Stratification
Faculty research in this area includes: comparative analyses of stratification systems; race, class, and gender; inequality in educational outcomes; status and power; labor markets; the social welfare state; and the transformation of the American economy. Faculty members in this area are affiliated with the interdisciplinary Iowa Institute for Inequality Studies, which facilitates research on the causes and consequences of social inequality by gender, race, class, sexual orientation, age, family structure, citizenship, and disability.
Faculty
Michael Lovaglia, PhD
Freda B. Lynn, PhD
Mary Noonan, PhD
Complex organizations
The program emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to internal organizational structure and processes, social networks, organizational effectiveness, organization-environment relationships, and the sociology of work and occupations. The interests and research of faculty include: promotion and recruitment; organizational commitment; turnover; race, class and gender within organizations; power and influence; interest groups and bargaining; and status attainment within organizations.
Faculty
Michael Lovaglia, PhD
Victor Ray, PhD
Yongren Shi, PhD
Ion (Bodi) Vasi, PhD
Political sociology
This program emphasizes the study of state structures and political processes. It uses both quantitative and qualitative, comparative-historical methods to focus on the political-economy of the welfare state in advanced capitalist democracies, the state, social movements, and social change in developed and developing societies. The program also emphasizes the study of individual political attitudes and behaviors.
Faculty
Ion (Bodi) Vasi, PhD
