We know EXACTLY how to end poverty + how much it'll cost. Philip N Cohen asks us to stop pretending it's a mystery. thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015…

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS #CFP 2016 Junior Theorists Symposium Seattle, WA August 19, 2016 DEADLINE: February 22 scatter.wordpress.com/2015/12/10/201…

Time Use Across the Life Course, June 27-28, 2016, College Park, MD. Submit abstracts by: February 1 to [email protected]

Demographic variables contextualize IPUMS data. We #lovesociology because it encourages researchers to dig deeper. ASA Sociology

What social science tells us about racism in the R party wpo.st/JoUw0 no mention of sociology, but quotes socio @GhostfaceWiller

For your reading on race, policing, and justice: contexts.org/articles/black… Here's what you get:

Two charts from Pew Research Center RT'd by @AnnysWaPo offer inadvertent commentary on importance of y-axis scaling

dealing with ‘detractors’ buff.ly/1lj7zRw

From the Contexts Grad Team: 7 things maps tell us about neighborhoods contexts.org/blog/7-things-…

Rae Meadows tells the story of visual sociologist and master of captions Dorothea Lange. Read it! contexts.org/articles/dorot…

Wealth gap makes retirement more elusive for blacks, Latinos s.oregonlive.com/McLmOTR <--Richard Hogan and Carolyn Perrucci research cited

How to (effectively) communicate research results beyond academe (essay) bit.ly/1TUTULy long, but well worth the read.

Gender gap in heterosexist attitudes not declining contexts.org/blog/who-think…

New Contexts Magazine In Brief: “Suicide’s Gender Divide” by @LuciaLykke contexts.org/articles/suici…

Contexts Magazine now has an advice column - check it out! x.com/contextsmag/st…

An amazing The New York Times article about UW Sociology Professor Alice Goffman and her book "On the Run" nyti.ms/23avSCz

Scholastic halts the distribution of a children’s book about George Washington and his enslaved household cook nyti.ms/1ntKCfo

#resilience and #socialcapital 100RC (LEGACY) SCI Social Capital Inc. Nextdoor ASA Sociology Soc_Imagination Resilient Societies Doctora Malka Older x.com/NU_PolicySchoo…

The Editors' Desk: MLK: Sinking Shots, Sparking Thoughts bit.ly/1V3qETh