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Statistics & Data
Books:
I recently sent out Childless
Moms: The Private Lives of Women Who Don't Have Kids. This book
was based on 125 in depth interviews with childless women, using a grounded
methodology approach. A New York agent is currently reviewing it
for placement and will be in touch sometime early in 2000.
Finding Information About Children: Use of Electronic and Human Resources was sent this week to Sage Publications, who is interested in publishing it. I have to wait until the first of the year to hear if they will publish it.
Threads is a book of short stories that come from a women's intergenerational perspective. It is done and I am currently looking for a publisher.
Fashion and Youth (working title). This is a sociological look at adolescents and fashion. This manuscript will be done by the end of 1999, and I have an agent interested in placing it.
In January I will begin writing Other People's Kids: How Safe are Your Children when you're not with them? It has taken three years to collect the massive amount of data for this project. I had to wait until these other items were off my desk.
Articles:
I am in the midst of analyzing
the best data set I've ever had! The richness of the data is so good
that I plan to write the following articles during 2000:
Other People's Kids will yield a bunch of articles, as yet to be determined.
I currently have a $4000 research grant from SSC (Dr. Hamilton) to produce an electronic media set of projects. All are well underway.
I received $5000 from the New Hampshire State Department of Mental Health to conduct research on high school students (referenced above in the article section of this report). I also hired a half dozen SSC students to code data for this project, with additional State of NH monies. Together, they received about $2100.
This summer I was awarded a $800 grant to study the incorporation of a statistics component into SOC 206.
Visit the newly launched CCS
Website for further information on this project.
New England Undergraduate Sociological Research Conference
I am awaiting confirmation from Dr. Hamilton of funding for this conference, but have already heard from about 50 people who would like to present at this conference. Somehow, we have to figure out how to make this happen.
Building upon my Council on
Teaching summer grant, I am working diligently to create a good teaching
and learning experience in SOC 206 and SOC 361. I'll let you know
how my new strategy goes!