September 2009

Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have

by kris bishop September 29, 2009

By Eszter Hargittai, Editor. This collection of essays aims to fill a notable gap in the existing literature on research methods in the social sciences. While the methods literature is extensive, rarely do authors discuss the practical issues and challenges they routinely confront in the course of their research projects. As a result, editor Eszter Hargittai argues, each new cohort is forced to reinvent the wheel, making mistakes that previous generations have already confronted and resolved. Learn more about the book… Watch "Cyberspace is Segregated," Eszter Hargittai. Also, watch: "Google Culture," Eszter Hargittai on CNN's The Flip Side|Eszter [...]

One Big (Straight, Gay, Multi-cultural, Traditional) Happy Family

by kris bishop September 24, 2009

by John Kenneth White, author of Barack Obama’s America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era ALSO READ: John Kenneth White on: MICHAEL JACKSON SARAH PALIN AT LEFT: Photo from MODERN FAMILY on ABC, a new show about a single family that must bridge generational, cultural, and social gaps. “In 1970, Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg famously defined the Real Majority of the U.S. electorate as being “un-young, un-poor, and un-black.” Today, Scammon and Wattenberg’s Real Majority is increasingly an historical artifact. Certainly, George W. Bush helped hasten the end of this [...]

Getting to Grassroots: Author Clarence Lang

by kris bishop September 17, 2009

by Clarence Lang, author of new release GRASSROOTS AT THE GATEWAY: CLASS POLITICS AND BLACK FREEDOM STRUGGLE IN ST. LOUIS, 1936-1975 "All scholarship is autobiographical. I often wonder, then, whether my scholarly interest in the dynamics of class among African Americans stems from a desire to grapple with my own contradictions as someone from a working-class background who grabbed certain opportunities, squandered others, and in the process became a black middle-class professional who lives and works very differently from most African Americans. When I think of the experiences that may have contributed to my research, I can pull from the [...]

The University of Michigan Press and The Google Settlement

by kris bishop September 15, 2009

A Letter from Press Director Phil PochodaMichigan Digital Transition "As you have heard, a class action lawsuit was brought by authors and publishers against Google for digitizing millions of books without permission of their copyright holders and publishers. The terms of the Google Settlement will be reviewed in a Fairness Hearing by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on October 7, 2009. At this time any comments and objections received by the Court to the terms of the Settlement will be considered, and the Settlement will be approved, amended, or disapproved. University of Michigan Press [...]

Toronto, Ontario – American Political Science Association 2009 Recap

by kris bishop September 9, 2009

Michigan Press staff went lake-jumping this past week to display our latest political science titles at the American Political Science Association’s 2009 Annual Exhibit in Toronto, Ontario. We had great booth traffic, lots of sales, and some great face-to-face conversations with interested professors and authors, especially regarding Michigan’s new Digital Transition (click for more info)–not to mention some great weather! See below for just a few of the authors who stopped by to say hi, and some Toronto-area staff photos: Seth Masket (left), author of No Middle Ground: How Informal Parties Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures, and Michael Brecher [...]

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