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 …
Month: November 2024
Now hiring: Associate Professor in population research
The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for an Associate Professor (with tenure) position in the field of population research beginning in August, 2025. The successful candidate will have a primary …
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 …
Michael Light quoted in WPR article “Far from the border, immigration a top GOP issue in swing state Wisconsin”
“Criminologists have been studying the issue of immigration and crime for over a century and, generally speaking, what we find is that immigrants tend to have lower crime rates than native-born U.S. citizens.” Michael Light …