books

Jessica Calarco. 2024. Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net. Portfolio/Penguin. (ebook)

Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2022. Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research. University of California Press. (ebook)

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2020. A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum. Princeton (ebook).

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2018. Negotiating Opportunities: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School. Oxford (ebook)

  • Pierre Bourdieu Book Award. 2020. Sociology of Education Section, American Sociological Association.

  • Scholarly Achievement Award for Best Book. 2019. North Central Sociological Association.

 
Photo Credit: freeimages.com/Angelica C.

Photo Credit: freeimages.com/Angelica C.

 

seleceted articles and book chapters

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Monica Heilman and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2023. “Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers,” Visual Studies 38 (3-4).
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2032818

Jessica McCrory Calarco, Ilana Horn, and Grace A. Chen. 2022. “‘You Need to Be More Responsible’: Homework Inequalities and the Myth of Meritocracy,” Educational Researcher 51(8): 515-523. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0013189X221111337

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2022. “Getting the Logic to Work,” in Janice D. Aurini, Melanie Heath, and Stephanie Howells, eds., The How To of Qualitative Research. SAGE. https://www.torrossa.com/it/resources/an/5282280

Elaine M. Hernandez and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2021. “Health Decisions Amidst Controversy: Conflicting Norms and Influence Regarding Prenatal Alcohol Consumption.” Social Science & Medicine 286: 114319 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953621006511

Jeffrey Guhin, Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Cynthia Miller-Idris. 2021. “Whatever Happened to Socialization?” Annual Review of Sociology 47: 109-129.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-090320-103012

Jessica McCrory Calarco, Elizabeth M. Anderson, Emily Meanwell, and Amelia S. Knopf. 2021. “By Default: How Mothers in Different-Sex Dual-Earner Couples Account for Inequalities in Pandemic Parenting,” Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211038783

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2020. “Avoiding Us versus Them: How Schools’ Dependence on Privileged ‘Helicopter’ Parents Influences Enforcement of Rules,” American Sociological Review 85, no. 2. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122420905793  

Jessica L. Malisch, Breanna N. Harris, Shanen M. Sherrer, Kristy A. Lewis, Stephanie L. Shepherd, Pumtiwitt C. McCarthy, Jessica L. Spott, Elizabeth P. Karam, Naima Moustaid-Moussa, Jessica McCrory Calarco, Latha Ramalingam, Amelia E. Talley, Jaclyn E. Cañas-Carrell, Karin Ardon-Dryer, Dana A. Weiser, Ximena E. Bernal, and Jennifer Deitloff. “Reply to Arora et al.: Concerns and considerations about using the CV as an equity tool,” 2020 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(39):24033-24034. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2015932117

Jessica L. Malisch, Breanna N. Harris, Shanen M. Sherrer, Kristy A. Lewis, Stephanie L. Shepherd, Pumtiwitt C. McCarthy, Jessica L. Spott, Elizabeth P. Karam, Naima Moustaid-Moussa, Jessica McCrory Calarco, Latha Ramalingam, Amelia E. Talley, Jaclyn E. Cañas-Carrell, Karin Ardon-Dryer, Dana A. Weiser, Ximena E. Bernal, and Jennifer Deitloff. 2020. “Opinion: In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(27): 15378-15381. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2010636117  

Amy L. Gonzales, Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Teresa Lynch. 2020. “Technology Problems and Student Achievement Gaps: A Validation and Extension of Technology Maintenance Theory,” Communication Research. First published online 2017. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650218796366  

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2020. “When ‘Helicopters’ Go to School: Who Gets Rescued and Who Gets Left Behind?” Chapter 41 in The State of Families: Law, Policy, and the Meanings of Relationships, edited by Jennifer A. Reich. Routledge. p. 261-263. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429397868-49/helicopters-go-school-jessica-calarco (reprint of a Council on Contemporary Families Briefing published in 2020)

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2019. “Social Class and Student-Teacher Interactions” Chapter 7 in Thurston Domina, Benjamin Gibbs, Lisa Nunn and Andrew Penner, eds., Education & Society. University of California Press. p. 96-109. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520968301-009 

