Voting Intersections: Race, Class, and Participation in Presidential Elections in the United States 2008–2016 - DANIEL LAURISON
lower-income Black people vote at higher rates than similar White people.| DANIEL LAURISON
I have an op-ed in the Philly Inquirer today (gift link). It came out of my work on/with WeAreHigherEd.OrgAll of us who care about democracy need to decide how we’ll respond as we see our institutions, our work, and our communities being attacked.Many of us in academia are standing up for our values and our […] The post Academics & Others Standing up for Democracy & Education appeared first on DANIEL LAURISON.| DANIEL LAURISON
Voter turnout among lower-income people and communities dropped in 2024 relative to 2020, which was already lower than 2016. The gap between voting by the privileged/high income and voting by lower-income people widened (relative to 2020, which was already a bigger gap than 2016). I’ve now added 2024 data to two different analyses for two […] The post Declines in turnout among low-income people in the US – again appeared first on DANIEL LAURISON.| DANIEL LAURISON
[This is the manifesto/mission statement for the People-Ing Politics Network, which is a collaboration between myself and HEARD; James R. Jones and the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America; and Wendy Li, a post-doc at the Johns Hopkins Agora Center. More info and link to sign up are here] US democracy is […]| DANIEL LAURISON
I am a sociologist who studies class, inequality, and political engagement. My book Producing Politics will be published June 14 2022.| DANIEL LAURISON
My thoughts on the current state of sociology and how sociologists can and should respond to Trump's attacks on democracy & higher education.| DANIEL LAURISON
An overview/FAQ of my thoughts/advice on applying to and working at SLACs for sociologists on the job market.| DANIEL LAURISON
Sam Friedman & I just published an article on The Class Ceiling in the United States in Social Forces. You can access the article at Social Forces here and the preprint if you need it is here. The key finding (as you might guess from the title) is that people from working class origins earn less than […] The post The Class Ceiling in the United States – now out in Social Forces appeared first on DANIEL LAURISON.| DANIEL LAURISON
Hello fellow professors & others who might be planning first-day-of-class (or etc) introductions. If you want to be inclusive of trans/non-binary folks, can I suggest (as a trans professor with a lot of trans & non-binary students) including pronouns as *optional* rather than required? Pronouns in go-rounds & on name-tags & etc are great in […]| DANIEL LAURISON
lower-income Black people vote at higher rates than similar White people.| DANIEL LAURISON
This is a work in progress with Sam Friedman. The short version is, there is a class-origin pay gap in top occupations in the US, and it is actually larger than the one in the UK (about $30k/year). Here is the PDF.| DANIEL LAURISON
It’s National Coming Out day. I’m a transgender man. If any of you didn’t know that, and want to ask me questions, you can. I came out as a dyke (fn1) at 15, started identifying as some kind of butch or genderqueer person in my 20s, hung out with mostly other queers and lesbians until […]| DANIEL LAURISON
At ASA, I was on a panel about the idea of the “scholar-activist” and some of the debates around it. The panel happened because Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra wrote this blog post & was asked to organize a Presidential Panel on the topic. The blog post happened because of arguments on twitter about Mary Romero’s Presidential […]| DANIEL LAURISON
