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Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

By: Jessica Calarco

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Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

By: Jessica Calarco

Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women's labor as the reason we've gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women’s work maintains the illusion that we don't need a net. Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it.

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Penguin

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0593538129

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Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

In Negotiating Opportunities, Jessica McCrory Calarco argues that the middle class has a negotiated advantage in school. Drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Calarco traces that negotiated advantage from its origins at home to its consequences at school. Through their parents' coaching, working-class students learn to follow rules and work through problems independently. Middle-class students learn to challenge rules and request assistance, accommodations, and attention in excess of what is fair or required. Teachers typically grant those requests, creating advantages for middle-class students. Calarco concludes with recommendations, advocating against deficit-oriented programs that teach middle-class behaviors to working-class students. Those programs ignore the value of working-class students' resourcefulness, respect, and responsibility, and they do little to prevent middle-class families from finding new opportunities to negotiate advantages in school.

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Oxford University Press

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019063443X

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A Field Guide to Grad School

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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A Field Guide to Grad School

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

An essential handbook to the unwritten and often unspoken knowledge and skills you need to succeed in grad school Some of the most important things you need to know in order to succeed in graduate school—like how to choose a good advisor, how to get funding for your work, and whether to celebrate or cry when a journal tells you to revise and resubmit an article—won’t be covered in any class. They are part of a hidden curriculum that you are just expected to know or somehow learn on your own—or else. In this comprehensive survival guide for grad school, Jessica McCrory Calarco walks you through the secret knowledge and skills that are essential for navigating every critical stage of the postgraduate experience, from deciding whether to go to grad school in the first place to finishing your degree and landing a job. An invaluable resource for every prospective and current grad student in any discipline, A Field Guide to Grad School will save you grief—and help you thrive—in school and beyond. Provides invaluable advice about how to: Choose and apply to a graduate program Stay on track in your program Publish and promote your work Get the most out of conferences Navigate the job market Balance teaching, research, service, and life

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Princeton University Press

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0691201102

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9780691201108

Qualitative Literacy

A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Qualitative Literacy

A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

Cognitive empathy -- Heterogeneity -- Palpability -- Follow-up -- Self-awareness.

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Univ of California Press

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0520390652

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Negotiating Opportunities

How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Oxford University Press

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Best Laid Plans

Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times

By: Jessica Halliday Hardie

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Best Laid Plans

Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times

By: Jessica Halliday Hardie

Given the range of possibilities open to women today, what futures do adolescent girls dream of and pursue? And how do social class and race play into their trajectories? In asking young women about their aspirations in three areas—school, work, and family—Best Laid Plans demonstrates how future plans are framed by notions of gendered responsibilities and abilities. Through her examination of the lives of poor, working-class, and middle-class Black and White young women as they navigate the transition to adulthood, sociologist Jessica Halliday Hardie defines anew what it means for young women to come of age. In particular, Hardie shows how social capital, either possessed or lacked, is not simply a resource for planning for the future but a structure whose form and function varies by social class and race. As these inequalities persist into adulthood, high aspirations, social capital, and careful planning bolster some young women while hindering others. Drawing on qualitative data from a five-year period, Best Laid Plans makes the case for why we need to move beyond the individual appeal to “dream bigger” and “plan better” and toward systematic changes that will put young people’s aspirations within reach.

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Univ of California Press

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0520297873

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9780520297876

Catastrophe and Redemption

The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben

By: Jessica Whyte

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Catastrophe and Redemption

The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben

By: Jessica Whyte

Offers a striking new reading of Agambens political thought and its implications for political action in the present. Challenging the prevalent account of Agamben as a pessimistic thinker, Catastrophe and Redemption proposes a reading of his political thought in which the redemptive element of his work is not a curious aside but instead is fundamental to his project. Jessica Whyte considers his critical account of contemporary politicshis argument that Western politics has been biopolitics since its inception, his critique of human rights, his argument that the state of exception is now the norm, and the paradigmatic significance he attributes to the concentration campand shows that it is in the midst of these catastrophes of the present that Agamben sees the possibility of a form of profane redemption. Whyte outlines the importance of potentiality in his attempt to formulate a new politics, examines his relation to Jewish and Christian strands of messianism, and interrogates the new forms of praxis that he situates within contemporary commodity culture, taking Agambens thought as a call for the creation of new political forms.

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SUNY Press

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1438448538

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9781438448534

Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom

By: Jessica Ruth Austin

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Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom

By: Jessica Ruth Austin

Although definition can vary, to be a Furry, a person identifies with an animal as part of their personality; this can be on a mystical/religious level or a psychological level. In modern Western society having a spirit animal or animal identity can sometimes be framed as social deviance rather than religious or totemic diversity. Jessica Ruth Austin investigates how Furries use the online space to create a 'Furry identity'. She argues that for highly identified Furries, posthumanism is an appropriate framework to use. For less identified Furries, who are more akin to fans, fan studies literature is used to conceptualise their identity construction. This book argues that the Furries are not a homogenous group and with varying levels of identification within the fandom, so shows that negative media representations of the Furry Fandom have wrongly pathologized the Furries as deviants as opposed to fans.

