2022

A Note on the Life Course Perspective in Sociology

13 minute read

This post contains my notes for Prof. Phyllis Moen’s doctoral seminar Topics in Life Course: Work and Well-Being in Turbulent Times at the University of Minnesota, Fall 2022. The seminar, in Phyllis’s own words, was to “adopt a gendered life course, stress process, intersectional approach” to “address the health and well-being implications of, and inequities around, the changing nature and culture of paid work, along with ongoing disparities around both paid work and unpaid family care work.” The seminar was very informative and could not be summarized in one single post. Consequently, my focus will be on the broad principles of the life course pespective as an epistemology.

Book Review for Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser

7 minute read

Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis is a collection of essays by Nancy Fraser from 1985 to 2010. The book, in Fraser’s own word, is to clarify the “struggles and wishes” of the second-wave feminism in the United States (p. 26). By doing so, Fraser sheds lights on a new pathway towards gender justice in the contemporary world. As Fraser is a political philosopher, the book proves to be mostly conceptual. The contents of the book are organized into three parts, corresponding to three distinct themes of the second-wave feminism: redistribution, recognition, and representation. The present book review follows a similar structure, as I will highlight the struggles and wishes around each of the three themes. I will also briefly discuss how Fraser’s work can inform future research on work and employment at the end of the review.

Simple Stata-to-LaTeX Tempaltes

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Stata’s popular user-wrriten command estout/esttab is a powerful tool to export Stata output to other envrionments (csv, txt, word, and tex). Nevertheless, there are lots of details one need to remember to use esttab/estout to produce nice tables. Things become even more intimidating if one wishes to use Stata for analysis and LaTeX for writing, partly because of LaTeX’s plasticity and, therefore, complexity.