Socius Abstract: What are human rights? Although legal scholars point to a growing list of international entitlements, social scientists have highlighted underlying ideological assumptions and the selective interpretation of human rights in practice. Lay conceptualizations …
Month: May 2025
Do Peers’ Skills Matter for Learning in Preschool Classrooms? Within- and across-Classroom Differences in the Relationship between Peers’ Academic Skills and Individual Skill Gains by Rebecca Bier, Elizabeth Vaade and Culleen Witthuhn (2025)
American Educational Research Journal Abstract: Peer interaction offers critical learning opportunities for preschool students, yet exposure to peers of different skill levels varies within and across classrooms. We explore two ways peers may affect learning: …
Epistemological Vigilance as Ethnographic Practice by Katherine Jensen (2025)
Qualitative Sociology Abstract: With “In Praise of ‘Thick Construction,’” Loïc Wacquant offers a welcome manifesto for ethnography infused with Bourdieusian epistemology. Continuing in that spirit, I elaborate the need (and offer practical tips) for epistemological …
Conceptualizing Authoritarianism by Ivan Ermakoff (2025)
Oxford Handbook of Authoritarian Politics Abstract: Authoritarianism evokes phenomenal realities of different kinds: rules, behaviors, institutional settings, representations, dispositions, and attitudes. Given this lack of fixed meaning, the present chapter addresses conceptual issues by considering …
Chloe Rosenstock receives Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Chloe Rosenstock received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) competition this year. In her study,”‘Perceiving the Poor:’ Elite Parental Beliefs and Their Decision-Making Process,” she asks two main questions: 1) …
Ambiguously Sexual Interactions by Chloe Hart and Ivana Vranjes (2025)
What the #MeToo Movement Highlights and Hides about Workplace Sexual Harassment edited by Anne M. O’Leary-Kelly and Shannon L. Rawski
In the Shadow of Sunshine Laws: Open Meeting Laws and Administrative Burdens by Sadie Dempsey (2025)
Democracy, Governance, and Law Abstract: Purpose – This chapter shows how open meeting laws (also called “sunshine laws”) place administrative burdens on the public and inadvertently thwart political participation. Methodology/approach – This argument is supported by 36 …