Sherry B. Ortner Collegiate Professor of Sociology; Department Chair
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3126 LSA Building (Chair's Suite)
4148 LSA Building (faculty office)
phone: 734.764.5554
Gender and Sexuality; Family, Life Course, and Society; Inequalities and Stratification; Politics and Social Change; Qualitative Approaches; Sociology of Culture; Theory, Knowledge, and Science; Sociology; Administration
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Highlighted Work and Publications
Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton
Description from Publisher: Two young women, dormitory mates, embark on their education at a big state university. Five years later, one is earning a good salary at a prestigious accounting firm. With no loans to repay, she lives in a fashionable apartment with her fiancé. The other woman, saddled with burdensome debt and a low GPA, is still struggling to finish her degree in tourism. In an era of skyrocketing tuition and mounting concern over whether college is “worth it,” Paying for the Party is an indispensable contribution to the dialogue assessing the state of American higher...
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Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
Elizabeth Armstrong
Description from Publisher: Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences. Forging Gay Identities explores how this happened, tracing the evolution of gay life and organizations in San Francisco from the 1950s to the mid-1990s. "Forging Gay Identities" book website Publisher: University of Chicago Press Month of Publication: December Year of Publication: 2002 Location: Chicago, IL # of Pages: 290 ISBN: 9780226026947