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H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. COMMENTS ON: DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF “CITATION PADDING” Oh myyyy citation padding by low prestige journals. Must be the only place it happens? I'm reminded of Campbell's Law which points out that "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." COMMENTS ON: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING You've a weekly limit, Dan? Don't have a weekly limit! I'm overwhelmed with the start of the quarter. Crazy busy, but in a good way. I'm also exercising admirable self-restraint in refraining from blogging about something going on here at NU that's irritating me. COMMENTS ON: CANADA DUMPS LONG-FORM CENSUS In general I do think we should care about privacy in data (there are precedents of use of census data for internment camps for example), but it is interesting that in an era of google maps, satellites, cameras, facebook and all the information that any company can get from you, that people are so worked up about the census and not about all these other things. JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle” LEVELS OF RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL Discussions of racism tend to get tangled up in issues of level of analysis.1 Sociologists (e.g. Bonilla-Silva) and critical race theorists (e.g. Haney-López), among others, have long argued that we need to understand racism as something that works "beyond" or "above" the individual, building on arguments that go back to Stokely Carmichael's distinction between individual NOTES FROM THE FIELD: SHOW HOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW Because, as an ethnographer, your fieldnotes are the only data you’ll have to identify patterns and build your argument. And they’re also the only evidence you’ll have to convince the reader your argument is true. So, when it comes to fieldnotes, take the time, and write them right, and show how you know what you know. “THE BIG SHORT” AND THE MOST IRONIC QUOTE MISATTRIBUTION I really enjoyed The Big Short. It's totally entertaining, and captures some hard to explain and very interesting dynamics in the lead-up to the housing crisis and the eventual bursting of the bubble. That said, the movie had some significant issues. For example, it overstates how few people saw the crash coming. Many people were MORRIS, THE SCHOLAR DENIED I read Aldon Morris's much-anticipated book, The Scholar Denied, with great interest. I heard Morris talk about the book when he visited UNC last year, and have read and taught some shorter work he's published from this project. I was not disappointed – it's a great book, meticulously documented, passionately argued, and sure to correctSCATTERPLOT
H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. COMMENTS ON: DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF “CITATION PADDING” Oh myyyy citation padding by low prestige journals. Must be the only place it happens? I'm reminded of Campbell's Law which points out that "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." COMMENTS ON: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING You've a weekly limit, Dan? Don't have a weekly limit! I'm overwhelmed with the start of the quarter. Crazy busy, but in a good way. I'm also exercising admirable self-restraint in refraining from blogging about something going on here at NU that's irritating me. COMMENTS ON: CANADA DUMPS LONG-FORM CENSUS In general I do think we should care about privacy in data (there are precedents of use of census data for internment camps for example), but it is interesting that in an era of google maps, satellites, cameras, facebook and all the information that any company can get from you, that people are so worked up about the census and not about all these other things. JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. JULY 2020 – SCATTERPLOT The following is a guest post by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana.. In March, universities across the country shifted to online learning and adopted policies to account for students’ lives in the midst of a global pandemic.Many administrators asked professors to consider students’ circumstances and to teach with compassion. VALUES ARE NOT SCIENCE-FREE, TRANS JUSTICE EDITION values are not science-free, trans justice edition. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuableresources for
MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle”FEBRUARY 2020
The following is a guest post by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Topic models are fast emerging as a workhorse of computational social science. Since their introduction in the late 1990s as part of a larger family of classification and indexing algorithms, they have grown into one of the most common and convenient means for automated text analysis. DECOLONIZING CLASSICAL THEORY: SOME APPRECIATIVELY Yesterday's panel on teaching classical social theory was fantastic. Erin McDonnell did a great job organizing and facilitating, and the four panelists -- Greta Krippner, Jose Itzigsohn, Zine Magubane, and Jocelyn Viterna -- offered really thoughtful, measured, and inspiring ideas. The session was remarkably well-attended, particularly for summer: I think around 100 people showed up. 15,000+ ACADEMICS OPPOSE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT BAN Earlier this week, the US government announced a new policy that would prevent international students from staying in the country if their universities offered entirely online courses. This policy was designed to force universities to reopen, even if doing so is unsafe and against public health advice. Harvard and MIT have already sued toprevent
EQUAL ENVIRONMENTS ASSUMPTION The equal environments assumption in behavioral genetics is the assumption that environments for identical twins are not more similar than the environments of fraternal twins. One might say the assumption is violated more than many behavioral geneticists would like to admit and less than many sociologists would like to think. The point of thispost,
IRIS MARION YOUNG, “POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY AND Iris Marion Young was a brilliant feminist political theorist. I had the pleasure of reading a couple of her essays in graduate school, and they were formative. Today, I came across a lecture she gave in 2003 on “Political Responsibility and Structure Justice” (pdf link).In this post, I summarize the essay with a few key quotes, but it’s fairly short so I recommend just reading the whole INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY SYLLABUS PROJECT I’m retooling my introduction to sociology syllabus for the spring. Unfortunately, there are almost no syllabuses left on the open web to use for inspiration. Blackboard and the like have walled off most of our teaching materials from Google. ASA’s teaching resources site never really took off and sections no longer produce bound volumeswith
JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle” LEVELS OF RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL Discussions of racism tend to get tangled up in issues of level of analysis.1 Sociologists (e.g. Bonilla-Silva) and critical race theorists (e.g. Haney-López), among others, have long argued that we need to understand racism as something that works "beyond" or "above" the individual, building on arguments that go back to Stokely Carmichael's distinction between individual NOTES FROM THE FIELD: SHOW HOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW Because, as an ethnographer, your fieldnotes are the only data you’ll have to identify patterns and build your argument. And they’re also the only evidence you’ll have to convince the reader your argument is true. So, when it comes to fieldnotes, take the time, and write them right, and show how you know what you know. “THE BIG SHORT” AND THE MOST IRONIC QUOTE MISATTRIBUTION I really enjoyed The Big Short. It's totally entertaining, and captures some hard to explain and very interesting dynamics in the lead-up to the housing crisis and the eventual bursting of the bubble. That said, the movie had some significant issues. For example, it overstates how few people saw the crash coming. Many people were MORRIS, THE SCHOLAR DENIED I read Aldon Morris's much-anticipated book, The Scholar Denied, with great interest. I heard Morris talk about the book when he visited UNC last year, and have read and taught some shorter work he's published from this project. I was not disappointed – it's a great book, meticulously documented, passionately argued, and sure to correctSCATTERPLOT
H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. COMMENTS ON: DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF “CITATION PADDING” Oh myyyy citation padding by low prestige journals. Must be the only place it happens? I'm reminded of Campbell's Law which points out that "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." COMMENTS ON: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING You've a weekly limit, Dan? Don't have a weekly limit! I'm overwhelmed with the start of the quarter. Crazy busy, but in a good way. I'm also exercising admirable self-restraint in refraining from blogging about something going on here at NU that's irritating me. COMMENTS ON: CANADA DUMPS LONG-FORM CENSUS In general I do think we should care about privacy in data (there are precedents of use of census data for internment camps for example), but it is interesting that in an era of google maps, satellites, cameras, facebook and all the information that any company can get from you, that people are so worked up about the census and not about all these other things. JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle” LEVELS OF RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL Discussions of racism tend to get tangled up in issues of level of analysis.1 Sociologists (e.g. Bonilla-Silva) and critical race theorists (e.g. Haney-López), among others, have long argued that we need to understand racism as something that works "beyond" or "above" the individual, building on arguments that go back to Stokely Carmichael's distinction between individual NOTES FROM THE FIELD: SHOW HOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW Because, as an ethnographer, your fieldnotes are the only data you’ll have to identify patterns and build your argument. And they’re also the only evidence you’ll have to convince the reader your argument is true. So, when it comes to fieldnotes, take the time, and write them right, and show how you know what you know. “THE BIG SHORT” AND THE MOST IRONIC QUOTE MISATTRIBUTION I really enjoyed The Big Short. It's totally entertaining, and captures some hard to explain and very interesting dynamics in the lead-up to the housing crisis and the eventual bursting of the bubble. That said, the movie had some significant issues. For example, it overstates how few people saw the crash coming. Many people were MORRIS, THE SCHOLAR DENIED I read Aldon Morris's much-anticipated book, The Scholar Denied, with great interest. I heard Morris talk about the book when he visited UNC last year, and have read and taught some shorter work he's published from this project. I was not disappointed – it's a great book, meticulously documented, passionately argued, and sure to correctSCATTERPLOT
H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. COMMENTS ON: DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF “CITATION PADDING” Oh myyyy citation padding by low prestige journals. Must be the only place it happens? I'm reminded of Campbell's Law which points out that "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." COMMENTS ON: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING You've a weekly limit, Dan? Don't have a weekly limit! I'm overwhelmed with the start of the quarter. Crazy busy, but in a good way. I'm also exercising admirable self-restraint in refraining from blogging about something going on here at NU that's irritating me. COMMENTS ON: CANADA DUMPS LONG-FORM CENSUS In general I do think we should care about privacy in data (there are precedents of use of census data for internment camps for example), but it is interesting that in an era of google maps, satellites, cameras, facebook and all the information that any company can get from you, that people are so worked up about the census and not about all these other things. JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. JULY 2020 – SCATTERPLOT The following is a guest post by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana.. In March, universities across the country shifted to online learning and adopted policies to account for students’ lives in the midst of a global pandemic.Many administrators asked professors to consider students’ circumstances and to teach with compassion. VALUES ARE NOT SCIENCE-FREE, TRANS JUSTICE EDITION values are not science-free, trans justice edition. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuableresources for
MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle”FEBRUARY 2020
