Hello, everyone! As the semester winds down at TSP, we are gearing up to announce our Best Posts Of 2015! Keep an eye on the site around the end of December to see which social science stories made a splash this year. For now, here is a list of the latest to tide us all over.
Clippings:
“What ‘Chi-Raq’ Gets Wrong About Gangs In Chicago” by Eamon Whalen. Jason Harrington talks about the changing social structure of gang violence in the New York Times
From Our Partners:
Scholars Strategy Network:
“What Public Housing Officials Can Teach Us about Overcoming Racial Discrimination.” Katherine Levine Einstein shares her surprising research on low rates of racial discrimination in public housing.
Contexts:
“7 things maps tell us about neighborhoods.” Rose Malinowski Weingartner reviews new research mapping everything from grocery stores to gender differences in the way kids travel.
“Unemployment and Well-Being” by Lucia Lykke. New work from Calvo, Mair, and Sarkisian shows how high national unemployment hurts everyone.
“Mumbai Sleeping.” Dhruv Dhawan offers a documentary photo essay on the sociology of sleep.
And A Few From The Community Pages:
- In the wake of anti-immigrant rhetoric, ThickCulture asks how much support an American National Front party would actually get
- Sociological Images looks at race, residence, and which children get asthma.
- Girl w/Pen talks about the real relationship between religion and abortion politics.
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