In this episode of The Annex, we discuss how conceptions of danger influence police culture with Michael Sierra-Arevalo (University of Texas, Austin). Sierra-Arevalo recently published “American Policing and the Danger Imperative” in Law and Society.
Photo Credit. Bain News Service, Publisher. Police, Bayonne strike. , 1916. [?] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2014702988/.
Today, The Annex discusses an exchange in Contexts between Northwestern law professor Steven Lubet and UC Berkeley sociologist Michael Burawoy on the need to fact-check ethnography and the legality of studying violent crimes in progress. Read the pieces: "Accuracy in Ethnography: Narratives, Documents, and Circumstances" by Lubet."Empricism and Its Fallacies" by Burawoy. Margaret Hagerman is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University. She wrote White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU Press). Twitter: @MaggieHagerman Jean Beaman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purdue University. Jean wrote Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France( (University of California Press). Twitter: @jean23bean Photo Credits By Dosseman - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link ...
COVID-19 is at New York City's doorstep. To get a sense of our immediate future, I spoke with two colleagues from Italy's Bucconi University. Alex Kentikelenis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bucconi. He has a long and impressive list of publications on international organization and political economy. Most recently, " “The Making of Neoliberal Globalization: Norm Substitution and the Politics of Clandestine Institutional Change" in the American Journal of Sociology. Gabor Scheiring is a Postdoc at Bucconi. He is a Hungarian economist and politician. In addition to his impressive publication record, he is also a former member of the Hungarian Parliament. Photo By Dany Crash - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link ...
In this episode, Daniel Morrison sits down with Patricia Homan (Florida State University) to discuss the impact of structural sexism on the wellbeing of religiously active people. Patricia published “Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System” in the American Sociological Review, and recently followed it up in the same journal with “When Religion Hurts: Structural Sexism and Health in Religious Congregations.” Credit. By J. L. Nichols – The file was scanned in from a reprint of a book called Safe Counsel, or Practical Eugenics, a public domain book from 1928 by B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols. Reprint was from “Intext Press”, which reissues public domain books, and the reprint is ISBN 0-88444-010-9., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27683644 ...
