The annual volume Sociological Studies of Children and Youth (SSCY) welcomes proposals for a themed Special Volume (#15) to be published in 2012 with named Guest Editor(s) on topics that fall within the scope of the volume. Applications from proposed Guest Editor(s) should outline the aims and objectives of the special volume including a brief overview and summary of the overarching themes and points of coherence that tie together the proposed articles. The successful Guest Editor(s) will manage the Volume’s normal peer review process in coordination with the Series Editor and Editorial Board. More information about the SSCY and its creation in 1986 by members of the ASA’s Section on Children and Youth can be accessed on the SSCY website: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/books/series.htm?id=1537-4661.
Proposals for a Special Volume 15 should include the following: · A suggested title for the Special Volume 15 · Proposed aims and objectives, giving an overview of the Special Volume’s intended focus and a list of the topics to be covered, proposed article areas, and a list of possible contributing authors; · The proposed Guest Editor(s) name, contact details, affiliations, a brief biographical paragraph, and any previous editorial experience; and · A proposed timeline for a call for research papers, peer-review process and eventual publication of volume 15 in late 2012. Applications should be submitted electronically to Series Editor, Loretta Bass by the closing date of Saturday, April 30, 2011. Email: [email protected] The Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies is an international learned society with a multi-disciplinary nature, bringing together members who have a shared interest in longitudinal and life course research. SLLS was established in 2009 and has nearly 200 members worldwide, and this letter is to invite you to become a member yourself.
As a member of SLLS you will receive: • automatic registration for our open access, peer reviewed online journal, Longitudinal & Life Course Studies • substantial discounts on publishing costs for LLCS • a regular bulletin of global news and events in longitudinal and life course research from our President • reduced fees for attendance at the Society’s annual conference, which this year will be hosted by the University of Bielefeld, Germany between September 26th and 28th, 2011 • collaborative contacts throughout the global longitudinal and life course research community • a close association with the Longview think tank, which promotes longitudinal research and communication between policy makers and researchers • access to capacity building initiatives, including our annual summer school, online master classes and methodological and longitudinal practice workshops • a regional Global Representative, who will promote SLLS in your region • the opportunity to make nominations, be nominated and vote in elections for the future SLLS President and Executive Committee. As an alternative to individual membership, if your colleagues are also engaged with longitudinal or life course research, your institution may become a corporate member. For full information on the Society’s activities, the call for papers for our 2011 conference and for the application form to join please visit us at www.slls.org.uk. As the North American Representative and member of the SLLS Executive Committee, I see the Society as an exciting venture for anyone interested in longitudinal and/or life course studies. If you have other colleagues who you feel might be interested in joining this newly formed society, please pass this information along to them too. Please find information on a new book a new book that may be of interest:
Settersten, Richard A., & Ray, Barbara E. (2010) NOT QUITE ADULTS: Why 20-Somethings are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for Everyone. (Random House/Bantam, December 28). For information, seehttp://www.notquiteadults.com or http://www.amazon.com/Not-Quite-Adults-20-Somethings-Adulthood/dp/0553807404 We hope that you enjoyed our Fall issue of Child and Youth News, available on our website. We are proud to announce that we are working on the Winter Issue, scheduled for distribution in early March.
