Division of the Social Sciences

The University of Chicago Sociology Department is the oldest in the country. Each year, faculty and graduate students take #UChicago undergrads on a tour of the city's donut shops to visit past sites of sociological and historical importance and current sites of rapid social transformation. To learn more, visit: Music by Joakim Karud /joakimkarud ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email digicomm@uchicago.edu.

In the city of Chicago, birthplace of the skyscraper, a new generation of visionary artists, policy makers, and urban scientists is transforming our knowledge of how cities work—and how they can work better. University of Chicago Trustee Daniel L. Doctoroff, JD'84, led a discussion in New York with a panel of experts from the University on creative ideas and innovative and ambitious plans to improve our urban environments. November 14, 2014 ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email digicom

Alumni Weekend 2012 UnCommon Core June 2, 2012 Coming Together or Coming Apart: America and the 2012 Election John Mark Hansen Dean, Social Sciences Division, and Professor of Political Science American politics today is polarized between Democrats and Republicans, between liberals and conservatives, as never before. Looking beyond the heated rhetoric, political scientist and Social Sciences Division dean Mark Hansen will trace the extent and origins of America's political divisions, analyze the effect they will have on the 2012 elections, and assess the prospects for effective governance in the future. One of the nation's leading scholars of American politics and a Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor, Hansen has focused his research on interest groups, citizen activism, public opinion, public budgeting, and politicians' inferences from the outcomes of elections. ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination

More than half of the world's population lives in urban centers. How do we create policies and programs that improve the lives of residents and optimize the operation of cities? This panel from across campus explores the power of data to inform urban policy decisions, how new modeling and computational methods can improve urban decision making, and examples of data being used to support effective programs. Panel Participants: Colm O'Muircheartaigh Dean and Professor, Chicago Harris; Senior Fellow, NORC Charlie Catlett Director, Urban Center for Computation and Data; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory Stephen W. Raudenbush Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Sociology, Chicago Harris, and the College; Chair, Committee on Education ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experi

Brendan O'Connor, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, November 16, 2012 ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email digicomm@uchicago.edu.

Introduction to the Rethinking Urban Poverty Forum at the University of Chicago March 10 and 11, 2011 Rethinking Urban Poverty for the 21st Century: Institutional and Organizational Perspectives As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, the prospects for U.S. cities remain uncertain. The promised reinvention of many former manufacturing centers has been halted in its tracks, as record budget deficits, limited growth prospects, and stubbornly high unemployment rates undermine urban recovery. The urban poor continue to bear most heavily the burden of a continuing housing crisis, chronically underperforming schools at a time of increasing returns to education, persistently high births to unmarried mothers, unprecedented rates of obesity and other health problems, and an expansion of the criminal justice system that insists on breaking imprisonment records. Understanding these conditions calls for scholarly perspectives the focus not only on individuals or neighborhoods but also o

The University of Chicago is, in many respects, the birthplace of social scientific research and practice on urban questions. Now, at a time when the rise in urban migration within and among countries has produced an array of changes, the University possesses a unique set of resources and opportunities to assess and meet these growing challenges. Chaired by urban sociologist Mario Small, Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences, this panel previews plans to capitalize on this history of interdisciplinary research and create an institute that will tackle the issues of the city in the 21st century. ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research.This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholarsto challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uch

Mario Small, UChicago professor of sociology, talks about the new Urban Network, a community of inter-disciplinary scholars dedicated to studying urban issues. ➡ Subscribe: About #UChicago: Since its founding in 1890, the University of Chicago has been a destination for rigorous inquiry and field-defining research. This transformative academic experience empowers students and scholars to challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. #UChicago on the Web: Home: News: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: University of Chicago on YouTube: /uchicago *** ACCESSIBILITY: If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please email digicomm@uchicago.edu.

Sandra Ham, a statistician from the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) at The University of Chicago, provides an introduction to the analytical method called social sequence analysis. Ham explores the history of the method, types of research questions that can be addressed using this method, types of data sources, capabilities, limitations and software options.

The 511th Convocation Diploma and Hooding Ceremony of the Division of the Social Sciences was held on June 9, 2012, in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on the University of Chicago campus. Kristen Schilt, Assistant Professor in Sociology and the College, was honored with the Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. Bruce Cumings, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, delivered remarks focusing on the legacy of the University and its history of equality on campus.