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"Effect of pharmacological treatment of attention–deficit hyperactivity disorder on contacts with child welfare services” by Ashmita Chaulagain, Tarjei Widding-Havneraas, Felix Elwert, Simen Markussen, Ingvild Lyhmann, Anne Halmøy, Ingvar Bjelland, and Arnstein Mykletun
“…We demonstrate that mobile device data can detect miscarriage and replicate patterns of miscarriage risk found in high-quality Norwegian administrative data and in US clinical cohorts.” -Jenna Nobles, Lindsay Cannon, Sungsik Hwang, Shannon Malloy, Katie Noddin & Allen J. Wilcox
"Families are social phenomenon in their own right: they are the makers of capitalist enterprises, and they endure and thrive within capitalism.” -Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, and Estela Diaz in @bjsociology.bsky.social.
Congratulations to this year's recipients of our department teaching awards! Christine Schwartz received the Faculty Teaching Award; Emily Burke received the Student Lecturer Award; and Yujin “Della” Tao received the Teaching Assistant Award.
His research is motivated by an interest in the way digital technologies shape social processes and phenomena, as well as the basic concepts and categories—the state, the citizen, the person—that we use to grasp these processes and phenomena.
Léonie Hénaut was interviewed by Accounts, the ASA Economic Sociology section newsletter, for her work on occupational identities in the contemporary workforce.
“...I offer a theory of transcendence...as a product of communal place-making to explain how park communities bridge demographic gaps and cocreate this affective social capital in collaboration with the natural entities they are enmeshed with."
-Taimur Ahmad in Qualitative Sociology
“His work doesn’t just analyze the world; it demands that we make it better. To see his name alongside Devah’s is a powerful reminder of the intellectual legacy that continues to flow from this department.”
“We address some of the challenges confronting aggregate-level studies by examining contextual effects on fertility in post-Soviet Russia using an aggregate-level analysis of data from Russia’s 77 provinces (regions) from 1992 to 2019."
-Michael Zaslavsky, Theodore Gerber, and Sunnee Billingsley
"I discuss how the ideal type constructs a narrative about land, and especially land tenure changes confronted in agriculture.” -Danielle Schmidt-Larios in Agriculture and Human Values. doi.org/10.1007/s104...
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npj Women's Health - Mobile device data for the study of miscarriage and its causes
Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individ....
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James Rosenberg was awarded a six month visiting fellowship at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies in Bochum, Germany. He was also awarded a DAAD Research Grant to fund dissertation research in G...
How do nature and community formation intersect in quintessentially urban New York City? In this ethnographic case study of Central Park, I show that park-based communities act as a rich source of aff...
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The UW–Madison Sociology Board of Visitors is proud to announce that Matthew Desmond (PhD ’10) has been selected as this year’s Devah Pager Distinguished Alumnus. The award, named in memory of the lat...
Sustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations...
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Agriculture and Human Values - Though profoundly physical, land as a concept is notably abstract. In this commentary, I note how this abstractness comes from varied analytical characterizations. I...
