Faculty Profile

Katherine Sobering

Title
Associate Professor
Department
Sociology
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2018.
Major: Sociology
MA, University of Texas at Austin, 2012.
Major: Sociology
BA, University of Texas at Austin, 2009.
Major: Plan II Honors
BBA, University of Texas at Austin, 2009.
Major: International Business

Current Scheduled Teaching*

SOCI 6204.001, Qualitative Data Analysis, Spring 2024 Syllabus
SOCI 3800.001, Sociology of Work, Spring 2024 Syllabus
SOCI 6900.706, Special Problems, Spring 2024

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching*

SOCI 3240.001, Qualitative Research Methods, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5305.001, Sociology of Gender, Fall 2023 SPOT
SOCI 5305.601, Sociology of Gender, Fall 2023 SPOT
SOCI 6505.001, Sociology of Gender, Fall 2023 SPOT
SOCI 6900.702, Special Problems, Fall 2023
SOCI 6950.702, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 5W1 2023
SOCI 3240.900, Qualitative Research Methods, Summer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6950.704, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023
SOCI 5950.704, Master's Thesis, Spring 2023
SOCI 6950.706, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2022
SOCI 5950.705, Master's Thesis, Fall 2022
SOCI 3240.001, Qualitative Research Methods, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6202.001, Qualitative Research Methods and Design, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 3240.900, Qualitative Data Collection, Summer 5W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6950.704, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022
SOCI 5950.707, Master's Thesis, Spring 2022
SOCI 3240.001, Qualitative Data Collection, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5940.001, Sociology Internship, Spring 2022
SOCI 3800.001, Sociology of Work, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6950.706, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021
SOCI 5950.705, Master's Thesis, Fall 2021
SOCI 5030.001, Work and Organizations, Fall 2021 SPOT
SOCI 6030.001, Work and Organizations, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 1510.900, Introduction to Sociology, Summer 5W2 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6950.704, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021
SOCI 5950.707, Master's Thesis, Spring 2021
SOCI 3240.001, Qualitative Data Collection, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5260.003, Topics in Sociology, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5260.603, Topics in Sociology, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6500.003, Topics in Sociology, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5950.705, Master's Thesis, Fall 2020
SOCI 3240.900, Qualitative Data Collection, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5260.001, Topics in Sociology, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5260.601, Topics in Sociology, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6500.001, Topics in Sociology, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 4250.900, Gender and Society, Summer 5W2 2020 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5950.702, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2020
SOCI 6950.704, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020
SOCI 1510.003, Introduction to Sociology, Spring 2020 Syllabus
SOCI 5950.707, Master's Thesis, Spring 2020
SOCI 3800.001, Sociology of Work, Spring 2020 Syllabus
SOCI 5900.702, Special Problems, Spring 2020
SOCI 6950.706, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2019
SOCI 5950.705, Master's Thesis, Fall 2019
SOCI 5260.002, Topics in Sociology, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 6500.002, Topics in Sociology, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 4250.900, Gender and Society, Summer 5W2 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 1510.004, Introduction to Sociology, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 3800.001, Sociology of Work, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2019
SOCI 1510.004, Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
SOCI 5260.002, Topics in Sociology, Fall 2018 SPOT
SOCI 6500.002, Topics in Sociology, Fall 2018 SPOT

