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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 23/09/2026

What happens when economic change feels like a threat to masculinity? In Contexts, Dan Cassino examines how men’s political preferences change when the traditional breadwinner role becomes less secure. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Sociology #Masculinity #Gender #PoliticalSociology

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 22/09/2026

What happens when “fake news” determines press access? Recently, Trump barred CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House after attacking their coverage. In Contexts, sociologist Jared Wright shows how the label becomes a weapon for deciding who can scrutinize power. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 21/09/2026

How can someone be surrounded by people and still be treated as though they aren’t there? In this brief essay, sociologist Jacob Avery writes about Neon, a man asking for change on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. He shows how quickly we turn poverty into a moral category. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 18/09/2026

What happens when public problems are framed as personal failures? Revisiting C. Wright Mills, Jerry Jacobs defines “sociological curiosity” as locating private troubles within the institutions shaping them. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #SociologicalImagination #PublicSociology #ContextsMagazine

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 17/09/2026

Why does breaking the rules seem to make populist leaders more popular, not less? Francesco Duina argues that populist leaders turn private grievance into public voice. For people who feel ignored, breaking political norms can feel like recognition. doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Populism #Democracy

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 16/09/2026

What happens when authenticity becomes a sales strategy? Sociologists Eleanor Matheson and Donna Sedgwick show how curated glimpses of private life create trust, turning authenticity into commercial power. Read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #InfluencerCulture #SocialMedia #ConsumerCulture

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 15/09/2026

How could conflict be good for communities? Evelyn M. Perry shows how disagreements can expose whose standards define neighborhood life and create room to renegotiate belonging. Read in Contexts ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Sociology #Community #UrbanSociology #ContextsMagazine

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 14/09/2026

Why do economists dominate public debate while sociologists remain on the sidelines? In this interview, Amin Ghaziani interviews a New York Times columnist about the many ways sociologists can enter public discussions. Read "Professors, We Still Need You!" journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 11/09/2026

What can sociology teach us about #neurodiversity? Micki McGee argues that increasing productivity and accelerated work schedules have gradually become the norm, recasting unforgiving institutional expectations as individual medical deficits. doi.org/10.1177/1536... @mickimcgee.bsky.social

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 10/09/2026

What do you picture when you hear “red-light district”? In this visual sociological essay, Ronald Weitzer's photographs complicate the familiar image of red-light districts as uniformly dangerous and disordered. Read in Contexts ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 09/09/2026

What can marital infidelity reveal about masculinity? In Contexts, Alicia M. Walker analyzes men who use the platform Ashley Madison to seek out extramarital affairs, finding that men's consistent concerns were about masculine validation. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 08/09/2026

How free are we to dream? We are told that anyone can dream big. Yet inequality can shape the future long before opportunity appears. Sociologist Karen Cerulo explores how social position enters even our most private visions of the future. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 07/09/2026

Many workplace protections we take for granted were won through collective struggle. For Labor Day, Judith Stepan-Norris writes in Contexts about how unions raise wages, reduce inequality and give workers a collective voice, and what their decline costs us. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 04/09/2026

What if the most powerful technology in a start-up is the hype? Sociologist Patrick Sheehan shows how hype turns an imagined future into a way of extracting more labour in the present. The breakthrough is always just around the corner. Read more in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Tech

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 03/09/2026

How did dark skin become a deadly blind spot in dermatology? Black patients are often diagnosed later, yet prevention guidelines still center fair skin. Ashley C. Rondini and colleagues examine how racial erasure becomes medical knowledge. doi.org/10.1177/1536... @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 02/09/2026

AI is reshaping our relationships. What if it is also reshaping how we understand ourselves? Carsten Lund Pedersen asks what happens when algorithms become mirrors and begin shaping the selves they claim to reflect. Read in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 01/09/2026

What if #Girlboss and #Tradwife come from the same feminist crisis? Both respond to the demand that women “have it all” by doing it all. What becomes possible when feminism expands its imagination and makes room for joy? Read in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 31/08/2026

Why do we suddenly need words like rizz, beige flag, and situationship to describe dating? Written by Gabrielle Juteau, Jaden Loo, and Susan L. Brown, this Contexts piece looks at what new dating language reveals about ambiguity, commitment, and changing relationship expectations.