The following is a guest post by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. Topic models are fast emerging as a workhorse of computational social science. Since their introduction in the late 1990s as part of a larger family of classification and indexing algorithms, they have grown into one of the most common and convenient means for automated text analysis. DECOLONIZING CLASSICAL THEORY: SOME APPRECIATIVELY Yesterday's panel on teaching classical social theory was fantastic. Erin McDonnell did a great job organizing and facilitating, and the four panelists -- Greta Krippner, Jose Itzigsohn, Zine Magubane, and Jocelyn Viterna -- offered really thoughtful, measured, and inspiring ideas. The session was remarkably well-attended, particularly for summer: I think around 100 people showed up. 15,000+ ACADEMICS OPPOSE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT BAN Earlier this week, the US government announced a new policy that would prevent international students from staying in the country if their universities offered entirely online courses. This policy was designed to force universities to reopen, even if doing so is unsafe and against public health advice. Harvard and MIT have already sued toprevent
EQUAL ENVIRONMENTS ASSUMPTION The equal environments assumption in behavioral genetics is the assumption that environments for identical twins are not more similar than the environments of fraternal twins. One might say the assumption is violated more than many behavioral geneticists would like to admit and less than many sociologists would like to think. The point of thispost,
IRIS MARION YOUNG, “POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY AND Iris Marion Young was a brilliant feminist political theorist. I had the pleasure of reading a couple of her essays in graduate school, and they were formative. Today, I came across a lecture she gave in 2003 on “Political Responsibility and Structure Justice” (pdf link).In this post, I summarize the essay with a few key quotes, but it’s fairly short so I recommend just reading the whole INTRO TO SOCIOLOGY SYLLABUS PROJECT I’m retooling my introduction to sociology syllabus for the spring. Unfortunately, there are almost no syllabuses left on the open web to use for inspiration. Blackboard and the like have walled off most of our teaching materials from Google. ASA’s teaching resources site never really took off and sections no longer produce bound volumeswith
LEVELS OF RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL Discussions of racism tend to get tangled up in issues of level of analysis.1 Sociologists (e.g. Bonilla-Silva) and critical race theorists (e.g. Haney-López), among others, have long argued that we need to understand racism as something that works "beyond" or "above" the individual, building on arguments that go back to Stokely Carmichael's distinction between individual JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle” NOTES FROM THE FIELD: SHOW HOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW Because, as an ethnographer, your fieldnotes are the only data you’ll have to identify patterns and build your argument. And they’re also the only evidence you’ll have to convince the reader your argument is true. So, when it comes to fieldnotes, take the time, and write them right, and show how you know what you know. “THE BIG SHORT” AND THE MOST IRONIC QUOTE MISATTRIBUTION I really enjoyed The Big Short. It's totally entertaining, and captures some hard to explain and very interesting dynamics in the lead-up to the housing crisis and the eventual bursting of the bubble. That said, the movie had some significant issues. For example, it overstates how few people saw the crash coming. Many people were MORRIS, THE SCHOLAR DENIED I read Aldon Morris's much-anticipated book, The Scholar Denied, with great interest. I heard Morris talk about the book when he visited UNC last year, and have read and taught some shorter work he's published from this project. I was not disappointed – it's a great book, meticulously documented, passionately argued, and sure to correctSCATTERPLOT
H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. COMMENTS ON: DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF “CITATION PADDING” Oh myyyy citation padding by low prestige journals. Must be the only place it happens? I'm reminded of Campbell's Law which points out that "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." COMMENTS ON: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING You've a weekly limit, Dan? Don't have a weekly limit! I'm overwhelmed with the start of the quarter. Crazy busy, but in a good way. I'm also exercising admirable self-restraint in refraining from blogging about something going on here at NU that's irritating me. COMMENTS ON: CANADA DUMPS LONG-FORM CENSUS In general I do think we should care about privacy in data (there are precedents of use of census data for internment camps for example), but it is interesting that in an era of google maps, satellites, cameras, facebook and all the information that any company can get from you, that people are so worked up about the census and not about all these other things. LEVELS OF RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL Discussions of racism tend to get tangled up in issues of level of analysis.1 Sociologists (e.g. Bonilla-Silva) and critical race theorists (e.g. Haney-López), among others, have long argued that we need to understand racism as something that works "beyond" or "above" the individual, building on arguments that go back to Stokely Carmichael's distinction between individual JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle” NOTES FROM THE FIELD: SHOW HOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW Because, as an ethnographer, your fieldnotes are the only data you’ll have to identify patterns and build your argument. And they’re also the only evidence you’ll have to convince the reader your argument is true. So, when it comes to fieldnotes, take the time, and write them right, and show how you know what you know. “THE BIG SHORT” AND THE MOST IRONIC QUOTE MISATTRIBUTION I really enjoyed The Big Short. It's totally entertaining, and captures some hard to explain and very interesting dynamics in the lead-up to the housing crisis and the eventual bursting of the bubble. That said, the movie had some significant issues. For example, it overstates how few people saw the crash coming. Many people were MORRIS, THE SCHOLAR DENIED I read Aldon Morris's much-anticipated book, The Scholar Denied, with great interest. I heard Morris talk about the book when he visited UNC last year, and have read and taught some shorter work he's published from this project. I was not disappointed – it's a great book, meticulously documented, passionately argued, and sure to correctSCATTERPLOT
