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Our Top Ten Most-Read Articles of 2014

To close out 2014, we’d like to highlight the ten most-read Berkeley Journal of Sociology articles of the year.

December 23, 2014 • BJS Editorial Collective • Articles • most-read

Anthony Ocampo: The Lives of Queer Filipino Americans and Being Asian American in Academia

As two Asian Americans in Sociology, we were so excited when we got the chance to interview Anthony Ocampo. A leading public voice on the lives and experiences of queer Filipino Americans, his writings fuse together personal narrative and sociological research that inspire our own life and work. In the following conversation, we discuss his […]

October 26, 2023 • Anthony Ocampo, Janna Huang and Tiffany Hamidjaja • Interview

Research and Advocacy: Partnering to Guarantee Voting Rights for All

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of mass incarceration in the United States. This period also saw wide-ranging laws and regulations that diminish the rights and privileges for those convicted of crimes – including the right to vote. More than 19 million people in the United States have felony convictions triggering civil sanctions, which often includes […]

August 8, 2023 • Nicole D. Porter • Articles

Partnerships in Public Sociology: Expanding Voting Rights for People with Felony Convictions

Last fall the Sentencing Project released Locked Out 2022, the fourth in a series of public reports on U.S. felony disenfranchisement prepared in a partnership with my academic research team (Uggen, Larson, Shannon, and Stewart 2022). Disenfranchisement here refers to the practice of denying voting rights to people convicted of felony-level criminal convictions. The United […]

August 8, 2023 • Christopher Uggen • Articles

Matthew Clair: Ethnography, Sociology as a Collective Endeavor, and Inequalities in the Legal System

Matthew Clair is a pathbreaking sociologist whose research broadly investigates how cultural meanings within our institutions reflect, reproduce, and challenge inequality and injustice. We first got to know Matt as a professor in an undergraduate sociology theory course at Stanford (for Janna) and as a scholar in law and society (for Tiffany). Through this serendipitous […]

August 8, 2023 • Matthew Clair, Janna Huang and Tiffany Hamidjaja • Interview

Dorothy Roberts: Radical Scholarship, Abolition, and Fighting for a Just World

Dorothy Roberts is a preeminent scholar, activist, and public intellectual whose work breaks through disciplinary molds to inform our knowledge of policing, family welfare systems, bioethics, and medicine. We were deeply honored to sit down with her for an interview, where she shares how her childhood and life experiences shape her principles for abolition in […]

July 13, 2023 • Dorothy Roberts, Janna Huang and Tiffany Hamidjaja • Interview

Una Escuela Llamada América: Documentary film and photography as ethnographic tools for reflexive social research

Abstract How can documentary strategies advance sociological insights beyond academia? This photo-essay analyzes the process of producing the documentary film “Una Escuela llamada América” with immigrant children in Arica – the northernmost city in North Chile, only 20 kilometers south from the frontier with Peru. We reflect upon the documentary’s production and its relationship with […]

June 27, 2022 • Antonia Mardones Marshall, Roberto Velásquez Quiroz, Pablo Mardones Charlone and María Paz Espinosa Peña • Articles

“I’d Rather be Teaching!” – Transforming Injustice into Action in a Graduate Labor Movement

How did a group of students who “would rather be teaching,” come to organize, sustain, and finally emerge as victors in a campus-wide movement? This photo-essay analyzes the role of emotions, injustice framing, and interaction rituals in a successful graduate student labor movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

March 6, 2019 • Brian F. O’Neill • Articles • emotions / framing / graduate student labor movements / Illinois / interaction ritual / interpersonal emotion management / tuition-waivers / visual sociology

Not Your Typical Call for Papers

The Berkeley Journal of Sociology is seeking submissions. Our aim is to provide critical perspectives from the social sciences on public debates and current events as well as critical reviews of social scientific knowledge. Please circulate this call.

October 15, 2018 • BJS Editorial Collective • Articles Blog • call for papers

Epistemic Injustice and #MeToo: Some Initial Remarks

This article analyzes the recent #MeToo campaign through the lens of the notions of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, formulated by Miranda Fricker as the two most typical instances of epistemic injustice.

September 28, 2018 • Franco Palazzi • Articles • feminism / gender / law / metoo / patriarchy / Sexual Harassment

Call for Papers (2018 Edition)

The Berkeley Journal of Sociology is seeking submissions for its 2018 print issue (Volume 62). Please circulate this call.

October 16, 2017 • BJS Editorial Collective • Articles Blog • call for papers / Volume 62

Donald Trump and the Political Aesthetics of Reality Television

Donald Trump went from The Apprentice to the Oval Office. What can reality television teach us about governance and resistance under the Trump Administration?

June 8, 2017 • David Showalter • Articles The Roots and Implications of the Trump Election • Donald Trump / election / fascist aesthetics / Media / Reality TV / Television
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