates she’s reached more than 7,500 Orange County middle and high school students through the program’s internationally-focused educational activities. In March, she was recognized by the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) with a 2010 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education, an honor which follows on the heels of her 2007 UCI Lauds & Laurels Outstanding Community Award. Both awards recognize her efforts directing UCI’s comprehensive outreach program aimed at improving international studies education in local middle and high school classrooms via university-led instruction and enrichment activities. |
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