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news sociology colloquium 4/28/2021 april 19 2021 sociology colloquium 4/28/2021 community food security & food justice dr monica m white university of wisconsin-madison dr monica white dr monica m white is associate professor of environmental justice at the university of wisconsin-madison with a joint appointment in the gaylord nelson institute for environmental studies and the department of community and environmental sociology her research engages communities of color and grassroots organizations that are involved in the development of sustainable community food systems as a strategy to respond to issues of hunger and food inaccessibility her publications include sisters of the soil: urban gardening as resistance among black women in detroit and d-town farm: african american resistance to food insecurity and the transformation of detroit her first book freedom farmers: agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement (university of north carolina press 2018) which contextualizes new forms of contemporary urban agriculture within the historical legacies of african american farmers who fought to acquire and stay on the land using historical and contemporary examples (including george washington carver fannie lou hamer booker t washington w e b dubois the federation of southern cooperatives and the detroit black community food security network) the book examines the development of farmers cooperatives as strategies of resistance and documents the ways that these organizations in general and black farmers specifically have contributed to the black freedom movement freedom farmers is the winner of the 2019 eduardo bonilla-silva book award society for the study of social problems division on racial and ethnic minorities and the 2020 association for the study of food and society first book award unc press book page (https://uncpressorg/book/9781469643700/freedom-farmers/) dr whites personal website (http://monicamariewhitecom) april 28 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 912 5613 7575 passcode: 828944 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news community food justice food security
news donate to dr jane sell graduate fellowship april 18 2021 donate to dr jane sell graduate fellowship the department of sociology recently founded the dr jane sell graduate fellowship to provide funding for graduate students who are working to understand the causes and consequences of social inequality in groups this fellowship will be given out annually to a graduate student researching topics like social justice status inequality inequality in groups the use of public goods or similar topics your donation will go directly to support aggie students! to donate online: go to wwwtxamfoundationcom/give select an unlisted account (enter manually) from drop down menu enter account #02-512915-30000 in the additional comments section please enter dr jane sell fellowship graduate school is a very busy time where students are taking courses working on research projects and class assistantships this fellowship will help students afford to spend time collecting their own data writing research articles traveling to academic conferences and other living expenses the more we raise the more we can help students! for example: $4 000 would cover in-state resident tuition and fees for a semester $1 000 would cover travel to a major academic conference $180 would cover a subscription to analysis software for a year $50 would cover registration for an academic conference (at the student rate) dr jane sell retired in august 2020 after spending her whole career – more than 40 years – at texas a&m university during that time the department of sociology grew from a new program to one that is now home to more than 75 graduate students dr sell has always been a tireless advocate for students staff colleagues and rigorous science (you can read a tribute to her written when she won the 2017 cooley-mead award for distinguished scholarship here) join us today in funding the dr jane sell fellowship for graduate students jane devoted her career to helping graduate students at texas a&m and this annual fellowship in her name is a fitting tribute thank you for supporting our students and please help us spread the word! news dr jane sell fellowship spirit of giving
news sociology colloquium 4/21/2021 april 18 2021 sociology colloquium 4/21/2021 time will tell: an organizational model of sponsorship of business recovery after disaster dr patricia thornton and dr maria watson texas a&m university we develop a general model of when and how aid organizations respond to businesses recovering from natural disasters such as hurricanes earthquakes and pandemics in particular we examine two main factors underlying the ability of organizations to respond to natural disaster: the amount of resources for allocation and the timing of resource allocation disaster environments are characterized by institutional fragmentation and time compression in which a variety of actors guided by different institutional logics must work together under extraordinary time constraints as distinct from normal times we suggest that decision makers interpretation of resource allocation under these conditions depends on their specialization in institutional logics that shape their capabilities to interpret and offer response the merits of a disaster loan program for example will be evaluated differently depending on whether or not decision-makers have specialization in state community or market institutional logics reigning urban planning models of business recovery after natural disaster assume institutional homogeneity and time compression based on clock time we contribute to institutional theory and urban planning research by extending this baseline model to examine cultural and sequence-based time this elaborated model generates four responses: inaccessible resources inadequate resources delayed resources and optimal resources this model has useful implications for public policy and the strategic management of natural disasters because research shows that disaster assistance for business recovery is not necessarily efficient or effective in spite of increasingly vast amounts of financial resources allocated april 21 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 947 5835 6413 passcode: 436312 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news business recovery natural disasters organizational model organizations
