Social Resources
Multi-Issue
Advocacy/Services
Shared Hope Institute for Justice & Advocacy.
“[A] center for training, research and advocacy [. . .] research related to child and youth sex trafficking in the U.S. [. . .] training focuses on equipping anti-trafficking stakeholders with the resources and knowledge necessary for identifying trafficking victimization and delivering a survivor-centered response. [. . .] technical assistance and advocacy support to Congressional and state legislators.”
”Weave: The Social Fabric Project at the Aspen Institute,” David Brooks.
Health and healing, art and education, and environment and justice.
Articles/Op-eds/Essays
Year of the Womenx: A Conversation with Charlene Carruthers.
“What I remain concerned about is how we relate to one-another, and so what practices can we glean or take up and enhance that we’ve learned from in how we treat each-other [. . .] and so how we are is really important to me. Because if we are talking about building this world beyond carcerality and beyond prison and police and punishment, now is the time to practice how we want to be with each other. How are we practicing the things that we’ve learned not only in our organizations but in our friendships, in our intimate relationships, and with our neighbors?”
Reflections on Social Dynamics, Wade Lee Hudson.
The Long Awakening of Adrienne Rich, Maggie Doherty.
“The search for the real Adrienne Rich is a tempting biographical task. But it suggests a curious conception of the self, as something prior to and apart from the social conditions that produce it. The ways one is raised and educated, the language one learns, the stories to which one has access: all these create and constrict the self.”
Social Dominance Orientation: A Personality Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes, Felicia Pratto, Jim Sidanius, Lisa M. Stallworth, and Bertram F. Malle.
On power and Empowerment, Felicia Pratto.
“The most common theories of power are social–relational. [. . .] I propose a new ecological conceptualization of empowerment as the state of being able to achieve one’s goals and of power as stemming from a combination of the capacity of the party and the affordances of the environment.”
How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Jill Lepore.
“When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar? [. . .] Simulmatics failed. And yet it had built a very early version of the machine in which humanity would find itself trapped in the early twenty-first century, a machine that applies the science of psychological warfare to the affairs of ordinary life, a machine that manipulates opinion, exploits attention, commodifies information, divides voters, atomizes communities, alienates individuals, and undermines democracy. Facebook, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica, Amazon, the Internet Research Agency, Google: these are, every one, the children of Simulmatics.”
What’s the Best Way to Discipline My Child?, American Academy of Pediatrics.
“As a parent, one of your jobs to teach your child to behave. It's a job that takes time and patience. But, it helps to learn the effective and healthy discipline strategies.”
The Leader of the Future. William C. Taylor.
“Harvard's Ronald Heifetz offers a short course on the future of leadership. It's hard to imagine discussing ‘the leader of the future’ without having a discussion with Ronald Heifetz -- one of the world's leading authorities on leadership.”
What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic, Jia Tolentino.
“A radical practice is suddenly getting mainstream attention. Will it change how we help one another?” Nancy L. Rosenbaum, Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America author, believes that both grassroots citizen mobilization and top-down technocratic and political actions are needed. Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell author, believes mutual-aid projects can have a lasting effect on consciousness after crises pass and the project close down.
The Equality Conundrum, Joshua Rothman.
Your Kids’ Coach Is Probably Doing It Wrong, Jennifer L. Etnier.
Column: David Brooks, Politics, culture and the social sciences.
Liberals Do Not Want to Destroy the Family, Thomas B. Edsall.
Cult Deprogrammer: Here’s How to Stage an Intervention for Your Trump-Supporting Friend, by David Ferguson.
The Autocracy App, By Jacob Weisberg.
See excerpts
Want to Quit the Gang Life? Try This Job On, By Tina Rosenberg.
Fixes, The New York Times.
When Nudge Comes to Shove, Evan Selinger.
Books
Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don't Talk About It) (2017), Elizabeth Anderson.
(See “Multiple Identities, Politics, Freedom, and Equality” and “Are bosses dictators? (With Elizabeth Anderson),” Ezra Klein Show)
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), Jonathan Haidt.
True North Groups: A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development (2011), Bill George and Doug Baker.
Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World (2011), Tina Rosenberg.
Bob Dylan and Philosophy (2006), Peter Vernezze and Carl J. Porter.
Respect in a World of Inequality (2003), Richard Sennett.
The 7 Powers of Questions (2000), Dorothy Leeds.
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000), Robert D. Putnam.
The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships (1995), Michael P. Nichols.
The Hidden Injuries of Class (1973), Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
Blaming the Victim (1971), William Ryan.
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement (1970), Robin Morgan.
Sexual Politics (1969), Kate Millet.
The Making of a Counter Culture (1969), Theodore Roszak.
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (1964), Herbert Marcuse.