Allison Hurst

Last updated

Allison L. Hurst is an American sociologist whose research focuses on the sociology of higher education. She teaches at Oregon State University.

Contents

Early life and education

Hurst graduated from Barnard College, where she majored in ancient studies, in 1992. She completed a doctorate in sociology at the University of Oregon in 2006. [1]

Career

Hurst was a visiting assistant professor at Kenyon College from 2006 to 2009. She then moved to Furman University, where she taught until 2014, when she was hired as an associate professor at Oregon State University. [1] Her research focuses on the role of social class in the sociology of higher education.

Books

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Social status</span> Position within social structure

Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess. Such social value includes respect, honor, assumed competence, and deference. On one hand, social scientists view status as a "reward" for group members who treat others well and take initiative. This is one explanation for its apparent cross-cultural universality. On the other hand, while people with higher status experience a litany of benefits--such as greater health, admiration, resources, influence, and freedom--those with lower status experience poorer outcomes across all of those metrics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Feminist sociology</span> Subdiscipline of sociology

Feminist sociology is an interdisciplinary exploration of gender and power throughout society. Here, it uses conflict theory and theoretical perspectives to observe gender in its relation to power, both at the level of face-to-face interaction and reflexivity within social structures at large. Focuses include sexual orientation, race, economic status, and nationality.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patricia Hill Collins</span> African-American scholar (born 1948)

Patricia Hill Collins is an American academic specializing in race, class, and gender. She is a distinguished university professor of sociology emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the former head of the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association – the first African-American woman to hold this position.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tara Smith (philosopher)</span> American philosopher

Tara A. Smith is an American philosopher. She is a professor of philosophy, the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism, and the Anthem Foundation Fellow for the Study of Objectivism at the University of Texas at Austin.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Barbara J. Fields</span> American historian

Barbara Jeanne Fields is an American historian. She is a professor of American history at Columbia University. Her focus is on the history of the American South, 19th century social history, and the transition to capitalism in the United States.

Annette Patricia Lareau is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michèle Lamont</span> Canadian sociologist

Michèle Lamont is a Canadian sociologist who is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and a professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is a contributor to the study of culture, inequality, racism and anti-racism, the sociology of morality, evaluation and higher education, and the study of cultural and social change. She is the recipient of the Gutenberg Award and the Erasmus award, for her "devoted contribution to social science research into the relationship between knowledge, power, and diversity." She has received honorary degrees from five countries. and been elected to the British Academy, Royal Society of Canada, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, and the Sociological Research Association. She served as president of the American Sociological Association from 2016 to 2017. In 2024, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sociology of race and ethnic relations</span> Field of study

The sociology of race and ethnic relations is the study of social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicities at all levels of society. This area encompasses the study of systemic racism, like residential segregation and other complex social processes between different racial and ethnic groups.

Joan Elise Robinson Acker was an American sociologist, researcher, writer and educator. She joined the University of Oregon faculty in 1967. Acker is considered one of the leading analysts regarding gender and class within the second wave of feminism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Philip N. Cohen</span> American sociologist

Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences.

Paula S. England, is an American sociologist and Dean of Social Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research has focused on gender inequality in the labor market, the family, and sexuality. She has also studied class differences in contraception and nonmarital births.

Michael Hout is a Professor of Sociology at New York University. His contributions to sociology include using demographic methods to study social change in inequality, religion, and politics. His current work used the General Social Survey (GSS) to estimate the social standing of occupations introduced into the census classification since 1990. He digitized all occupational information in the GSS (1972–2014) and coded it all to the 2010 standard. Other recent projects used the GSS panel to study Americans' changing perceptions of class, religion, and happiness. In 2006, Mike and Claude Fischer published Century of Difference, a book on twentieth-century social and cultural trends in the United States. Other books include Truth about Conservative Christians with Andrew Greeley, Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland, and Inequality by Design

Barbara Anne Macdonald was an American social worker and lesbian feminist activist. She is best known for her activism against ageism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephen L. Morgan</span> American sociologist (born 1971)

Stephen Lawrence Morgan is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences and Johns Hopkins School of Education. A quantitative methodologist, he is known for his contributions to quantitative methods in sociology as applied to research on schools, particularly in models for educational attainment, improving the study of causal relationships, and his empirical research focusing on social inequality and education in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Judith Blau</span> American sociologist

Judith Blau is an American sociologist and professor emerita of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most of her academic career has been devoted to teaching and writing about human rights, and she retired to Wellfleet, Massachusetts, where she continues to teach.

Ronald James Pestritto Jr. is an American academic. He is the Graduate Dean and Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, and the author of two books and the editor of five more.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Racial capitalism</span> Post-Marxist social and economic concept

Racial capitalism is a concept reframing the history of capitalism as grounded in the extraction of social and economic value from people of marginalized racial identities, typically from Black people. It was described by Cedric J. Robinson in his book Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, published in 1983, which, in contrast to both his predecessors and successors, theorized that all capitalism is inherently racial capitalism, and racialism is present in all layers of capitalism's socioeconomic stratification. Jodi Melamed has summarized the concept, explaining that capitalism "can only accumulate by producing and moving through relations of severe inequality among human groups", and therefore, for capitalism to survive, it must exploit and prey upon the "unequal differentiation of human value."

Carrie N. Baker is an American lawyer, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, and Chair of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She teaches courses on gender, law, public policy, and feminist activism and is affiliated with the American Studies program, the archives concentration, and the public policy minor. She co-founded and is a former co-director of the certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Program offered by the Five College Consortium.

Pamela Herd is an American sociologist. As a professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Herd's research focuses on inequality and how it intersects with health, aging, and policy.

Christine L. Williams is an American sociologist. She is a professor of Sociology and the Elsie and Stanley E. (Skinny) Adams Sr. Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Her areas of specialization include gender, sexuality, and workplace inequality. Her research primarily involves gender discrimination at work.

References

  1. 1 2 "Allison Hurst". College of Liberal Arts. Oregon State University. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  2. Seider, Maynard (2011). "Review of The Burden of Academic Success: Loyalists, Renegades, and Double Agents". Social Forces . 90 (1). Oxford University Press: 333–335. doi:10.1093/sf/90.1.333. JSTOR   41682649.
  3. Connell, Matthew J. (July 2013). "HURST, ALLISON L. (2012). COLLEGE AND THE WORKING CLASS: WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE IT: Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense pp. vii + 190, ISBN 978-94-6091-750-9. $39.00 (soft cover)". Community College Journal of Research and Practice. 37 (7): 580–581. doi:10.1080/10668926.2012.748384. S2CID   146515366.
  4. Mitchell, Mikayla E. (April 2022). "Book Review: Amplified Advantage: Going to a "Good" College in an Era of Inequality". Teaching Sociology . 50 (2). American Sociological Association: 190–193. doi:10.1177/0092055X221084021. S2CID   247480502.
  5. Karen, David (January 1, 2021). "Amplified Advantage: Going to a "Good" College in an Era of Inequality . By Allison L. Hurst. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2020. Pp. xiv+288. $95.00". American Journal of Sociology . 126 (4): 988–990. doi:10.1086/712631. S2CID   234929798.