sunday morning sociology, gender special edition

Last week’s hubbub over GSS data and the gender attitudes of “kids these days” may have obscured some of the more complicated trends found by Pepin and Cotter, like the above. Check out the rest of the CCF symposium here.

A weekly link round-up of sociological work – work by sociologists, referencing sociologists, or just of interest to sociologists. This scatterplot feature is co-produced with Mike Bader.

This week’s links include everything from sexist interruptions at the Supreme Court to the politics of biological sex differences.

Urban Sociology

• ProPublica finds that auto insurers charge more in minority neighborhoods, net controls.
• “It’s not a religious issue, it’s a zoning issue.” Zoning laws are targeting Mosques across the country.
•  “She believed this manager, because when he was making the threat he was wearing the red hat—the ‘Make America Great Again’ hat—and to her mind that meant, ‘This is a person who really hates me,’” As fears of deportation rise, landlords find immigrants easier to exploit.
• How much does segregation cost a city? And will quantifying this convince anyone to fix the problem?

Economic Sociology

• How Harvard ruined American business.
• Is corporate concentration causing inequality?
• ProMarket economists remember that “pro-market” is not the same as “pro-business,” and that the US may need more anti-trust enforcement.

Organizations, Occupations, and Work

• Like Burawoy, but for Uber.
• Alison Pugh on what happens when stable work disappears.

Political Sociology with Fancy Methods

• If you subtract politics out of Trump’s reddit supporters, you’re left with racism, sexism, and body-shaming.
• Democrats and Republicans buy different science books – but everyone loves dinosaurs.

Race, Class, and Gender

• From #OscarsSoWhite to #BlackLivesMatter, Blackness is integral to Twitter, but rarely given appropriate recognition.
• “Unarmed. Not wearing a seatbelt. Running away. Police are more likely to shoot if you’re black.” Data visualization at its most powerful.
• Missing White women really do get more media coverage.

Gender and Sexism Special Section

• Financial advisors who screw up can get a second chance – if they’re men.
• “Do U.S. women choose low-paid occupations, or do low-paid occupations choose them?”
• Of course, RBG gets interrupted more than her male colleagues on the Court. More detailed write-up here.
• Could Silicon Valley fix online harassment? How much do they really care?
• Cordelia Fine and Rebecca Jordan-Young explain that critiquing bad biological sex differences research is about making biology better, not denying its existence.

Etc.

• How defunding the EPA would ruin the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay.
• Dan Drezner on the death of public intellectuals and the rise of thought leaders. Drezner argues that we have a dearth of exit from the marketplace of ideas, as discredited solutions fail to leave the field.