Social Problems Journal

Social Problems brings to the fore influential sociological findings and theories that help us understand--and better deal with--our social world.

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President Marlese Durr, Executive Officer Héctor Delgado, and Vice-President Nancy Mezey on behalf of The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)

President Marlese Durr, Executive Officer Héctor Delgado, and Vice-President Nancy Mezey wrote on behalf of The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) to express deep concern with a recent Grand Jury decision in Staten Island not to indict police officer Daniel Pantaloeon for the choking death of Eric Garner, despite the fact that the event was caught on tape. The letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder and President Barack Obama insists that if states and municipalities cannot protect the civil and legal rights of their citizens regardless of race or ethnicity, then the federal government must step in, as it has in the past, to protect these rights. The letter applauds the Justice Department’s investigation of these events, and states that we hope that it can help to restore the trust in our criminal justice system lost in communities of color by these events.

To read the letter visit: http://bit.ly/1r8RT4X

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What does research published in Social Problems have to say about recent tragedies in places like Ferguson, Missouri, Cleveland, Ohio, and many others?

Check out the 2014 article written by Brad W. Smith and Malcom D. Holmes entitled, "Police Use of Excessive Force in Minority Communities: A Test of Minority Threat, Place, and Community Accountability Hypotheses":

http://bit.ly/1vcANTK

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Annette Lareau's Presidential Address at the 2014 Meetings of the American Sociological Association...

Anyone catch Annette Lareau's Presidential Address at the 2014 Meetings of the American Sociological Association (http://bit.ly/1ylTzrA)? In it, she referenced a forthcoming Social Problems article -- Jessica Hardie's "The Best Laid Plans: Social Capital in the Development of Girls’ Educational and Occupational Plans":  "[T]he idea that families are important resource I think is very consistent with the literature and in a forthcoming article, Jessica [Hardie] describes how middle class parents just showered high school students with advice, unsolicited advice and friends of middle class parents did that as well. To be sure white middle class parents did it with a little more vigor and energy and also networks were larger than black middle class parents but the point is that it wasn't how many people in the network but who they knew and that could be very influential in their life paths. So what they know and who they know ends up being important in the navigation of institutions." Stay tuned for its scheduled release, Hardie's article will be featured in our May 2015 Issue.

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Eduardo Bonilla-Silva on Ferguson

Eduardo Bonilla-silva, Advisory Editorial Board Member of Social Problems, offers insights on Ferguson. http://cnn.it/1uMpBYY

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Congrats to Frances Fox Piven!

Past President of The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), Frances Fox Piven, has been awarded the Annual Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship! http://bit.ly/1vxnYVe

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SSSP 2015 General Election Ballot Preview

The 2015 General Election Ballot Preview is now available for viewing! Candidates for the 2015 General Election have prepared online resume forms featuring publications and candidate statements to acquaint the membership with their qualifications for the positions.

http://bit.ly/1Edzl5Y

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Jes Cook is a 6th year PhD candidate in Sociology at UIC. Jes grew up in Kansas and was very active in university and community based social justice work while in college at the University of Kansas.  After graduation she worked as a union organizer for the UNITE HERE international, organizing low-wage service workers across the country.  Since starting graduate school she has been an active leader of the teaching and graduate assistants' union, the Graduate Employees Organization, Local 6297 IFT-AFT.  She is also currently an academic member of the Labor Research Action Network (LRAN) Advisory Committee, and has been a volunteer with multiple local worker centers.  Her involvement in labor, immigration, gender, and racial justice work has led to her to focus her dissertation research on worker center organizing of immigrant and other marginalized workers, neoliberal labor market restructuring, and the growth of the low-wage temporary staffing industry.  

    2013-2014: Award grantee of the University of Illinois at Chicago Chancellor’s Graduate Research Fellowship.                                                                 

October 2014 - Contributor, "Latina Portrait: Latinas and Economic Security."  Mujeres Latinas en Accion, Chicago, IL.     

Spring 2013 - Review for Schneider, Dorothee.  2011.  Crossing Borders: Migration and Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Book review published in International Journal of Comparative Sociology (IJCS) 54(1):76-77. 

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New issue!

Check out the table of contents for the November 2014 issue of Social Problems!http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sp.2014.61.4.TOC

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Meet Student Advisory Board Member Jerome Hendricks! He holds a Master of Arts in Sociology from UIC, and a BA in History from Northeastern Illinois University. His research interests include the construction and negotiation of value, organizations and organizing, and change, and his current research explores the actions of intermediary firms in periods of rapid technological change. Utilizing the digital shift in the music retail industry, this study examines the curious survival of independent record stores in an industry trending toward digital products and services. Similar to previous works, he considers symbolic resources and the extent to which actors produce differential material outcomes through them.

Some of his representative publications/projects include the following:

- Moss, Alison R and Jerome M Hendricks. 2013. "Slumdog or Millionaire—May I phone a Friend? Neoliberalism and the Globalization of the American Dream." Pp. 380-392 in Cinematic Sociology edited by Jean-Anne Sutherland and Kathryn Feltey. Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

- Hendricks, Jerome M. 2014. “Differential Outcomes and Socialization.” Trails.

