Year: 2024

Police’s Attribution of Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System: A Case of Non-Binary Color-Blindness by Jungmyung Kim (2024)

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Ethnic and Racial Studies Abstract: This study critically examines how police officers attribute racial disparities within the US criminal justice system. For this inquiry, the study used in-depth interviews with 65 police officers from 4 police departments in a midwestern county. The findings revealed that 17 of these police officers invoked structural explanations to account …

Lindsay Cannon receives Society of Family Planning Emerging Scholar grant

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Lindsay Cannon was selected to receive a Society of Family Planning Emerging Scholar grant to help fund research for her dissertation, “Abortion restrictions and pregnancy decision-making among people with the capacity for pregnancy with chronic health conditions.” Lindsay is a mixed methods scholar and social demographer interested in understanding how adverse early life experiences, such …

What Is Sociological About Environmental Sociology?: Qualitative Methods in an Era of Rapid Environmental Change by Max Besbris (2024)

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Qualitative Sociology Abstract: This special issue aims to display the breadth and depth of qualitative studies of the environment. In terms of breadth, the work here demonstrates that sociology should have a capacious definition of the environment and treat it with the same scrutiny as other folk concepts. Doing so—with the caveat that individual studies …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Fall 2024: Cultural Scripts About Flirtation in American Media

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Term: Fall 2024 (Soc 320, Section 036), Prof Chloe Hart Status: CLOSED Contact: Please contact Nikki Nair nnair6@wisc.edu to apply for this position. See details below. It is available for 2 credits. Description: This is a voluntary research study about flirtation in media. Flirtation – expressing romantic or sexual interest in someone – isn’t a …

Erin Gaede receives Master’s Thesis Award from the Rural Sociological Society

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Erin Gaede was awarded the Master’s Thesis Award by the Rural Sociological Society for her Master’s thesis titled “Housing Insecurity in America’s Dairyland.” Abstract: To explain the stigma around homelessness and housing insecurity, scholars tend to rely on urban samples and focus on the hypervisibility, what I call the physical hypervisibility, of people sleeping in public spaces, …

Tensions of Making Women’s Marginalization Salient in Men-Dominated Workplaces by Chloe Hart (2024)

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Work and Occupations Abstract: Why might women who experience gender-based bias and harassment at work shy away from efforts to address gender inequality in their workplaces? Drawing on data from 52 interviews with women working in the Silicon Valley tech industry, I show that efforts to address women’s marginalization in the men-dominated tech industry are …

The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-Methods, Multilevel Approach to Political Communication by Sadie Dempsey and Jianing Li (2024)

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Oxford University Press Sadie Dempsey co-authored a chapter with Jianing Li (Rutgers University) titled, “The Local Roots of January 6th: A Mixed-Methods, Multilevel Approach to Political Communication” that was recently published in Media and January 6th.

In the news: research on immigration and crime

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“Crime rates, offending rates and incarceration rates tend to be lower amongst foreign-born individuals.” That’s what research co-authored by Michael Light concludes. Michael’s research on crime and immigration has been featured in the news lately as November’s presidential election nears. Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) interviewed Michael for University of the Air, where they discussed racial …

Home Price Change and Ethno-racial Residential Segregation: Temporal Relationships at the Metro Level by Alex Mikulas, Brenden Beck, and Max Besbris (2024)

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Socius Abstract: Although rates of residential racial segregation and home prices are undoubtedly related, the temporal nature of the relationship has rarely been studied. Using fixed effects models in a cross-lagged framework, we examine how prior changes in segregation and home prices at the metro level predict changes in the other. Our findings suggest that …

A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid: Accepting Help and Stigma in the Aftermath of Disaster by Anna Rhodes and Max Besbris (2024)

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Qualitative Sociology Abstract: Drawing on the human ecology framework, which describes social structure as dynamic and social action as environmentally contingent, this article examines behavior and attitudes around accepting help after disaster. Through two years of longitudinal in-depth interviews with 59 households in one community whose homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey, this study describes perceived …