Qualitative Sociology
@qualsoc
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Peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the qualitative interpretation and analysis of social life.
Joined October 2019
Howie's last interview, as far as I know, is here:
Qualitative Sociology mourns the loss of the inimitable Howie Becker, who passed away at 95. It’s hard to find a more influential and generous qualitative sociologist, his ideas imprinted in the work of generations of students and scholars. He will be missed.
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Qualitative Sociology mourns the loss of the inimitable Howie Becker, who passed away at 95. It’s hard to find a more influential and generous qualitative sociologist, his ideas imprinted in the work of generations of students and scholars. He will be missed.
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We are excited to share our recently published interview with Howard Becker by Qualitative Sociology editor-in-chief, Claudio Benzecry. You can find the full text here:
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Got this in the mail from @AERA_EdResearch for my article in @qualsoc. Since its publication, I've had a couple of people reach out to me saying they enjoyed it or read it in class. It's such an honor to do research that actually reaches people. I feel so fortunate!
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In our June issue, Alissa Cordner conducts ethnographic research working as a firefighter to examine how firefighters draw from their experiences to contend with disaster-related uncertainties, including their responses to public health interventions.
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In our June issue, Annie Hikido draws from ethnographic research from South Africa to show how Black hostesses use their race, class, gender, and nation to make Black spaces feel safe for Western tourists while organizing to regulate township environment.
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In our June issue, @ehandsman analyzes magazine articles from 1985 to 2016 to examine how the narratives around character education evolved from a means for moral education to a means for improving academic performance and teaching students to have grit.
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In our June issue, @KendraJasonPhD and Brianna Turgeon use data from a national workforce development program for low-wage frontline workers to show how program supervisors invoked stereotypes to justify worker deprivation, reproducing social inequalities.
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In our June issue, based on interviews with DACA beneficiaries and their parents who visited Mexico through Advance Parole, @dr_emirestrada and @DrRuth_Alissa illustrate the impact that this trip had on intergenerational family and community relationships.
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In our June issue, Tracy L. Vargas finds how the automated management of Dollar General’s labor supply led to a degradation of labor and consumer redlining by undermining frontline managers’ authority and workers’ ability to resist precarious scheduling.
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In our June issue, Jack Katz observes how four types of social ecologies emerged in a neigborhood with each ecology operating in independent but interdependent ways without centralized or top-down leadership from government or businesses.
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Our second issue of the year is now up! You can find the articles here:
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In a couple of weeks (4/7), I'll be giving a talk on land occupation and eviction in the post-apartheid city at @UWMadison's "Africa at Noon" series – based on my recent piece in @qualsoc
https://t.co/c6M21UQO2g
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New article by section member Alissa Cordner in @qualsoc: "Staring at the Sun during Wildfire Season: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Front-Line Resistance in Disaster Preparation" https://t.co/a7cVbkqu6Y
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@RutgersDEWG is hosting Prof. Claudio Benzecry (co-editor of @qualsoc) on how to write an ethnographic article. Join us this Friday, Feb 26, 1-3p EST. Register here: https://t.co/anOLD6UJzN
@RutgersCommInfo @NorthwesternU @shannonmattern @CarlaShedd
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In our March issue: Alex Diamond analyzes the instrumental and moral reasons that motivated poor clients to donate goods and services to patrons in a rural Colombian mayoral election, identifying three levels of clientelist relationships that emerged.
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In our March issue: Allison Ford uses ethnographic methods to explain that the motivation driving the American “homesteader”&"prepper" trend to live “self-sufficiently” is a wish to alleviate the distress of depending on “untrustworthy” institutions.
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