- Hendricks, Jerome M. “Utilizing Name Entity Recognition to Identify Unique Actors.” Center on Organizational Dynamics. (http://organizationaldynamics.wordpress.com/…/utilizing-na…/)

- Hendricks, Jerome M. "Vinyl Revival: A Brief History. Part 1, Format Wars: Analog vs. Digital." Center on Organizational Dynamics. (http://organizationaldynamics.wordpress.com/…/vinyl-reviva…/)

He's also received these awards:

- ASA Student Forum Travel Award. 2014

- Midwest Sociological Society Annual Graduate Student Paper Award; First Prize. 2011

- David P. Street Master's Paper Prize Winner, University of Illinois at Chicago. 2010

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2014 C. Wright Mills Award Nominations

Nominations are now open for the 2014 C. Wright Mills Award. Members ofThe Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) are encouraged to submit letters of nomination for this prestigious annual award. Self nominations are acceptable. Edited volumes, textbooks, fiction and self-published works are not eligible. Eligible books must be first edition (not a reprint or later edition) and bear a 2014 copyright. The C. Wright Mills Award, established in 1964, is made annually and carries with it a stipend of $500 for the author(s) of the winning book. The deadline for the 2014 award nominations is December 15, 2014. http://ow.ly/Ck4pw

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Check out our latest development - vodcasts ... "The Authors' Attic" is an installment of Social Problems -- the official journal of The Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). It is a forum that provides authors an opportunity to discuss pressing and relevant social issues of our time. More information about Social Problems can be found here:http://socpro.oxfordjournals.org/. In this installment, Dr. Matthew W. Hughey joins Kasey Henricks to discuss his new book The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption(Temple University Press). To learn more about Dr. Hughey and his general research, please visit: www.matthewhughey.com. http://bit.ly/1nXDmaN

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Meet Student Advisory Board Member, Asad Asad! He's a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. Broadly defined, his research interests include culture, inequality, migration, political sociology, the social determinants of health, and urban sociology. At the intersection of these fields, he explores why people migrate (internally and internationally), as well as how migration influences socioeconomic mobility. In addition to this research agenda, Asad is working on an interview-based and ethnographic project that evaluates youth interventions and cultural resources using an urban debate league as a case study.

Some of his representative publications include the following:

* Asad L. Asad. Forthcoming. "Contexts of Reception, Post-Disaster Migration, and Socioeconomic Mobility." Population and Environment.

* Filiz Garip and Asad L. Asad. Forthcoming. “Social Mechanisms Underlying Network Effects in Mexico-U.S. Migration.” In: Social Mechanisms at Work (eds.) Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren.

* Asad L. Asad and Tamara Kay. Forthcoming. “Theorizing the Relationship between NGOs and the State in Medical Humanitarian Development Projects.” Social Science & Medicine. (Special Issue: Medical Humanitarianism: Culture, Health, and States of Emergency)

* Mary C. Waters, Philip Kasinitz, and Asad L. Asad. 2014. “Immigrants and African Americans.” Annual Review of Sociology 40: 369-390.

* Asad L. Asad, Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip. 2014. “Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status among California Whole-Body Donors.” Social Science & Medicine 106: 53-58.

* Asad L. Asad and Monica C. Bell. 2014. “Winning to Learn, Learning to Win: Evaluative Frames and Practices in Urban Debate.” Qualitative Sociology 37(1): 1-26 (Lead article).

He's also received these awards:

* 2014 Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award for "Contexts of Reception, Post-Disaster Migration, and Socioeconomic Mobility," Section on Environment and Technology, American Sociological Association

* 2014 Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for Sociology 24: Introduction to Social Inequality

* 2014 Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising, Harvard University

* 2012 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

* 2010 Beinecke Scholarship for Graduate Study

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New issue!

Check out the table of contents for the August 2014 issue of Social Problems! http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.1525/sp.2014.61.3.TOC.pdf?acceptTC=true

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Recently released, titles and abstracts from SSSP's 2014 Student Paper Winners: http://bit.ly/1uLsuNN

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Meet Brandi Vigil, a 4th year PhD student in Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Brandi is from California, where she worked with court involved young people and received her M.S. in Criminal Justice from California State University, Sacramento. Her research and activist interests include restorative justice, alternatives to incarceration, the effects of crime and punishment on communities, and juvenile justice. She is an Adjunct Instructor at Loyola University Chicago, Assistant Editor of Contemporary Justice Review, and Managing Editor of Social Problems.

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Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Awardees

A BIG congrats to Editorial Board Member Matthew W. Hughey, as well as Victor Ray and Louise Seamster, for being awarded the Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, sponsored by the American Sociological Association and National Science Foundation.

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Congrats to Student Advisory Board Member, Asad L. Asad, for winning the Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Environment and Technology for his paper, "Contexts of Reception, Post-Disaster Migration, and Socioeconomic Mobility." http://bit.ly/WhRRcr