{"id":7988,"date":"2025-04-14T11:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=7988"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:48:11","slug":"clippings-april-14th-2025-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2025\/04\/14\/clippings-april-14th-2025-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings | April 14th, 2025 | TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The New York Times<\/em><\/a> <\/em>ran a story on shifts in the residential construction industry since the Great Recession. Contracting work has become a \u201crace-to-the-bottom,\u201d with many contractors competing on price by increasingly relying on subcontractors or dodging expenses by misclassifying full-time employees as independent contractors. \u201cThere\u2019s always been subcontracting in the construction industry, but it was largely done to licensed trades,\u201d Tom Juravich<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts – Amherst) explained. \u201cThe general contractor hired most of the workers directly, and the only things that weren\u2019t done by the G.C. were electrical, plumbing and so on. But as this new model emerged, what they began to do was spin off much of the work.\u201d This shift preceded the industry\u2019s reliance on labor from undocumented immigrants. A study by Juravich and colleagues found that \u201cthe entrance of immigrants did not result in the deterioration of jobs in residential construction. Rather, working conditions and pay became so bad that subcontractors faced continual labor shortages.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Christian Smith\u2019s<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame) new book, Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> explores the various cultural changes that have made organized religion less relevant in many people\u2019s lives. \u201cWe almost always use the word \u2018decline\u2019 when we talk about if things aren\u2019t going well for religion,\u201d Smith explained. \u201cAnd decline is a good word. But what it\u2019s descriptive of is organizational matters and individual religiousness. Organizations can have decline in membership or adherence, attendance, financial giving. That\u2019s decline \u2014 it\u2019s measurable.\u201d Instead, Smith describes traditional organized religion as \u201cculturally obsolete\u201d (meaning that religion can be useful and important for some people, but has lost relevance for a large portion of Americans). This story was covered by the Religion News Service<\/em><\/a>, and picked up by The Salt Lake Tribune<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Christian Smith<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In an opinion piece for the New York Times<\/em><\/a>, several experts across scholarly disciplines weighed in on a key question following the presidential election: why did Trump win a Republican-record setting 46% of the Hispanic vote, despite his xenophobic and racist comments about migrant and minority groups? Paul Starr<\/a> (Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton) commented that \u201cHispanics are part of the swing vote of the American racial order, not just electorally but in their identification with the white mainstream.\u201d In a recent paper, Starr and colleagues found that only about 45% of Hispanic people identify as \u201cpeople of color.\u201d Nancy Foner<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at Hunter College) commented that long-time U.S. residents may resent new asylum seekers: \u201cIn cities like New York, where the new arrivals were bused in large numbers, some Hispanics resented the added burdens on the city, as well as on institutions like schools in their own communities, to provide housing and other services to the newest arrivals.\u201d Starr and Foner also highlighted that Trump appealed to some Hispanic voters on the basis of conservative cultural values (particularly related to gender).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Paul Starr<\/a> and Nancy Foner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GQ<\/em><\/a> ran an article about luxury skiing and the surge in private ski clubs for the ultra-wealthy. The article references Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West<\/em><\/a>, a book by Justin Farrell<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at the Yale School of the Environment). Farrell examines how the ultra-wealthy buy up land in Western states and accrue wealth while emulating the rural working poor. \u201cIf you\u2019re there, you see it very clearly,\u201d said Farrell. \u201cThe way that this culture is romanticized but not supported.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Justin Farrell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arlie Russell Hochschild<\/a> (Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of California – Berkeley) appeared on Nonviolence Radio<\/em><\/a>, a podcast by the Metta Center for Nonviolence, to discuss how emotions shape political identity and polarization. Hochschild argues that, listening to the emotional narratives of the political right, we can identify a four step anti-shaming ritual that Trump provides: 1) Trump says something transgressive, 2) Democrats shame him for the transgressive statement, 3) Trump becomes a victim and relates to his followers: \u201cIsn\u2019t that familiar? Like they\u2019re beating up on you, too. Doesn\u2019t it feel terrible to be shamed like that and put down and victimized? And I am taking the shame from you, off of your shoulders, and taking it upon myself. I\u2019m the victim here. I\u2019m the fall guy on your behalf,\u201d and 4) there is a roar back from Trump\u2019s followers. Hochschild notes that Democrats focus on steps one and two (the shaming and blaming cycle), while Republicans are focused on steps three and four (getting retribution for a perceived injury).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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