H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. COMMENTS ON: DIRECT AND INDIRECT EFFECTS OF “CITATION PADDING” Oh myyyy citation padding by low prestige journals. Must be the only place it happens? I'm reminded of Campbell's Law which points out that "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." COMMENTS ON: THE SILENCE IS DEAFENING You've a weekly limit, Dan? Don't have a weekly limit! I'm overwhelmed with the start of the quarter. Crazy busy, but in a good way. I'm also exercising admirable self-restraint in refraining from blogging about something going on here at NU that's irritating me. COMMENTS ON: CANADA DUMPS LONG-FORM CENSUS In general I do think we should care about privacy in data (there are precedents of use of census data for internment camps for example), but it is interesting that in an era of google maps, satellites, cameras, facebook and all the information that any company can get from you, that people are so worked up about the census and not about all these other things. DECOLONIZING CLASSICAL THEORY: SOME APPRECIATIVELY Yesterday's panel on teaching classical social theory was fantastic. Erin McDonnell did a great job organizing and facilitating, and the four panelists -- Greta Krippner, Jose Itzigsohn, Zine Magubane, and Jocelyn Viterna -- offered really thoughtful, measured, and inspiring ideas. The session was remarkably well-attended, particularly for summer: I think around 100 people showed up. MARCH 2021 – SCATTERPLOT H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows.My morning walk to the office in Providence passes though H.P. Lovecraft square, and monuments to him litter the East Side of Providence where JULY 2020 – SCATTERPLOT The following is a guest post by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana.. In March, universities across the country shifted to online learning and adopted policies to account for students’ lives in the midst of a global pandemic.Many administrators asked professors to consider students’ circumstances and to teach with compassion.JANUARY 2021
1 post published by Dan Hirschman during January 2021. The following is a guest post by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra.. Here we are, yet again, discussing a paper that, through computational means, resurrects painful ghosts from the past. AUTOMATED PETITION SIGNATURES WITH GOOGLE FORMS Since the graduate student strike and related protests by faculty, staff, and undergraduates at the University of Michigan in Fall 2020, I've noticed that open letters and petitions in google docs and signed through google forms seem to have replaced slower, more traditional petition technologies for (at least campus) social movements. Havingsignatures from a
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Until then, this. I’m also going to stick a test link here so that I can see what links look like if I play around with any of the CSS add-ons for this online. Update: I’ve added a CSS template off the web and a banner added. I still don’t get how the sidebar widgets work, or if these will start to behave better once there is enoughtext
BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER WITH THE #DUBOISCHALLENGE The following is a guest post by Allen Hillery.. Earlier this month, Sekou Tyler, Anthony Starks and myself launched a #DuBoisChallenge on Twitter. With Anthony’s github repository, we were able to curate a 10 week challenge where we’re asking participants to recreate Du Bois’ iconic visualizations.Our goal is to celebrate W.E.B. Du Bois as a data visualization pioneer and bring more EQUAL ENVIRONMENTS ASSUMPTION The equal environments assumption in behavioral genetics is the assumption that environments for identical twins are not more similar than the environments of fraternal twins. One might say the assumption is violated more than many behavioral geneticists would like to admit and less than many sociologists would like to think. The point of thispost,
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One of the most prominent proponents of the scientifically inaccurate idea that “male and female brains” are biologically, categorically distinct went on a podcast this week and retracted some of his rhetoric. That’s great news! But in his retraction, Simon Baron-Cohen says people incorrectly jump to the conclusion that his is a “very sexist JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. VALUES ARE NOT SCIENCE-FREE, TRANS JUSTICE EDITION Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. One section of the statement struck me as MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle” LEVELS OF RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL Discussions of racism tend to get tangled up in issues of level of analysis.1 Sociologists (e.g. Bonilla-Silva) and critical race theorists (e.g. Haney-López), among others, have long argued that we need to understand racism as something that works "beyond" or "above" the individual, building on arguments that go back to Stokely Carmichael's distinction between individual ONE YEAR LATER: POLICING, VIOLENCE, AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN one year later: policing, violence, and public safety in minneapolis. Image Credit: Ben Hovland. Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip. In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority ofthe
“THE BIG SHORT” AND THE MOST IRONIC QUOTE MISATTRIBUTION I really enjoyed The Big Short. It's totally entertaining, and captures some hard to explain and very interesting dynamics in the lead-up to the housing crisis and the eventual bursting of the bubble. That said, the movie had some significant issues. For example, it overstates how few people saw the crash coming. Many people were NOTES FROM THE FIELD: SHOW HOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW Because, as an ethnographer, your fieldnotes are the only data you’ll have to identify patterns and build your argument. And they’re also the only evidence you’ll have to convince the reader your argument is true. So, when it comes to fieldnotes, take the time, and write them right, and show how you know what you know.SCATTERPLOT
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MORRIS, THE SCHOLAR DENIED I read Aldon Morris's much-anticipated book, The Scholar Denied, with great interest. I heard Morris talk about the book when he visited UNC last year, and have read and taught some shorter work he's published from this project. I was not disappointed – it's a great book, meticulously documented, passionately argued, and sure to correctSCATTERPLOT
