Dr. Judith Lorber, '08 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Judith Lorber, '08 Keynote Speaker

JUDITH LORBER is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Women’s Studies at The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. degree from New York University in 1971 and began developing and teaching courses in women’s studies in 1972. She was the first Coordinator of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Women's Studies Certificate Program and was Founding Editor of Gender & Society, official publication of Sociologists for Women in Society.

Barbara F. Reskin | American Sociological Association

Barbara F. Reskin | American Sociological Association

Barbara F. Reskin served as the 93rd President of the American Sociological Association. Her Presidential Address, entitled "Modeling Ascriptive Inequality - From Motives to Mechanisms," was delivered at the Association's 2002 Annual Meeting in Chicago, and was later published in the February 2003 issue of the American Sociological Review (ASR Vol 68 No 1, pp 1-21). Reskin is currently with the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington.

Living together no longer 'playing house' - USATODAY.com

Living together no longer 'playing house' - USATODAY.com

• The odds of divorce among women who married their only cohabiting partner were 28% lower than among women who never cohabited before marriage, according to sociologist Daniel Lichter of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

• Divorce rates for those who cohabit more than once are more than twice as high as for women who cohabited only with their eventual husbands, says Lichter's study, to be published in the Journal of Marriage and Family in December.

• Cohabiting between a first and second marriage doesn't raise the risk of divorce — unless the woman brings a child into the marriage from a previous relationship. A man with a child from a previous relationship does not raise the likelihood of a second divorce, finds a study in the May Journal of Marriage and Family, in which Teachman analyzed findings on 655 women from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth.

Abuse risk seen worse as families change - USATODAY.com

Abuse risk seen worse as families change - USATODAY.com

•Children living in households with unrelated adults are nearly 50 times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as children living with two biological parents, according to a study of Missouri abuse reports published in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2005.

NAFTA and Mexican Immigration

NAFTA and Mexican Immigration

It was supposed to be the magic wand that took care of immigration. The North American Free Trade Agreement was to make Mexico rich and create enough employment incentives to keep its people at home. It has been anything but. More than ten years after the signing of the treaty, economic growth has been anemic in Mexico, averaging less than 3.5 percent per year or less than 2 percent on a per capita basis since 2000; unemployment is higher than what it was when the treaty was signed; and half of the labor force must eke out a living in invented jobs in the informal economy, a figure ten percent higher than in the pre-NAFTA years. Meanwhile, jobs in the runaway maquiladora industry that left the United States to profit from free trade and cheap labor commonly pay close to the Mexican minimum wage of U.S. $7.00 per day, an amount so small in the now “open” Mexican market as to force people into informal jobs or across the border.

Julie Lynem: Affordable doesn’t mean low prices - Local - San Luis Obispo

Julie Lynem: Affordable doesn’t mean low prices - Local - San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo County is making some inroads in housing affordability, at least in a small way.

It moved from the nation’s second to the third least affordable metropolitan area in the fourth quarter of last year, edged out only by San Francisco and New York, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index.

But that news gives Jerry Rioux, executive director of the nonprofit San Luis Obispo County Housing Trust Fund, little reason to celebrate. “More people can afford to buy, but compared to where it should be, we’re still horrible,’’ he said.

Roughly 20 percent of homes sold in the fourth quarter were affordable to a family earning the median income of $67,000 considering a median home sale price of $376,000, according to the index.

OpEdNews » Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War against Socialism

OpEdNews » Sean Hannity's Ridiculous War against Socialism

Refuse to send your kids to socialized public schools and universities; refuse to use socialized roads and highways; refuse to call upon socialized police and fire departments; shut down the socialized air traffic control; refuse to visit socialized national parks; tell grandma that her Social Security and Medicare will have to be sent back to the government; demand the immediate dismantling of our socialized American military. Sarah Palin and her supporters in Alaska should refuse all forms of "redistributed wealth" by sending back their checks from the socialized oil program there.