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184

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501375415

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Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Jessica L. Collett,Steven Hitlin

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Social Psychology

By: John D. DeLamater,Jessica L. Collett,Steven Hitlin

The new, tenth edition of Social Psychology is a fully revised and sweeping look into the social forces that make us who we are. Real-life examples and the results from a wide range of empirical research contribute to the book’s coverage of such subjects as the self, attitudes, socialization, communication, interpersonal attraction and relationships, and personality and social structure. It thoroughly addresses intrapsychic processes and comprehensively explores social interactions and group processes, as well as larger-scale phenomena, such as intergroup conflict and the effects of COVID-19. Providing rare, balanced coverage of both psychological and sociological perspectives, as well as historical and contemporary works, the tenth edition of this classic textbook is an ideal companion for introductory social psychology courses.

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850

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Taylor & Francis

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1040045014

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Raising Hell, Living Well

Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (including me)

By: Jessica Elefante

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Raising Hell, Living Well

Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (including me)

By: Jessica Elefante

Part cultural criticism, part rueful confessional, a reformed brand strategist brings to light the impact of influence on us and our society and offers an escape in this ironically persuasive case for not being so easily influenced anymore. “Jessica Elefante practices what she preaches by rising above complaints to confront modern, twisted problems right in the face.”—Jaron Lanier, bestselling author of Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now We live in a world that is under the influence. Our lives are being choreographed by forces that want something from us. Everything from ingrained family values to mind-altering algorithms create our foundations, warp how we see the world, manipulate our decisions, and dictate our beliefs. Yet rarely do we question these everyday influences of our modern times even as we go further down the path of unwell, unhappy, and unhinged. A high-spirited exploration through the troublesome influences of our world, Raising Hell, Living Well, Jessica Elefante’s eye-opening debut, follows one bullshit artist’s journey, from small-time salesperson to award-winning corporate strategist to founder of the digital wellbeing movement Folk Rebellion, in coming to terms with how she was wielding influence—and the forces she was under herself. With whip-smart writing and wry humor, Elefante’s collection of essays is a head-trip through her misadventures. From explaining productivity as a symptom of the influence of capitalism to how the wellness industry makes us feel more unwell or our unquestioning participation in oversharing, optimization, and instant gratification, she invites us to reexamine our world, our pasts, and ourselves through the lens of influence. Now a reformed brand strategist, Elefante lays bare her own culpability, sharing what she learned—and what she got wrong. She offers a new take on intentional living and provides a simple practice to deconstruct how the powers-that-be are attempting to modify our behaviors. Before you know it, you’ll be questioning everything from how you take your coffee to how our social institutions are structured. And you’ll learn how to live free from the influences around us—including Elefante herself. The much-needed subversive voice to demystify these times, Elefante will make you angry, make you laugh, and make you think about how you’re really living. Unpretentious, sharply observed, and devil-hearted, Raising Hell, Living Well holds out a hand to help you climb out from under the influence.

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Ballantine Books

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0593500563

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9780593500569

The Last Walk

Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

By: Jessica Pierce

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The Last Walk

Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

By: Jessica Pierce

In a book that draws on both personal stories and research presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals.

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University of Chicago Press

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022615100X

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9780226151007

Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art

1832 to the Present

By: Jessica Dallow

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Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art

1832 to the Present

By: Jessica Dallow

This book traces an evolution of equine and equestrian art in the United States over the last two centuries to counter conventional understandings of subjects that are deeply enmeshed in the traditions of elite English and European culture. In focusing on the construction of identity in painting and photography—of Blacks, women, and the animals themselves involved in horseracing, rodeo, and horse show competition—it illuminates the strategic and varying roles visual artists have played in producing cultural understandings of human-animal relationships. As the first book to offer a history of American equine and equestrian imagery, it shrinks the chasm of literature on the subject and illustrates the significance of the genre to the history of American art. This book further connects American equine and equestrian art to historical, theoretical, and philosophical analyses of animals and attests to how the horse endures as a vital, meaningful subject within the art world as well as culture at large. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, American art, gender studies, race and ethnic studies, and animal studies.

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Routledge

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1351034324

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9781351034326

A Field Guide to Grad School

Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum

By: Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Princeton University Press

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Holding It Together

How Women Became America's Safety Net

By: Jessica Calarco

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How Women Became America's Safety Net

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Qualitative Literacy

A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

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Qualitative Literacy

A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

By: Mario Luis Small,Jessica McCrory Calarco

Cognitive empathy -- Heterogeneity -- Palpability -- Follow-up -- Self-awareness.

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Holding It Together

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Negotiating Opportunities

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A Field Guide to Grad School

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Qualitative Literacy

Qualitative Literacy

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Negotiating Opportunities

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

Catastrophe and Redemption

Catastrophe and Redemption

Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom

Fan Identities in the Furry Fandom

Social Psychology

Social Psychology

Raising Hell, Living Well

Raising Hell, Living Well

The Last Walk

The Last Walk

Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art

Race, Gender, and Identity in American Equine Art

A Field Guide to Grad School

A Field Guide to Grad School

Holding It Together

Holding It Together

Qualitative Literacy

Qualitative Literacy

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