As TSP sends its crew off to Kansas City for the Midwest Sociological Science meetings, things keep buzzing along at HQ! Here’s what we’ve been up to:
The Reading List:
“Rating Your Corporate Peers,” by Erik Kojola. Amanda Sharkey and Patricia Bromley investigate certification programs’ influence on corporate social and environmental responsibility in the American Sociological Review.
There’s Research on That!
“The Politics of Peeing,” by Caty Taborda. Research from Suzanne Kessler, Wendy McKenna, Laurel Westbrook, Kristen Schilt, Betsy Lucal, Sheila Cavanagh, and Tey Meadow paints a picture of gender binaries and public space—and, as SocImages puts it, who goes where.
“47 Senators: Cultural Performance and Politics,” by Jack Delehanty. Why an open letter to Iran isn’t really about Iran, with research by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Jonathan Wyrtzen, Craig Calhoun, and Rhys H. Williams.
The Editors’ Desk:
“Our Hero,” by Doug Hartmann. The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik is still a champion of sociology.
Give Methods a Chance Podcast:
“Dale C. Spencer on Observant Participation and Becoming a Mixed Martial Artist,” with Kyle Green. “When you are an observant participant, you are at stake. You have a vested interest in succeeding. But the reality of the matter is, you are also open, very clearly, to fail in that world.”
Citings & Sightings:
“Sigma Alpha Epsilon: A Symptom of a Larger, Older Problem,” by Neeraj Rajasekar. The Washington Post looks to research by UConn sociologist Matthew Hughey on southern fraternity chapters and the problem with revering “tradition”.
“Retiring with Your Parents,” by Anne Kaduk. Phyllis Moen tells the New York Times about a new phenomenon: dual-generation retirees.
“For Successful Kids, It’s Family Stability Over Family Structure,” by Sarah Catherine Billups. Sociologists Jamie Seabrook and William Avison’s Canadian family research proves provocative.
Scholars Strategy Network:
“Why Historically Black Colleges and Universities Remain Vital in U.S. Higher Education,” by C. Rob Shorette II.
Council on Contemporary Families:
“Moynihan’s Half Century: Have We Gone to Hell in a Handbasket?” by Philip N. Cohen, Heidi Hartmann, Jeffrey Hayes, and Chandra Childers.
A Few from the Community Pages:
- Sociological Images asks, “What is Creole?“, “Why do Southern states lead the nation in the consumption of gay porn?“, “Does love brainwash women?“, and “Are economics majors anti-social?“, among other questions, as always!
- Education & Society talks to Joanne Golann about the cost of order in “no-excuses” schools and looks at how gender parity in education has been found to lower divorce rates.
- Public Criminology features TSP-alum Sarah Shannon’s account of attending an execution vigil (alongside Sister Helen Prejean) in Georgia.
- Girl w/ Pen! looks in on the slow, but converging march toward human rights and women’s rights.
- Sociology Lens wonders why people tune in to teens’ parenting, what’s up with quinoa, and just who “invented” the Interwebz after all?
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