sunday morning sociology, what a week edition!

Via Pew, response rates for telephone surveys. Their report discusses the extent to which these low response rates seem to be biasing certain poll questions (not as much as you might think, they argue).

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.

A lot happened this week. So, here’s a lot of links!

Media Sociology

• Data & Society’s report on media manipulation and fake news.
• The crisis in journalism is local.

Race, Gender, and Sexuality

• Sociologist Brubaker on the Hypatia/Tuvel/Dolezal affair in the NYT.
• Trans philosophy prof Rohl on the Hypatia/Tuvel/Dolezal affair in Medium.
• The Census should collect data on LGBT individuals.
• Venture capitalists in Sweden talk about women and men entrepreneurs very differently. 
• Sociologist Jennifer Lee and Karthick Ramakrishnan show that the category “Asian American” includes different people depending on who you ask.
• For a century, upward mobility for black kids has been lower than that for whites whose fathers have similar jobs.
• Men who enter into professions dominated by women try to find “technical” rather than “caring” niches.

Urban Sociology

• A counter to the argument that people should leave depressed towns.
• A review of Bruce Hayne’s new memoir about his family’s life in Harlem.
• An interview with Derek Hyra about his new book.
• Single-family zoning as a mechanism of opportunity hoarding.
• Economist Robert Shiller argues that sociological narratives are needed to explain the housing boom, narratives like the rise of the flipper.
• The government, not (just) the market, is responsible for segregation in America.
• Economic anxiety, structural racism, and interpersonal racism are all needed to explain white flight from Northern cities.

Political Sociology

• Young Republicans were more likely to become young Democrats in the past year than vice versa (but just 10% of people switched, and the net movement was very small).
• Ann Coulter’s speech wasn’t canceled – it had never been scheduled.

Economic Sociology

• Factory jobs are not inherently good jobs, they are good jobs if workers get enough power to make them so (Tesla edition).
• Should the Federal Government guarantee every American a job who wants one? An old idea is resurfacing.
• US healthcare costs too much, in part because of overtreatment.

Etc.

• Game theory and grade inflation in elite higher ed.
• “If I have painted a bleak picture, it is because things are bleak.” Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci on software updates, security, etc.
• A gorgeous and disturbing NYT story on the melting antarctic ice.
  
• “You know how to make meaning. What a wonderful skill for a terrible world.” Tressie MC’s sociology commencement speech.