Send it all back. I'm sure the entire roster of Neo-McCarthyite pundits enumerated above -- Limbaugh, Scarborough, Hannity and the like -- have already forgone their usage of these socialist services so we can assume they've figured out a ways to get by. How hard can it be really? I mean, who needs roads when there are hot-air balloons and jet packs. Socialist fire departments? A house fire will eventually burn itself out, won't it? As for the pre-socialist 50-percent poverty rate for the elderly? If we can put a man on the Moon (also a socialist program), we can invent some bootstraps that'll fit over grandma's therapeutic stockings.

Teen FightTube: Local students are posting video of school scuffles online - Local - San Luis Obispo

Teen FightTube: Local students are posting video of school scuffles online - Local - San Luis Obispo

The growing predominance of such videos online provides a glimpse into the savvy and growing multimedia youth culture. The number of youths using such sites continues to grow — challenging school officials with the task of navigating the new terrain and protecting students from intentional intimidation.

2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family - Some Mothers, Single by Choice, Stick Together - NYTimes.com

2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family - Some Mothers, Single by Choice, Stick Together - NYTimes.com

IN 1960, UNMARRIED MOTHERS accounted for about 5 percent of births in the United States. Now they are having almost 40 percent of the country’s babies. About half of these women are on their own, and the other half are living with a man at the time of the birth, according to Pamela Smock, a sociology professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The stock characters of the explosion of out-of-wedlock births are feckless fathers and hapless young mothers. It’s true that most unmarried mothers are still in their 20s — and less often in their teens — and have no more than a high-school education. But as television’s Murphy Brown predicted in the 1990s, an increasing number of unmarried mothers look a lot more like Fran McElhill and Nancy Clark — they are college-educated, and they are in their 30s, 40s and 50s.

Welfare Aid Not Growing As Economy Drops Off - NYTimes.com

Welfare Aid Not Growing As Economy Drops Off - NYTimes.com

Despite soaring unemployment and the worst economic crisis in decades, 18 states cut their welfare rolls last year, and nationally the number of people receiving cash assistance remained at or near the lowest in more than 40 years.

Is Membership in the Forest Lake Country Club Inherently 'Sensationalist'?

I see what Katon did as evidence of his commitment to
including and involving people from all walks of life and all races.
Katon took a stand for what was right. He stood up in front of his
friends at the club and told them what they were doing was wrong, and
when they refused to change, he decided to leave. I’m not saying that
Katon deserves a medal for the courage he showed that day, but I do
think this one incident revealed the depths of Katon’s personal
commitment to inclusion.

Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? - TIME

Are Romantic Movies Bad For You? - TIME

Last week, researchers at Heriot Watt University's Family and Personal Relationships Laboratory in Edinburgh, which studies best practices in relationship counseling, completed a study of 40 Hollywood romantic comedies released between 1995-2005. They found that problems typically reported by couples in relationship counseling at their counseling center reflect misconceptions about love and romance depicted in Hollywood films.

What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com

What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com

Meredith Chivers is a creator of bonobo pornography. She is a 36-year-old psychology professor at Queen’s University in the small city of Kingston, Ontario, a highly regarded scientist and a member of the editorial board of the world’s leading journal of sexual research, Archives of Sexual Behavior. The bonobo film was part of a series of related experiments she has carried out over the past several years. She found footage of bonobos, a species of ape, as they mated, and then, because the accompanying sounds were dull — “bonobos don’t seem to make much noise in sex,” she told me, “though the females give a kind of pleasure grin and make chirpy sounds” — she dubbed in some animated chimpanzee hooting and screeching. She showed the short movie to men and women, straight and gay. To the same subjects, she also showed clips of heterosexual sex, male and female homosexual sex, a man masturbating, a woman masturbating, a chiseled man walking naked on a beach and a well-toned woman doing calisthenics in the nude.