H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. JUNE 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by Dan Hirschman during June 2021. Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. VALUES ARE NOT SCIENCE-FREE, TRANS JUSTICE EDITION Last month, Sociologists for Trans Justice released a statement condemning the wave of anti-trans legislation that has been proposed in state legislatures across the United States. The statement includes a link to a new reader titled #ProtectTransYouth which collects valuable resources for those interested in learning more. One section of the statement struck me as MAY 2021 – SCATTERPLOT 1 post published by michellesphelps during May 2021. Image Credit: Ben Hovland Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip.In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority of the Minneapolis City Council declared their intention to “dismantle” LEVELS OF RACISM: INDIVIDUAL, ORGANIZATIONAL Discussions of racism tend to get tangled up in issues of level of analysis.1 Sociologists (e.g. Bonilla-Silva) and critical race theorists (e.g. Haney-López), among others, have long argued that we need to understand racism as something that works "beyond" or "above" the individual, building on arguments that go back to Stokely Carmichael's distinction between individual ONE YEAR LATER: POLICING, VIOLENCE, AND PUBLIC SAFETY IN one year later: policing, violence, and public safety in minneapolis. Image Credit: Ben Hovland. Tomorrow marks one year since the murder of George Floyd at 38th and Chicago in South Minneapolis, sparking a rebellion that burned a police precinct and much of a nearby commercial strip. In the days that followed, a veto-proof majority ofthe
“THE BIG SHORT” AND THE MOST IRONIC QUOTE MISATTRIBUTION I really enjoyed The Big Short. It's totally entertaining, and captures some hard to explain and very interesting dynamics in the lead-up to the housing crisis and the eventual bursting of the bubble. That said, the movie had some significant issues. For example, it overstates how few people saw the crash coming. Many people were NOTES FROM THE FIELD: SHOW HOW YOU KNOW WHAT YOU KNOW Because, as an ethnographer, your fieldnotes are the only data you’ll have to identify patterns and build your argument. And they’re also the only evidence you’ll have to convince the reader your argument is true. So, when it comes to fieldnotes, take the time, and write them right, and show how you know what you know.SCATTERPLOT
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MORRIS, THE SCHOLAR DENIED I read Aldon Morris's much-anticipated book, The Scholar Denied, with great interest. I heard Morris talk about the book when he visited UNC last year, and have read and taught some shorter work he's published from this project. I was not disappointed – it's a great book, meticulously documented, passionately argued, and sure to correctSCATTERPLOT
H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows. DECOLONIZING CLASSICAL THEORY: SOME APPRECIATIVELY Yesterday's panel on teaching classical social theory was fantastic. Erin McDonnell did a great job organizing and facilitating, and the four panelists -- Greta Krippner, Jose Itzigsohn, Zine Magubane, and Jocelyn Viterna -- offered really thoughtful, measured, and inspiring ideas. The session was remarkably well-attended, particularly for summer: I think around 100 people showed up. MARCH 2021 – SCATTERPLOT H.P. Lovecraft was an influential science fiction/fantasy and horror author in the early 20th century United States. His popularity has been on the rise for some time now, with his work and ideas featured in everything from board games to TV shows.My morning walk to the office in Providence passes though H.P. Lovecraft square, and monuments to him litter the East Side of Providence where JULY 2020 – SCATTERPLOT The following is a guest post by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana.. In March, universities across the country shifted to online learning and adopted policies to account for students’ lives in the midst of a global pandemic.Many administrators asked professors to consider students’ circumstances and to teach with compassion.FEBRUARY 2021
The following is a guest post by Allen Hillery.. Earlier this month, Sekou Tyler, Anthony Starks and myself launched a #DuBoisChallenge on Twitter. With Anthony’s github repository, we were able to curate a 10 week challenge where we’re asking participants to recreate Du Bois’ iconic visualizations.Our goal is to celebrate W.E.B. Du Bois as a data visualization pioneer and bring moreJANUARY 2021
1 post published by Dan Hirschman during January 2021. The following is a guest post by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra.. Here we are, yet again, discussing a paper that, through computational means, resurrects painful ghosts from the past. AUTOMATED PETITION SIGNATURES WITH GOOGLE FORMS Since the graduate student strike and related protests by faculty, staff, and undergraduates at the University of Michigan in Fall 2020, I've noticed that open letters and petitions in google docs and signed through google forms seem to have replaced slower, more traditional petition technologies for (at least campus) social movements. Havingsignatures from a
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15,000+ ACADEMICS OPPOSE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT BAN Earlier this week, the US government announced a new policy that would prevent international students from staying in the country if their universities offered entirely online courses. This policy was designed to force universities to reopen, even if doing so is unsafe and against public health advice. Harvard and MIT have already sued toprevent
EQUAL ENVIRONMENTS ASSUMPTION The equal environments assumption in behavioral genetics is the assumption that environments for identical twins are not more similar than the environments of fraternal twins. One might say the assumption is violated more than many behavioral geneticists would like to admit and less than many sociologists would like to think. The point of thispost,
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the unruly darlings of public sociology ON EXACTITUDE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE …In that Empire, the Art of Machine Learning attained such Perfection that the data of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the data of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Datasets no longer satisfied, and the Machine Learning Faculty built a Dataset of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Machine Learning as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Dataset was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Data, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Statistics. —Jorge Luis Borges, Obras Completas v7, translated
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A while back, I made a joke on Facebook about panopticons and open floor plans, and a friend commented that she’d love to see a version of the television show House Swap featuring Goffman and Parsons. That gem of an idea (thanks Carolyn Chernoff) then became this Twitter post,
imagining various sociological theorists as contestants on a home design competition show (I was bingeing Ellen’s Design Challenge atthe time).
I ended up sharing the thread with my Intro Soc students, and I thought I’d share it here, too. It’s a clever way to help students compare key points from each theorist, and it could also work as inspiration for a creative class assignment. You could have your students apply the same concept and imagine various theorists as contestants on food competition shows or quiz shows or as popular athletes or musicians. Here’s the setup:_ Imagine that some of Sociology’s theorists are contestants on a home design competition show. Each theorist has been asked to choose a chair to complete a particular room. _ Host: Welcome to Soc Theory Design Challenge! First up, we have Talcott Parsons. Tell us about your design. Continue reading “imagining sociology’s theorists as contestants on a home design show”Author jcalarco
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THE SCIENCE OF GAY GENE SCIENCE _The following is a guest post by Jeff Lockhart._ It is that time of year again: _Science_ has a new studyby Ganna et
al. on the “gay gene,” and major outlets like the New York Timeshave picked it up
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many are just encountering this area of research for the first time, numerous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of sexual orientation have been published since the invention of GWAS in the early 2000s. Like others in the genre, Ganna et al. uncritically cite and perpetuate research with deep theoretical, methodological,
and ethical
flaws, like the Wang & Kosinski “gayface” paper. But rather than frustration, I’m taking my cue from XKCD : this is an opportunity to introduce others to an exciting area of Science and Technology Studies. Continue reading “the science of gay gene science” Author Dan Hirschman Posted on September 2, 2019September 2, 2019Categories
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the science of gay gene science ON FIGHTS ON SCHOLAR-ACTIVISM _The following is a guest post by Daniel Laurison._ At ASA, I was on a panel about the idea of the “scholar-activist” and some of the debates around it. The panel happened because Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra wrote this blog post & was asked to organize a Presidential Panel on the topic. The blog post happened because of arguments on twitter about Mary Romero’s Presidential candidate statement; those arguments flared again after the theme of this year’s ASA (Social Justice) was announced. One collection of twitter comments about the issue is here.
Generally, discussions seem to be framed as about valuing “good science” and “objectivity” vs valuing, well, values. _(note: I have spent a fair amount of time thinking about this issue, but I’m really quite open to being wrong about much of what’s below – I think it’s worth saying, but I’m not 100% sure about all of it – that’s what blogs are for, right? I have really appreciated a lot of good conversations I’ve had on twitter and in DMs and in person about this issue with a lot of smart folks; part of what is really tricky about this issue is that there are people I really admire and think are very smart on both/all sides of this issue; that is part of what’s motivating me to try to figure it out, but it’s also making me nervous about pissing people off. Oh well.)_
I don’t think of myself as a “scholar-activist” but I am basically convinced by the arguments of folks who do – including, especially Romero’s Presidential Address (go find it as soon as it’s available – it’ll be here on video eventually, and in ASR in print). However, I’m also pretty much convinced by a lot of the arguments made by the “pro-science” people about what makes for good science. It seems to me that a lot of the problem is that people are talking past each other, and so I’ve been trying to sort out what’s going on. I laid out my (not-fully-formed and definitely not extensively researched) thoughts on that in my short talk at ASA, and this is roughly what I said. First, it seems weird to have a discussion on this topic without the voices of people who DO think of themselves as scholar-activists, so Iasked on twitter
if
folks would weigh in, and here’s what a few said:> P.S. KEHAL
> : i would
> like a discussion of why only liberals and left of center folks get > marked as scholar activists whereas anyone for no change manage to > evade any label, as if their scholarship & professional work wasnt > activism of its own type>
> SIMONE KOLYSH:
> With
> so many urgent problems affecting our loved ones, scholarship for > scholarships’ sake is irresponsible and irrelevant.>
> And : I
> think the boundary between scholarship and activism is a tool of > oppression and maintains the legacy of many -isms in Sociology. As > prez Romero pointed out in her address, for as long as there was > Soc, white men tried to stomp out activism.>
> L’HEUREUX LEWIS-MCCOY (VIA DIRECT > MESSAGE): For me, being a scholar-activist is a part of connecting > to a deeper and richer black sociological tradition. From WEB Du > Bois, Ida B. Wells and Oliver Cromwell Cox on to Patricia Hill > Collins, the idea/belief that good research can help lead us to > better social actions is at the core. While activisms look different > for different scholars, the black sociological tradition rejects the > idea that we have the luxury to study phenomena without the > necessity to change them. I will say activism doesn’t look the > same. For Wells, documenting lynchings and advocating for justice in > policy and with the support of mass movements is just one form. For > Cox, who had a physically disability, his activism looked more like > critical scholarship and challenging canons across aisles. For me, > being a scholar-activist can be anywhere from challenging > methodological orthodoxy to participating in anti-police terrorism > actions. All of which are done with an idea that we must understand > things deeply and differently and commit our understandings to > actions that will reshape how we think and live. So, I’M OPEN TO BEING WRONG, but I think there are a lot of things that are pretty much consensus positions in sociology, although I’m still pretty new here in the scheme of things. * I think we all agree that sociology should strive for ACCURACY, for getting the social world right, for a good understanding of how things work, so that’s not what we’re arguing about, I don’t think. We maybe disagree about whether that should be called “objectivity” or how complete/accurate/impartial we can be about the social world, but no one is arguing _against_ aiming for having a true account of some aspect of society or social processes. And I don’t _think_ anyone is arguing that it’s possible to have a completely perspective-free take, either. * I think we all roughly agree that our VALUES INFORM OUR RESEARCH IN SOME WAY, that as humans we can’t entirely escape having our values shape what we study, or how we study it, or how we report onit.
