University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: June 2023

Taylor Laemmli Awarded Honorable Mention from the ASA Sociology of Consumers and Consumption

Taylor Laemmli was awarded an Honorable Mention from the ASA Sociology of Consumers and Consumption section for their graduate student paper award for her paper “Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work, and Relationships.” Congratulations, Taylor!

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2023: First-Generation and Working-Class Graduate Students’ Stories of Pursuing Higher Education: A Life Histories Interview Study

Term: Fall 2023 Status: Open Working With: Alexis Dennis adennis2@wisc.edu Meets: via Zoom, day and time TBD. Topic: First-Generation and Working-Class Graduate Students’ Stories of Pursuing Higher Education: A Life Histories Interview Study Using life histories interviews of 47 current and former graduate and professional first-generation students who identify as having come from working-class or economically poor …

Fabien Accominotti Awarded Morton Deutsch Best Article Award for 2022 by the International Society for Justice Research

Fabien Accominotti was awarded the Morton Deutsch Best Article Award for 2022 by the International Society for Justice Research for his paper “Deliberating Inequality: A Blueprint for Studying the Social Formation of Beliefs about Economic Inequality” published in Social Justice Research in April 2022. Accominotti co-authored the paper with Kate Summers, Tania Burchardt, Katharina Hecht, Elizabeth …

Questioning Identity: How a Diverse Set of Respondents Answer Standard Questions About Ethnicity and Race by Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, Cameron P. Jones, Tiffany S. Neman, Nora Cate Schaeffer, & Dorothy Farrar Edwards (May 2023)

Field Methods, Online First Abstract: Ethnoracial identity refers to the racial and ethnic categories that people use to classify themselves and others. How it is measured in surveys has implications for understanding inequalities. Yet how people self-identify may not conform to the categories standardized survey questions use to measure ethnicity and race, leading to potential …