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Sociology Engaged in Social Justice
This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, from its inception, been engaged in social justice. I argue that a critical review of our discipline and our Association’s vaunted empiricist tradition of objectivity, in which sociologists are detached from their research, was accomplished by a false history and sociology of sociology that ignored, isolated, and marginalized some of the founders. In the past half-century, scholaractivists, working-class sociologists, sociologists of color, women sociologists, indigenous sociologists, and LGBTQ sociologists have similarly been marginalized and discouraged from pursuing social justice issues and applied research within our discipline. Being ignored by academic sociology departments has led them to create or join homes in interdisciplinary programs and other associations that embrace applied and scholar-activist scholarship. I offer thoughts about practices that the discipline and Association should use to reclaim sociology’s social justice tradition.
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Nanny Diaries and Other Stories: Immigrant Women’s Labor in the Social Reproduction of American Families
This article investigates the erasure of immigrant women from our vision of who we are as US citizens. It analyzes the process and function of placing immigrant domestics and nannies in the shadows and avoiding issues surrounding employee rights, safety and health problems, and childcare needs. Analyzing the social processes and structures that reproduce family, community and nation is central to understanding the maintenance of social inequality. I refocus the immigration lens to frame the reproduction of the American lifestyle requiring an abundance of exploitable immigrant women labor in the twenty-first century. I argue that the nexus of immigration, nationality, and markets is central to the social reproduction of the \"American\" family, communities, and nation. Immigrant women assist affluent families in the United States and internationally; this assistance is vital to \"conceiving the new world order\" (Ginsburg and Rayna 1995, xi). Although hidden from the public's view as they work in their employers' homes, visible signs do exist: immigrant riders of color on public transportation in affluent neighborhoods, and women of color, frequently in uniforms, in parks caring for white children or pushing the wheelchairs of their invalid charges. I contend that contemporary social, economic, and legal conditions shape the constraints and opportunities for immigrant household workers and nannies, as well as their families. Consequently, these conditions (1) reproduce gender, race, ethnic, and class privileges; (2) blur the ideological contradictions of equality and justice embedded in the American Dream; and (3) reinforce the existing social stratification. Adapted from the source document.
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Reflections on “The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative”
The author joined the American Sociological Association (ASA) in the late 1970s; since then there have been only a few events bringing members together to reflect on race relations, systemic racism, and the inclusion of race in curricula. The town hall meeting at the 2016 ASA Annual Meetings in Seattle, Washington, was one of the significant moments when people turned their sociological imagination on themselves. This is a time to lift the veils, to make visible the social inequalities within our discipline. In particular, they need to discuss racial injustices that ASA members of color experience throughout their careers. This essay is a reflection on 36 years teaching sociology inside and outside sociology departments -- as well as my participation in the ASA. Presenting his findings at conferences in the 1990s, he was confronted by critics that his findings were not racialized but common experiences that all graduate students experience including: competing for teaching and research assistantships; accessing mentorship; valuing only academically gained and credentialed knowledge; favoring traditional aged students over older ones.
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The Blackwell companion to social inequalities
The Blackwell Companion to Social Inequalities is a first-rate collection of social science scholarship on inequalities, emphasizing race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, age, and nationality.
* Highlights themes that represent the scope and range of theoretical orientations, contemporary emphases, and emerging topics in the field of social inequalities.
* Gives special attention to debates in the field, developing trends and directions, and interdisciplinary influences in the study of social inequalities.
* Includes an editorial introduction and suggestions for further reading.
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trump’s immigration attacks, in brief
A look at the Trump administration’s attacks on Mexicans, Muslims, and unauthorized immigrants and how they’ve undermined longstanding policy and public perception.
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Honoring Our Own: Rethinking Indigenous Languages and Literacy
Today Indigenous peoples worldwide are deconstructing Western paradigms, including the classic constructs of literacy connected to alphabet systems, and articulating and constructing their own distinct paradigms based on Indigenous epistemologies and rooted in self-determination and social justice. A vital aspect of these efforts is the ''rethinking of our thinking\" and a reexamination of our priorities as a means for reconstituting, reproducing, and validating our own intellectual traditions and cultural knowledge and processes.
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