Paul Chang contributed to the Stanford University Press blog on the Polarization of South Korea. A more in-depth account of South Korea's democracy movement in the 1970s can be found in Chang's new book, Protest Dialectics: State Repression and South Korea's Democracy Movement, 1970-...

On June 4 to 6, 2014, Michèle Lamont delivered the Adorno Lectures on the topic of Worlds of Worth: Cultural Processes of Inequality, at the Institut für Sozialforschung at the Johannes Wolfgang Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She will be conférencière invitée sur chaire d’Etat at the Collège de France in May 2015, where she will deliver these same lectures over four weeks. These lectures (in preparation for publication in German, French and English) offer an overview of her far-reaching research agenda.... Read more about Worlds of Worth: Cultural Processes of Inequality

Jocelyn Viterna and Judge Isaac Borenstein (visiting professor at Suffolk Law School) were interviewed on December 9th by Emily Rooney on Greater Boston and Beat the Press about the recent national protests and whether social movements can effect change.  Listen to the full interview here:  "Can Social Movements Invoke Change."  Photo credit:  Shunella Grace Lumas/Harvard Crimson.

Why are so many young people in certain regions of the postindustrial world delaying marriage and children, or not moving forward at all on either front?  Southern European and East Asian countries now universally have birth rates that are far below what is required to naturally replace their populations. This is leading to rapid population aging and the specter of lowered economic productivity. To unravel the reasons behind historically unprecedented low birth rates, Mary Brinton (Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology) is leading a team of international collaborators in a five-country comparative study of gender equality and fertility.... Read more about Explaining Low Fertility in Postindustrial Societies

Congratulations to Jocelyn Viterna whose book Women in War: The micro-processes of mobilization in El Salvador (Oxford University Press, 2013) is the winner of the Mirra Komarovksy Book Award for 2015.... Read more about Women in War receives Komarovksy Book Award