news sociology colloquium 4/14/2021 april 8 2021 sociology colloquium 4/14/2021 from the inside out: the fight for environmental justice in government agencies dr jill lindsay harrison university of colorado boulder prof jill lindsey harrison will present the findings from her new book from the inside out: the fight for environmental justice within government agencies (mit press 2019) from the inside out lifts the veil on the us environmental protection agency and other environmental regulatory agencies to offer new insights into why they fail to reduce harmful toxics and other hazards in our nations most environmentally overburdened and vulnerable communities it examines the disappointing pace of environmental regulatory agencies environmental justice (ej) programs and policies as a case through which to understand why despite reducing air and water pollution for the nation overall government has not protected the communities who suffer the most other scholars have shown that budget cuts industry pressure and other factors outside the control of agency staff constrain the possibilities for ej reforms to regulatory practice this book shows that agencies ej efforts are also undermined by elements of regulatory workplace culture particularly colorblind notions of fairness and utilitarian measures of effectiveness through extensive interviews with and observations of staff at numerous environmental regulatory agencies across the united states harrison show that agencies ej efforts are undermined by everyday ways in which well-meaning staff dedicated to environmental regulation reject ej reforms as violating what they think their organization does and should do april 14 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 976 8595 4537 passcode: 577609 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news community environment government justice regulation vulnerability
news sociology colloquium 4/7/2021 april 1 2021 sociology colloquium 4/7/2021 all societies die: how to keep hope alive dr samuel cohn texas a&m university no society has ever lived longer than 1000 years most societies do not make it that long if we date the current euro-american world system from its inception in the late fourteenth century – our current world system is 650 years old at best we are middle aged at worst old societal death is a normal process this talk will review the general literature in macrosociology identifying the crisis tendencies the modern world system faces i avoid the standard sociological cliches i make no reference to any internal contradictions of capitalism adverse ecological change plays at best a minor role there are other threats that have taken down societies in the past we are not immune to any of them april 7 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 969 4306 0311 passcode: 493602 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news euro-american macrosociology societies world system
news sociology colloquium 3/31/2021 march 23 2021 sociology colloquium 3/31/2021 small in size selective in location limited on healthcare access improvement: exploring the accessibility of micro-hospitals in texas through demographic spatial modeling jingqiu ren ryan earl and dr ernesto amaral texas a&m university micro-hospitals are a new form of for-profit healthcare facility with rapid expansion in some parts of the country micro-hospitals in texas continue to grow without specific regulatory schemes public understanding or policy guidance on their commercial outcomes versus their social accountability our project aims to define and delineate hospital service areas based on driving distances from micro- and regular hospitals as well as examine how their population characteristics may be associated with the location choices of micro-hospitals in texas specifically we 1) estimated hospital service areas (catchment areas) with a spatial model based on advanced geographic information system (gis) methods using a proprietary esri traffic network; 2) assigned population socioeconomic measures to these catchment areas from the 2014–2018 american community survey 5-year estimates weighted with an empirically tested gaussian distribution; 3) used two-tailed t-tests to compare population characteristics means between micro hospital and regular hospital catchment areas and 4) conducted logistic regressions to examine relationships between selected population variables and the odds of micro-hospitals locating in their neighborhoods population socioeconomic characteristics have long been associated with healthcare inequality we found micro hospitals in texas tend to serve a population less stressed in healthcare access compared to those who are more in need as measured by various dimensions of disadvantages we hope our analysis will help foster regulatory and structural policy decisions that balance growing healthcare delivery innovations and their social accountability march 31 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 929 0510 2934 passcode: 006910 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news gis healthcare micro-hospital spatial modeling texas