* I think we all think it’s legitimate for sociologists to use their research in various forms of advocacy. I think we all agree that RESEARCH AND ADVOCACY ARE NOT THE SAME THING, nor are facts andvalues.
* I think we all want sociology to be TAKEN SERIOUSLY beyond the discipline, so I don’t think that’s what we’re arguing about,either, exactly.
Based on all that consensus, I don’t see any reason for our field not to have some kind of consensus or widespread value of social justice, if that means everyone should be treated fairly, or everyone should get to have a basically OK life, or something like the universal declaration of human rights. I didn’t say exactly this atASA, but tweeted it
(and
some good conversation followed) – some of the disagreement then is maybe about what “social justice” actually means. For a lot of us, as was clear in ASA President Mary Romero’s talk, it just means values I think everyone (ought to) broadly share. like “liberty and justice for all” or “racism & white supremacy are bad.” I also think there’s a worry that if we embrace a “social justice” values too strongly it’ll delegitimize us, and I think that’s an entirely reasonable thing to worry about. But I would point out that the other social sciences with lots of power (relative to sociology) seem to me to have clear values/normative commitments that – poli sci seems to value democracy and democratic-ness; economics seems to value productivity and efficiency for their own sake. Those are values, just like “equality” or “fairness” are. So I don’t think we actually want or need a norm-free social science, even ifthat were possible.
So if we’re not arguing, exactly, about whether true objectivity is possible, or whether values have any role in research, or whether at least the broad version of “social justice” is normatively good, I think we must be arguing about something else. And I think that something is about power and status in the discipline, about the legitimate forms of legitimation in the field of sociology, as my pal and yours Pierre Bourdieu might say (probably did say but I’m not looking up the cite). And part of that struggle over the legitimation probably needs to be understood by looking at who is making which arguments. This is the part I’m least sure about; I haven’t counted, or done a systematic search, or anything like that, but I think it’s worth raising: to the extent that there are sides/divides on the interwoven issues of scholar activism, values in social science, whether we call our work “objective,” etc., those sides look like they have something to do with race. My impression is that there are more Black (and other POC, but especially Black from what I can see) sociologists emphatically siding with Romero & identifying as scholar-activists, and pretty much only white sociologists (on twitter at least; Fabio Rojas took a more “let’s be a science” stance at the panel) calling for more objectivity and worrying about the effects of Romero’s statements, bemoaning the rise of “scholar-activism” etc. (And lots of folks from every racial group somewhere in the middle or not weighing ineither way.)
As sociologists, we know that as fields get more women, their average pay (and status) generally declines, though I don’t think anyone would argue (anymore) that that’s a reason to exclude women from sociology; the same is probably true of having higher representation of any/all marginalized/oppressed/minoritized etc groups, though no one (I hope) would argue (except on the rumor mill, maybe) for making sociology more white, more straight, etc. Put succinctly, if our field is more opposed to power in its approach or its composition, it can lose power, and that might be one of the dynamics underlying thisdebate.
I think the science folks are most concerned that sociology be taken seriously by people already in power – that we be more like economics in our influence, or at least political science that has its own Washington Post column. And I think the scholar-activist folks generally have more concern with the communities that tend to get screwed by the current power structure. I personally hope we can be ethical actors (at least) with respect to the latter while _also_ having an influence on the former, and I think a lot of us do, but it seems there’s a fair amount of distance along an axis of which is prioritized (and as Omar Lizardo quipped on twitter, we
might _all_ be wrong about what it takes to make sociology a more powerful discipline overall). That’s basically what I said at ASA, with a little editing. I have one other thought about what’s going on that I want to say here: I think _part_ of what is happening is actually about features of arguing on twitter, in two ways. First, unclear referents – from conversations in DMs with folks on the “science!” side, they’re mostly not thinking of existing sociological research they think is unacceptably tainted with too much social justice value motivation, but they’re worried about us becoming a discipline where the only kind of research that’s valued is work that advances radical social change. But when a lot of folks see people saying “let’s be more a science!” they (understandably) see it as an attack on their in-progress or published work that they know is part of a (possibly radical) social justice project (and that is ALSO good science by pretty much any standard we might come up with). Because people are (understandably) reluctant to publicly point out research they think is bad (I asked, no one bit – well, one person mentioned one book and then deleted the tweet), we don’t know what we’re talking about. Another referent issue is whether we’re talking about research at all, actually – at least one “science!” person told me they think our research journals are mostly publishing good research, but they *are* worried that too much undergraduate teaching is framed as sociology = social justice, and that they are especially concerned that ASA takes normative/political stands that align with members’ values, but aren’t obviously based on sociologicalknowledge.
