Berkeley Journal of Sociology

Want to contribute to the future of public sociology? Submit your work now for Berkeley Journal of Sociology's Spring 2025 issue! Deadline: December 2, 2024. Email us your submission at [email protected]! More info: berkeleyjournal.org/submissions

🤩 VOL 66 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ✨
We are now accepting essays, photography, fieldwork memos, and more for the next issue of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology coming Spring 2025! 💡👉 Send us your work: [email protected]. More info: berkeleyjournal.org/submissions

Need an interesting read for the way home from ASA? DM us or free copies of our latest volumes and we’ll gladly share with your a physical copy of our journal to keep the excitement around public sociology!

It is so fun to be at ASA and hear about everyone’s cool work. 🥸 We’re maaybe a bit biased but we’ve been publishing cool work too at BJS. Want to read some awesome public sociology? DM us and we’ll send ya along with physical copies for free! 🤩

Going to ASA 2024 in Montreal this year? Sadly BJS doesn’t have a panel this year, but we have been busy working on our latest volume. Want a free physical copy? DM us or one of our editors in chief and we’ll gladly send you home with our latest volumes! 📕📗📘

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💡 KaylinBourdon takes us through the perspectives of two women whose shared identity as mothers ultimately leads them to opposing positions on guns. Read on to see how motherhood can be a powerful and flexible source of identity and political activism! 🤱https://berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/constructing-motherhood/

In this policy review, Larissa Cursaro, D. Azarmi, Kelsey Perez, and Carlos Flores evaluate different policies around armed school resource officers on whether they actually help make schools safe places for Black and Latinx youth in California 🏫📚: berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/armed-school-resource-officers/

Towards a future of prison abolition against the carceral state, check out Isabella Irtifa’s article on how “feminist jails” will never be progressive or humane 👉berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/abolishing-feminist-jails

In our second memo from fieldwork published in Vol 65, Dylan Gray reflects on the risks, politics of informed consent, and lessons learned from an aborted ethnography of right-wing online communities: berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/aborted-ethnography/

We are thrilled to share the first of two fieldwork memos published in Volume 65! Istikhar Ali reflects on their Muslim identity and shows us the complexities that emerge from fieldwork within Muslim communities amidst political and social change. Read more here: berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/navigating-complexity/

Check out our interview with Dr. Heba Gowayed where we discuss centering humanity in our work, her human-centric approach to scholarship, and navigating an insider-outsider perspective while doing ethnography. We also talked about the future of Sociology as a field and the world we are building towards🌎
Read our conversation here: https://berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/heba-gowayed

In “Imagined Crypto,” Alexandra Bucher takes us into the room where it happens, or into the US Senate hearing discussions and their implications for how digital assets are ultimately regulated (or not) 💻Find out more here: erkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/imagined-crypto/

Is Neoliberalism dead? Aabid Firdausi argues that though state intervention has not abated in global governance, this has neither broken the stronghold of global finance nor inequalities between the global north and south🌎
Check it out here: berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/is-neoliberalism-dead/

In our featured photo essay “Family Reconsidered” in Volume 65, Mirna Nadia takes readers into the intimate lives of Indonesian women who have formed communities of chosen family that subvert norms around the heterosexual nuclear family. Check out her beautiful photography and accompanying essay here! https://berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/family-reconsidered/

Check out our interview with Professor Michele Goodwin, where we discuss the legal and personal narratives created around the bodies and identities of women and people of color, as well as the power of empiricism in our struggles for social justice: https://berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/professor-michele-goodwin/

Up next, Sarah Mayorga reflects on her identity as a Comunista that guides her personal and academic efforts towards ending racial capitalism. Read this personal reflection behind her book Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism here! https://berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/whos-afraid-of-a-comunista/

Our newest volume opens with Farah Hamouda’s painting “في حياتنا (In our Lifetime)” 🍉🇪🇭✊ In the wake of genocide and efforts to censor advocacy for Palestinian liberation, we take seriously our responsibility as a publication outlet and with our platform to actively resist such censorship and instead continue to uplift voices that historically are silenced most. We at the BJS stand in solidarity and in power with Palestinian liberation: https://berkeleyjournal.org/2024/06/26/in-our-lifetime/

Happy official start of summer y’all! 🌞Looking for a really interesting summer read? Order a copy of our most recent volume, or all 3 if you want a trilogy 😉, now! Email us at [email protected] to order your copy 📚

Here’s a teaser of our volume 😉 peep all the cool work and conversations we got to publish! Interested in ordering a copy? DM us or email us at [email protected]

BJS VOLUME 65 IS OUT NOW!⚡️Our theme “Subverting Paradigms, Imagining Futures” - features essays, photography, and field memos reflecting on how our positions reflect our politics, ranging from social movements and reimagining family, to ethnography and digital assets! Check it out! 👇

📣 VOL 65 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💫
DEADLINE is TONIGHT! 🌚 Send us your essays, photography, social commentaries, and more for the next issue of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology coming Spring 2024! 🔮👉🏼 Send us your work: [email protected]. More info: http://berkeleyjournal.org/submissions

📣 VOL 65 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💫
We have extended our deadline to December 15th! Please send us your essays, photography, social commentaries, and more for the next issue of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology coming Spring 2024! 🔮👉🏼 Deadline is this Friday!! Send us your work: [email protected]. More info: http://berkeleyjournal.org/submissions

🔮🧠 What happens when our social media data becomes someone else’s research data? In “Privacy in Public” Nataliya Nedzhverskaya and Steven Lauterwasser helps us think through the research ethics of publicly available social media data 👉🏼http://berkeleyjournal.org/2023/08/11/privacy-in-public

📣 VOL 65 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💫
We have extended our deadline to December 15th! Please send us your essays, photography, social commentaries, and more for the next issue of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology coming Spring 2024! 🔮👉🏼 Send us your work: [email protected]. More info: http://berkeleyjournal.org/submissions

☄️ How will information leaks and encryption aid social movements? For Vol 64, Benjamin Case and Jonathan Stribling-Uss lay out the politics of information flows 🌀 to reveal the surveillance state while limiting its oversight into mass communication ⚡️ http://berkeleyjournal.org/2023/09/21/encrypted-revolution

📣 VOL 65 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💫
We are now accepting essays, photography, social commentaries, and more for the next issue of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology coming Spring 2024! 🔮👉🏼 Send us your work: [email protected]. More info: http://berkeleyjournal.org/submissions

💫 Bringing personal narrative into sociological insight about the lives of q***r Filipino Americans, Anthony Ocampo challenges us to go “beyond the dichotomy of tragedy and triumph” when sharing stories about our communities 👉🏼 read the interview! http://berkeleyjournal.org/Anthony-ocampo

Humbert Flores gives us a compelling look into migration in the California Inland Empire, the ensuing criminalization of immigrants, and local advocacy to establish a new home for an emerging majority-Latinx population 🌟 check it out: http://tinyurl.com/inland-migration