As summer starts, sociology blossoms! There’s a new issue of Contexts magazine (all content is available for free from SAGE publications for 30 days!), new podcast episodes, and more for your summer reading list.
There’s Research on That!
“Pew Compiles Data on Pew Composition,” by Jack Delehanty. Are Americans becoming less religious or less organized when it comes to religion and spirituality? Delehanty looks to research from Richard Madsen, Michael Hout and Claude Fischer, Joseph O’Brian Baker and Buster Smith, and Chaeyoon Lim, Carol Ann MacGregor, and Robert D. Putnam.
The Editors’ Desk
“Grandmothers on the World Stage,” by Doug Hartmann. The Atlantic wonders if women like Hillary Clinton find age an advantage in politics, playing what they call “the granny card.”
Office Hours Podcast
“Susan Terrio on Children in U.S. Immigration Custody,” with Lisa Gulya. Discussing Terrio’s new book, Whose Child Am I?
Give Methods a Chance Podcast
“Devah Pager on Experimental Audits,” with Sarah Lageson. “The devil is in the details. Keep in mind that it sounds like a very simple approach, but there are a lot of complexities to carry it out effectively.”
Discoveries (formerly The Reading List)
“Catfights and the Catwalk,” by Sarah Catherine Billups. Allyson Stokes finds fashion still shines its spotlight on male designers.
Clippings (formerly Citings & Sightings)
“The Persistence of White Supremacy,” by Caty Taborda. A PBS documentary, “American Denial,” explores the unfinished work of the Civil Rights Movement. Sudhir Venkatesh says, “…the narrative is ‘America gets better every day.’ Well, what if it doesn’t?”
“Sociology that Savors: Food and Collective Memory,” by Sarah Catherine Billups. Jennifer Jordan on her work around meals and memory-making.
Scholars Strategy Network
“Why the United States Should Improve Support for Colleges and Universities Serving Hispanic Students,” by Anne-Marie Nuñez.
Council on Contemporary Families
“CCF Symposium on Housework, Gender and Parenthood: Overview,” by Stephanie Coontz.
“Women Not Enrolled in Four-Year Universities and Colleges Have Higher Risk of Sexual Assault,” by Jennifer Barber, Yasamin Kusunoki, and Jamie Budnick.
Contexts Magazine
Spring 2015 issue features research on cross-class marriages, a new Marketplace documentary on Cincinnati’s innovative Oyler Community School, an interview with Mexican-American celebrity chef Zarela Martinez, and limits to same-sex acceptance.
A Few From the Community Pages
- Education & Society recaps Leigh Fine’s latest research on educational attainment and sexual minority women.
- Feminist Reflections with a two-part piece, “Learning from Chris Norton Over Three Decades,” by Michael Messner and Gayle Sulik’s pink ribbon purge.
- Girl w/ Pen! on a fight for equality, drawn in the story of one woman’s life.
- Sexuality and Society on sensational sex-trafficking stories and how they negatively affect policy and the lives of sex workers.
- Sociological Images on race and terminology, Don Draper’s loneliness, the politics of facial hair, picturing class war, Catholics’ attention to poverty, and the relative legitimacy of violence.
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