Description:

The Race, Ethnicity, and Gender (REG) program integrates theory and research on three key dimensions of social organization: race, ethnicity, and gender. It explores how these dimensions, both independently and in relationship to each other, affect individuals, groups, and societies. Areas of faculty expertise include: race and the labor market, gender and the family, theories of racism and racial and ethnic identity, intergroup beliefs and attitudes, immigration, racial and ethnic demography, gender and racial stratification, and race and social movements. REG faculty examine how race, ethnicity, and gender operate as axes of stratification and also of solidarity across a range of social institutions (work, family, labor markets, housing, religion, schools, social movements, social policy, criminal justice and politics) both in the US and other areas of the world. We employ diverse research methods, including ethnography, surveys, demographic methods, and in-depth interviews. The Sociology Department's faculty expertise in REG is complemented by UIC's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy,   Institute of Government and Public Affairs,   Center for Research on Women and Gender,   Department of African-American Studies, Department of Criminal Justice, Department of History's Graduate Concentration in Work, Race, & Gender in the Urban World, programs in Latin American and Latino Studies   and Gender and Women Studies. Students should feel free to seek out faculty in these other units for additional coursework, research opportunities, and advice.

Required Courses:

• Soc 424:  Sociology of Gender
• Soc 425:  Race and Ethnicity
• Soc 441:  Social Stratification

Two units of Sociology 520 Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender (You may petition to have other seminars, either inside or outside of Sociology, count towards this requirement.)

Affiliated Faculty:                                           

• Sharon Collins
• Nilda Flores-Gonzalez
• Tyrone Forman
• Rachel Gordon
• Cedric Herring
• Maria Krysan
• Amanda Lewis
• Anthony Orum
• Pamela Popielarz
• Barbara Risman
• Kerry Ann Rockquemore
• Laurie Schaffner
• R. Stephen Warner