,br> Small compared to other Big10 sociology programs (16 faculty), students engage with research focused on solving real-world problems. Faculty collaborate with each other and with people across disciplines, including computer science, psychology, anthropology, political science, criminology, biology, neuroscience, medicine, public health, art, marketing, and business. Our faculty also work with community stakeholders and community-based non-profit organizations.
These collaborations lead our faculty and students to ask and answer interesting questions. Check out our recent research, including open-access versions of faculty and student publications, to discover how sociology faculty are tackling issues in drug use; pornography addiction; social networks; homelessness; delinquency; domestic violence; survey questionnaire design and polling; minority health disparities; science identity; sexualities and LGBTQ+ rights; religion and politics; hate crime reporting; and sociology pedagogy among many others.
We are committed to equipping undergraduate students with the critical thinking and analytical skills that put them on the path to meaningful and rewarding careers. Alumni have launched their careers with community organizations such as Voice of Hope, Community Learning Centers, and Teach for America; government agencies like the Department of Agriculture, the state legislature, and law enforcement; and private sector businesses such as HUDL, Talent+, Gallup, NelNet, and insurance companies. Our undergraduate students also go on to law school, medical school and professional programs in the health fields, or to complete an MBA or graduate programs in sociology or related disciplines.
Our MA and PhD students can specialize in the sociology of health, families, social inequalities, or research methodology, benefiting from a small student-to-faculty ratio. We train graduate students for both traditional academic jobs at colleges and universities, as well as work in the public and private sector. We have a long tradition of training students for successful placements at non-academic positions, including think tanks, research organizations, government agencies, non-profit service organizations, and for-profit organizations.
1988
We’re Partners – Not Husband and Wife, Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill
Empowering a Feminist Ethic For Social Science Research: Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective, Beth Hartung, Jane C. Ollenburger, Helen A. Moore, and Mary Jo Deegan
Editor’s Introduction: The Social Construction of a Departmental Heritage, Michael R. Hill
Framing ‘Bomb Talk’: The Macro Consequences of the Microfoundations of Social Interaction in a Goffmanian Nuclear World, Michael R. Hill
Framing Falls: A Goffmanian Analysis of Pedestrian Falls and Muffings, Michael R. Hill
Research by Bureaucracy: Hattie Plum Williams and the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, 1929-1931, Michael R. Hill
Review of Sociology: A Brief but Critical Introduction, 2nd edition, by Anthony Giddens, Michael R. Hill
Roscoe Pound and the Seminarium Botanicum at the University of Nebraska, 1888-1889, Michael R. Hill
The Intellectual Legacy of Nebraska Sociology: A Bibliographical Chronology of Separately Published Works, 1887-1989, Michael R. Hill
Effects of Gender, Ethnicity, and School Equity on Students' Leadership Behaviors in a Group Game, Helen A. Moore
Leadership and nonverbal behaviors of Hispanic females across school equity environments, Helen A. Moore and Natalie K. Porter
Religious Homogamy and Marital Happiness, Suzanne T. Ortega, Hugh P. Whitt, and J. Allen Williams Jr.
1987
Physically Disabled Women and New Directions in Public Policy, 1977-1987., Mary Jo Deegan
Preface, Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Several Forms of Parenting: Mother, Genitrix, and Mater, Michael R. Hill
'Asking Directions’ and Pedestrian Wayfinding, Michael R. Hill
Bomb Talk: Framing the Unthinkable, Michael R. Hill
Novels, Thought Experiments, and Humanist Sociology in the Classroom: Mari Sandoz and Capital City, Michael R. Hill
The Sociology and Experiences of Pedestrians, Michael R. Hill
Women Sociologists in the Midwest: A Status Update, Mary Ann Lamanna, Baila Miller, and Helen A. Moore
SEX ROLE SOCIALIZATION IN PICTURE BOOKS: AN UPDATE, J. Allen Williams Jr., JoEtta Vernon, Martha C. Williams, and Karen Malecha
1986
Sexism in Space: The Freudian Formula in "Star Trek", Mary Jo Deegan
Review of Accommodating the Pedestrian by Richard Untermann, Michael R. Hill
Spatial Structure in Pedestrian Route Choice, Michael R. Hill
"Martha's Rules": An Alternative to Robert's Rules of Order, Anne Minahan
What Sex Is Your Parachute? Interest Inventory/Counseling Models and the Perpetuation of the Sex/Wage Segregation of the Labor Market, Helen A. Moore and Jane Ollenburger
Multiple Dimensions of the Moral Majority Platform: Shifting Interest Group Coalitions, Helen A. Moore and Hugh P. Whitt
The Multidimensionality of Joining, Suzanne T. Ortega and J. Allen Williams Jr.
