The Problem of Violence and the Will to Punish
Harvard University
More than 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated. Hundreds of thousands of people (mostly men) are released from U.S. prisons each […]
Sociology
Incarceration, Inequality, and Imagining Alternatives
Harvard University
Citizenship is a public declaration of equality. Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor […]
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States
Harvard University
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States more […]
Negotiations of minority ethnic middle-class identity
Kings College London
‘Between authenticity and pretension’: parents’, pupils’ and young professionals’ negotiations of minority ethnic middle-class identity.
The Educational Strategies of the Black Middle Classes
UCL Institute of Education
Carol Vincent, UCL Institute of Education, discusses the two-year period (June 2009-June 2011) research focusing on 62 parents of Black […]
Parenting and parent–school relations in a neoliberal age
UCL Institute of Education
Carol Vincent, UCL Institute of Education, draws on data from 20 years of qualitative projects with parents to discuss and […]
Encounters with diversity: Children’s friendships and parental responses
UCL Institute of Education
Carol Vincent, UCL Institute of Education, discusses the project exploring the friendships of children and adults in ‘super-diverse’ (Vertovec, 2007) localities […]
How Stable is the Core Discussion Network?
Harvard University
Researchers have paid increasing attention to the core discussion network, the set of people we turn to when discussing important […]
Because They Were There: Access, Deliberation, and the Mobilization of Networks for Support
Harvard University
When people need help, what is the process through which they decide whom in their network to turn to? Research […]
De-Exoticizing Ghetto Poverty: On the Ethics of Representation in Urban Ethnography
Harvard University
To write an ethnography about poor urban people is to risk courting controversy. While all ethnographers face questions about how […]