by Susan Starr Sered I first met Elizabeth at a drop-in center for poor and homeless women shortly after she was released from prison. Elizabeth’s father was a firefighter. Her mother worked …
Read More >by Sarah Halpern-Meekin Marissa Lopez and her toddler were scraping by on welfare in the late 1990s. Soon after she had her second daughter, she hit Massachusetts’ two-year time limit on welfare …
Read More >by Hadar Aviram In 2009, for the first time in almost forty years, the total number of inmates in the United states declined—a trend that persists since then. Six states have recently …
Read More >by Joel Best and Eric Best Last month brought the collapse of Corinthian Colleges, a large–but by no means the largest—for-profit college. The Department of Education struggled to engineer a soft landing …
Read More >by Arlie Russell Hochschild In So How’s the Family and other Essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild—author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart, The Outsourced Self, The Second Shift and …
Read More >At UC Press, we believe that scholarship can advance knowledge and drive change. That’s why we asked our authors to share stories from their research that reflect on this year’s American Sociological …
Read More >Susan Terrio’s research on the unaccompanied children in U.S. immigration custody has led her to places few others witness. The Office of Refugee Resettlement granted Terrio rare access to 20 federal facilities …
Read More >Patricia Miller was interviewed on the show State of Belief with Rev. Welton Gaddy about the history of the “Scarlet ‘A’” in America—abortion. Her book, Good Catholics: The Battle over Abortion in …
Read More >Guest post by Cecilia Menjívar The prison is in the middle of nowhere, in the desert, about 45 minutes from Phoenix. To enter it, I had to go through a gate with …
Read More >As we celebrate GLBT Pride Month, Executive Editor Niels Hooper looks back at the radical movements throughout history that expanded and redefined notions of gender and queer culture. Guest post by Niels Hooper …
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