New Books

Presser, Lois. 2022. Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences. University of California Press. This book advances a methodological approach for determining what is not said within texts. Researchers and laypersons alike suspect that some text is “coded” – that it contains some “subtext.” They are keen to identify that subtext, to make out what a text is taking for granted or communicating surreptitiously, for left implicit, the message is shielded from critique. Furthermore, researchers and laypersons point to voices that go unheard, perspectives that go unheeded.  A strategy for determining unsaid things and excluded perspectives in a systematic fashion has been lacking. This book develops such a strategy and thus contributes to social research and activism toolkits.

New Articles

Chang, Andy Scott. 2024. “Masculinity on the Margins: Boundary Work among Immobile Fathers in Indonesia’s Transnational Families.” Social Forces 102(3): 1048-1067. Clingan, Lauren. 2024. “Defining Women’s Incomes: Household Disruptions and Gendered Resolutions.” Social Forces (online first). Jasso, Guillermina. 2024. “Poverty, Redistribution, and the Middle Class: Redistribution via Probability Distributions vs. Redistribution via the Linear Income Tax System.” Frontiers in Sociology 8. Krause, Monika. 2024. “Interpretation and Critical Classification. Geertzism and Beyond in the Sociology of Culture.” Sociologica 18(1):87–93. Krause, Monika. 2024. “Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–1850.” Theory and Society. Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi. 2024. “Ambitious Ideals, Realistic Expectations: How Prior Experiences with Structures Moderate the Goals of Section 8 Voucher Holders through Frames.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi. 2024. “Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage.” Social Problems (online first). van Stee, Elena G., Arielle Kuperberg, and Joan Maya Mazelis. 2024. “Activating Family Safety Nets: Understanding Undergraduates’ Pandemic Housing Transitions.” Socius 10.