Sociology
Department

2008 Joseph F. Smith Building | Provo, UT 84602

Telephone: (801) 422-3392 | Fax: (801) 422-0625 | Email: sociology@byu.edu

Department Chair: Renata Forste | 2008C JFSB

The fifth annual Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Student Research Conference took place April 1.  Students were invited to submit a poster discussing a faculty-mentored research project they have been working on over the semester.  Sociology undergraduate student Kiira Fox examined gender ideology and the division of household labor and its effects on family satisfaction in New Zealand.

This April, sociology graduate and undergraduate students attended the Pacific Sociological Association conference to present their research.  Camm Clark and Celeste Davis presented some of the research done by the Real Victory group, headed by sociology professors Stephen Bahr and Bert Burraston.

***If you have declared the Sociology major since Fall 2007, please
click on this link to take the survey (unless you've already taken it).

A list of textbooks used in the Sociology classes will be available beginning Spring 2009.
To see the list, click on the link under the Course Descriptions menu.

JSSR Editorship

Dr. Marie Cornwall has been made editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.

Self-taught Fatherhood

A recent study led by Dr. Renata Forste focuses on self-taught fathers who often rely on the examples of their fathers of what to do (or what not to do).