Sociology News

Colorado House Bill 22-1287 includes a slew of protections for mobile home owners and amounts to a new bill of rights for those residents. “Bills like this could strengthen, could support and grow affordable housing stock for decades,” said Esther Sullivan , Assistant Professor of Sociology, who has conducted extensive...

It’s not surprising that Colorado’s general crime rate trends mirror the U.S. as a whole over a few decades, said Brenden Beck, Assistant Professor of Sociology. He said factors that influence crime on a macro level such as unemployment and economic recessions tend to affect different areas at the same...

As author of Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines, Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich has been an important resource for insight on vaccine hesitancy among parents before and during the pandemic. As hesitancy had spread to other populations, her knowledge becomes ever more valuable. Lagging COVID-19 vaccination rates for police...

Researchers are correct to caution the use of census data to determine whether victim services leaders are providing services equitably, said Brenden Beck, Assistant Professor of Sociology. A better way to determine parity, he said, is to compare how many victims of crime there were in each race in Colorado...

“As we watch coronavirus vaccination become widely available to young children in the coming days, weeks and months, we will inevitably see some parents struggle to decide whether to vaccinate their children. Most of these parents are neither virus deniers nor anti-science. Rather, they are part of a group of...

Back in 2015, the Pew Research Center conducted a poll about vaccine safety that found no partisan difference in attitudes. Eighty-nine percent of Republicans agreed that vaccines were safe for healthy children, which was slightly more than the 87 percent of Democrats who agreed. Nearly all the resistance to COVID-19...

Sociology Professor and Chair Teresa Cooney found, in comparing later-life remarriages to first marriages, these older couples are better at problem solving and argue less. What really sets these couples apart, whether they marry, live together or apart, is the emotional texture of their relationships. They have passed through life’s...

“This is one of our country’s primary methods of low-income homeownership,” said Assistant Professor of Sociology Esther Sullivan, who wrote a book on manufactured housing. “It is incredibly important not just as a source of affordable shelter, but also as a route to the American dream of homeownership for those...

Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich continues to be a media go-to on many aspects of the ongoing coverage of COVID. Reich said when it comes to being granted a religious exemption some people will be more successful than others. "The rules around non-medical exemptions for religion have really focused on what...

Women are more used to making decisions about their own health and the health of their families, says Sociology Professor Jennifer Reich. She believes that women are more likely to be in contact with health services as part of the process of searching for health-related information, which could be the...