Hello and Happy New Year from TSP! We were out last week, so we have a lot of great stuff to share. We have some new pieces from around the site to highlight, and we continue recognizing our Best Of and Most Popular posts from 2016. Also, in case you missed it, the latest issue of Contexts is available for free online until Jan. 20! So grab a warm beverage and start your year off right with some sweet sociology.
Discoveries:
“Fatalistic Suicide in a Tight-Knit Community,” by Sarah Catherine Billups. Durkheim thought fatalistic suicide was the least common type, but new research in ASR finds it to be quite common in small communities.
“Sex and Cardiovascular Risk in Old Age,” by Edgar Campos. A new study in JHSB explores the varied health risks and benefits of sexual activity and the ways they affect men and women differently.
TSP Specials:
*~!BEST OF 2016!~*
“The Whitelash Against Diversity,” by Jennifer Lee. Voted best Special Feature by the TSP grad board, in this piece Jennifer Lee highlights research that helps explain the significant “whitelash” among white Americans that resulted in a Trump presidency.
There’s Research on That!:
*~!BEST OF 2016!~*
“When ‘Nice Guys’ Rape,” by Amber Joy Powell. Feminist scholarship highlights the pervasiveness of rape culture and helps pinpoint how it reproduces notions that only “bad guys” commit “real rape.”
Clippings:
“How Post-Election Questions Burden People of Color,” by Caty Taborda-Whitt. In a candid conversation with Slate, Tressie McMillan Cottom describes the emotional labor that these post-election interactions demand from people of color.
“Life Expectancy and Inequality,” by Edgar Campos. The Huffington Post talks to Jarron Saint Onge about reports that life expectancy dropped in the United States for the first time in two decades.
*~!BEST OF 2016!~*
“Crossing an “Empathy Bridge” to Understand Trump Supporters,” by Elizabeth Tremmel. Arlie Russell Hochschild talks with Wisconsin Public Radio about her research with conservatives in Louisiana.
*~!MOST POPULAR 2016!~*
“The Noble Poverty in Kids’ Movies,” by Allison Nobles. In the most viewed Clipping of 2016, New York Magazine features research helmed by sociologist Jessi Streib on how Disney downplays social class.
Office Hours:
*~!BEST OF 2016!~*
“Jooyoung Lee on Blowin’ Up: Rap Dreams in South Central,” with Matthew Aguilar-Champeau. Our Best Of 2016 podcast episode features a conversation with professor Jooyoung Lee about his research and his many skills – from ethnography to dance.
From Our Partners:
Scholars Strategy Network:
“How Passers-by and Policymakers View Beggars in American Communities,” by Shai Dromi.
“Why Does Immigration Arouse Deep Feelings and Conflicts?” by John D. Skrentny.
Council on Contemporary Families:
“The Evidence is in: Progressive Policies Strengthen Families,” by Molly McNulty.
Contexts:
“Darker Skin, Harsher Sentence,” by Lucia Lykke.
“Viewpoints on Financial Foreclosures.”
- “Too Small to Help, Too Poor To Trust,” by Frederick F. Wherry, Kristin S. Seefeldt, and Anthony S. Alvarez.
- “Can Ethnography Improve the Culture of Finance?” by Daniel Beunza.
- “Financial Entertainment and the Public Sphere,” by Alex Preda.
- “The End of the American Dream,” by Kevin Leicht.
And a Few from the Community Pages:
- Girl w/Pen explains how better journalism is good for women.
- Sociology Toolbox rounds up sociologists’ reflections on Trump’s election.
- Cyborgology reflects on the culture of work.
- Families As They Really Are talks marriage education and progressive family policies.
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