1113 Dr Jessica Calarco

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Pete Dominick

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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A Sociologist and Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jessica is an award-winning teacher, a leading expert on inequalities in family life and education, and the author of the forthcoming book Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net (Portfolio/Penguin, 2024). Her previous books include Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research (with Mario Small; University of California Press, 2022), Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School (Oxford University Press, 2018), and A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum (Princeton University Press, 2020).

Jessica has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and CNN. She also blogs at ParenthoodPhD and is a mom of two young kids.

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My research focuses on education, families, and health decision-making. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the structures of power and privilege that maintain socioeconomic, racial, and gender inequalities in these settings, as well as the role that qualitative methods can play in uncovering these mechanisms.

Much of my early work, including my first book, Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School, uses ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews to reveal the origins and consequences of social class differences in interactions between students, teachers, and parents. Building on this research and on my work teaching and mentoring students in higher education, I also published A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum.

My more recent and ongoing research, including my forthcoming book, Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, draws on in-depth interviews and original surveys to show how US families navigate the challenges of raising children (and making decisions about work, childcare, schooling, and healthcare) in the context of high levels of inequality and in the absence of adequate policy support.

As an active public sociologist, I seek to make research accessible to broad audiences, including through my book Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research and by writing for high-profile media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and Inside Higher Ed.

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0:00.0	Well, hello hello, hello there good looking, how are you doing, how are you feeling?
0:06.0	I hope everything is all right in your neck of the woods and if it's not I hope you'll reach
0:10.1	out and connect with somebody in our amazing community on discord or at our
0:14.0	hangouts on Thursday night or just email me stand up with Pete at gmail.com I know
0:18.7	and get lonely out there in life I'm very excited to have you here joining me. I've got an awesome guest,
0:24.8	the first timer joining me today. Very smart woman. She is a sociologist at the University
0:30.0	of Wisconsin and she's written a new book holding it together how women became
0:34.6	America's safety net. Jessica Kallarko joins me for the first time and she is so
0:39.9	good you're going to love this conversation I've learned so much from reading the book and talking to her.
0:44.0	It begins at 31 minutes into today's show.
0:48.0	But first, I've got your headlines and a whole fat segment of sound clips
0:52.0	because I gathered a whole bunch from Anthony Fauchy being on Capitol Hill,
0:56.8	questioned on Capitol Hill for you today.
1:00.2	And now you can watch the headlines, at least this week I'm piloting this experiment,
1:04.0	seeing if I can make it work, if it's more or about the same amount of work,
1:08.0	I do the headlines, why not film them?
1:10.0	So let's do it.
1:12.0	These are the stories I think are important to you, your family, your country, your planet, your soul, and the rest.
1:17.0	Let's get it started.
1:18.0	I think the big story yesterday has to be Dr. Anthony Fauchy, the former government scientist and either villain or hero, depending
1:24.3	on who you are, celebrated or despised for his work on COVID and of course on AIDS and Ebola
1:30.2	and so many other things mostly celebrated.
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