Arlie Russell Hochschild recently commented “Whether Donald Trump rises or falls, we need sociology to take up the task of analyzing the rise of the right. And we need our government and society at large to address all the ways millions of Americans have been—in real life—left behind.” As the 2016 elections come to a…
Continue reading →This is a guest post by Ray Sin, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, is an Associate Behavioral Researcher at Morningstar Inc. What is Morningstar? What exactly do you do at Morningstar? What has sociology got to do with finance? These are some of the most common reactions when I tell folks,…
Continue reading →As part of Peer Review Week (September 19-25), Rory McVeigh, co-editor of the American Sociological Review, has written the following blog post. Thank you to our reviewers at all of our journals–your work is essential to the scholarly publishing process! Frustration with the peer review process among both authors and reviewers has led some sociologists…
Continue reading →Last year, ASA focused on why you #lovesociology. This year we would like to know how you are #doingsociology. What are you doing as a sociologist? Being a sociologist is about doing sociology. On the newly designed ASA website, there is a section on the homepage, titled “What Sociologists Do,” which highlights the important and…
Continue reading →Following another shooting of an unarmed black man by an officer of the law, sociologists took to social media to ask “What can we do?”. Whether debating topics on social media, discussing Black Lives Matter and racial bias and police shootings in blog posts (here and here), addressing racial issues in the media, or any…
Continue reading →This post is from Karen Gray Edwards, ASA Director of Publications and Membership In February, ASA became aware that ASA-owned journal content (and that of virtually all scholarly journals published by JSTOR, SAGE, Elsevier and other major journal publishers) had been illegally downloaded and made freely available through “Sci-Hub.” Elsevier initially led the legal fight…
Continue reading →This is a guest post by Syed Ali and Philip Cohen, Contexts co-editors. Contexts Magazine’s Ethnography Forum A few months ago, the ASA Council asked us if we’d be interested in organizing a forum on “best practices” in ethnography in response to recent highly critical press. Council asked that this not be more critique, but…
Continue reading →This is a guest post by Freeden Oeur at Tufts University on his Socius article, “Recognizing Dignity: Young Black Men Growing Up in an Era of Surveillance.” You can read more Socius articles at http://srd.sagepub.com/. Recognizing Dignity One finding animates studies of life in poor urban communities: young men yearn for respect, or the admiration and deference…
Continue reading →Like it or not, social media is a pervasive form of communication and a part of the way that we live now. Social media is an important way to promote one’s research and publications or a way to communicate with students. Inside Higher Ed recently wrote about a paper being presented at Information and Telecommunications…
Continue reading →This is a guest Post by Stephen Sweet at Ithaca College on his Teaching Sociology article, “How Departments Can Respond to the Changing Popularity of the Sociology Major,” which is based on his 2015 Hans O. Mauksch Address. Sociology is losing a popularity contest. True, there are now more sociology majors but there are also…
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