👉 Don't miss the virtual session “Politics and Sociology of Finance: New Books on the Block” with Basak Kus, Kim Pernell, and Megan Tobias Neely. Happening TOMORROW May 3, 4-5pm CET. Register here: sase.org/women-and-gend….

We hope the paper is useful for teaching, for qualitative scholars designing their projects, and for non-qualitative scholars for understanding the logic of our community's research practice. We identify 7 stylized questions researchers typically ask as in their research design.

For example, in my own work with Jennifer S. Hirsch #BlackLivesMatter observations are not expected to be replicated in other university contexts. The potential value of the work lies in whether the conceptual framework can be usefully applied to other contexts in which sexual violence occurs.

Units are observed in order to produce propositions that are more likely to be true than not in other contexts. The qualitative observations within a case of something will not necessarily be strong predictors of empirical findings in other unobserved cases of that same thing

Qualitative work might generate observations that are not reproduceable in other contexts, or in the same context at different times. But it should be judged on its capacity to generalize to the abstracted concepts elucidated by observing an example or multiple examples of a case

We try to make that positive case. To do so, we examine how case construction and the subsequent logic of crafting observations within cases has consequences for conceptual generalizability. We argue that at the core of most qualitative work is NOT empirical generalizability.

We argue that sociologists’ tend to idealize probability sampling, thereby implicitly assuming that alternative ways of crafting observations are pragmatic, second-best solutions; this obscures more positive accounts of the kinds of choices qualitative researchers make.

In this paper we outline how it is that qualitative researchers tend to construct cases, and what the implications are for how they craft observations. We then discussion how these decisions impact data collection, analysis, and argumentation.

NEW PAPER!

With Caitlyn Collins and Megan Tobias Neely I wrote on the logics of qualitative case selection in qualitative research. It's coming out this year in the Annual Review of Sociology (and should be online soon). But you can check it out early here:

caitlyncollins.com/wp-content/upl…

how the Palestine protests reveal and indeed are fighting the undemocratic nature of the modern university!

A must read by my colleague gabrielwinant

chronicle.com/article/why-st…

New article/interview about my and Nanna Nanna Mik-Meyer's study of women's over-involvement and men's under-involvement in academic service. So happy that our work spurs discussions about this topic nationally as well as internationally.

timeshighereducation.com/news/how-men-g… via Times Higher Education

We don't have to imagine a self-serving hypothetical. When I worked at the University of Tennessee, actual nazis twice reserved a room and gave speeches.

The police *protected* the nazis, ensuring they were safe and could speak.

.@AmnestyUSA slams college crackdowns on Gaza protests: “Instead of facilitating and protecting their students’ right to protest, universities’ administrations have gone to great lengths to quash it, even involving local authorities and demanding arrests” amnestyusa.org/press-releases…

ARE TOMORROW'S ENGINEERS READY TO FACE AI'S ETHICAL CHALLENGES?

Our team finds engineering students are woefully unprepared for AI's ethical dilemmas & engr colleges often provide little serious training
w/elana goldenkoff cindy.finelli

theconversation.com/are-tomorrows-… - The Conversation U.S.

Happening today—a conversation about attacks on DEI, where these attacks come from, and what’s next.

With b-boy bouiebaisse and Moira Weigel; moderated by Adrian Daub of Clayman Institute

3:30pm to 5pm PT

Register here and join us on Zoom: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Women end up doing the academic housework kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

If you want to have a nice overview of and introduction to #TheInterloper by #MichelAnteby , highly recommend this podcast! The book brings a novel perspective on how we can learn from the pushbacks we might receive to conduct a fieldwork 🤓
open.spotify.com/episode/0EqAO6…

Fabulous book by Professor Emily Carian available for preorder: nyupress.org/9781479821013/… She compares two very different groups of men gender activists - men who are feminists and men who are men's rights activists - and explores their trajectories into their respective movements.

Excited to share my new article, “Engineering Inequality: Informal Coaching, Glass Walls, and Social Closure in Silicon Valley” - out now in AJS! This one was years in the making and I’m so glad it’s finally out in the world. Read on below: doi.org/10.1086/729506