A little Israel / Palestine demography

I pulled together a few charts for a presentation on demographic trends, including Israel / Palestine. It follows my post from 5 years ago, when I concluded that, "Israel’s trajectory is unsustainable in more ways than one." These use data from the UN, Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics, World Bank, and Israel Democracy Institute. 1.…

New grad seminar syllabus: Gender, Work, and Family

I tried to balance mostly recent books and articles, qualitative and quantitative, review pieces and empirical studies.

Patriarchy, On Fire, superfecundation, sexual intercourse, moral acceptability, football fatalities

A few recent observations shared on my Mastodon account.

If you click on this you will see that one list of things that is the 2022 year end review

Papers, books, posts, news, social media. Thanks for reading!

Eternalism and choosing the futures

Free will exists even in an eternal universe in which all the possible time-space realities “already” “exist.” The question is which futures will we join.

US name androgyny at record high

Androgyny is still climbing rapidly and I thought you needed to know that right away.

A short paper on the decline of all things marriage in the U.S.

A higher status marriage system is a smaller, slower, and more stable marriage system.

Who wants to be Adele, filling the void with an endless emptiness unchained?

The Adele in the video has no relationships other than her "team" at work and her financial advisor. She fills the void with the endless emptiness of a self unchained.

Inequality work product: Visualizing unequal

I'm working on the fourth edition of The Family, and since it's an "accessible, data-driven introduction to contemporary sociological thinking on families," I figured I'd share a few figures I worked on for the chapter on social class and poverty. 1. Parents' education and educational attainment. The General Social Survey asks people what their parents'…

These are the datasets of our lives (43 of them, anyway)

43 current or ongoing surveys, with microdata from individual/household/family units of analysis, with US samples, publicly available data (some with permission required). More or less.