From http://newmonetarism.blogspot.com/2017/03/do-policymakers-need-more-advice-from.html?m=1
Stephen Williamson on the policy contributions from Sociology
30 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics Tags: sociology
History According to Sociology Professors
25 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: sociology, The Great Enrichment
Sociologists are unhappy when women are happy
06 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, poverty and inequality Tags: gender gap, marriage and divorce, sociology
History According to Sociology Professors
01 Jan 2018 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economic history Tags: sociology, The Great Enrichment
Why Universities Must Choose Truth or Social Justice
14 Jan 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: political psychology, sociology
Economic Reasoning Applied to Sociology
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: sociology
Is sociology really irrelevant in policy debates?
03 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, income redistribution, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: compensating differentials, evidence-based policy, media bias, offsetting behaviour, public intellectuals, sociology, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Is sociology really irrelevant in policy debates? @familyunequal does a better job with the #s blog.contexts.org/2015/01/25/soc… http://t.co/c4E25DTCmm—
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How Sociologists Made Themselves Irrelevant – Part 2
07 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, liberalism Tags: sociology
I would like to suggest two “smell tests” for all sociologists, but especially those engaged with the public sphere, when assessing their work.
The first is the Garfinkel rule: Never treat your subjects as cultural dopes.
If you find yourself struggling to explain away your subjects’ own reasoned and widely held account of what they consider important in explaining their condition, you are up to something intellectually fishy.
The second is this: If you end up with findings that have policy implications that you would never dream of advocating for yourself or your loved ones, be wary of them.
A case in point: If you find that neighborhoods have no effects, you should be prepared to do the rational thing and go live in an inner-city neighborhood with its much cheaper real estate, or at least advise your struggling son or daughter searching for an apartment to save by renting there. If the thought offends you, then something stinks.
The impact of street capital on the labour market prospects of inner-city youth
15 Oct 2014 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply Tags: code of the street, human capital, labour economics, sociology
Dionissi Aliprantis wrote a superb paper on how the social skills developed to survive in the inner cities of America are not the skills that help you graduate from high school and get a job.
In the NLSY97, 26% of black inner-city youth report seeing someone shot by age 12, and 43% of black inner-city youth report the same by age 18.
The code of the street, the street smarted skills that inner-city black youth learn as teenagers to stay alive, do not pay off in regular society:
growing up in the ’hood means learning to some degree the code of the streets, the prescriptions and proscriptions of public behaviour. He must be able to handle himself in public, and his parents, no matter how decent they are, may strongly encourage him to learn the rules
The behaviours that do not help you survive in the street of the poor inner cities of America include include doing well in school, being civil to others, and speaking Standard English.
These skills that are the antithesis of the code of the street are exactly the skills valued by employers, especially employers of low paid workers. Employers of the low paid essentially want to recruit people who are friendly and reliable.
Dionissi Aliprantis found that exposure to street violence during childhood explains 20-35% of the high school dropout rate of inner-city youth.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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