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How do political parties adapt their discourse when confronted with rapidly changing structural conditions? This study examines the relationship between asylum applications and elite political comm...

Sociology PhD program stands out for its interdisciplinary nature, a focus on both academic and non-academic careers, and publicly engaged scholarship.

The Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a Teaching Assistant Professor or Teaching Associate Professor (depending on the selected candid...

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Many constructs that characterize language, like its complexity or emotionality, have a naturally continuous semantic structure; a public speech is not just "simple" or "complex," but exists on a cont...

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

One of the challenges of studying protest in this era of distributed activism is that it’s extremely difficult to get a decent sample of who is participating across sites. When my team survey…

After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure.

UNC-Chapel Hill faculty are raising concerns about a lack of professors receiving tenure this year, especially in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.

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Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of period prose does not pro...

For over 100 years UNC Press has championed the principles of academic freedom, open discourse, and the free exchange of ideas—values essential to a democratic society and the pursuit of knowledge.  R...

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The movie casts Astoria, Oregon, as “the single-parent capital of America.” That can’t possibly be true, can it? Let’s look at the data!