Contexts Magazine
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@contextsmag.bsky.social A quarterly sociology mag. upholding the 4 Rs: Rigorous, Readable, Relevant, and Rad. Eds @Amin_Ghaziani @seth_abrutyn @lettapage
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🚨In Brief! Snack-sized sociology. In "Whose Parents Are Paying?" Elena G. van Stee covers new work from Kimberly Goyette et al. in Sociology of Race & Ethnicity on patterns in parental outlays for U.S. higher ed. costs by race, ethnicity, and immigrant generation: contexts.org/articles/whose…
We know you're thinking about culture and society rightabout now -- why not write something up for Contexts Magazine's culture section? Reach out to section editor @joojitsulee with your ideas, because the more sociology the better right now, eh?
🚨In Brief! New snack-sized labor #sociology: "Status Consistency Wanted." UBC grad student Sophie X. Liu briefs "Attractiveness and Attainment: Status, Beauty, and Jobs in China and the United States," by Chris Marquis, A. Tilcsik, & Dr. ZHANG Ying in AJS contexts.org/articles/statu…
Over on University of California Press (is on Bluesky)'s website, editor Naomi Schneider shares a moving remembrance of #MichaelBurawoy UC Berkeley Sociology: "He was truly a role model ...of political commitment, integrity, generosity, caring, and intellectual curiosity." ucpress.edu/blog-posts/in-… 📸 Anna Villareal
🚨In Brief! Snack-sized sociology. UBC grad student Sophie X. Liu covers Paulina d. C. Inara Rodis's Social Psychology Quarterly article "The Managed Response," re: the limiting social expectations placed on racialized women online (and off) contexts.org/articles/digit…
Sociology in the News: Raka Ray and Geoffrey Pleyers on the passing of renowned Sociologist Michael Burawoy, Max Besbris on post-wildfire rebuilding, Aldon Morris & Harry Edwards on the Trump admin, Ulrike Bialas on migration in France, & more: 🔗bit.ly/40VHwFg🔗
New Blog! In "Is Authentic Dating Possible?" Stanford University grad student Giora Ashkenazi takes a symbolic interactionist view, exploring the ways that inauthenticity crept into our romantic lives well before AI and chatbots and how we might push back: contexts.org/blog/authentic…
New blog from Marcel Paret (University of Utah, University of Johannesburg) remembering the renowned revolutionary sociologist: "Michael Burawoy: An Absolute Gem." contexts.org/blog/burawoy-g… #sociology #publicsociology
Our Winter '25 issue is now live and unpaywalled at journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTX/current! Want a clickable table of contents? Go here: contexts.org/articles/w25-t…. Want a playlist for all this #sociology, with songs inspired by the articles in this issue? Go here: tinyurl.com/W25Playlist
The Winter 2025 issue of Contexts Magazine just dropped! With its theme of "heartbreak and hope," the essays reflect what makes us human: the search for something good, despite the devastations. Please join us in celebrating - all content free for 30 days! contexts.org/articles/w25-t…
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New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison, Mary Romero, Andrew Perrin, A. Spencer-Blume, Cecilia Menjivar @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election
New! 📚 #Sociology research at an all-Black, all-boys high school reveals the high tolls of the untended grief when youth survive peers' #gun deaths: tinyurl.com/FEAGrief. 🎧 Learn more in this ASA Sociology.bsky.social podcast with author Nora Gross: tinyurl.com/FEAGriefPod
