This new CSDE workshop will be an introduction to R programming (e.g. writing functions, using loops) in the context of simple sample size and power calculations.
Prerequisite: The workshop assumes previous experience with R and RStudio.
Thursday November 10, 2016
10:30am – 12:30pm
Savery 121
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Climate change has many overtly environmental expressions: it has contributed to aberrant temperatures, extreme weather, rising sea levels, and ever-increasing levels of drought. But climate change is not a purely environmental issue; it also has profound impact socially, economically, and geo-politically. And upon closer examination, it becomes clear that environmental changes do not affect human populations uniformly. In fact, the United Nations, the National Institutes of Health, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and countless other organizations recognize that climate change disproportionately impacts women, minorities, impoverished peoples, indigenous populations, people in developing nations, and other marginalized groups. Moreover, research shows that carbon taxes (often included in proposals to mitigate the greenhouse effect) have the heaviest burden on the poor. Thus, to fully address and solve the multilateral matter of climate change, we need to take into consideration the stances and experiences of marginalized peoples and developing nations.
Join the World Affairs Council and Western Washington University on November 3rd for an educator’s workshop all about climate change and its relationship to issues of social justice and human rights around the world. Teachers will explore climate change from both an environmental and a societal perspective, and will learn tools for engaging students around the issues.
Teachers will receive standards-aligned curricular resources and full original lesson plans to help bring the complex topic of climate change to the classroom. This is an interdisciplinary workshop, and would be appropriate for teachers in the Sciences, Arts, and Humanities.
Workshop includes 3 clock hours (with STEM components), classroom resources, and a light dinner.
In order to understand public reactions toward social problems and, in order to do something about these conditions causing so much human misery, we need to know much more about the work of social problem narratives. In a world of countless competing stories, we need to know how some—and only some —stories achieve widespread cognitive and emotional appeal and go on to influence public opinion and social policy; how different stories appeal to people in different social positions. We need to know how stories promoting particular images of social problems reflect and challenge and/or perpetuate existing inequalities and structures of power, and how stories encourage or discourage social change. We need to more fully understand how story contents and meanings change as they circulate through particular societies and throughout the globe.
Each participant is permitted to submit one sole-authored paper and one critical dialogue paper, but additional co-authored papers may be submitted. Critical Dialogue sessions include short (5 minute) presentations by up to 8 authors followed by facilitated dialogue that critically explores connections among the papers. The audience will have an opportunity to participate in the dialogue as well. Emphasis is placed on exploring interesting connections between papers with a broadly similar theme. The hope is that both presenters and the audience will have an opportunity to make new and deeper connections from their unique insights and presented ideas. Critical Dialogue sessions will not have audio-visual equipment.
Join Callie Burt, CSDE Affiliate and UW Assistant Professor of Sociology, for a seminar with the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.
Recent studies suggest that interpersonal racial discrimination increases the risk of crime among African Americans and familial racial socialization practices provide resilience to discrimination’s criminogenic effects. Yet, studies have focused on the short-term effects of racial discrimination largely among adolescents. The present study seeks to advance knowledge by exploring whether and how racial discrimination’s criminogenic effects and racial socialization’s resilience effects endure. Elaborating Simons and Burt’s (2011) social schematic theory of crime, Dr. Burt traces the effects of childhood discrimination and familial racial socialization on the structuring of the life course in ways that influence the likelihood of adult offending, highlighting cognitive and social pathways and their interplay via interactional and cumulative continuity. This life-course SST model is tested using data from the Family and Community Heath (FACHS), a panel study of African American youth followed from ages 10 to 25. Consistent with the model, analyses reveal that the criminogenic cognitive consequences of racial discrimination are mediated by the nature of social relationships and ties. Specifically, by increasing criminogenic social schemas, interpersonal racial discrimination decreases embeddedness in supportive romantic, educational, and employment relations. Findings suggest that not only do the criminogenic effects of racial discrimination endure to increase the likelihood of adult offending, but familial racial socialization has lasting protective effects.
CSDE invites its trainees to submit a project abstract for this Fall’s Trainee Lightning Talks and Poster Session, as part of the CSDE Seminar series “Next Population Science Insights.” Selected trainees will introduce their project via lightning talks and continue the conversation over posters.
This is a great opportunity to showcase your research to an excitingly diverse set of colleagues from across the university, make new connections with scholars working in similar areas, and celebrate your continued development as a strong demographic researcher. CSDE will recognize the best poster with an award. Posters will be assessed based on design, content, and presentation.
The deadline for submissions has been extended to November 4, 2016.
