University of Wisconsin–Madison

Month: November 2024

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 reports, we continue to refine our understanding and practices. Gender identity is usually measured in surveys using a categorical selection …

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 entitled “Antisemitism and American Exceptionalism: Rethinking the Place of the Postwar Era in US History.”

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 attention from a superordinate outside one’s reporting chain (desired or not) leads to stereotyping and resultant career penalties. A woman …

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 constitutional provisions affect the dynamics of revolutionary conjunctures (law in revolutions). The other examines how the dynamics and modalities of …

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 differences in the overall amount of esteem individuals receive from various others; or differences in how any individual distributes their …

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 place. We compare the relationship between spouses’ relative education and marital dissolution across four birth cohorts born between 1951 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 the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW, N = 1,706), we conduct a detailed analysis of SoB and health in an American …

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 a part in the doubt they faced. According to Chloe Grace Hart, an assistant professor of sociology at University of …

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 was quoted in the Wisconsin Public Radio article “Far from the border, immigration a top GOP issue in swing state …

Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte by Mosi Ifatunji (2024)

Fifty Key Scholars in Black Social Thought Abstract: This chapter reviews the personal biography, intellectual contributions, and academic leadership of Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte.