Tag: American Sociological Association 2021

February 5, 2020

Q&A: A Conversation About the History of U.S. Property Restriction and Finance After the Civil War

Take a walk today and look around. Observe the people strolling through the parks and neighborhoods. Chances are, they vary in background and cultural heritage, but this was not always the case. To kick off Black History Month, Noni Carter...

January 1, 2020

Understanding Contemporary Gangs and Violence in Chicago

“I am very excited about Views from the Streets. It addresses central questions in contemporary gang research. . . It does so by offering what is deeply needed but rarely accomplished in this field: a grounded analysis providing a convincing, cogent...

November 20, 2019

Q&A: Yingyi Ma on Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Struggle and Succeed in American Higher Education

“From the first word to the last, Ambitious and Anxious is eye-opening, provocative, and replete with original details. Yingyi Ma has produced a trove of valuable interviews and survey results that challenge unexamined narratives about Chinese students in America and illustrate their...

August 7, 2019

Why Supporters Don’t Care if Trump Is a Crook

“Through a clear and dispassionate comparison of the ascendance of the Klan in the 1920s and Trump in 2016, McVeigh and Estep trace the roots of white nationalism in American politics. They show how opportunistic leaders combined race, economics, culture,...

June 5, 2019

Q&A: Patrick Bergemann on Judge Thy Neighbor

“Social scientists neglect negative interpersonal ties. While lab experiments on the willing assumption of malevolent authority open a window on this topic, Bergemann is the first to examine betrayal and denunciation to the authorities in natural settings, and to theorize...

January 9, 2019

Q&A: Shani Orgad on Heading Home

“This book tells a story about sacrificing career for family that resonates far beyond the lives of the women in London Shani Orgad has interviewed. Orgad makes a powerful argument about the denials women experience, precisely because the author does...

December 13, 2018

Lance Freeman on A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America

 “A Haven and a Hell is a highly-accessible and necessary book for a broader and richer understanding of urban Black America.” ~Marcus Anthony Hunter, coauthor of Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life Today we are featuring a guest post from Lance...

October 4, 2018

Q&A Michelle Pannor Silver on Retirement and its Discontents

“A convincing analysis of the disquiet among a small group of elders who—despite having money—want to work. Warning! A furtive tear may betray empathy for their deep feelings of abandonment, depression, being a renegade. Silver digs deep for courageous insights...

February 21, 2018

Bruce D. Haynes on Writing Down the Up Staircase

Down the Up Staircase is a riveting narrative about three generations of a black family and their struggle to maintain inherited privilege. Written with elegance and penetrating insight, the book shines light on the precarity that all blacks confront, regardless of...

August 3, 2017

Writing The Diagnostic System

Read an article by Jason Schnittker, author of THE DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM: WHY THE CLASSIFICATION OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IS NECESSARY, DIFFICULT, AND NEVER SETTLED!