Archive: Nov 2021

New and Noteworthy

Board member Mason Jones covered research from Sarah Adeyinka-Skold on how location limits the options of college-educated women dating online, with women of color facing particular challenges finding potential partners that shared their educational and racial background.

Citings and Sightings

Erin Cech wrote for the Atlantic on her research on the “passion principle,” the idea that you love your job, ignores the structural conditions that both place some workers at financial risk and make work feel like drudgery.

Backstage with TSP

This week we were excited to launch a new video format, created by board member Isabel Arriagada. This format pairs summaries of TSP pieces with video imagery in a short and accessible way. This video comes just in time for Thanksgiving, covering research on conflict and family meals. We look forward to seeing where this format takes us, and encourage you to take a watch and share the video on social media if you feel so inclined.

More from Our Partners and Community Pages

We shared our piece on inequality and access to mental health care services over at the World Suffering blog.

The Council on Contemporary Families’ blog reposted Tony Silva’s piece from The Conversation on why some straight men have sex with other men, emphasizing the distinctions between sexual identity and sexual behavior.

Mr. Jones: Bringing the Horrors of the Holodomor to the Screen at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ blog.

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New and Noteworthy

Out today board member Jake Otis covers research from Lindsay Bullinger and colleagues documenting how, although arrests and reports for domestic violence decreased during the covid-19 lockdown in Chicago, police calls increased

Worth a Read (Sociologically Speaking)

At the Everyday Sociology blog Colby King writes on #striketober, offering a sociological perspective on the wave of labor strikes across the country.

Backstage with TSP

Last week we welcomed Walt Jacobs to our board meeting. We continued our conversation on first-person sociology, with Walt sharing how his life story and experience drew him to research on the places and institutions he inhabited using, for instance, auto-ethnographical methods to examine teaching and digital literacy. Speaking with Walt, we were reminded of the power of the personal perspective he brings to his writing with us, whether at Dispaches from a Dean or the Wonderful/Wretched series. As we look towards the future of our site, we are thinking of ways to incorporate this voice into the content we produce and post.

More from Our Partners and Community Pages

Over at the Council on Contemporary Families‘ blog Priya Fielding-Singh writes on her research on nutritional inequality and why we need to move beyond conversations centered solely on food access and consider the meaning of food for families, due out in book form next week.

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ blog covered Divide Up Those in Darkness from the Ones Who Walk in Light, an exhibit of Professor David Feinberg’s art currently on display at University of Minnesota’s Katherine E. Nash Gallery

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We cover new research from Orlaith Heymann and colleagues on how people access risk and safety when seeking abortions– even after overcoming legal and economic barriers

Worth a Read (Sociologically Speaking)

Over at our partner Council on Contemporary Families’s blog Sara Yeatman and Emily Smith-Greenaway discuss their research on women’s responses, both negative and positive, to unexpected pregnancies.

Citings & Sightings

Sociologist Louise Seamster was on the Ezra Klein show this week, in conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom, discussing how student loans and higher ed contribute to the racial wealth gap.

Backstage with TSP

This week, we welcome Walt Jacobs to our board meeting. Last week, in preparation, we read Walt’s preface to Sparked, and discussed how and why to do first-person writing for a social science audience. This conversation gave board members the space to think about how to balance our emotion and values with the demands of social scientific research.

Tonight, Walt will be in conversation with our own Doug Hartmann, as well as Bianet Castellanos, discussing Sparked as part of the University of Minnesota’s public life project. We’d love to see (and hear from you) there. More info and registration here.

More from Our Partners and Community Pages

Give Theory a Chance spoke with Dr. Christopher R. Matthews about the work of Nick Crossley. Give the podcast(s) a listen!

Over at Contexts’ blog David Burley spoke about the potential (and necessity) of training our sociology students to lead the fight against climate change.

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