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Staff › Professor Julia Twigg - School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research - University of Kent

Staff › Professor Julia Twigg - School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research - University of Kent

Carework: I have a long-term interest in carework and in the care workforce. In particular I am interested in the ways in which carework is a species of bodywork, and I have written on this as an occupational category.
Paper: Carework as a form of bodywork (pdf)

http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/staff/academic/twigg/care-body.pdf

Our National Eating Disorder

The New York Times > Magazine > Our National Eating Disorder

October 17, 2004
Our National Eating Disorder
By MICHAEL POLLAN

Carbophobia, the most recent in the centurylong series of food fads to wash over the American table, seems to have finally crested, though not before sweeping away entire bakeries and pasta companies in its path, panicking potato breeders into redesigning the spud, crumbling whole doughnut empires and, at least to my way of thinking, ruining an untold number of meals. America's food industry, more than happy to get behind any new diet as long as it doesn't actually involve eating less food, is still gung-ho on Low Carb, it's true, but in the last few weeks, I can report some modest success securing a crust of bread, and even the occasional noodle, at tables from which such staples were banned only a few months ago.

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

In addition, a majority of those imagining the encounter predicted that they would not pick the racist student as their partner. However, those who were actually present in the room showed no tendency to shun the white student, even when he had been rude about the black one. People, it seems, are rather more prejudiced than they think they are.

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

The origins of prejudice | The price of prejudice | The Economist

Not surprisingly, they reported that weight was the least important factor in their choice. However, their actual decisions revealed that no other attribute counted more heavily. In fact, they were willing to sacrifice quite a bit to have a thin team-mate. They would trade 11 IQ points—about 50% of the range of IQs available—for a colleague who was suitably slender.

In a second study the team asked another group, this time of students who were about to graduate, to consider hypothetical job opportunities at consulting firms. The positions varied in starting salary, location, holiday time and the sex of the potential boss.

When it came to salary, location and holiday, the students’ decisions matched their stated preferences. However, the boss’s sex turned out to be far more important than they said it was (this was true whether a student was male or female). In effect, they were willing to pay a 22% tax on their starting salary to have a male boss.

Cities Ranked and Rated

Cities Ranked and Rated

Cities Ranked and Rated, 2nd Edition, finally boils down all the variables into an overall city rating.

1. Gainesville, FL
2. Bellingham, WA
3. Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA
4. Colorado Springs, CO
5. Ann Arbor, MI
6. Ogden-Clearfield, UT
7. Asheville, NC
8. Fort Collins-Loveland, CO
9. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
10. Boise City-Nampa, ID

Obama the 'Magic Negro' - Los Angeles Times

Obama the 'Magic Negro' - Los Angeles Times

Obama the 'Magic Negro'
The Illinois senator lends himself to white America's idealized, less-than-real black man.

Sociologists Explore “Emotional Labor” of Black Professionals in the Workplace

News | American Sociological Association

Sociologists Explore “Emotional Labor” of Black Professionals in the Workplace
BOSTON — Black professionals make extra efforts in the workplace to fulfill what they believe are the expectations of their white colleagues, according to research to be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Sociologists Marlese Durr of Wright State University and her co-author Adia Harvey Wingfield of Georgia State University argue that black professionals engage in two types of “emotional performance” in the workplace: General etiquette and racialized emotion maintenance.

Growing Income Gap among U.S. Families Suggests Increasing Economic Insecurity, Threat to Middle Class

News | American Sociological Association

December 17, 2008

Growing Income Gap among U.S. Families Suggests Increasing Economic Insecurity, Threat to Middle Class

WASHINGTON, DC — The incomes of American families with children have become increasingly stratified since 1975, with income inequality increasing two-thirds during a 30-year period, according to findings published in the December issue of the peer-reviewed science journal American Sociological Review.

“The gap between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ is widening for families with children in the United States,” said Bruce Western, the study’s lead author and professor of sociology and director of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at Harvard University. “Inequality for these families has grown faster than the combined rates of inequality for all families and for men’s hourly wages.”

Dr. Anthony Greenwald/Unpublished Manuscripts

Dr. Anthony Greenwald/Unpublished Manuscripts

Anthony Greenwald, PhD
IN-PROGRESS MANUSCRIPTS & CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students - NYTimes.com

Math Gains Reported for U.S. Students - NYTimes.com

American fourth- and eighth-grade students made solid achievement gains in math in recent years and in two states showed spectacular progress, an international survey of student achievement released on Tuesday found. Science performance was flat.