Note: I refer to mentors by their real names, and to participants by pseudonyms Ed Sullivan Fellows (ESF) is a mentorship and artist development program run by the NYU Steinhardt Music Experience Design Lab. It came about by a combination of happenstances. I had a private music production student named Rob Precht, who had found …
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Denton, N. A., & Massey, D. (1993). American apartheid: Segregation and the making of the underclass. The question endlessly debated by sociologists: is the black underclass the result of a) racism b) a culture of poverty c) welfare d) structural economic change or e) residential segregation? Denton and Massey say it’s choice e). “Residential segregation …
Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides Alexander, K.L., Entwisle, D.R., & Olson, L. (2014) The Long Shadow: Family Background Disadvantaged Urban Youth, and the Transition to Adulthood. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. The central message of The Long Shadow is that social mobility in America is a myth. The authors combine …
Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides Pager, Devah. (2007). MARKED: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Page 21 of Pager’s book includes this chart, showing annual prison admissions for drugs by race in the United States. In the 1980s, we imprisoned roughly the same …
Assignment for Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry with Colleen Larson If you’re looking for a gripping and highly readable (though depressing) sociological study, I strongly recommend this one. The purpose of MacLeod’s study is to understand how class inequality reproduces itself, using the example of two groups of young men living in a housing project. He …
Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides Durkheim’s sociological classic sounds so much more sophisticated in the original French: “Le Suicide.” All jokes aside, this is a personal topic for me, due its impact on my friends and extended family, not to mention artists I admire.
Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides Artiles, A. J. (2011). Toward an Interdisciplinary Understanding of Educational Equity and Difference: The Case of the Racialization of Ability. Educational Researcher, 40(9), 431-445. Artiles explains how a civil rights victory for learners with disabilities has become a way to oppress racial minority students. He cites …
Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides. Images of interesting intersections from various sources. Hill, C. P., & Bilge, S. (2016). Intersectionality.
Note-taking for Principles of Empirical Research with Catherine Voulgarides Weber, Max. [1904](1949). “Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy,” In The Methodology of the Social Sciences, Max Weber, translated and edited by Edward Shils and Henry A. Finch. Glencoe, IL: The Free Press. Pages 49-112. Sociology arose in order to make value judgments about measures …
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Note-taking for Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry with Colleen Larson Willis, J.W., (2007) Foundations of Qualitative Research, Sage, chapters 5-6. Postpositivist social science research involves six steps: Find an idea to research. The idea can come from anywhere, including your experience or whatever qualitative data. Develop or select a theory. It can be a nineteenth century …
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