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Publications

Published Intellectual Contributions

Academic Blog
Sobering, K. E. (2020). Watercooler Democracy: How Rumors Can Democratize Information at Work. https://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/watercooler-democracy-how-rumors-can-democratize-information-at-work-guest-post-by-katie-sobering/
Sobering, K. E. (2019). Can Workplaces Foster Equality?. Official blog of the American Sociological Association. http://www.wipsociology.org/2019/12/19/can-workplaces-foster-equality/
Sobering, K. E., Auyero, J. (2019). Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins. University of Pittsburgh’s Center for Latin American Studies. https://www.panoramas.pitt.edu/larr/collusion-and-cynicism-urban-margins
Artwork
LaFleur, L., Sobering, K. E. (2023). ’They Can’t Steal My Joy’ (2022) / The Queer Birth Project. Rejoinder. (8), . https://irw.rutgers.edu/rejoinder-webjournal/issue-8-textual-sexual-spiritual/614-the-queer-birth-project-and-they-can-t-steal-my-joy
Book
Sobering, K. E. (2022). The People's Hotel: Working for Justice in Argentina. 251. Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-peoples-hotel
Sobering, K. E., Auyero, J. (2021). Entre Narcos y Policías. Las Relaciones Clandestinas entre el Estado y el Delito, y su Impacto Violento en la Vida de las Personas. 224. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores. https://sigloxxieditores.com.ar/libro/entre-narcos-y-policias/
Sobering, K. E., Auyero, J. (2019). The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Chapter
Sobering, K. E. (2021). The Emotional Dynamics of Workplace Democracy: Emotional Labor, Collective Effervescence, and Commitment at Work. Research in the Sociology of Organizations (Organizational Imaginaries: Tempering Capitalism and Tending to Communities through Cooperatives and Collectivist Democracy). 73, . Bingley: Emerald.
Sobering, K. E., Auyero, J. (2015). Ethan: A Product of the Service Industry. 162-183. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press.
Book Review
Sobering, K. (2022). Workers’ Self-management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión. Socialism and Democracy. https://doi-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/10.1080/08854300.2021.1981078
Sobering, K. (2021). Dust and Dignity: Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador by Erynn Masi de Casanova. Contemporary Sociology. 5(2), 138-140. SAGE. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4AUGMZVQNHGANFAGAXXS/full
Sobering, K. E. (2018). Review of Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America, edited by Sonia E. Alvarez, Jeffrey W. Rubin, Millie Thayer, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, and Augstín Laó-Montes. Humanity & Society. 42(3), 389-391.
Journal Article
Perez, M., Sobering, K. (2023). The Persistent Influence of December 2001: Collective Action in Twenty-First Century Argentina. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 42(3), 323-340.
Scarborough, W. J., Sobering, K. E., Kwon, R., Mumtaz, M. (2023). The Costs of Occupational Gender Segregation in High-Tech Growth and Productivity Across U.S. Local Labor Markets. Socio-Economic Review. https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ser/mwab036/6318727?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Sobering, K. E., Lapegna, P. (2023). Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires. Social Problems. 70(1), 126-142. https://academic.oup.com/socpro/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/socpro/spab014/6324475
Sobering, K. E. (2021). Working for Justice in Argentina. Contexts. 20(1), 52-57. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504221997870
Sobering, K. (2021). Survival Finance and the Politics of Equal Pay. The British Journal of Sociology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12832
Sobering, K. E. (2019). The Relational Production of Workplace Equality: the Case of Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Argentina. Qualitative Sociology. 42(4), 543-565. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-019-09434-y
Sobering, K. E. (2019). Watercooler Democracy: Rumors and Transparency in a Cooperative Workplace. Work and Occupations. 44(4), 411-440. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0730888419860176
Sobering, K. E., Auyero, J. (2019). Collusion and Cynicism at the Urban Margins. Latin American Research Review. 54(1), 222-236.
Sobering, K. E., (2017). Violence, the State, and the Poor: A View from the South. Sociological Forum. 32(S1), 1018-1031. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/socf.12362
Sobering, K. E. (2016). Producing and Reducing Gender Inequality in a Worker-Recovered Cooperative. Sociological Quarterly. 57(1), 129-151. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/tsq.12112
Sobering, K. E. (2015). Teaching and Learning Guide for ‘Gender In/equality in Worker-Owned Businesses’. Sociology Compass. 9(5), 412-421.
Sobering, K. E., Thomas, J., Williams, C. L. (2014). Gender In/equality in Worker-Owned Businesses. Sociology Compass. 8(22), 1242-1255. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.12208
Newsletter
Sobering, K. E. (2018). Equality Projects in Argentine Worker-Recuperated Businesses. 40(1), 18-20. Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section. http://www.asatheory.org/current-newsletter-online/on-the-disorganization-of-democracy
Sobering, K. E., Bariola, N., Auyero, J. (2018). Program Profile: UT-Austin’s Urban Ethnography Lab. 30(1), . Newsletter of the ASA Culture Section. https://asaculturesection.org/2018/03/19/culture-program-profile-ut-austins-urban-ethnography-lab/
Research Report
Sobering, K., Scarborough, W. J., Kwon, R. C., Mumtaz, M. (2021). Can Gender Equality Spur Tech Growth?. Gender Policy Report. University of Minnesota. https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/can-gender-equality-spur-tech-growth/
Sobering, K., Auyero, J. (2019). Narcops: How Police and Drug Dealers Collude in Argentina. Other. https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/narcops-how-police-and-drug-dealers-collude-in-argentina/
Scholarly Preface
Perez, M., Sobering, K. (2023). Introduction to Special Issue on ‘The Contentious Legacy of Argentina’s Great Crisis: Social Mobilization in the 20 Years after December 2001'. Bulletin of Latin American Research. 42(3), 323-340. https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.libproxy.library.unt.edu/doi/10.1111/blar.13352

Awarded Grants

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship
Sobering, K., "Faculty Fellowship Program," Sponsored by UNT Initiative for the Advancement of the Arts, University of North Texas, $18000 Funded. (January 2023May 2023).
Sobering, K. E., "Graduate Continuing Fellowship," Sponsored by University of Texas at Austin, Other, $40052 Funded. (September 2016August 2017).
Sobering, K. E., "U.S. Student Award to Argentina," Sponsored by Fulbright Commissoin, Federal, $10650 Funded. (20142015).
Grant - Research
LaFleur, L., Sobering, K., "Research Seed Grant," Sponsored by Division of Research and Innovation, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (May 2022August 2022).
Sobering, K., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," Sponsored by UNT College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of North Texas, $4619 Funded. (January 1, 2021July 10, 2021).
Sobering, K. E., "Dissertation Research Improvement Grant," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $3698 Funded. (20152016).
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Challenge and
Engagement Index
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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