{"id":6805,"date":"2022-08-05T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=6805"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:55:19","slug":"10th-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2022\/08\/05\/10th-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"10th in 2022!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Hey, hey, Everybody. Happy summer!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re writing to you from Los Angeles, California, the site of the annual American Sociological Association meetings\u2014the first in-person gathering of the post-Covid era. We\u2019re not sure how many of you will be able to join us, but whether we see you face-to-face or not, we want all of you\u2014our friends and colleagues, contributors, readers, and alumni alike\u2014to know that this is a kind of big year for The Society Pages. 2022 marks the 10th<\/sup> anniversary of our site! Not bad for a shoe-string, limited liability operation headed up by two sociologists whose business plan included no revenue plans and relied almost exclusively on the energy, enthusiasm, and good will of a volunteer graduate student board. Anyway, happy birthday to us! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2018ve spent the past few months reconnecting with our alums and reflecting on  our work (and play) together the past decade. Over the coming fall months we will share highlights, memories, and reflections of these exchanges and our journey together. On the occasion of the ASA meetings, we thought we\u2019d tease just a few of those highlights here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TSP\/Norton edited volumes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our first big projects (and a key source of social and financial support) was a series of edited volumes drawn from site content and contributors with WWW Norton. This collaboration resulted in a half dozen books on topics ranging from culture, crime, and race to politics and gender. We\u2019re delighted  that several of these collections are in use, including the methods volume<\/a> Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson produced out of their fabulous TSP podcast \u201cGive Methods a Chance.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partner & Community Pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the chief functions of our site is to provide a platform for various sociology and social science sites, blogs, and projects to do their thing. The lineup has changed over the years and some of the most avid readers of these sites may not even realize the backstage role TSP plays in hosting them. But we have been proud to help launch and host sites including Contexts.org and the Scholars Strategy Network, to the Council on Contemporary Families (CCF), Sociological Images, Backstage Sociology, and Dispatches from a Dean. Indeed, if you have greatest-hit favorites from these sites that you think we might repost this fall, please let us know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate board<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our graduate-student run board remains the beating heart of TSP. Most of the original content published on our home page is conceived of, written, and edited by University of Minnesota graduate students. It offers us a chance to connect directly with the future of public sociology. It also serves as an important community for graduate students, a place to connect and share wisdom during the sometimes-lonely PhD journey. We\u2019ll be sharing a few of our favorite pieces from our graduate board over the past decade, but especially want to give a shout-out to the backbone features that constitute the backbone of these efforts: \u201cDiscoveries\u201d which tracks new and exciting research in the field, and \u201cThere\u2019s Research on That\u201d (TROTs, for short) which provides references for and brief snippets of sociological research and writing. Both share research with an eye toward public conversation and media coverage of current events and contemporary social problems.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TSP Alumni Features<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our graduate board spent the last semester reaching out and conducting brief interviews with some of our noted alumni. These conversations offered current students the chance to connect with  board alums who have taken the TSP perspective out into the field as professors, community-based researchers, and alt-ac professionals. We\u2019ll be sharing insights and memories from our alumni as well as highlighting the important public work they continue to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So look for all that\u2014and more\u2014in the months ahead! Join us in celebrating our milestone. And thanks to all of the colleagues, contributors, alumni and staff\u2014including web editor Jon Smajda and the indomitable Letta Page, the former TSP-editor and current Contexts managing editor\u2014for all you have done to publicize, support, and use our site over these past 10 years. We are grateful beyond words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all the best that sociology has to offer,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doug and Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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