Together with my research mentor Evan Goldman and under the supervision of Senior Research Fellow J. The Fisher House: Home at the Harvard Forest for the summer.Įveryone here, including the full-time research scientists, focuses on a unique micro niche of ecology ranging from analyzing ant foraging distances to examining hurricane disturbance forest dynamics. Our lodging is a luscious 18 th century cabin in the woods (read: mansion) with catered food provided by chef extraordinaire Tim, whose brownie pudding makes it ever-harder to get out the door in the morning for field work. We all live, eat, and work together-some of us on individual research projects and others in groups-alongside research mentors that guide us through designing and executing a unique project, and finally presenting our work at a final Research Symposium in August. I, along with 20 other college-aged “scientists” from universities around the country, am here for 11 weeks as part of the Harvard Forest Summer Research Program in Ecology, an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program funded by the National Science Foundation (aka your tax dollars-thanks mom!). The 3,000-acre outdoor research laboratory in Petersham, MA, was originally founded in 1907 to serve as Harvard’s school of forestry, but has since evolved into its own department within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. To rewind a bit, the Harvard Forest (spelled with only one ‘r’) is actually what it sounds like-a forest, owned by Harvard University, with trees, plants, moose, and everything else characteristic of the Massachusetts wilderness.
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So whether it was destiny, free will, or “Popular Baby Names 1995” that brought me here, I’ve come to love my time at the Harvard Forest.įorrest Lewis (center) with research mentor Evan Goldman (right) and supervisor J. But I guess when your parents name you after a bohemian misspelling of a New England biome, you get what you deserve. The Revue Française de Sociologie is published in paper form and electronically (in French).I’ve heard a lot of puns, jokes, and quips since starting my research internship at the Harvard Forest last month. Debates also figure importantly in the RFS, which is evident in particular in the space reserved for critical commentaries and book reviews. For example, the following subjects feature among recent or pending thematic issues: the contemporary State, generational inequalities, corporate sociology, and changes in capitalism.
The thematic issues feature conceptual and technical developments specific to each of the fields of the discipline.
The “varia” issues make it possible to choose the best unsolicited submissions, and in particular those from young authors, researchers, and research teachers. The RFS intends to show the importance of sociological studies to knowledge about the social world.Įach year, RFS publishes three “varia” issues and one thematic issue. The Revue Française de Sociologie was founded in 1960 and has remained faithful to its initial objective: to disseminate high-quality French sociological studies while at the same time welcoming diverse theoretical and methodological trends. Housing deprivation is therefore the result not only of poverty but also of losing the protection that family, social ties and institutions can provide. By contrast, individuals without such a network do not claim their right to social housing in spite of their need. Mothers play a crucial, combative role here, their primary concern being to recreate or reassemble the family household.
Getting on to the waiting list for a social housing unit in France seems to imply being integrated into a network that is both relational (family, friends, compatriots) and institutional (social workers). It goes on to analyze how people go about applying for social housing-as this is the main strategy for escaping homelessness in France-and the role of social and family ties in that undertaking. Drawing on INSEE’s 2012 “Sans domicile” survey and an ethnographic study of applicants for social housing units at the Paris social housing office, it shows how homelessness or housing insecurity may initially be caused by a lack of family support which then further isolates the persons in question. Abstract This article focuses on the family, friends-and in some cases the social worker-of persons in a situation of housing insecurity in France.
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