Sadie Dempsey has been awarded a 2023 Russell Sage Foundation Research Grant! This RSF initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas. Dempsey will investigate why many …
Month: May 2023
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing by Max Besbris & Gary Alan Fine (2023)
Theory & Society, May 2023 Abstract: Drawing on models of the interaction order, we describe how planning is an inherently social activity. We argue that planning as a practice involves five core elements: mirroring, identifying, …
Grieving in the “Golden Cage”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar by Kristina Fullerton Rico (2023)
Social Problems, May 2023 Abstract: In the past four decades, the United States has created a population of long-term unauthorized immigrants. As this population ages, issues of death and dying are increasingly salient. Though we …
Youbin Kang Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2023 Best Student Paper Award from the Labor and Labor Movements section of the ASA
Youbin Kang was awarded honorable mention for the 2023 Best Student Paper award from the Labor and Labor Movements section of the American Sociological Association for her paper “Unionizing Against Solidarity: The Meritocracy of Habitus …
Mikki Liu Awarded Two Graduate Paper Awards
Ruo-Fan (Mikki) Liu was awarded two graduate paper awards! Liu’s paper, “Envisioning Opportunities to College Admissions: Social Capital in the Development of Students’ College Plans,” was selected as an award winner for the 2023 Youth, …