Brea L. Perry and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2017. “Let Them Eat Cake: Socioeconomic Status and Caregiver Indulgence of Children’s Food and Drink Requests,” in Sara Shostak, ed., Food Systems and Health (Advances in Medical Sociology), Volume 18.  p. 121-146.  Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-629020170000018006 

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2014. “Coached for the Classroom: Parents’ Cultural Transmission and Children’s Reproduction of Inequalities,” American Sociological Review 79, no. 5: 1015-1037
https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122414546931

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2014. “The Inconsistent Curriculum: Cultural Tool-Kits and Student Interpretations of Ambiguous Expectations,” Social Psychology Quarterly 76, no. 2: 186-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272514521438

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2014. “Help Seekers and Silent Strugglers: Student Problem-Solving in Elementary Classrooms,” American Educator 38, no. 4: 24-31. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1049434

Sebastian Cherng, Jessica McCrory Calarco, & Grace Kao. 2013. “Along for the Ride: Best Friends’ Resources and Adolescents’ College Completion,” American Educational Research Journal 50, no. 1: 76-106. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831212466689

Annette Lareau and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2012. “Class, Cultural Capital, and Institutions: The Case of Families and Schools,” Chapter 4 in Susan T. Fiske & Hazel Markus, eds., Facing Social Class: Social Psychology of Social Class. New York: Russell Sage. p. 61-86. https://www.russellsage.org/publications/facing-social-class

Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2011. “‘I Need Help!’ Social Class and Children’s Help-Seeking in Elementary School,” American Sociological Review 76, no. 6: 862-882. https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122411427177

 
 

Policy briefs, reports, and working papers

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Jessica McCrory Calarco and Elizabeth M. Anderson. 2022. “Parents’ Perspectives on Children and Covid-19: Insights from the 2022 Parenting in Tumultuous Times (PITT) Survey,” Report. Indiana University. IUScholarWorks. https://doi.org/10.5967/xeyp-8218

Emma Zang, Milly Yang (Student), and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2022. “Patterns in Receiving Informal Help with Childcare among US Parents During the Covid-19 Pandemic.” SSRN Working Paper. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4108245

Elizabeth M. Anderson and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2021. “‘If It Was Something Like Smallpox’ How a Theory of Moral Calm Explains Parents’ Decisions Regarding Covid-19 Vaccines” SocArxiv Working Paper. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/m7c3p/

Jessica McCrory Calarco, Max Coleman, and Andrew Halpern-Manners. 2021. “Mechanisms of Stratification in In-Person Instruction in the Wake of COVID-19.” SocArxiv Working Paper. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2czkx/

Jessica McCrory Calarco and Elizabeth M. Anderson. 2021. ““I’m Not Gonna Put That On My Kids”: Gendered Opposition to New Public Health Initiatives.” SocArxiv Working Paper https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/tv8zw/

Gwen Petro, Amy Gonzales, and Jessica McCrory Calarco. 2020. “Out of Luck": Socio-Economic Differences in Student Coping Responses to Technology Problems,” Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376156

Jessica Calarco. 2020. “When “Helicopters” Go to School: Who Gets Rescued and Who Gets Left
Behind?” Research Brief. Council on Contemporary Families. https://sites.utexas.edu/contemporaryfamilies/2020/03/01/when-helicopters-go-to-school/

Jessica McCrory Calarco, Emily Meanwell, Elizabeth M. Anderson, and Amelia S. Knopf. 2020. “‘My Husband Thinks I’m Crazy:’ Covid-19-Related Conflicts in Couples with Young Children.” SocArxiv Working Paper. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/cpkj6/ 

Jessica McCrory Calarco, Elizabeth M. Anderson, Emily Meanwell, and Amelia S. Knopf. 2020. “Let’s Not Pretend It’s Fun: How COVID-19-Related School and Childcare Closures are Damaging Mothers’ Well-Being,” SocArxiv Working Paper. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/jyvk4/