1985
Hegemonic Life-Worlds: A Discussion of the Phenomenology of Routes and Connectivity in Planning and Design, Michael R. Hill
Intellectual Violence, Democratic Legitimation, and the War over the Family, Michael R. Hill
On the Possibility and Realization of Feminist Art, Michael R. Hill
Review of Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, by Janet Wolff, Michael R. Hill
Walking Straight Home from School: Pedestrian Route Choice by Young Children, Michael R. Hill
Job Satisfaction and Women’s Spheres of Work, Helen A. Moore
1984
Epistemology, Axiology, and Ideology in Sociology, Michael R. Hill
Exploring Visual Sociology and the Sociology of the Visual Arts: Introduction and Selected Bibliography, Michael R. Hill
Selected References on Walking, Crossing Streets, and Choosing Pedestrian Routes, Michael R. Hill
Stalking the Urban Pedestrian: A Comparison of Questionnaire and Tracking Methodologies for Behavioral Mapping in Large-Scale Environments, Michael R. Hill
Walking, Crossing Streets and Choosing Pedestrian Routes: A Survey of Recent Insights from the Social/Behavioral Sciences, Michael R. Hill
1983
Review of Contexts of Behavior: Anthropological Dimensions, by Robert J. Maxwell, Michael R. Hill
The Social Context of Pedestrians’ Rights, Michael R. Hill
The Desegregated School and Status Relationships among Anglo and Hispanic Students, Peter Iadicola and Helen A. Moore
Hispanic Women: Schooling for Conformity in Public Education, Helen A. Moore
A Reexamination of Elementary School Teacher Expectations: Evidence of Sex and Ethnic Segmentation, Helen A. Moore and David R. Johnson
Dryland Agriculture: Sociology, J. Allen Williams Jr., Lynn K. White, and David R. Johnson
1982
Cuban Women in Popular Culture, Mary Jo Deegan
Social/Behavioral Science Contributions to Our Understanding of the Pedestrian Experience: A Brief Review, Michael R. Hill
Walking into the Night – An Exercise in Integrated Pedestrian-Oriented Facilities Design, Michael R. Hill
1981
Resegregation Processes in Desegregated Schools and Status Relationships for Hispanic Students, Helen A. Moore and Peter Iadicola
1980
On Responsibility in Ethnography, Mary Jo Deegan
1979
“Sociology at Nebraska: 1884-1929,” together with “A History of Sociology at the University of Nebraska,” by J.O. Hertzler, Joyce O. Hertzler and Mary Jo Deegan
The Autobiography of W.E.B. DuBois: An Analysis, Michael R. Hill
1978
George Herbert Mead And Social Reform: His Work And Writings, Mary Jo Deegan and John S. Burger
American Drama and Ritual: Nebraska Football, Mary Jo Deegan and Michael Stein
1977
Comments on Jackman's "Political Elites, Mass Publics, and Support for Democratic Principles", Louis St. Peter, J. Allen Williams Jr., and David R. Johnson
ETHNICITY AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AS DETERMINANTS OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION: A TEST OF THE INTERACTION HYPOTHESIS, J. Allen Williams Jr. and Louis St. Peter
1976
On Political Tolerance: Comments on "Origins of Tolerance", Harry J. Crockett
Invited response to James J. Kilpatrick’s “And Some Are More Equal than Others”, Mary Jo Deegan
Origins of Tolerance: Findings from a Replication of Stouffer's Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, J. Allen Williams Jr., Clyde Z. Nunn, and Louis St. Peter
"Origins of Tolerance": Reply to Crockett, J. Allen Williams Jr., Clyde Z. Nunn, and Louis St. Peter
1973
The Culture of Poverty Debate: Some Additional Data, Barbara E. Coward, Joe R. Feagin, and J. Allen Williams Jr.
Ritual Appraisement in White Singles’ Bars: From A Woman’s Perspective, Mary Jo Deegan
Black Family Structures and Functions: An Empirical Examination of Some Suggestions Made by Billingsley, J. Allen Williams Jr. and Robert Stockton
1962
Negro College Students' Participation in Sit-Ins, Ruth Searles and J. Allen Williams Jr.