ASA Style Guide
- American Sociological Association Style Guide, 6th ed. The ASA Style Guide highlights and features guidelines for the most common situations experienced by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for ASA journals.
- American Sociological Association Style Guide, 7th ed. he seventh edition of the ASA Style Guide features guidelines for the most common situations encountered by authors and editors in the ASA journal publication process. It is designed to serve as the authoritative reference for writing, submitting, editing, and copyediting manuscripts for journals and other materials using or requiring ASA style. While the structure of this edition is consistent with past editions, some changes have been made to the content. All links and reference sources have been updated or veri ed for accuracy. This edition also updates ASA policy on the use of the singular "they" as a generic pronoun, and includes new preferred terminology and capitalization for race/ethnicity.
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- Data Justice Data Justice is a cutting-edge exploration of the power relations that lay at the heart of our datafied lives. It outlines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, exploring how societies are, will, and should be affected by data-driven technology and automation. From data capitalism and data colonialism, to data harms and data activism - this book is an expert guide to the debates central to understanding the injustices of life in a datafied society. It is also an urgent and impassioned call to challenge and reimagine these injustices. To work collectively to achieve a fairer and more just future.
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About Death, Dying & the End of Life
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for SO418 / SO818: Sociology of Medicine / Medical Sociology: Death, Dying & The End of Life.
Featured Story: Last Words (Boston Globe Spotlight Team, September 2020)
- Last Words: Is Death the Great Equalizer? (Boston Globe) Quite the contrary, a Spotlight investigation shows. Death exposes in high relief the layers of inequities, in race and income, care and opportunity, that shape life down to its final hours. It is a truth the pandemic has only underscored — one hard to see, because it is so much easier to look away.
- Last Words: A Home to Die In (Boston Globe) They were the most vulnerable to COVID — thousands of elders in nursing homes across the state. Yet for the Baker administration, praised for its overall pandemic response, they were for too long a secondary priority. The result was calamity — 1 in 7 dead, among the highest rates in the land.
- Last Words: Homey, Coveted, Costly - And Crushed by the Epidemic (Boston Globe) Families, especially those with means, sought to place their frail elders in Belmont Manor, a five-star nursing home. It was a safe refuge for the twilight years, until suddenly it became something else entirely: a case study in the coronavirus's indiscriminate power.
- Death in Mass., by the Numbers (Boston Globe) Boston Globe Spotlight Team obtained state data from more than 1 million death certificates filed in Massachusetts in the last two decades. Some reflect the tragedy of newborn deaths, others the good luck of a long life. Analyzed in totality, however, the data reveals troubling differences among groups: Income and race makes a difference.
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- The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change (SAGE) Based on an analysis of Twitter data, this article examines the appearance of generational ideas in the ways that people have defined the experience and significance of the coronavirus and climate change, as well as related them to each other. I characterize the narrative frame as one of intergenerational discounting: a description of breakdown in reciprocal obligations of care, giving rise to accusations of hypocrisy, expressions of resentment and rage, and the description of the virus as the ‘Boomer remover’.
Featured Blog: Scientific American
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- Racism, Not Genetics, Explains Why Black Americans Are Dying of COVID-19 (Scientific American Blog) There is still plenty we don’t know about COVID-19, but one fact is inescapable: African Americans are disproportionately represented among the dead.
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This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.