Hello hello! We are slowly recovering from a great ASA in Seattle and bringing you some new pieces as well as highlighting some older, but still timely, posts and podcasts along the way.
Discoveries:
“Reducing Recidivism after Armed Conflict,” by Amber Joy Powell. New research shows a link between combat and crime in Colombia.
There’s Research on That!:
Heading back to school? Check out some of our classic TROTs on education, including race in the classroom, school segregation, and advanced placement tests.
Office Hours:
Our podcast is coming back in full force this fall with producers Matt Gunther and Matthew Aguilar-Champeau. If you are looking for a 30-minute dose of sociology, come check out some of our past episodes and stay tuned for new ones throughout the semester. A few great recent episodes include:
Dalton Conley on the Use of Genomic Biology in Sociology
Sanyu Mojola on Love, Money, and HIV
Doug McAdam on American Racial Politics and Social Movements
Joanna Kempner on the Gender Politics of Migraine
From Our Partners:
Scholars Strategy Network:
“The Reproductive Stigmas Faced by Low-Income Young Women in the Deep South,” by Janet M. Turan and Whitney D. Smith.
Council on Contemporary Families:
“Welfare Reform at 20: How’s that Working?,” by Virginia Rutter.
Contexts:
“Young, Relentless Feminism,” by Nicole Bedera.
“Did Baby Boomers Opt Out or Lean In?” by Virginia Little.
And a Few from the Community Pages:
- Families As They Really Are revisits boys and emotions in the classroom.
- Sociological Images talks totem vodka, English acquisition among immigrants, and lessons from the Louisiana flood.
- Cyborgology explores grotesque microcelebrity and Nextdoor’s refusal to racially profile.
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