Wonmai (Maia) Punksungka is a first-year sociology doctoral student and graduate research assistant in the Center for Social Science Research (CSSR), Education and Health Hub at George Mason University (GMU). She is also a Presidential Scholar at GMU. Previously, she worked two years as a research as...
This capstone experience will introduce students to the process of conducting original sociological research. Students will collect, analyze, and write-up research data to answer both qualitative and quantitative questions about the social world. This class will emphasize a learning-by-doing approach...
Sociologists examine culture in a wide variety of forms, exploring beliefs, values, language, norms, customs, rituals, collective memory, art, music, fashion, and architecture, to name a few. The sociology of culture pursues questions about anything made by people, from the food we eat, to the symbol...
No social institution has changed as rapidly and dramatically as "the family." In this course we will examine and analyze the diverse forms of contemporary families. --"traditional" family, domestic partnerships, cohabiting couples, single-parent families, stepfamilies, "child-free" families, and ...
These have been difficult times. What do the crises and events of the past year mean for you and your future? How can we make sense of them? This introduction to sociology can help. Particular focus is given to developing what C. Wright Mills called “the sociological imagination” as students explore ...
Serena is a Sociology PhD student at George Mason University. She previously earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Anthropology from George Mason where she researched imported feminized labor in Lebanon, analyzing the xenophobic tendencies of the Lebanese government and its people and how this i...
Rashmi Sadana (PhD, University of California-Berkeley, 2003) is a cultural anthropologist whose field research focuses on changing forms of identity (class, caste, gender, religious, linguistic) in postcolonial, urban India. She is especially interested in how Indians express their modern and increas...
Cortney Hughes Rinker is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Director of the Global Affairs program. She earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine with emphases in Feminist Studies and Medicine, Science, and Technology Studies. ...
John G. Dale is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. He is also Director of Movement Engaged, the social movement research hub of the Center for Social Science Research. He earned his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Davis, in 2003, and was National Endowmen...
