The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality by Fabien Accominotti, Freda Lynn, and Michael Sauder (2022)

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(6): 87-102. Abstract: We argue that the properties of status hierarchies, independent of the positions actors occupy within them, have important effects on the degree of inequality in material rewards generated by status processes. We first discuss how a focus on status hierarchies differs from, …

Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries by Theodore P. Gerber, Jane R. Zavisca, and Jia Wang (2023)

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American Journal of Sociology, Volume 128, Number 3 Abstract: Sociological research on housing inequality overlooks how the predictors and benefits of home ownership vary by pathway to ownership. The market pathway (purchase) is more associated with ascribed and achieved status characteristics linked to income and with higher housing satisfaction, greater subjective housing-related autonomy, and better …

Time precarity at work: nonstandard forms of employment and everyday life by Daniela Campos Ugaz (2022)

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Social Indicators Research, Volume 164, pgs. 969-991 Abstract: In the last three decades, the expansion of nonstandard forms of employment has involved a shift in two dimensions related to time: working time arrangements and temporary contracts, which are grouped under the umbrella term time precarity at work. Previous research has explored how atypical scheduling practices and …

Aleeya Sengdao Awarded Global Gateway Fellowship

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Aleeya Sengdao is an undergraduate student with a double major in Human Development and Family Studies & Sociology with certificates in Criminal Justice, Education And Educational Services, Arts and Teaching, Social Justice and Education. Aleeya has been awarded a fellowship by the UW Global Gateway Initiative and is studying abroad at the Santa Reparata International …

You Will Never Walk Alone: Ethnographic Training as Collective Endeavor by Águeda Ortega, Katherine Jensen, and Javier Auyero (2023)

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Teaching Sociology, OnlineFirst Abstract: Despite being intensely sociable, ethnographic research is also deeply isolating. Although fieldworkers may feel lonely, we contend that they are not (or should not be) alone. At the 10th anniversary of Urban Ethnography Lab at the University of Texas at Austin, we reflect on the ethnographic training cultivated there. We detail …

Soc 320 Research Opportunity, Spring 2023: Textbook Editing

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Term: Spring 2023 Status: Open Working With: Prof Mustafa Emirbayer, emirbaye@ssc.wisc.edu  Topic: Editing a Textbook on Race & Ethnicity in the US I am seeking research assistance on my coauthored undergraduate textbook, Race in America (W.W. Norton; coauthored with Matthew Desmond). Every few years, the textbook is reissued in a new updated edition. The assistance I …

Doug Maynard Publishes Co-Edited Ethnometholody (2022)

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Maureen T. Hallinan Professor of Sociology Emeritus Doug Maynard published a co-edited volume “The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects” (Oxford University Press) with John Heritage, Professor Emeritus at UCLA. This book offers an updated overview of the field of ethnomethodology.

Morgan Henson Awarded Bucky Award & Honored Instructor Award

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Sociology Ph.D. Candidate Morgan Henson received the Bucky Award in April 2022 for Graduate Student Commitment to Engagement and Activism for his work on discussing, understanding, and deconstructing whiteness in different contexts around Madison, Wisconsin. In December 2022, Henson was also awarded the Honored Instructor Award for his work for Jason Nolen’s Sociology 134 class on …

Traumatic brain injury, stroke, and epilepsy; A mediation study in a Danish nationwide cohort by Kasper Lolk, Theis Lange, Felix Elwert, Julie W. Dreier, and Jakob Christensen (2022)

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Epilepsia, Accepted Articles Abstract: (Objective) Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke are well-known causes of acquired epilepsy. TBI is also a risk factor for stroke, and injury-induced stroke may indirectly convey a proportion of the epilepsy risk following TBI. We studied the extent to which the effect of TBI on epilepsy operated through intermediary stroke. …

Sticking with the Union? Labor Union Membership, Working Conditions, and Postretirement Health in the Midwest by Michal Engelman and Yue Qin (2022)

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Innovation in Aging, 2022, Vol. 6, No. S1., November 2022 Abstract: American Employment experiences over the past five decades have been shaped by growing prevalence of bad jobs – those that are precarious and offer few pension or health insurance benefits – and a marked decline in unionization. Previous health research has highlighted the deleterious …