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Doomsday Preppers in New York City
On today’s episode of the QC Pod, we meet Prof. Anna Bounds (Sociology) to discuss doomsday preparation in New York City. Prof. Bounds is the author of Bracing for the Apocalypse: An Ethnographic Study of New York’s ‘Prepper’ Subculture (Routledge).
The Women of Generation X
In today’s episode of the QC Pod, we meet with Professor Robin Rogers from the Department of Sociology to discuss her research on the women of Generation X. The young women of the 1990s and 2000s were told that they could do everything that men could do, but were their expectations of a better life fulfilled? Are there lessons for younger generations?
The German Sociological Divide (Thomas Scheffer)
This week, The Annex discusses a cleavage in German sociology that resulted in the formation of the Academy of Sociology, an organization that splintered from the German Sociological Association in a spat that involved questions of scientific rigor in sociology. Here’s the back story:
Background
This summer, Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland tweeted:
To be a social science discipline sociology needs to adopt standards for transparency and reproducibility. All science is moving this way. Some parts of the discipline can’t or won’t. This may solidify qual/quant as science/notscience & I’m not sure the discipline can survive it
— Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) August 13, 2019
Stephen Vaisey of Duke University commented:
I don’t think this maps onto qual/quant neatly, but I think sociology could survive a split. Fields have done it (e.g., anthro). And others have few institutionalized subfields (e.g., PS). No reason to force us all to live in the same “house” *if* we are pursuing different goals. https://t.co/dSquII7WGH
— Stephen Vaisey (@vaiseys) August 14, 2019
This tweet generated multiple, very interesting reactions, including this one from Fabian Ochsenfeld.
In Germany, we now have two sociological associations, @DGSoziologie and @akadsoz. Orientation to theory and replication standards were explicitly mentioned as reasons to split (qual/quant not, but there’s a correlation). @socannex
— Fabian Ochsenfeld (@FOchsenfeld) August 21, 2019
This struck me as a tremendously interesting topic. It also turned out to be painfully difficult to find discussants. I struggled to find people to tell the story of the division between these two organizations. I’m grateful to Thomas Scheffer from Goethe University, who was gracious enough to tell us about this divide.
Please note: We were not able to secure someone to speak on behalf of the Academy of Sociology for this segment. I invite listeners to voice their views below, and I am happy to discuss follow-up discussions if warranted
Photo Credits
By Ribax (Diskussion) 10:53, 6. Mär. 2014 (CET) – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
Slow Peer Review
Elise Paradis from the University of Toronto pointed out that slow journal turnaround times hurt early-career researchers.
The question provoked a range of interesting discussions that we discuss here.
Michelle Silver is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society. She recently published Retirement and Discontents: Why We Won’t Stop Working, Even If We Can (Columbia University).
The Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting Program
The Southern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting program has drawings of the President in diapers. Is this good for the discipline?
Sexual Misconduct Allegations at Madison
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Joe, Leslie, Gabriel and Aliza Luft (UCLA) discuss sexual misconduct problems at the University of Wisconsin, Madison sociology department.
Aliza is an expert on genocide and extreme politics. She wrote “Toward a Dynamic Theory of Action at the Micro-Level of Genocide: Killing, Desistance, and Saving in 1994 Rwanda” in Sociological Theory.
Poverty Research in Southern Universities
Why isn’t there more?
UW Superior Closes Its Soc Department
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The University of Wisconsin, Superior closes its sociology department. We ask whether this is a canary in a coalmine, or an idiosyncratic event.
Why Did You Become a Sociologist?
We discuss how we became interested in sociology.