University of Wisconsin-Madison
Socius – featured article Abstract: Contemporary sociological research emphasizes the need to analyze inequality beyond nominal categories. Although research has grown in this regard at the individual level, little research has pursued this approach with neighborhoods. This article explores how names can serve as a measure of the perceived typicality associated with race and how …
We are deeply saddened to share that Joe Elder passed away in Madison. Those who have known Joe know what a deep loss this is for our community. As Eric Grodsky stated, “You’d be hard pressed to find a truer moral compass than Joe and his late wife Joann, nor a pair of humans who …
Local news publication Madison365 releases an annual list recognizing Wisconsin’s most influential Black leaders. This year, alum Torsheika Maddox (PhD 2015) was recognized in the list for her work with the UW-Madison Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement (DDEEA). Dr. Torsheika Maddox is senior operations officer and chief of staff for the UW-Madison Division of Diversity, …
The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality Introduction: In the contemporary social sciences, qualitative data, by which we here refer specifically to evidence gathered from participant observation and in-depth interviewing, have a peculiar status. Across many substantive fields – inequality, poverty, education, organizations, immigration, health, crime, and more – scholars doing quantitative research actively rely …
Social Stratification and Mobility Abstract: Graduate study has rapidly expanded since the late 1990s, with women overtaking men in their enrollment in all levels of graduate degree. Once thought to be a relatively meritocratic space, due to increasing selection as educational transitions move into higher degrees, more recent research on graduate education has shown it …
Social Science and Medicine Abstract: Policymakers and researchers have posited intrapartum care as a potential mediator of racial inequities in perinatal outcomes. However, few studies have measured patient-centered quality of intrapartum care or explored differences by race. To address this gap, we developed a survey supplement using cognitive interviewing and administered it to a probability-based …
Population and Environment Abstract: Food insecurity is a key barrier to improving global health and achieving sustainable development. Nearly 30% of the world’s population experiences moderate or severe food insecurity, and rates of hunger have risen in recent years. Environmental change is a major factor driving this increase, as warming air and water temperatures, extreme …
Sociological Science Abstract: For the past three decades, scholars have conducted field experiments to examine gender-based hiring discrimination in the United States. However, these studies have produced mixed results. To further interpret these findings, we performed a meta-analysis of 37 audit studies conducted between 1990 and 2022. Using an aggregated sample of 243,202 fictitious job …
Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Abstract: While national reception contexts formatively shape immigration possibilities and experiences, we argue that transnational racial dynamics play an underappreciated role. Juxtaposing two independent ethnographies of the U.S. resettlement program and Brazilian asylum system, we show that Congolese refugees encounter strikingly similar racialized logics of reception as they move through …