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Hey everyone!\u00a0This week we’ve got timely takes\u00a0on\u00a0the death penalty, disgruntled air travelers, and the shortcomings of the U.S. tax system. We’ve also got a new podcast episode on\u00a0the Koch Brothers and American democracy. So settle in and see below for some serious sociology!<\/p>\n
Theda Skocpol on the Koch Network<\/a>\u00a0with Jack Delehanty<\/a>. In our latest podcast episode, we talk with Professor Skocpol\u00a0about how the Koch Brothers have transformed American democracy, and whether any corollaries are emerging on the political left.<\/p>\n “Border Walls and Symbolic Boundaries<\/a>,” by Edgar Campos<\/a>. Trump’s wall would be more than just a physical barrier, it would also intensify the symbolic boundaries that\u00a0reinforce national and racial identities in the United States.<\/p>\n “Racial and Regional Differences in Support for the Death Penalty<\/a>,” by Caity Curry<\/a>. Issues in Arkansas and the Supreme Court have brought the death penalty back into the media spotlight, so we rounded up research on\u00a0this \u201cpeculiar institution\u201d and why it remains resilient today.<\/p>\n “Who\u2019s \u2018One of the Guys?\u2019 Navigating Gender in the Tech Industry<\/a>,” by Edgar Campos<\/a>. New research in\u00a0Gender & Society\u00a0<\/em>finds that gender-fluid women are more likely to be perceived as competent tech workers.<\/p>\n “Double-Booked and Discontented Airline Passengers<\/a>,” by Edgar Campos<\/a>. The\u00a0New York Times<\/em> talked with\u00a0Elizabeth Popp Berman<\/a>\u00a0about why there is so much hostility on airplanes.<\/p>\n “Immigration Data Tools<\/a>,” by\u00a0Rose Malinowski Weingartner<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Chump Change<\/a>.” Viewpoints on taxes, their shortfalls, and who pays the price.<\/p>\n “The Use and Abuse of Millennials as an Analytic Category<\/a>,” by Frank Furstenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Some Men Try to Compensate for Relative Loss of Income to Women. How They Do So Varies<\/a>,” by\u00a0Dan Cassino<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hey everyone!\u00a0This week we’ve got timely takes\u00a0on\u00a0the death penalty, disgruntled air travelers, and the shortcomings of the U.S. tax system. We’ve also got a new podcast episode on\u00a0the Koch Brothers and American democracy. So settle in and see below for some serious sociology! Office Hours: Theda Skocpol on the Koch Network\u00a0with Jack Delehanty. In our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17672],"tags":[33309,12722,12802],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-roundup","tag-friday-roundup","tag-roundup","tag-weekly-roundup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}There\u2019s Research on That!<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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