Social Justice Research 35(4): 379-400. Abstract: In most contemporary societies, people underestimate the extent of economic inequality, resulting in lower support for taxation and redistribution than might be expressed by better informed citizens. We still …
Month: January 2023
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality by Fabien Accominotti, Freda Lynn, and Michael Sauder (2022)
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(6): 87-102. Abstract: We argue that the properties of status hierarchies, independent of the positions actors occupy within them, have important effects on the degree …
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries by Theodore P. Gerber, Jane R. Zavisca, and Jia Wang (2023)
American Journal of Sociology, Volume 128, Number 3 Abstract: Sociological research on housing inequality overlooks how the predictors and benefits of home ownership vary by pathway to ownership. The market pathway (purchase) is more associated …
Time precarity at work: nonstandard forms of employment and everyday life by Daniela Campos Ugaz (2022)
Social Indicators Research, Volume 164, pgs. 969-991 Abstract: In the last three decades, the expansion of nonstandard forms of employment has involved a shift in two dimensions related to time: working time arrangements and temporary …
Aleeya Sengdao Awarded Global Gateway Fellowship
Aleeya Sengdao is an undergraduate student with a double major in Human Development and Family Studies & Sociology with certificates in Criminal Justice, Education And Educational Services, Arts and Teaching, Social Justice and Education. Aleeya …
You Will Never Walk Alone: Ethnographic Training as Collective Endeavor by Águeda Ortega, Katherine Jensen, and Javier Auyero (2023)
Teaching Sociology, OnlineFirst Abstract: Despite being intensely sociable, ethnographic research is also deeply isolating. Although fieldworkers may feel lonely, we contend that they are not (or should not be) alone. At the 10th anniversary of …
Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2023: Textbook Editing
Term: Spring 2023 Status: Open Working With: Prof Mustafa Emirbayer, emirbaye@ssc.wisc.edu Topic: Editing a Textbook on Race & Ethnicity in the US I am seeking research assistance on my coauthored undergraduate textbook, Race in America (W.W. …
Doug Maynard Publishes Co-Edited Ethnometholody (2022)
Maureen T. Hallinan Professor of Sociology Emeritus Doug Maynard published a co-edited volume “The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects” (Oxford University Press) with John Heritage, Professor Emeritus at UCLA. This book offers an updated overview …
Morgan Henson Awarded Bucky Award & Honored Instructor Award
Sociology Ph.D. Candidate Morgan Henson received the Bucky Award in April 2022 for Graduate Student Commitment to Engagement and Activism for his work on discussing, understanding, and deconstructing whiteness in different contexts around Madison, Wisconsin. …