NYU Department of Sociology

“But also the people heatwaves affect are often made invisible in our public life,” said Klinenberg, the author of “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.” “They’re disproportionately poor, Black and elderly. They often live in segregated neighborhoods.”

Green spaces are key to combating record heat in marginalized communities Millions of Americans are facing record heat with temperatures frequently over 90 degrees Fahrenheit

In “Mobility-Based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas,” Prof. Yongjun Zhang (SUNY Stony Brook) & Prof. Siwei Cheng (NYU)
offer measures of intragroup isolation & intergroup exposure & find that activity space is “an important locale of segregation & isolation."

Mobility-Based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas | Demography | Duke University Press Yongjun Zhang, Siwei Cheng; Mobility-Based Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Demography 2025; 12193739. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-12193739

New Op-ed piece by NYU Sociology Alum, Stacy Torres, discussing land use and housing in NYC:

Hold a fair vote for NYCHA’s Chelsea folks Imagine a bulldozer comes to demolish your home. You plead to stay. But your elected representatives side with profit-hungry real estate developers. They insist you voted for the wrecking ball.

Congratulations to PhD canididate, Di Zhou, on receiving the 2025 Erik Olin Wright Prize!

2025 Recipient Di Zhou, New York University

We are proud to have PhD candidate, Jenny Leigh, among this group of scholars to receive the 2025 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant!

ASA is pleased to announce the 2025 ASA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant recipients. These 26 exceptional research projects by a talented group of advanced graduate students were chosen for their intellectual merit and potential broader impacts. Read more about the recipients here: https://bit.ly/ASADDRIG25

Congratulations to Prof. Jasso for receiving the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Society for Justice Research. She is the first sociologist to be so honored

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Congratulation to Prof. BK Lee, who is co-author on a paper that received an Honorable Mention for the Best Publication Award from the Section on the Sociology of Mental Health, ASA, this year!

Misery Needs Company: Contextualizing the Geographic and Temporal Link between Unemployment and Su***de - Byungkyu Lee, Bernice A. Pescosolido, 2024 Despite long-standing evidence linking higher unemployment rates to increased su***de rates, a puzzling trend emerged in the United States after the Great Reces...

Congratulations to Prof. Simone Zhang for being named one of the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars!

12 research rising stars named CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars - CIFAR Meet the 2025-2027 cohort of early-career leaders ready to shape the future of research

Excited to see this new paper co-authored by Prof. Simone Zhang on parental perceptions of using algorithms to allocate scarce resources in schools:

Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education Article: Predictive Algorithms and Perceptions of Fairness: Parent Attitudes Toward Algorithmic Resource Allocation in K-12 Education | Sociological Science | Posted May 16, 2025

Recent article by Professor Vivek Chibber in Jacobin magazine

Materialism, the view that agents are motivated by their objective interests, has fallen out of academic fashion in the recent past.

Achieving a genuinely egalitarian and democratic politics, however, depends on materialist theory: https://jacobin.com/2025/05/materialism-socialism-democracy-left-wing

Congratulations to our 2025 PhD graduates! We are incredibly proud of all your accomplishments and we look forward to your future successes!

New article co-authored by Prof. Xiaogang Wu on equal opportunity policy and the reverse gender gap in academic achievement:

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