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Scott Fitzgerald

Sociology
economic inequality
religion and the nation state
social movements
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Jill Yavorsky

Professor and Chair,
Department of Sociology

Professor of Public Policy

The University of North Carolina Charlotte

Email: sfitzger@uncc.edu

My research (see “Publications” tab above) and teaching centers on economic inequality, social movements, religion and the nation state. Substantively, one branch examines the social, political, and economic consequences of religious participation. A second branch focuses on the causes and consequences of economic inequality and social change. A third branch addresses symbolic discourse and meaning creation.

I am also a faculty member in the UNC Charlotte Public Policy PhD program and former co-editor of the Political Sociology Section of Sociology Compass.   I currently teach and serve as the College of Liberal Arts (CLAS) Coordinator for UNC Charlotte’s Prospect for Success program for incoming students.

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I served as the faculty advisor for the UNC Charlotte Campus Chapter of Habitat for Humanity and routinely teach various study abroad programs: a 5-week study abroad program in Manchester, UK; a 10-day program in the Netherlands, and a 10-day collaborative program with Habitat for Humanity in El Salvador.

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Additionally, I served as Diversity Coordinator for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 2010-2013 and as Coordinator for the first-year student Global Village Learning Community from 2009-2014.  I have also worked with the non-partisan Interactivity Foundation to facilitate citizen discussion groups.

I was formerly the Director of Graduate Studies for our M.A. Program in Sociology.

Click here for my c.v.

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In accessible prose for North American undergraduate students, this short text provides a sociological understanding of the causes and consequences of growing middle class inequality, with an abundance of supporting, empirical data. The book also addresses what we, as individuals and as a society, can do to put middle class Americans on a sounder footing.

Purchase Middle Class Meltdown;  also available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble

Podcast of my interview on Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins (WFAE 90.7) discussing Middle Class Meltdown, original air date September 16, 2014.

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