University of Wisconsin-Madison
Max Besbris spoke on a National Academies panel entitled “Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Households, Homeowners, and Risk.” A recording of the event is available to view here. He discussed research published in his book with Anna Rhodes, Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster, and the path he took as he …
Social Problems Abstract: Calls to remove school-based law enforcement (SBLE) have grown in tandem with widespread SBLE presence. Central to these calls are issues of equity, with the hope that removing SBLE will reduce racial/ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system. However, little research has examined the extent to which removing SBLE shapes outcomes related …
Alum Youbin Kang (2024) was named one of two co-winners of the Theda Skocpol Dissertation Award from the Comparative Historical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. She’s currently a Moynihan Postdoctoral Fellow at the City College of New York and a Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellow at the New York Public Library. Youbin’s dissertation, “Underground Labor and …
Alzheimer’s & Dementia Abstract: Introduction While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well‐characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims. We sought to identify dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS), one of the most comprehensive lifespan cohort studies in the United States. Highlights We …
Katherine Jensen and Benny Witkovsky’s article “Human Rights as a Lay Category of Thought,” with co-author Monika Krause, was the featured Socius article in the ASA Journals Newsletter. You can listen to the accompanying podcast about the article on ASA’s website.
Population and Development Review Abstract: The extent to which women outlive men in the United States has fluctuated over the 20th century, with periods of equalization, stagnation, and increase. Women’s life expectancy advantage declined for roughly four decades but resurged after 2012. This coincided with an increase in deaths of despair (deaths due to suicide, …
Wisconsin Public Radio interviewed Chad Alan Goldberg about a proposal for the Wisconsin state legislature to adopt an official definition of antisemitism. “The definition could be a useful tool to determine, if there is a criminal offense, whether there’s an antisemitic element to that offense.”
Journal of Marriage and Family Abstract: Objective This paper investigates contemporary household economies of gratitude and resentment, assessing how discrepancies between partners’ expectations relate to their emotions and household labor allocation. Background Women shoulder greater shares of cognitive and physical housework than men. Prior research suggests expressions of gratitude reveal the underlying expectations that reproduce …
Morgan Henson received the Gullickson Fellowship from the College of Letters & Science for the second year in a row. His research investigates how the far right in the US and Europe leverages social identities to garner political support. Morgan also serves on several advisory councils and teams that support teaching in the College of …
Handbook of Social Psychology Vol. 2: Meso and Macro Perspectives Abstract: Compared to other social scientists, social psychologists have been less involved in efforts to explain patterns of social class reproduction and social class mobility, and when they have these considered these questions, they have historically tended to adopt deficit-oriented perspectives that normalize existing inequalities. …