news sociology colloquium 3/24/2021 march 22 2021 sociology colloquium 3/24/2021 deported to death: asylum drug violence and immigration enforcement on the us mexico border dr jeremy slack the university of texas at el paso during the trump administration a number of policies and practices led to a concentration of asylum seekers and deportees stuck at the us mexico border this builds upon the past decade of escalation in non-state violence directed at migrants in the form of kidnapping extortion and forced labor this talk draws from my recent book as well as new research that chronicles how trumps border and immigration policies made exposure to criminal violence an explicit aspect of the deterrence narrative moreover as we head into new challenges as well as the potential for reform the covid restrictions of title 42 and title 8 are causing unintended consequences up and down the border march 24 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 972 5055 8403 passcode: 649741 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news asylum seekers deportation trump us mexico border violence
news statement condemning anti-asian violence march 20 2021 statement condemning anti-asian violence the department of sociology condemns the continued violence directed at asian communities in the united states and stands in solidarity with our asian communities in their grief and outrage we unequivocally condemn anti-asian racism and discrimination in all forms the death of six asian american women in the suburbs of atlanta on tuesday march 16 2021 is a result of both misogyny and anti-asian racism the attack represents only the most recent example of violence against asian communities in this country we call on members of texas a&m university to actively step in when they witness hateful actions against asians it is our duty to recognize and teach that this racism and misogyny have deep historical and cultural roots and work tirelessly to eradicate anti-asian racism news anti-asian racism misogyny united states violence
news sociology colloquium 3/17/2021 march 13 2021 sociology colloquium 3/17/2021 stagnant dreamers: how the inner city shapes the integration of second generation latinos dr maría g rendón university of california irvine professor maría g rendón is a sociologist who examines the integration process of latino immigrants and their children in the united states she pays close attention to role of spatial inequality and examines how urban neighborhoods shape life trajectories particularly educational attainment and social mobility she is the author of stagnant dreamers: how the inner city shapes the integration of second-generation latinos (russell sage foundation 2019) a longitudinal study that follows a group of latino young men as they transition to adulthood based on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations with them and their immigrant parents stagnant dreamers describes the challenges they face coming of age in the inner city and accessing higher education and good jobs and demonstrates how family-based social ties and community institutions can serve as buffers against neighborhood violence chronic poverty incarceration and other negative outcomes stagnant dreamers has received several awards by the american sociological association including the robert e park award (community and urban sociology section); distinguished contribution to research book award (latina/o sociology); honorable mention for the thomas and znaniecki best book award (international migration) it was also a finalist for the pierre bourdieu book award (sociology of education) and the international latino book award march 17 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 934 7085 9463 passcode: 609731 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news dreamers inner city integration latinos second generation
news sociology colloquium 3/3/2021 february 28 2021 sociology colloquium 3/3/2021 an ugly word: rethinking race in italy dr ann morning new york university the relevance of race for analyzing and combating social exclusion and stratification worldwide has been a subject of heated controversy based on interviews with young people in an aspiring color-blind italy and a united states that has been called race-obsessed we propose a framework for analyzing concepts of descent-based difference in comparative perspective that provides more flexible detailed and precise measures of such beliefs than race or ethnicity offer march 3 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 964 8371 9947 passcode: 344846 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news italy race social exclusion stratification united states
news sociology colloquium 2/3/2021 january 28 2021 sociology colloquium 2/3/2021 attitudes towards wife beating in pakistan: over-time comparative trends by gender fizza raza and dr heili pals texas a&m university according to the global gender gap index 2020 pakistan ranks 151 out of 153 countries in terms of general equality according to the pakistan demographic and health survey (pdhs) 2012-2013 42% of women believed that it is justifiable for men to beat the wife and not much change has been since then with the next round of data reporting the figure around 41% (pdhs 2017-2018) in this article we attempt to study the perceptions towards wife beating in a nationally representative sample of both women(n=24 826) and men(n=6154) using data from two waves of pdhs (2012 and 2017) while women tend to show a higher tolerance towards wife beating as compared to their male counterparts a deeper analysis of the data has led to an interesting finding we found that the presence of a family member (husband male and other female member of the household) is significantly related to higher tolerance towards wife beating for our female respondents a reminder that in patriarchal societies data related to women empowerment surveys must be approached with caution our results show that higher levels of education currently employed being a resident of urban areas or socially economically developed provinces such as punjab and sindh belonging to a wealthier household and living in a household where joint decision-making is being practiced has decreased tolerance towards wife beating february 3 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 918 1986 1899 passcode: 119166 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news attitudes pakistan wife beating
