news and announcements

Professor Angeline Blain's latest book "I Used to Be Irish: Leaving Ireland, becoming American" has been published (A & A Farmar, 2009 available from amazon.com).

A compilation of Professor Michael Blain's articles on political violence has been published ("The Sociology of Terrorism: Studies in Power, Subjection, and Victimage Ritual", Universal-Publishers, 2009). Available from amazon.com.

Sociology professor Angeline Blain and student Alanna Lake were featured in WCA Newletter Article. WCA is the Womens' and Children Alliance and the articles were published in the Fall 2007 Issue.

Professor Angeline Blain's third book has just been accepted for publication by A & A Farmars, Dublin, Ireland. The theme of her first memoir, Stealing Sunlight, was growing up poor in Irishtown, near Dublin, Ireland. The new memoir moves the story forward from Irishtown to Idaho Falls, Idaho.



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Sociology Professors In the Fall 2006 Focus Magazine:


Dr. Martin Orr, "Confronting Social Theories : Experts make sense of international Relations" (pdf - 1.71MB)


Articles

Martin Orr's Article, "The Failure of Neoliberal Globalization and the End of Empire: Neoliberalism, Imperialism, and the Rise of the Ant-globalization Movement," has been published in a Special Issue of the International Review of Modern Sociology.

Ginna Husting and Martin Orr's article "Dangerous Machinery: ' Conspiracy Theorist' as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion" was published in Symbolic Interaction.

Martin Orr's article, "The Failure of Neoliberal Globalization and the End of Empire: Neoliberalism, Imperialism, and the Rise of the Ant-globalization Movement," has been published in a Special Issue of the International Review of Modern Sociology.

Ginna Husting and Martin Orr's article "Dangerous Machinery: 'Conspiracy Theorist' as a Transpersonal Strategy of Exclusion" was published in Symbolic Interaction.

Steve Patrick from Sociology and Robert Marsh from Criminal Justice have had an article accepted "Beneath the Surface: Juvenile Adjudication Disparity in a Rural County" which has been accepted to the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.

Steve Patrick and Robert Marsh are also conducting the annual child sexual abuse study for the state of Idaho and have begun research related to child sexual abuse, most currently a study of perception of attractiveness and age.

The American Sociological Association has just published a free Results Chart Book: "1,700 sociology graduates complete bachelor's survey & tell us what they learned. " Read our report of findings. (PDF)



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