As usual, for this issue, consider submitting information/short write-ups/suggestions including but not limited to the following categories: - Accomplishments (Promotions, awards, updates) - Announcements (Upcoming conferences/opportunities for funding/publishing, job announcements) - Current Events (Issues affecting children and youth across the globe) - Publications (Suggestions for book reviews in upcoming issues) - Features (Excellent centers, websites, leaders in research on children and youth) HOW TO SUBMIT: We are publishing both a website and the newsletter. Please make all formal submissions to the Newsletter Editor, Sarah Ovink, at smovink (at) ucdavis.edu. Newsletter content may be published on the website prior to its publication in the newsletter. The deadline for submissions to the Winter Newsletter is February 24th. Any submissions received after that date will be forwarded to the Spring newsletter. As usual, all appropriate submissions will also be posted on our section website as well as on our new Facebook page. If you have questions for us please contact the Publications Chair, Elizabeth Vaquera, at evaquera (at) usf.edu. We look forward to working with you in making our third year of the revived Child and Youth News a success! Thank you! Best regards, The Section Publication Committee In A Younger Voice: Doing Child-centered Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press) by Cindy Dell Clark Clark's new release includes everything she has learned (the hard way) from nearly 30 years as a child-centered qualitative researcher. The result is a book that makes it easier for children to be seen, heard, and taken seriously in inquiry. It is intended to be a methodological resource to researchers both novice and expert, when younger folk are the focal point. Participant observation, focus groups, individual interviews, visual methods, and many variations on these tools are included. Photography, art, play, metaphor -- all are viable means that can catalyze youthful expression about experience and social worlds. As an often neglected matter, Clark considers the interpretation of the data collected, in a child-centered manner. In A Younger Voice will be suitable as a text in a methods class, as a source of inspiration for a project, or as a reminder that children can, and should, be central to our quests to explore young worlds. Clark is Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers (Camden), where she is an Associate of the Rutgers' Center for Children and Childhood Studies. She is a former Chair of the Children and Youth Section of the ASA. Behind the Backlash: Muslim-Americans after 9/11
Author: Lori Peek, Colorado State University, Fort Collins How Muslim-American identity has been shaped by 9/11 and its after-effects. As the nation tried to absorb the shock of the 9/11 attacks, Muslim Americans were caught up in an unprecedented wave of backlash violence. Public discus-sion revealed that widespread misunderstanding and misrepresentation of Islam persisted, despite the striking diversity of the Muslim community. Letting the voices of 140 ordinary Muslim American men and women de-scribe their experiences, Lori Peek’s path-breaking book, Behind the Backlash, presents moving accounts of prejudice and exclusion. Muslims speak of being subjected to harassment before the attacks, and recount the discrimination they encountered afterwards. Peek also explains the struggles of young Muslim adults to solidify their community and define their identity during a time of national crisis. Behind the Backlash seeks to explain why blame and scapegoating occur after a catastrophe. Peek sets the twenty-first century experience of Muslim Americans, who were vilified and victimized, in the context of larger sociological and psychological processes. Peek’s book will be of interest to those in disaster research studies, sociology of religion, and race and ethnic relations. Rachel A. Gordon (Department of Sociology and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago) recently published Regression Analysis for the Social Sciences (Routledge). The book is designed to provide graduate students in the social sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish basic regression models using contemporary standards. The third edition of Sociology of Childhood was recently published by William A. Corsaro (Department of Soci-ology, Indiana University). This new edition thoroughly covers children and childhood from a sociological perspective and includes up-dated coverage of peer relations, friendship, children’s peer cultures, and the so-cial problems experienced by children. The Routledge Handbook of War and Society, edited by Steven Carlton-Ford (University of Cincinnati) and Morten G. Ender (United States Military Acad-emy at West Point) has been released. As highlighted in the previous edition of this newsletter, the book provides an introduction to current sociological and be-havioral research on the effects of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book features contributions from leading academic sociologists, anthropologists, psy-chologists, and military researchers affiliated with Non-Governmental Organiza-tions (NGOs). The Teachers we Need vs. the Teachers we Have: The Realities and the Possibilities offers a candid description of the state of teacher certification across the United States, and includes sec-tions on teacher preparation in other countries, entry require-ments for other professions, and descriptions of alternative cer-tification programs. Foreward by Ken Zeichner. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. More information at: http://tiny.cc/8eb2i
Going Bohemian: How to Teach Writing Like You Mean It offers fresh strategies that use art, multi-media, games, and “sideways ap-proaches” to enhance engagement and improve the quality of student writing. Newark: DE: International Reading Association. More information at: http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/Books/bk830.aspx Lawrence Baines is chair of the Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum at the University of Oklahoma. He has held academic appointments as the Judith Herb Endowed Chair at the University of Toledo and the J. Leland Green Endowed Chair at Berry College. Find below an archived list of publications. Future publication announcements will be updated in real-time.
