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Joachim Singelmann
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1974
David J. Kriskovich Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Phone: 225 578 1635
Email address: joachim@lsu.edu
Office: 107 / 24 Stubbs Hall
Curriculum Vitae | |
My research areas have been economic sociology and demography. Much of my work has focused on inequality (between social classes, men and women, race and ethnic groups, and urban and rural). It is also often comparative and international. Projects that I carried out in the past studied the emergence of a service society; class structures and political attitudes in advanced industrial societies; population distribution and migration in developing countries; and the transformation process from communism to capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
My current work examines the following issues: (1) What are the consequences of welfare reform resulting from the 1996 federal legislation that changed welfare from entitlement to eligibility? To this end, I have conducted a five-year panel study of 1,000 welfare recipients, which has provided the basis for many empirical studies (see the website of the Louisiana Welfare Survey). (2) How do people find work, and what is the role of social networks in this process? For this purpose I conducted a survey of job search strategies among 1,400 persons in Louisiana, and we are currently analyzing these survey data. (3) What are the patterns of internal migration in the developing world? With colleagues from the United Nations Population Division I am using the Demographic and Health Surveys that have been conducted since the 1980s to examine this question. So far, we have identified regional and sex differentials of internal migration, as well as country differentials in terms of migration flows between rural and urban areas. The next step will be an analysis of the relationship between migration status and health. In addition to my research projects, I have been directing the Louisiana Population Data Center since 2004 and have become the editor of the journal Rural Sociology in 2005.
Courses recently taught at LSU
(Syllabi provided below are only for illustrative purposes and are subject to change every semester)
Sociology 2511: Race Relations
Sociology 4701: Population
Sociology 7591: Poverty
Sociology 7791: Population |
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