Social Research is examining concerns about policing the police in our new issue.
The first article of this quarter is Jack Monaghan’s “The Philosophical Problem of Democratic Policing.” Monaghan examines the different philosophical approaches to policing, formulating the general theoretical problems for democratically legitimizing police power.
🔗: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/948882
In our first #SundayRead since the release of our new issue “Policing,” Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson use new research to assess the judgments of African Americans about the legitimacy of the criminal justice system. Their article reflects specifically on the rising proportions of incarcerated citizens due to increasingly harsh policing policies and sentencing practices.
Read “Unfair by Design: The War on Drugs, Race, and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System” in our Spring 2024 issue (originally published in 2006): https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/923110
#TBT to our Summer 2006 issue “Fairness”
Questions of fairness are deeply enmeshed with questions about who gets what and how it is distributed, with how we feel about the ways in which power, resources, access, even attention are divided.
🔗: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/28847
This week’s #SundayRead discusses “Empowerment as Surrender: How Women Lost the Struggle for Emancipation as They Won Equality and Inclusion.”
In this article, Albena Azmanova critiques the failure of second-wave feminism to confront structural sources of injustice despite its success in political mobilization. Moving forward, Azmanova suggests a new understanding of the feminist movement as part of a broader critique of contemporary capitalism.
🔗: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/639864
Happy New Year from Social Research!🎉🎟
In 2025, Social Research will be upholding pioneering research in the social sciences and humanities for the 92nd year. We are excited to soon surpass a century of publishing, thanks to our amazing contributors and readers!
So, you’ve survived the holiday season. Would you describe any of this year’s kitchen table conversations as poetic?
This #SundayRead, Deborah Tannen discusses the poetic elements of language that drive both conversational and literary discourse through patterns of sound and sense.
Read “‘Oh Talking Voice That Is So Sweet’: The Poetic Nature of Conversation” in our Fall 1998 issue: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971265
Surrounded by mountains of discarded wrapping paper and endless leftovers from holiday meals, it’s time to talk about garbage.🗑️
Our Spring 1998 issue “Garbage” invites philosophical consideration of garbage in terms of distributive justice, freedom, and the general will. #tbt #BoxingDay
🔗: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40043700
Merry Christmas from Social Research!☃️❄️And Happy Hanukkah and Kwanzaa tomorrow!
In the afternoon lull, full of food and tired of family, sit back in your favorite armchair and read about the human values expressed in gift giving.
“The Religious Gift: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Perspectives on Dana” by Diana L. Eck examines different understandings of giving in the context of traditional cultures that value renunciation as a religious ideal.
Read here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/528209/pdf
#merrychristmas #merrychristmas2024
It’s Christmas Eve; Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are just two days away. If you still need a last minute gift for a loved one, why not get them a digital subscription to Social Research!✨📚
You can purchase both subscriptions and single issues here: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/cart/for-sale?oc=2492
Our #SundayRead this week examines why the moral and legal approach to control human violence has been unsuccessful.
People continue to believe that violence can be stopped by punishing those who commit it, despite the evidence that punishment is a powerful stimulus for violence.
Find “Punishment and Violence: Is Criminal Law Based on One Huge Mistake?” by James Gilligan in our Fall 2000 issue.
🔗: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40971409
How and why do we punish criminal acts?
With several high-profile crimes and verdicts in the news recently, as well as presidential pardons, #tbt to our 2007 Summer issue “Punishment: The US Record,” which examines the foundations of our understanding of punishment, the carceral system, and what decarceration could mean for the future.
Find the issue here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/28851
