Sociology at the University of Montevallo

09/08/2025

08/21/2024

It is the first day of classes! I hope everyone has enjoyed their summer. It is nice to see students walking across campus and sitting in the lobby of Fallin hall.

04/26/2024

Awards day! Congratulations to this deserving bunch. There was one more recipient, Olive Bibb, who is not pictured.

01/17/2024

https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2024/01/alabama-has-stopped-nearly-all-paroles-explaining-the-leigh-gwathney-effect.html

The chair of Alabama parole board, Leigh Gwathney, voted against releasing a quadriplegic last year. During one 10-week span in the summer, she voted "no" 245 times and "yes" just 6 times. The parole rate has now dropped to just 8%. “It’s really arrogance,” said a former board member.

05/02/2023

"The particular difficulty of sociology comes from the fact that it teached things that everybody knows in a way, but which they don't want to know or cannot know because the law of the system is to hide those things from them."

~ Pierre Bourdieu

07/11/2022

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/01/why-parents-and-kids-get-estranged/617612/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cr&utm_campaign=The%20Atlantic%20-%20Top%20Evergreen&utm_term=The%20Atlantic%20-%20Top%20Evergreen%20-%20A%20Shift%20in%20American%20Family%20Values%20Is%20Fueling%20Estrangement%20-%20Subscriber%20Lookalikes%20%2B%20Page%20Visitors&utm_content=The%20Atlantic%20-%20Top%20Evergreen%20-%20A%20Shift%20in%20American%20Family%20Values%20Is%20Fueling%20Estrangement%20-%20Subscriber%20Lookalikes%20%2B%20Page%20Visitors%20-%20Empathize&fbclid=IwAR3bYhJkvyHouK5gnUrDI82zhguqkpTSY79f_rmWNF198vH5Nt7XOB7JMVw

Both parents and adult children often fail to recognize how profoundly the rules of family life have changed over the past half century.

04/12/2022

Following a nationwide search, Blake Hudson has been named dean of Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. The appointment is effective July 1, 2022.

12/16/2021

Did you know the University of Montevallo has been the top-ranked public regional university in Alabama for 13 consecutive years according to U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges rankings? UM also earns praises for its high value to students and service to veterans.
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Learn all about it at https://bit.ly/3GzNYGc.

12/04/2021

Alabama sends so many people to prison that the state can no longer safely house its inmates, consequences of a tough-on-crime mentality among politicians and the public that keeps aggressive sentencing laws on the books.