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 28/08/2026

What does the anti-work movement look like when Black women tell its story? On YouTube, Black women are claiming a right to rest. Sociologist Sharla Berry asks who gets to refuse work and who can afford to leave. Read in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 27/08/2026

Why do conspiracy theories remain compelling even after their predictions fail? Sociologists Meggan Jordan and Jennifer Whitmer show how conspiracy theories can become an identity resource. Read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 26/08/2026

What happens when AI learns from a world already structured by inequality? Sociologists Sharla Alegria (@salegria.bsky.social) and Catherine Yeh show that machine learning can scale social inequalities and return them as objective predictions. @uoftsociology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 25/08/2026

What if young men aren’t only buying crypto to get rich, but to feel more like men? Dan Cassino at Fairleigh Dickinson University (@fduwhatsnew.bsky.social) explores how crypto and meme stocks can offer “gender value” through risk, mastery, and independence. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 24/08/2026

What is the point of public intellectuals? As expertise becomes more urgent and more contested, Michael D. Kennedy of @brownsociology.bsky.social asks whose knowledge counts, whom it serves, and whether public intellectuals can help build a more just world. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 11/08/2026

What are mothers of children with disabilities telling us? Interviews with mothers by Robert Crosnoe and colleagues reveal resilience, growth, and joy over decades of mothering. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 06/08/2026

How did sexual harassment become recognized as unlawful discrimination in education? Celene Reynolds traces how 1970s and '80s feminist coalitions transformed Title IX, showing how ordinary citizens can change not just laws, but how they're interpreted. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 15/07/2026

Analyzing Fox News broadcasts from 2012–2024, Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Shelby Frye, Bri Londerée, Ryleigh Adkins, and Shreya Yogesh identify the rhetorical strategies broadcasters use to fuel an anti-transgender moral panic. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 13/07/2026

"To be called 'essential' in America in 2020 was to be deemed expendable by our government and our society." Read David Grazian's interview with Eric Klinenberg in the latest issue of Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 08/07/2026

In our Spring 2026 issue, Joslyn Brenton shows how middle-class parents experienced tensions between recognizing inequality and benefiting from it. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Tina Law @tinalaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Excited to share my new piece on AI policy in @contexts.org! In my 2024 article with Leslie McCall, we identified two emerging approaches to AI policymaking focused on safety vs. equity. Here, I discuss the rise of a third approach focused on hegemony and its implications. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

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Jonathan Wynn @jonwynn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The new issue of Contexts is out! As the new Books Editor, I'm particularly jazzed about @joyamisra.bsky.social's banging review of RF Kuang's Katabasis, but lots of great public-facing work in here!

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"a large body of research shows the ineffectiveness of deterrence-based migration policies and how such politically motivated policies reliant on overly simplistic understandings of migration can cause real harm to both migrant and native-born communities." Jenks journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Research Briefs - Ana Ramirez Calderon, Daniel Jenks, Frank Y. Meng, Charlotte Scott, Sherry Wang, 2026

Migration enforcement, gender in court, and meritocratic myths in the NBA.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Are you curious about how young Americans are practicing religion? Sociology has an answer for that! Take some time for sociology today with this free article and podcast from ASA's magazine Contexts. @contexts.org bit.ly/4uNdoZH

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New in @contexts.org: PhD candidate Blyss Cleveland examines how pharmaceutical companies enlist Black celebrity women, like Oprah Winfrey and Serena Williams, to market GLP-1 weight loss drugs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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GLP-1s Expand Access to Slenderness and Body Negativity - Blyss Cleveland, 2026

Blyss cleveland on the controversy surrounding the endorsement of anti-obesity drugs among Black celebrity women.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

How do we envision new social worlds—and work to build them? In the spring issue of ASA's Contexts, Celene Reynolds examines archival records + interviews to show how feminist coalitions advanced justice and equality in the law. Free to read thru July 22 @contexts.org bit.ly/ASAContexts

Image of people in public wearing medical masks with text: Contexts | Read the Spring 2026 issue for free through July 22! | asanet.org/contexts

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What do mothers in the US have to tell us about raising children with disabilities? In ASA's Contexts, several UT-Austin researchers share what moms revealed to them about the challenges they face and the ways they adapt and find joy. Free to read until 7/22 @contexts.org bit.ly/ASAContexts

Image of group of people in medical masks next to text: Contexts | Read the Spring 2026 issue for free through July 22! | asanet.org/contexts

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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Rodney Benson @rodneybenson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As long as the Ellisons need the Trump admin. to approve the WB-Paramount merger, don't expect them to care about what journalists think, or even about lost ratings and profits. Their indifference to the staff revolt at '60 Minutes', alas, continues to confirm what I wrote for Contexts.

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 24/06/2026

New issue! Our Spring '26 issue is free to read, share, and download through July 22. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx

Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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"Across countries & within the US, the same relationship appears: In places of concentrated wealth, individuals’ willingness to help others and engage in volunteerism tends to decrease." Important work by @schechtlm.eurosky.social & colleagues in @contexts.org. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Picture of an article in Contexts, a publication of the American Sociological Association. Article is titled 'Wealth Concentration and Prosocial Behavior in Everyday Life' by Manuel Schechtl, Nhat an Trinh, Rafael Carranza, & Fabian Pfeffer.

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 20/05/2026

New in Books! 📚 Ryanne Pilgeram reviews Dividing Paradise and Who We Are Is Where We Are. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 20/05/2026

Rodney Benson shares "One Thing I Know" about the ownership forms that constrain journalistic independence. Read it in Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx