Mario Luis Small

"Is There Such a Thing as 'the Ghetto'?" sparked a passionate debate in the Community and Urban Sociology listserv. It is a critique of Loic Wacquant's Urban Outcasts. For a copy, click here from a campus network or send an email. Cuz Porter, a Columbia Ph.D. candidate, has posted the debate here.

New webiste launched

Urbanorgs is a website for researchers interested in how organizations shape urban inequality.

Two new papers on racial inequality

"Black Students' Graduation From Elite Colleges," with Christopher Winship (Harvard University), examines why black students are more likely to graduate from some elite colleges than others. It finds that black students are more likely to graduate when colleges are more, not less, competitive. Published in Social Science Research.

"Racial Differences in Networks: Do Neighborhood Conditions Matter?" examines why African-Americans in Chicago tend to have smaller personal networks than either whites or Latinos. Neighborhood poverty seems to make a difference. Click or here for a near final version. Published in Social Science Quarterly.

New book-in-progress has a title

The new book has a working title: Unanticipated Gains: What the experience of mothers in daycares reveals about networks, inequality, and well-being. The book examines why urban mothers seem to do better (to suffer less depression, social isolation, or material hardship) when their children are in daycares. Most of it is due to the way daycares shape mothers' social and organizational networks. The book examines how organizational conditions shape the ties of actors. For information, click on scholarship.

Villa Victoria is no longer sold out!

If you've been told Villa Victoria is sold out: The book has been reprinted, and is now available: Amazon, B&N, Seminary Co-op, University of Chicago Press.

If you're looking for the "Lost in Translation" article

The edited volume should be published this year. Click here for an unedited draft. Suggested citation: Mario L. Small, Forthcoming. "Lost in Translation." In Michele Lamont and Patricia White (eds), Report from Workshop on Interdisciplinary Standards for Systematic Qualitative Research. Washington, DC: National Science Foundation.