Guest posts
by Kimberly Kay Hoang and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
On January 3, 2009, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote an op-ed “If This Isn’t Slavery, What Is?” In it he described the …
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by annette lareau and aliya hamid rao
A key strength of in-depth interviews and ethnography is obtaining textured insights into social phenomenon. Yet, many qualitative researchers try to invoke the reliability of …
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by alexandra murphy and colin jerolmack
Demands for data transparency are sweeping across the social sciences. Calls for the sharing of survey instruments, code, databases, and even interview transcripts, have grown …
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by Stephen Barnard
Social media has come to play a significant role in Higher Education. Academics use social media for many things, including public scholarship, professional …
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by Rachel King
Hollywood's homogenous pap has competition, just not at the Oscars. How cheap and bleak are better than white and bland when it comes to movie-making.
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by Kim Weeden
Segregation among faculty is bad, but not that bad.
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by Andrew Lindner
In general, I try to avoid sociology inside-baseball. I enjoy reading about the triple crisis in sociology as much as the next guy, but …
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by Jennifer Lee
Ask a Sociologist: "I’m Asian. If I want my kids to get ahead in this country, should I change their Asian-sounding last name?"
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by Avi Goldberg
For the first time in a long time, workers from different college sectors actually talked to each other on our strike days, and the stories we shared were neither limited to the substance of our demands nor to the fears we hold over threats to our jobs.
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by Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson
New lawsuits, and state legislation, may start to change employer behavior for the better.
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