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Liz Drogin, Visiting Assistant Professor
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Liz Drogin
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Visiting Assistant Professor
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Marriage and Family
Social Inequality
Gender and Culture
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| I received my PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in May 2005. My areas of research interest include marriage/family and social stratification. For my doctoral dissertation I interviewed seventy-four young adults about their approaches to marriage. In particular, I was interested in understanding how contemporary young adults in divergent marital cultures – San Francisco, California versus Salt Lake City, Utah – thought, felt, and talked about marital timing and marriage. In a previous research project I used participant-observation to analyze the institutional culture in an alternative school for high school dropouts. I was especially interested in examining the benefits and constraints associated with modifying curricula and day-to-day operations to adapt to apparent student needs. Finally, I have employed quantitative methods, as well as GIS mapping, to examine the effects of public transportation access on race-based occupational segregation and race-based earnings disparities. During my first year at Duke I taught the following courses: Soc 195 - Marriage in Contemporary America,
Soc 111 - Social Inequality, and Soc 138 - Theory and Society. In my leisure time, I enjoy being active outdoors – hiking, bicycling, rock climbing, and playing soccer.
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- Drogin, Elizabeth, Marital Stance: A Fresh Perspective on Marriage,
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (2004).
- Drogin, Elizabeth and Jodi Short, Personal Essay: Sociologists Behind Bars,
Footnotes, vol. 32 no. 6 (2004),
pp. 6 (A personal reflection on teaching Sociology at San Quentin Prison.).
- Drogin, Elizabeth, The Structural Double Bind of Alternative Education for Dropouts,
Accepted for presentation at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (2003).
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Sociology
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