{"id":6137,"date":"2020-03-13T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2020-03-26T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:33:42","slug":"tsps-weekly-roundup-march-13-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2020\/03\/13\/tsps-weekly-roundup-march-13-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"TSP\u2019s Weekly Roundup: March 13, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome back! This week, we round up research on disease and discrimination to help make sense of the coronavirus from a sociological perspective. And, as spring break looms large, we offer a collection of scholarship on celebration and solidarity, and new research on exchange rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s Research on That<\/a>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Disease Exposes Discrimination<\/a>” by Allison Nobles<\/a>. We bring together research on the long, problematic history of blaming marginalized groups for the spread of infectious disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The Social Science of Spring Break<\/a>” by Neeraj Rajasekar<\/a>. Partying is packed <\/em>with sociological ideas, and we round up research unpacking the social processes of rituals, festivals and trips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discoveries<\/a>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Vitriol & Volatility: How Trump\u2019s Tweets Affect the Peso<\/a>” by Jillian LaBranche<\/a>. New scholarship finds a relationship between the President’s derogatory tweets about Mexico and the U.S. Dollar-Mexican Peso exchange rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Our Partners:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sociological Images<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Social Inequality, Medical Fears, and Pandemics<\/a>” by Joseph O. Baker, Ann Gordon, L. Edward Day, and Christopher D. Bader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Does Blindness Beat Bias?<\/a>” by Evan Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Council on Contemporary Families<\/a>:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

“Working Parents are Leaders<\/a>” by Stew Friedman and Alyssa Westring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Our Community Pages:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n