Thanks to everyone who came to see us at ASA’s annual meeting in San Francisco, Hard Times. For our parting shot, here’s Executive Editor Naomi Schneider with some of our illustrious authors: Till …
UC Press staff and editors are having a great time at the American Sociological Association (ASA)’s annual meeting, Hard Times: The Impact of Economic Inequality on Families and Individuals. Here are some of …
by Rachel Heiman One afternoon, while working as an “ethnographic babysitter” during fieldwork on middle class anxieties amid the lead up to the economic crisis, I was driving 11-year old Doug to …
by Catherine Connell “This is going to say a lot about me, but I wish there were more openly gay men and lesbians in [education]. I’m not going to run out and …
by John Iceland What does income inequality have to do with the Great Recession? After all, wasn’t the recession mainly caused by hanky-panky in the financial sector (or, to put it more …
by Sanyu A. Mojola Jacqueline, a Kenyan high school girl, wanted to be modern. She was not poor, but she nonetheless had needs. As she explained, “You know, if you are a …
by Marianne Cooper, adapted from this post in the Huffington Post “We are probably in the top 1 percent of all American households . . . So I can’t complain . . …
by Hilary Levey Friedman Lois was one of the most involved moms I have ever met. She gave up her professional career to manage the childhood careers of her daughters, which involved …
by Margaret Gray The burgeoning local food movement comes with a promotional promise: buying direct from the farmer seals a bond of intimacy, offers fresher and tastier products, and is more wholesome …
by Ken Kolb “I want a restraining order against him right now.” The first time I heard a client say this during my research, I was surprised by the response she received. …