Department of Sociology

A yearlong NPR investigation found that the costs of the criminal justice system in the United States are paid increasingly by the defendants and offenders. Alexes Harris, associate professor of sociology, is quoted.

On Thursday, the fast food workers' movement wants to take its cause global as it pushes for a $15-an-hour wage. Jake Rosenfeld, associate professor of sociology, is quoted.

Candidate Mary Burke is basing her challenge of GOP Gov. Scott Walker on lack of job creation. Jake Rosenfeld, associate professor of sociology, is quoted.

While more people of all ages are living together, the growth of unmarried couples is fastest among the older segment of the population. Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology, is quoted.

In an op-ed piece, Jake Rosenfeld, associate professor of sociology, looks at the consequences of organized labor's decline in the U.S.

Sara Baker, a sociology student raised money to buy copies of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian" for high school students who protested their school's ban of the book.

Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large writes about the Ethiopian community in Seattle and about "Little Ethiopia of the Pacific Northwest" by Joseph Scott, professor of sociology.

In Seattle, one of America's least "churched" cities, academics are impressed by the success of a religious phenomenon that appeals to both extremes at once: Compline. Susan Pitchford, senior lecturer in sociology, is quoted.

The 60-plus crowd represents the fastest-growing segment in online dating. Pepper Schwartz, a professor of sociology at the University of Washington and AARP's love and relationship ambassador, comments.

Gordon Hirabayashi's heroic journey began at the University of Washington, where he was attending classes when the U.S. government ordered him and thousands of other Americans, singled out for their Japanese heritage, to obey curfews and be imprisoned in internment camps during World War II. He refused.

When President Barack Obama bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously on Gordon K. Hirabayashi in 2012, he said the man "knew what it was like to stand alone."

A UW sociology professor details the ways in which the decline of unions has contributed to inequality in the U.S.

The very qualities that lead to greater emotional satisfaction in peer marriages may be having an unexpectedly negative impact on these couples' sex lives. Pepper Schwartz, professor of sociology, is quoted.

In an article that looks at the changing face of race around our region,Charles Hirschman, sociology professor at the UW thinks making the question about race and ethnicity on census forms open-ended might confuse people filling out the forms.

Pepper Schwartz, reported that in nine out of 10 households that identify themselves as "feminist", the man did most of the driving when both partners were in the car.