Reproducing Inequality in Sociology

Ray, Victor

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“…Many of the issues described above are a direct result of the social organization of social research and the inequities I experienced are shared by many researchers (Burris, 2004;Ray, 2019;Strong, 2019). It is worth noting that highly ranked institutions do not necessarily produce more research than lower ranked institutions (Akbaritabar et al, 2018;Burris, 2004) and emergent "class" behavior among social scientists may be a cause of social fragmentation in the social sciences (Akbaritabar et al, 2020).…”

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“…In the literature that discusses the social dynamics of social research, the concept of the "outsider" researcher has been proposed to describe the experiences of non-majority researchers (Ray, 2019;Strong, 2019;Treitler, 2019). Treitler (2019) describes how women and people of color are underrepresented and underfunded in the sociological research community.…”

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My experience in social research

Kennedy

2024

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Sociologists and, more specifically, sex work researchers comprise a distinct subculture in the scientific research community. While there is now a large and growing literature on sex work there is little research on the community of researchers who produce it. What researchers produce can have a significant impact on policy which in turn can affect occupational health and safety in the industry therefore it is imperative that we understand how knowledge is produced in this sub-discipline. This study is a participant observation case study that centers around the experience of the author and considers the research and publishing ecosystem through the lens of a neophyte researcher who is only tangentially connected to the university system. This study considers the question of whether it is practically possible for those either directly or indirectly involved in the sex industry to publish high quality research and what limitations are imposed on researchers by the publishing industry. Key findings are that it is possible in a limited way to work independently of the university system and that some publishers are willing to publish authors who need to protect their privacy. However, there are significant financial, ethical, and social barriers that must be overcome when producing and publishing peer-reviewed work.

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My experience in social research

Kennedy

2024

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“…A non-exhaustive but diverse list of second wave TRC sociologists and major articles and books from their dissertation research include Matthew Hughey (2012), Geoff K. Ward (2012), Melissa Weiner (2012), Alyasah Ali Sewell (2016), W. Carson Byrd (2017), Crystal Fleming (2017), Atiya Husain (2017), Celia Lacayo (2017), Jennifer Mueller (2017, 2020), Michael Rodriguez-Muniz (2017), Angel Parham (2017), Karida Brown (2018), Louise Seamster (2018), Sarah Mayorga-Gallo (2019), Victor Ray (2019a), Trenita Brookshire Childers (2020), hephizibah strmic-pawl (2020), Ali Meghji (2021), Whitney Pirtle (2021), Theresa Rocha Beardall (2022), Kiara Wyndham Douds (2021), and Daanika Gordon (2022). My own 2012 dissertation and resulting book (Maghbouleh 2017) could be understood as part of this chronological and epistemological second wave, and I elaborate on the impact of TRC for such early-career adopters like me in Part 2 of this essay.…”

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Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology

Maghbouleh

2022

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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How have sociologists engaged the late philosopher Charles Mills’ landmark The Racial Contract (1997) in the twenty-five years since its publication? I first synthesize and periodize the corpus of sociological research citing The Racial Contract into two chronological and epistemological waves. The first wave (1997-2009) is distinguished by the scholarship of a vanguard who drew on the text, and direct engagement with Mills himself, in a paradigmatic shift away from the sociological study of race relations to the study of racism. The second wave (2010-present) is characterized by a fivefold increase in the text’s citation, tied to a resurgence of Du Boisian sociology and the early-career projects of a new generation of sociologists, as the text diffused from the sociology of race into other subfields of the discipline. I then go on to describe the influence of The Racial Contract on theory, data, and method in my own scholarship on racialization, first during my graduate studies in the United States, and later, as Sociology faculty in Canada at the University of Toronto, Mills’ alma mater. I end the essay with proposals for how a third wave of sociological engagement with The Racial Contract can more rigorously engage the text’s originating relationship to feminist political theory, as well as more actively be in dialogue with a new generation of critical philosophers who are already speaking back to us by centrally drawing on the work of sociologists.

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“…White people have become the “experts” on population groups of color, in addition to topics where minority groups were considered overrepresented (i.e., gangs). White scholars then utilize these racialized, gendered, and class processes to cite one another to uphold this dominance and institutionally advance their careers (Delgado, 1984; Ray, 2019). Since most academics were White and had higher levels of income as tenure track or tenured professors, they may not be exposed the same way to the problematic aspects of policing.…”

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The racialized patterns of police violence: The critical importance of research as praxis

Durán

Shroulote-Durán

2021

Sociology Compass

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The tragic killing of George Floyd at the hands of the police resulted in hundreds of thousands of protestors marching in the streets demanding change. The call for change criticized the killing of Blacks by law enforcement and challenged White supremacy as an institution of social control and racial violence. A key component of the marches and protests was a message to the residents of the United States: “Black Lives Matter.” As society grapples with a reckoning, researchers studying police violence for the past 6 decades have been empirically and theoretically debating the reasons why use of force by law enforcement continues to have a higher proportion of Black and Brown victims compared to Whites. Although the research on fatal police killings was studied by only a small number of individuals prior to 2014, after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri the research in different areas of the country increased rapidly as did the forms of analysis and research disciplines making their own contributions. The Washington Post and Guardian news agencies established that deaths at the hands of the police were occurring for at least 900 to 1100 individual deaths per year for which firearms resulted in the greatest cause of death. As US government agencies failed to produce a national data source on police involved killings, the media took a leading role in providing greater national understanding. The authors examine what role academic researchers contribute to the discussion for solutions, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds. As protestors march, lawyers sue and defend, and politicians create new forms of legislation, researchers need to play a more important role initiating critical studies, making sense of the data, and providing a theoretical framework for which police violence can be understood. This article will provide an overview of the literature on racialized police violence, point out key patterns involving racial and ethnic disparities, and emphasize how researchers can play a more important role in advocating for change.

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Reproducing Inequality in Sociology

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

My experience in social research

My experience in social research

Twenty-Five Years of Charles Mills’s Racial Contract in Sociology

The racialized patterns of police violence: The critical importance of research as praxis

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