Berkeley Journal of Sociology

The point, after all, is to change the world.

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Janna Huang

Janna Huang is a second year PhD student in Sociology at UC Berkeley and an editor for the Berkeley Journal of Sociology. Her research leverages interviews, ethnography, and quantitative methods to explore the sociology of science, knowledge, and technology. Janna is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Germany, and she has researched science and technology policy at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, the Federal Communications Commission, and the American Civil Liberties Union. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science with interdisciplinary honors in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) from Stanford University.

Matthew Clair: Ethnography, Sociology as a Collective Endeavor, and Inequalities in the Legal System

Matthew Clair is a pathbreaking sociologist whose research broadly investigates how cultural meanings within our institutions reflect, reproduce, and challenge inequality and injustice. We first got to know Matt as a professor in an undergraduate sociology theory course at Stanford (for Janna) and as a scholar in law and society (for Tiffany). Through this serendipitous […]

Dorothy Roberts: Radical Scholarship, Abolition, and Fighting for a Just World

Dorothy Roberts is a preeminent scholar, activist, and public intellectual whose work breaks through disciplinary molds to inform our knowledge of policing, family welfare systems, bioethics, and medicine. We were deeply honored to sit down with her for an interview, where she shares how her childhood and life experiences shape her principles for abolition in […]

Our Relaunch Statement

When we started graduate school at Berkeley in 2020, many things were uncertain. We were part of the first, and quite possibly the last, cohort to start entirely virtually in the Sociology department, during a tumultuous historical period where one crisis seemed to bleed into the next in a compounding effect – an ongoing global […]

Going Public: A Conversation between Arlene Stein, Jessie Daniels, and the Berkeley Journal of Sociology

Introduction: When we decided to pivot the Berkeley Journal of Sociology to public sociology, we had to take stock of what was done before us. To guide us in our own project of relaunching a public sociology journal platform, we sought out resources for academic social scientists to translate their research to the public in […]