I think on that front it’s worth thinking through Matt Desmond’s _Evicted_. No one, to my knowledge, has denounced his work as unacceptably scholar-activist-y, even though it’s clearly driven by his values (poor people shouldn’t get screwed by their landlords) _and_ is part of what appears to be an active project of working towards greater _social justice_ of the “people should be treatedfairly” variety.
I think the other twitter/social media thing that is happening is about _audience_. I think the “Science!” folks broadly agree that objectivity is at best a good goal, etc, but they’re worried if we SAY it’s only a goal we’ll be taken less seriously; Phillip Cohenat ASA pointed
out
though that there’s evidence that what actually convinces people about science is often actually scientists admitting we’re fallible.…
I could go on and on about this topic, I find it really fascinating. Among the things I *could* have done in this post, but didn’t: * Clearly staked out what I think the sides actually are, whether there are really just two, etc – I’m not sure about this. Omar Lizardo called them “splitter and lumpers” which is pretty good,though.
* Clearly stated my own approach to the relationship between my values and my research, between how I think about activism or advocacy and their role in sociology, or vice versa. That’s a whole other essay but I will say I teach my students that good research requires not already knowing for sure what you’ll find, and that if you just want to point out things you already know are normatively bad or harmful, I don’t think that’s what sociology is about. I don’t know if any sociologists think that IS what it’s about (see above), but some of my students do, and I try to shift them towards research that asks questions and is open to the answers. * So many other things! But I saidI
would post something by Monday, and it’s now the end of Tuesday, soI am stopping now.
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on on fights on scholar-activism THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL Wednesday was my daughter’s first day of Kindergarten. And I managed to get through the whole day without any tears. I got through Thursday’s drop-off, too, even when my daughter stopped me outside the school and said: “You don’t need to come in, Mom. I know whereto go.”
As I walked back home, I scrolled through Twitter on my phone. And that’s when I first saw the articles. On Wednesday, hundreds of immigrant workers in Forest, Mississippi had been detained, taken away without warning when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided the food processing plants where they worked. The children of those workers came home from school to empty, locked houses. They were crying and looking desperately for their parents. It was their first day of school, too. Wednesday was my daughter’s first day of Kindergarten. And I managed to get through the whole day without any tears. I got through Thursday’s drop-off, too, even when my daughter stopped me outside the school and said: “You don’t need to come in, Mom. I know whereto go.”
As I walked back home, I scrolled through Twitter on my phone. And that’s when I first saw the articles. On Wednesday, hundreds of immigrant workers in Forest, Mississippi had been detained,
taken away without warning when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers raided the food processing plants where they worked. The children of those workers came home from school to empty, locked houses. They were crying and looking desperately for their parents. It was their first day of school, too. Continue reading “the first day of school”Author jcalarco
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on the first day of school HOW SHOULD WE MEASURE THE RACIAL WEALTH GAP? RELATIVE VS. ABSOLUTE GAPS IN THE STUDENT DEBT FORGIVENESS DEBATE _The following is a guest post by Louise Seamster._ The 2020 Democratic presidential race has taken up the issue of the racial wealth gap, and several candidates have come up with proposals to address the gap with some amount of student debt forgiveness. The racial wealth gap is a way to operationalize the notion of racial justice: the wealth gap gives us something to measure and assess in search of genuine progress. But, like many assessments of racialprogress
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bloggers, tweeters, and other digitally-minded social sociology types have gathered at the American Sociology Association’s annual meeting. This year, scatterplot will not be organizing our own event but we are happy to announce the following event organized by the podcasting team at The Annex , and which we hope will serve as a suitable replacement. ASA FRIENDS OF THE PODCAST PARTY! Mark your calendars and spread the word! Friends of The Annex Sociology Podcast will be having drinks at ASA 2019 on Monday night. If you’ve interacted with us online over the past couple years, please come by and say “hi” and meet some of the great guests who have been on our show. If you know nothing of the podcast, check us out on your favorite podcast platform: The Annex Sociology Podcast. Or visit www.sociocast.org/annexDetails:
DATE: Monday, August 12 at 7:30PM PLACE: Peter Dillon’s at 2 East 36th Street, New York NOTE: There are two Peter Dillon’s. Make sure you go to the East 36th Street location Additional note: Interested in podcasting? Do you run your own podcast? Thinking of starting one? Please write joe@sociocast.orgjoe@sociocast.org! Author Dan HirschmanPosted on June 28,
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