@article{da2cb3d42e704148b7a333335e2afc45,
title = "Siding with science: In defense of ASA's Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Amicus brief",
keywords = "employment discrimination, law and social science, qualitative research, research methods, scientific expert",
author = "Nielsen, {Laura Beth} and Amy Myrick and Jill Weinberg",
note = "Funding Information: And then there is action. Most sociologists would agree that in contemporary law and politics, those who want to be heard need to organize. We return to the basic question of whether sociologists (in their organized professional embodiment) want to be relevant to the everyday world. While there are arguments on each side, our funding agencies, from the National Science Foundation to our own universities, urge us to produce not just scientific knowledge, but useful knowledge (hence the grant writer{\textquoteright}s soul search for “broader impacts”). For sociology to have an impact on the sorts of issues presented in the Wal-Mart case, it needs to bring its organizational resources to bear. Especially in law, where the admissibility of expert testimony turns on whether research meets the “standards of the field,” non-sociologists look to the discipline{\textquoteright}s organizational voice to speak on those standards. The question becomes, “Where is the ASA?” And that is a question for the organization itself to decide. ",
year = "2011",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1177/0049124111424128",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "40",
pages = "646--667",
journal = "Sociological Methods and Research",
issn = "0049-1241",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "4",
}