The Sociology of Childhood

About Judson G. EverittWilliam A. Corsaro

William A. Corsaro was Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Chair and is now Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington where he won the Presidents Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1988. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Career Award for the Section on Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association in 2013. He taught courses on the sociology of childhood childhood in contemporary society and ethnographic research methods. His primary research interests are the sociology of childhood childrens peer cultures the sociology of education and ethnographic research methods. Corsaro is the author of Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years (1985) author of Were Friends Right? Inside Kids Culture (2003) and coauthor with Luisa Molinari of I Compagni: Understanding Childrens Transition From Preschool to Elementary School (2005). He is the coeditor with Jens Qvortrup and Michael-Sebastian Honig (2009) of The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Corsaro was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Bologna Italy in 1983-1984 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in Trondheim Norway in 2003. He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University Sweden in 2016 and was recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2019.   Judson G. Everitt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. He has served on the faculty at Loyola since 2009. Dr. Everitt earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Indiana University with a doctoral minor in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. His research examines the interconnections among organizations culture and socialization with a particular focus on the professions. His prior work examines teachers professional socialization in his book Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher (2018) and he recently coauthored an updated edition of The Sociology of Education with Jeanne Ballantine and Jenny Stuber (2022). His most recent work examines how medical students interpret and respond to institutional pressures in health care through the student cultures they form in medical school.