What’s been happening in these here Society Pages? Good thing you asked!

There’s Research on That!

The Second Sex and Second-Class Citizenship, by Anne Kaduk. Pregnancy discrimination: There’s Research on That! Kaduk draws on articles from Reginald Byron, Vincent Roscigno, Jeanne Flavin, Lynn Paltrow, Stephen Benard, and Shelley J. Correll.

The Reading List:

Gay Marriage and God’s Gender, by Jack Delehanty. Research from Andrew Whitehead shows individuals’ ideas of a gendered god influence their opinions on marriage equality.

Individualism Increases Religious Pluralism, by Evan Stewart. In Sociological Science, Michael Hout and Claude S. Fischer revisit earlier data and try to explain religious disaffiliation.

Office Hours Podcast:

David Pellow on Nonhuman Members of the Community, with Erik Kojola. Pellow discusses his latest book, Total Liberation!, and how it helps us rethink who “counts” in community.

Give Methods a Chance Podcast:

Audrey Kobayashi on Focus Groups, Transnationalism, and Citizenship, with Kyle Green. Kobayashi joins the GMAC discussion to stump for the utility of focus groups.

Council on Contemporary Families:

Are African Americans Living the Dream 50 Years After Passage of the Civil Rights Act? by Velma McBride Murry and Na Liu. Data on education, wealth, income, health, and a variety of other measures paint a picture of persistent inequities.

Latinas Mystiques, by Lorena Garcia. Latina Americans are caught between expectations that hide the social forces restricting their opportunities.

Lesbian Mystiques, by Judith A. Howard. Even as prejudice and ignorance decline, discrimination remains a hurdle.

Scholars Strategy Network:

How New Digital Technologies Make It Possible To Privatize Censorship and Manipulate Citizen-Users, by Rex Troumbley. The consequences of “soft” technologies of control.

How U.S. Higher Education Promotes Inequality—And What Can Be Done To Broaden Access and Graduation, by Suzanne Mettler. Offering concrete ideas for policy change.

A Few from the Community Pages:

• On the Contexts blog, Matthew W. Hughey talks about the whiteness of Award Season, Jessie Ford and Paula England share new data on college sexual assaults, and Josh Page considers the politics and passion behind police unions’ protests.
• Girl w/ Pen‘s Deborah Siegel writes about raising boy/girl twins and Catherine Connell puts her pen to work looking at the pride and professionalism of LGBTQ teachers.
• Nathan Palmer of Sociology Source explains why he thinks sociology needs to be taught differently, but knows he needs to teach it differently.
• Sociological Images sets their sights on Eric Schlosser’s short video on the working conditions of U.S. agriculture; lays out 5 reasons gendered products (while occasionally hilarious) are a real problem; and word use in the State of the Union. Oh, and dog movies? They prove a point by powerfully influencing dog ownership.

Our new book has arrived! We hope you’ll check out Owned, our look at the new sociology of debt.