news sociology colloquium 1/27/2021 january 22 2021 sociology colloquium 1/27/2021 especially heinous and vicious felonies: deconstructing possible rape narratives within law & order: svu: a pilot study gemini creason-parker texas a&m university in recent years scholars have started to research the use of the traditional rape narrative which propagates myths about the crime on screen and how it affects peoples rape myth acceptance (rma) however while research has focused on the traditional narrative extensively other categories of rape have yet to fully be explored in the context of narratives this is significant because the traditional narrative does not necessarily apply to all rape cases being portrayed on television and in movies one such script that has differing characteristics from the traditional narrative includes the party rape script which is frequently associated with parties on college campuses this study involved a content analysis of the popular show law & order: svu uncovering to what extent if any the show perpetuates the party rape narrative january 27 2021 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 964 9836 5035 passcode: 751813 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news especially heinous law & order: svu rape narratives vicious felonies
news research experience for undergraduates summer 2021 november 30 2020 research experience for undergraduates summer 2021 the texas a&m sociology department invites students to apply to the summer 2021 research institute in sociology and social inequality reu (research experience for undergraduates) site funded by the national science foundation under grant #1757813 this 8-week summer program is an exciting opportunity for up to 10 undergraduates to gain research experience with close guidance from a faculty mentor texas a&m faculty will provide world-class opportunities to engage in research on the causes and consequences of social inequality students will gain hands-on training in a range of research methods including interviewing experiments and survey analysis in addition texas a&m sociology boasts three research centers that will support the students work: the texas federal statistical research data center; the stuart j hysom social psychology laboratory; and the howard b kaplan laboratory for social science research examples of research projects and details about the program can be found at https://liberalartstamuedu/sociology/reu/ students will complete a research project and present their work at an academic conference the following semester the program covers travel costs for the summer room and board travel costs for the academic conference in the following semester and a stipend students can access the application and more information at https://liberalartstamuedu/sociology/reu/ applications accompanied by a recommendation letter from a faculty member willing to be the students home campus mentor are due february 22 2021 the program is best suited for students who are currently in their third year of college although we will consider students at other stages; students must be graduating december 2021 or later in order to be eligible we especially encourage applications from first-generation students and students from underrepresented groups covid notice: we are cautiously optimistic that the 2021 reu will proceed as a face-to-face program however all plans are subject to revision as the public health situation for the summer becomes clearer we will be working in concert with texas a&m university nsf and local public health officials to ensure a safe and productive summer plans may change including incorporating virtual research experiences if conditions require news national science foundation nsf research experience for undergraduates reu
news sociology colloquium 11/11/2020 november 8 2020 sociology colloquium 11/11/2020 the revolutionary upheaval in the middle east and north africa dr gilbert achcar london school of oriental and african studies ten years will soon have passed since the arab spring started in tunisia in december 2010 before spreading like wildfire to the whole mena region with major uprisings in five other countries in 2011 three years later it looked however as if the spring had turned into winter and regional revolutionary prospects were drowned in counter-revolutionary backlashes and/or civil wars and yet december 2018 saw the beginning of a new revolutionary upsurge that started in sudan and spread to three other countries in 2019 before being stifled by the covid-19 pandemic still the second wave was a powerful confirmation of the view that what started ten years ago was deeply rooted in a structural crisis affecting the regions economic social and political features it also confirmed therefore the view that the 2011 arab spring was but the beginning of a long-term revolutionary process that will inevitably carry on through successive phases of upsurge and backlash and will not give way to a new long-term stabilization short of radical structural change november 11 2020 wednesday 12–1:30pm zoom session meeting id: 955 1955 9711 passcode: 514966 if you cannot join with video you can connect to the zoom session via phone: 1–346–248–7799 colloquium news arab spring middle east north africa tunisia