Hello, folks! Evan here, co-graduate editor for TSP along with Jacqui Frost. We’ll be bringing you the weekly roundup this semester. As classes start up and a new graduate editorial board rolls in here at the site, here’s a look at what we’ve been up to since ASA 2015.
Discoveries:
“E-I-T-C, Find Out What It Means to Me” by Lisa Gulya. Jennifer Sykes, Katrin Križ, Kathryn Edin, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin show how a small tax break is a big step toward giving low income families a sense of control.
There’s Research on That!:
The recent hubbub over marriage licenses for same-sex couples and a certain county clerk had us had us cheering “#TROT!” Check out “Marriage, Inequality, and Bureaucracy: The Devil’s in the DMV?”
Office Hours Interview:
Allison Pugh on The Tumbleweed Society with Lisa Gulya. Allison Pugh looks at how winds of change from the workforce blow into our personal lives.
Scholars Strategy Network:
“The Role of Racial Tensions in State Decisions To Cut Back Welfare” by Hana Brown.
“The Evidence Shows that ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Undermine Law Enforcement and Public Safety” by Robert J. Spitzer.
Council on Contemporary Families:
“Gender Revolution and the Restabilization of Family Life,” by Frances Goldscheider.
Contexts:
Q&A with ASA President Paula England on her 2015 Presidential Address: “Sometimes the Social Becomes Personal: Gender, Class, and Sexualities.”
“Foreclosing on Diversity” by Angie O’Brien. New research in American Sociological Review shows how banks bolstered racial separation by foreclosing in communities of color.
“Saving Our Kids.” Sean McElwee sets the record straight by reviewing a reviewer of Robert Putnam’s Our Kids.
Highlights from the Community Pages:
- Families as They Really Are talks overprotective parenting as the school year starts up.
- Sociological Images rounds up August posts and looks at research on what creeps us out.
- Cyborgology has thoughts on public scholarship from ASA15 and the politics of hacking.
- Thick Culture looks at trends in citizen journalism with grad board member Ryan Larson.
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