Four Sociology instructors were nominated to be Honored Instructors as recognized by University Housing for Fall 2024. Jason Nolen, Tamkinat Rauf, Fabien Accominotti, and Jessica Calarco each received this distinction. Jason Nolen is a Lecturer who taught …
Year: 2024
Midlife and late-life environmental exposures on dementia risk in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study: The modifying effects of ApoE by Victoria J. Williams, Ralph Trane, Kamil Sicinski, Pamela Herd, Michal Engelman, and Sanjay Asthana (2024)
Alzheimer’s & Dementia Abstract: Introduction: Late-life air pollution exposure is associated with an increased risk for dementia, with this effect exacerbated among apolipoprotein E-4 (ApoE-4) carriers. However, whether midlife occupational exposures likewise influence dementia outcomes, and …
Improving the Measurement of Gender in Surveys: Effects of Categorical Versus Open-Ended Response Formats on Measurement and Data Quality Among College Students by Dana Garbarski, Jennifer Dykema, James A. Yonker, Rosie Eungyuhl Bae, and Rachel A. Rosenfeld (2024)
Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology Abstract: While researchers have some recommendations for measuring gender identity in surveys based on research and other sources that are summarized in a series of working group and panel …
Chad Alan Goldberg selected as 2024 Swarsensky Scholar-in-Residence
Chad Alan Goldberg was selected to be the 2024 Swarsensky Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Beth El in Madison, Wisconsin. He delivered the keynote lecture at the Swarsensky Memorial Weekend on Sunday, November 10. The lecture is …
Sexual Harassment and Hierarchical Workplace Relationships after #MeToo: Consequences for Women Subordinates by Chloe G. Hart and Heather McLaughlin (2024)
Socius Abstract: The #MeToo movement illustrated how higher-ups may abuse their power by engaging in sexual harassment and generated heightened concern about hierarchical workplace romantic relationships. In a survey experiment, the authors test whether sexual …
Revolutions and Law by Ivan Ermakoff (2024)
Annual Review of Law and Social Science Abstract: Two broad thematic perspectives can be distinguished in the literature that broaches the revolutions–law nexus. One considers how actors’ relations to, and usages of, legal statutes and …
Status inequality and status hierarchies by Fabien Accominotti (2024)
L’Année sociologique Abstract: Status—the value people are accorded by others—is a basic dimension of social stratification. There is, however, an ambiguity as to what sociologists mean when they talk about status differences: they can be …
Trends in Women’s Educational Advantage and Divorce in East and West Germany by Flavia Mazzeo, Christine R. Schwartz, Stefani Scherer, and Agnese Vitali (2024)
Comparative Population Studies (download pdf) Abstract: Couples in which wives have more education than their husbands have been found to be more likely than other couples to divorce. But this relationship varies across time and …
Sense of neighborhood belonging and health: geographic, racial, and socioeconomic variation in Wisconsin by Joseph A. Clark, Michal Engelman, Amy A. Schultz, Andrew J. Bersch and Kristen Malecki (2024)
Frontiers in Public Health Background: Individuals’ sense of belonging (SoB) to their neighborhood is an understudied psychosocial factor that may influence the association between neighborhood characteristics, health, and disparities across socio-demographic groups. Methods: Using 2014–2016 data from …
Chloe Hart quoted in USA Today article “These women spoke out about Diddy years ago. Why didn’t we listen?”
Chloe Hart was quoted in the USA Today article “These women spoke out about Diddy years ago. Why didn’t we listen?” Some of the women alleging Combs abused them are Black women, which may play …