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Notre Dame's Department of Sociology features undergraduate and graduate programs, innovative research opportunities that cut across disciplinary boundaries, and award-winning faculty who are widely recognized for their scholarly publications.

The department's signature strengths are in cultural sociology, the sociology of education, political sociology and social movements, and the sociology of religion.

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Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America
January 30, 2012

Dr. Robert Brenneman (PhD, 2010)  authored Homies and Hermanos: God and Gangs in Central America. View on Amazon

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Crowdsourcing: Are Two Heads Better Than One?
January 10, 2012

A competition developed by a team of University of Notre Dame experts, including sociologist David S. Hachen, Jr., uses concepts from open sourcing and crowdsourcing to help propose and assess new civil infrastructure systems for developing countries. The Shelters for All Competition: A Call to Deliver Safe, Affordable Housing to the World’s Poor challenges participants to design low-cost and safe housing that fits the cultural context of the communities in which the homes will be built.

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