Friday Round – December 15, 2017

 

Happy Friday, sociologists! It is finals week here at WIP and so, like a student stumbling in with fifteen minutes left in the exam, our #FridayRoundup is a bit belated today. We hope you have a great weekend!

 

Sexual Harassment

• The Silence Breakers (Time Magazine)
• The Reckoning: Women and Power in the Workplace (New York Times)
• Will Women In Low-Wage Jobs Get Their #MeToo Moment? (FiveThirtyEight)
• At Columbia, Three Women, 30 Years and a Pattern of Harassment (New York Times)
• It’s Pretty Crazy to Be a Young Woman in Roy Moore’s Alabama (New York Times)

 

Net Neutrality

• Why Net Neutrality Was Repealed and How It Affects You (New York Times)
• Net Neutrality Was Never Enough (The Atlantic)

 

This Week in Washington

• Marco Rubio got a last-minute tax deal — but the poorest Americans got left out (Vox)
• Millions of Children Could Lose Health Coverage Starting Next Month (New York Times)
• Democrats say Trump to seek federal pay freeze and cuts to domestic security (Washington Post)

 

Race and Politics

• The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment (Vox)
• Stop asking black women to ‘save America.’ Start organizing your own people. (Washington Post)

 

In the Discipline

• Law Professor’s New Book Puts Ethnography on Trial (The Chronicle)

 

On Campus

• Stop the Generational Moralizing About Free Speech (The Chronicle)
• Intimidation Is the New Normal on Campus (The Chronicle)
• The Importance of Dumb Mistakes in College (New York Times)