Wenjie Liao
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts
585-475-5235
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Wenjie Liao
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts
585-475-5235
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Journal Paper
Liao, Wenjie, Kim Ebert, and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. "Migration and Racialization Part II: The Light and Shadow of Inclusion." American Behavioral Scientist. (2022): online first. Web.
Ebert, Kim, Wenjie Liao, and Lisa Sun-Hee Park. "Migration and Racialization Part I: Constructing and Navigating a Hostile Terrain." American Behavioral Scientist. (2022): online first. Web.
Busse, Erika, Meghan Krausch, and Wenjie Liao. "How the ‘Neutral’ University Makes Critical Feminist Pedagogy Impossible: Intersectional Analysis from Marginalized Faculty on Three Campuses." Sociological Spectrum 41. 1 (2021): 29-52. Print.
Liao, Wenjie and Liying Luo. "Gender, Education, and Attitudes toward Women’s Leadership in Three East Asian Countries: An Intersectional and Multilevel Approach." Societies 11. 3 (2021): 103. Web.
Liao, Wenjie, et al. "The House Is on Fire but We Kept the Burglars Out: Racial Apathy and White Ignorance in Pandemic-Era Immigration Detention." Social Sciences 10. 10 (2021): 358. Web.
Liao, Wenjie. "Legitimacy of authoritarian law: Legal compliance in China." International Sociology 34. 6 (2019): 675-695. Print.
Ebert, Kim, Wenjie Liao, and Emily P. Estrada. "Apathy and Color-Blindness in Privatized Immigration Control." Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. (2019): online first. Web.
Boyle, Elizabeth H., Shannon Golden, and Wenjie Liao. "Catholic Church and International Law." Annual Review of Law and Social Science 13. (2017): 395-411. Print.
Book Chapter
Liao, Wenjie and Joachim J. Savelsberg. "Law." Handbuch Sozialwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung. Ed. M. Berek,, et al. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer Fachmedien, 2021. 1-15. Web.
Currently Teaching
SOCI-102
Foundations of Sociology
3 Credits
Sociology is the study of the social world and socialization processes. Sociologists study the broader picture of how societies are structured and organized through a macro-sociological analysis as well as how individuals create their own social reality symbolically through their interactions with others in a micro-sociological analysis. Students in this course will learn the fundamentals of each approach and come away with a sociological framework which they can critically apply to their own lives.
SOCI-102H
Honors Sociology
3 Credits
This course explores how sociological concepts, theories and research account for such social phenomena as socialization, deviance, social structure, stratification, political and religious affiliation and social change. It will also explore how social factors account for political and economic behavior and the speed and spread of technological change.
In the News
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December 14, 2022
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Sociology students use art to communicate important social issues
Students shared artwork that communicated social issues that are important to them during the Sociological Imagination Art Fair, part of Assistant Professor Wenjie Liao’s Foundations of Sociology courses.