Poster Session Date: Friday, December 2, 2016
Time: 12:30-1:30pm
Location: Green A, Research Commons, Allen Library South
Submit your project abstract: https://goo.gl/forms/WkonUkp4patj7BTB2
Rooted or Stuck? The Causes and Consequences of American Mobility Decline
Annual mobility rates in the US have declined by half since 1950, but it’s not clear why. The emerging literature suggests that as-yet inexplicable immobility is indicative of increasing “rootedness” among Americans – a cultural attachment to place that’s both universal and voluntary. Brad Foster assesses this claim using data from the Current Population Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and address two central questions. First, have expectations of mobility declined alongside actual mobility? Second, has the link between mobility expectations and actual mobility outcomes weakened over time? Results suggest that Americans are “stuck” rather than “rooted” in place – increasingly unable to move when they expect to do so. This pattern is consistent with the idea that social and economic shifts in the latter half of the 20th Century left Americans with fewer options for, and a marginalized ability to take advantage of, opportunity elsewhere. Moreover, because the weakening expectation-mobility link is particularly pronounced among African-Americans, mobility decline may exacerbate inequalities in residential mobility processes that are already deeply stratified by race.
Brad is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department of UW and a former funded CSDE fellow. His current research projects examine multiple facets of American mobility decline, but his research and teaching interests more broadly include social demography, urban/community sociology, race/ethnicity, inequality, and the role of context.
The Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania is currently seeking outstanding applicants for an Assistant Professor, tenure track position in biological anthropology. Specifically, they expect the successful candidate to have an active research program on the intersection between human biology, energetics and evolution. Potential research areas include biomechanics, biocultural adaptation, nutrition, and evolutionary medicine. They are looking for a colleague with a doctoral degree in anthropology that complements the existing programs in the department and whose research interests foster a multidisciplinary dialogue with other groups across the University. This position also articulates with the university-wide Integration of Knowledge Initiative of Diversity, Health and Society, which seeks a “a more sophisticated portrait of human difference, exploring the profound questions raised by economic inequality, the historical legacies of discrimination, and the social dimensions of health.” Teaching responsibilities would include introductory classes in biological anthropology, intermediate classes in the human evolutionary biology concentration, and advanced classes in the area of research specialization.
The Department of Geography at the University of Florida is recruiting a Post-Doctoral Associate positon for Dr. Southworth with her research group to work on (1) time series analysis of remotely sensed and climate data in savanna systems; (2) land grabs in Ethiopia analyzed via remotely sensed data; and (3) land cover analysis in the State of Florida. Dr. Southworth is looking for individuals familiar with remote sensing, GIS and related technologies, with related skills in programming, time series analysis and advanced remote sensing approaches. You must have interest in applying such skills to vegetated systems and an interest in Africa would be desirable, be available for fieldwork in the US and abroad, be able to work independently, be able to lead and collaborate on research articles and potentially on research proposals, be interested in working as part of a dynamic and highly interdisciplinary research team, and be motivated.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) seeks to appoint an Associate Director to participate in ICPSR’s leadership and to manage its collection development and dissemination activities. The Associate Director will provide senior leadership in partnership with ICPSR’s Director and will manage a portfolio of internally and externally-funded projects that acquire data, prepare them for future research, and provide guidance to the research community in best practices for data collection, access, and preservation. She or he will also work closely with the members of ICPSR’s governing Council. This position involves the direct supervision of ICPSR’s research staff, archivists, and curation team, with a staff of over 75 and annual budget of $10 million. The Associate Director will work with ICPSR staff and the research community to develop new archival collections, interact with current and prospective sponsors, and write grant proposals and applications. The Associate Director has general oversight of the management and budget of the ICPSR archive.
The Associate Director will lead the implementation of innovative archival activities at ICPSR and engage in her or his own research, in collaboration with researchers at ICPSR or elsewhere.
The individual will hold a senior research faculty appointment in ICPSR and the Institute for Social Research. The selected candidate’s qualifications will determine the level. The position may be a joint appointment with other units within the Institute for Social Research (Center for Political Studies, Population Studies Center, Research Center for Group Dynamics, and Survey Research Center) or another academic unit of the University of Michigan. ICPSR offers a competitive total compensation package, with full University of Michigan benefits.
New, open access journal, Social Sciences, has a call for papers on a special issue on the methodological advances in the study of health and health care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. For the past ten years, large, representative health surveys in the United States have included sexual orientation and gender identity questions. Consequently, survey samples are larger and more representative of LGBT populations. In addition, these improved samples allow for investigations of different measures of sexual orientation and gender identity.
This Special Issue focuses on empirical and methodological papers that use LGBT samples from large, representative health surveys. Manuscripts that are appropriate for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:
Studies using representative samples of LGBT populations from local and national health surveys are welcomed. Papers can be of any length and should be written in a nontechnical style that can be read by a broad audience. The deadline for this special issue is December 31st, 2016. Open access publication fees are waived for papers submitted by the deadline.