The North Carolina Sociological Association

Registration will be from 8:30-9:30 AM with a buffet breakfast provided and the first session will start at 9:30 AM. This is 30 minutes later than in previous years and is designed to help those people attending the meeting get to Winston-Salem the morning of the conference and obviate the need to stay the previous night. The conference will end at 3:45 PM. For details please see the Newsletter link above or click here.

Other News of Interest to Sociologists

It is commonly thought that more poor people live in cities than in the suburbs, which are said to be relatively rich. By 1999, however, poverty was about equally balanced between the city and the surburbs. Since then the trend has continued and there are now more poor in the suburbs than in the cities of the United States. By 2010 the gap is even wider.
 

• The link to the full report by the Brookings researchers can be found at: http://www.npr.org/documents/2006/dec/suburban_poverty.pdf link. 

Suburbanization is sometimes accused to forcing people into isolation and loneliness.  But using national data, Economist Jan Brueckner has found the opposite. 

• The link to the Brueckner video is: http://www.uci.edu/experts/video_news.php?src=brueckner&format=mov&res=high link