NEW BOOKS: Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media (MIT, 2009) Authors: Mizuko Ito, Sonja Baumer, Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, Rachel Cody, Becky Herr-Stephenson, Heather A. Horst, Patricia G. Lange, Dilan Mahendran, Katynka Z. Martinez, C. J. Pascoe, Dan Perkel, Laura Robinson, Christo Sims and Lisa Tripp Who’s Watching : Daily Practices of Surveillance Among Contemporary Families. (Vanderbilt, 2009) Editors: Margaret K. Nelson (Middlebury College) and Anita Ilta Garey (University of Connecticut) Transactions at Play : Volume 9 (University Press of America, 2009) Editor: Cindy Dell Clark (Rutgers University, Center for Children and Childhood Studies). Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility (NYU, 2009) Authors: Monica J. Casper (Arizona State University’s New College) and Lisa Jean Moore (Purchase College, SUNY) Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education (NYU, 2009) Authors: Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su and Jeanne Theoharis (Brooklyn College of CUNY) Divided By Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children (UC Press, 2010) Author: Joanna Dreby (Kent State University) Mental Health and Emerging Adulthood among Homeless Young People (Psychology Press, 2009) Author: Les B. Whitbeck (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Unanticipated Gains : Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life (Oxford, 2009) Author: Mario Luis Small (University of Chicago) Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children and Consumer Culture (California, 2009, $21.95 pb) Author: Allison Pugh How To Keep Your Children Safe: A Guide For Parents University Press of New England. Author: Yvonne Vissing Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers (Oxford, 2007, $25) Author: Mark Regnerus, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin Biography and the Sociological Imagination: Contexts and Contingencies Author: Michael J. Shanahan and Ross Macmillan JOURNALS AND FEATURED RESEARCH PROGRAMS: Special Issue of Current Sociology on Childhood Sociology, March 2010. Featuring Section Members! New Article, April 2010: Kristen Myers and Laura Raymond. "Elementary School Girls and Heteronormativity: The Girl Project," Gender & Society, 24(2), 167-188. Child, Youth, and Environments, Special Issue now available: Volume 18, number 1 of the Children, Youth and Environments Journal is now online. Guest edited by Lori Peek, this special issue examines the vulnerability and resilience of children and youth before, during and after disasters. More information about the journal can be found here: www.colorado.edu/journals/cye Special Issue of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Special Guest Editor: Jeylan T. Mortimer. Issue No. 119 (Spring 2008). This issue is inspired by a stirring address that Frank Furstenberg delivered at the 2006 Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, “Diverging development: The not so invisible hand of social class in the United States.” He called on social scientists interested in the study of development to expand their purview beyond investigations of the developmental impacts of poverty to consider the full gamut of social class variation in our increasingly unequal society. The gradations of class alter the social supports, resources and opportunities, as well as the constraints facing parents as they attempt to guide their children toward the acquisition of adult roles. This issue examines the impacts of social class origin on the highly formative period of transition to adulthood. Drawing on findings from the Youth Development Study and other sources, the authors examine social class differences in adult child-parent relationships, intimacy and family formation, higher educational attainment, the school-to work transition, the emergence of work-family conflict, and harassment in the workplace. The authors indicate new directions for research that will enhance understanding of the problems facing our nation’s young people. These articles will persuade social policy makers to develop social interventions that will level the playing field and increase the opportunities for disadvantaged youth to become healthy and productive adults. Lingxin Hao and colleagues— On-going project related to children and youth. See publication updates here. Lingxin Hao (PI) and Sue-ling Pong (co-PI) are currently conducting an inter-generational mobility project. This project examines the role of public high schools in the upward mobility of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The central research question is: Do public high schools compensate for the out-of-school learning disadvantage faced by underprivileged students? The overarching goal is to identify the specific structural and relational attributes of public high schools that prepare disadvantaged students to ascend the social ladder. Wei-Jun Jean Yeung and colleagues: Yeung, W.J., “Intergenerational Racial Stratification and Children’s Cognitive Achievement”, National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator. (Co-PI: Caroline Persell). Yeung, W.J. and Pfeiffer, K.M. Forthcoming. “The Black-White Test Score Gap and Early Home Environment”, Social Science Research. Yeung, W.J. and Conley, D. 2008. “Black-White Achievement Gap and Family Wealth”, Child Development 79(2): 303-324. An article by Jan Phillips, 'Accomplishing family through toy consumption', published in CHILDREN, MEDIA AND CONSUMPTION, Karin M. Ekstrom & Birgitte Tufte (editors), has received the first ITRA-BTHA prize for excellence in toy research. The award is given by the International Toy Research Association with sponsorship by the British Toy and Hobby Association. Jan Phillips was in Nafplion, Greece, on 10 July 2008 to receive the award and deliver a talk on her research. POLICY BRIEFS: The SSSP is pleased to offer you the Agenda for Social Justice, Solutions 2008, which represents an effort by our professional association to nourish a more "public sociology" that will be easily accessible and useful to policy makers The web page for the project is located here: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/323. The chapters are available for free download, and may be suitable as cost-effective supplementary readings in many social problems-related courses. |
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