Society for the Study of Social Problems

Poverty, Class, Inequality Division

Fall 2018/Winter 2019

Note from the Chair, Ranita Ray

Hello PCID members!

I hope your Fall semester is wrapping up nicely, and you are getting ready for the holidays! Thank you for contributing to this yearÕs Fall/Winter updates, and thanks also to those who volunteered to serve on different award committees! 

Please nominate, and encourage your students and colleagues to nominate themselves, for the graduate student paper award and the Michael Harrington Award.

DonÕt forget to visit, like, and post to our Facebook and Twitter pages at: https://www.facebook.com/sssppcid/ and https://twitter.com/sssppci!

We also have a very exciting call for papers for the next meeting in New York City! Please be sure to submit your work!

We appreciate your participation in the Division!

Ranita Ray, Chair, PCID
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ranita.ray@unlv.edu

















Call for Papers

The Division is sponsoring/co-sponsoring an exciting range of panels in New York City in August of 2019. Please share the call for papers! 

Organizational Responses to Poverty at the Local LevelÑ Regular Session.  Organizer: Bill Cabin, wcabin@umich.edu

Pathways to Social MobilityÑRegular Session. Organizer: Kevin McElrath, kevin.mcelrath@stonybrook.edu.

Inequities in Health, Care and ContextsÑRegular Session. Organizer:  Hannah Andrews, hannahre@email.arizona.edu

Beyond the School to Prison PipelineÑCritical Dialogue Session. Organizer: TBD. 

Intergenerational Impact of Mass IncarcerationÑCritical Dialogue Session. Organizer: Elaine Laberge, elaberge@ualberta.ca

Poverty, Debt, and InequalityÑRegular Session. Organizer: Michael Sousa, msousa@law.du.edu

Public Perceptions of Wealth InequalityÑRegular session. Organizer: Michael Miner, minerm@uwm.edu

Urban Inequality and Food AccessÑCritical Dialogue Session. Organizer: Ferzana Havewala, fhavewala@ubalt.edu



















Member News
New Articles and Book Chapters 

Robert Perrucci, Carolyn C. Perrucci, and Mangala Subramaniam, ÒFrom Little Science to Big
Science: Were Women and Non-Elites Left Out?Ó Archives of Psychology, Volume 1, Issue 1,
October 2017:41-45.

Carolyn C. Perrucci and Robert Perrucci, ÒNew Economy,Ó in George Ritzer (ed.) Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2 nd Edition, April 2018. John Wiley & Sons: Oxford, UK.

Richard Hogan and Carolyn Cummings Perrucci, ÒWe Know about Reagan, but Was There a
Clinton Effect? Earnings by Race, Gender, Marital and Family Status, 1993 and 2000.Ó
Critical Sociology (Online First) First Published October 4, 2018. https://doi-org.exproxy.lib.purdue.edu/10.1177/0896920518798081 

Vachon, Todd E. and Michael Wallace. 2018. ÒRed State, Blue State: Neoliberalism, Politics,Êand Public Sector Union Membership in the U.S. States.ÓÊCambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and SocietyÊ11:519-39.

Vachon, Todd E. and Sean Sweeney. 2018. ÒEnergy Democracy: A Just Transition for Social,ÊEconomic, and Climate Justice.Ó Pp. 63-72 in Glen Muschert et al. (Eds)ÊAgenda for SocialÊJustice: Global Solutions.ÊBristol, UK: Policy Press.

Vachon, Todd E. 2018. ÒA Big Win in Smalltown: Demanding Dignity in an Era ofÊNeoliberal Austerity.ÓÊQualitative Sociology ReviewÊ14:46-66.



Books

Food and Poverty: Food Insecurity and Food Sovereignty among America's Poor
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/book/9780826522047

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack HUP Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674976894

Blume Oeur, Freeden. Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018.
 http://blackboysapart.com. 






New Jobs!

Todd E. Vachon completed his PhD at the University of Connecticut and has started a new job as a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Labor Studies at Rutgers University.

Sheri-Lynn S. Kurisu is starting a new job as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies at California State University San Marcos.


Members in the media!

Op-ed by Gregory D. Squires  http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0413-fair-housing-20180411-story.html 



Call for Papers

Conference Session Call for Papers: Centering participantsÕ lived experiences: Narrative understandings of social inequality. The International Society for the Study of Narrative Annual Conference. June 6 Ð 8, 2019.  University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain http://narrative.georgetown.edu/


Important Resources for PCID members
PCID members are also encouraged to visit the SSSP website, updated daily, that contains information related to conferences and meetings, calls for papers, awards, fellowships, and scholarships, as well as job opportunities.Ê Please take advantage of these resources! PCID members are also encouraged to share their recent publications including books, articles and papers, award nominations and other items of interest with the administrative office so that it may be posted on the website. Please send an e-mail to Caitlin Mize, GRA & Webmaster atÊssspgra@utk.eduÊwith the announcement attached and she will post them on ourÊwebsite.Ê In addition, SSSP provides complimentary job postings.Ê PleaseÊclick hereÊto fill out job posting form.Ê Note: Job postings are done each Friday.
ÊBelow are several SSSP webpages you can use as resources: 
SSSP 2018 Annual Meeting
SSSP 2018 Call for Papers
SSSP Awards

SSSP Fellowship
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SSSP Scholarship

SSSP Student Paper Competitions and Outstanding Scholarship Awards

Job Opportunities

Affiliated Call for Submissions and Conferences