Sociology!

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.

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

"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/...

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

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

New photo essay! 📸 David Bacon on indigenous dance as an act of resistance. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

Many schools have moved away from formal suspensions and expulsions, but more informal disciplinary practices have emerged in their place. Rebecca Gleit and Lily Steyer have the story ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

Check out this article from @landonschnabel.bsky.social, Ilana Horowitz & @contexts.org on DIY Faith, especially among young & LGBTQ+ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Great w/our forthcoming article @ Am Soc Rev on the Unbundling of Religion: osf.io/preprints/so... @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social

Read a sociological perspective on how young Americans aren’t simply abandoning religion but transforming it in ASA’s Contexts. The entire issue is free to read until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5

In the latest issue of ASA’s Contexts, author and social science researcher Julie Fennell considers how updating our legal and cultural vocabulary around sexual violation could benefit both survivors and offenders. Read for free until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5

Why do some people accept, or even approve of, economic inequalities? Francesco Duina and Luca Storti examine market, moral, and cultural justifications in the recent issue of ASA’s Contexts. The entire issue is free to read until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5

Many schools have moved away from formal suspensions and expulsions. Why have more informal disciplinary practices emerged in their place? Get answers in ASA’s Contexts. The entire issue is free to read until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5

Check out my newest article in the magazine Contexts!

Why do some people accept, or even approve of, economic inequalities? Francesco Duina and Luca Storti examine various justifications—market, moral, cultural, and group-based—that people across the world invoke to defend their views. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

Whereas homicide laws scale charges by intent, sexual assault laws do not. Julie Fennell considers how updating our legal and cultural vocabulary around sexual violation could benefit both survivors and offenders. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

Young Americans aren't simply abandoning religion—they're transforming it. Landon Schnabel, Ilana Horwitz, Peyman Hekmatpour, and Cyrus Schleifer show how young people are breaking away from traditional religious institutions while pursuing new forms of community. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

New Issue! Read it paywall-free for the next 30 days at journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx

Challenging common notions about kink, BDSM practitioners share their media-fueled awakenings in their own words. Read Alicia M. Walker and Arielle Kuperberg in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...

In New York City, a restorative justice approach is helping to connect civil servants and the public as they navigate everyday conflict. Read Caroline Hanley in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...

State legislatures and education officials are rapidly advancing policies that increase religious influence in American public schools. Read Orit Avishai's feature in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...

From Tupperware to Mary Kay, multi-level-marketing companies promise sellers they can have it all—but at what cost? Read Nicole Muffitt's feature in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...

Owen Whooley explains why crisis intervention training often fails in its stated goal of improving police officer responses to calls involving mental health crises. ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...

I'm happy to share this one-page summary of "what I've learned in research," an endpaper for Contexts, an excellent sociology publication that reaches beyond the profession to broader publics. Enjoy! @angeladuckworth.bsky.social @contexts.org @asanews.bsky.social mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=...

And at the tail end of *last* year I did a short video interview for the ASA public-facing magazine @contexts.org: youtube.com/watch?v=VJBs... My understanding is that it is the most viewed conversation to date -- indicating a broad interest in my field about the work I do.

So ends an era of ASA’s public facing journal as @contexts.org officially leaves print behind and moves completely online. I've somehow spent 1/3 of my life w/ @contexts.org starting on the grad board under the leadership of @chrisuggen.bsky.social, Douglas Hartmann, and @lettapage.bsky.social

then recording the official @contexts.org podcast with @sarahlageson.bsky.social before returning a few years later as an author to write about masculinity in the surf and on the mats with Clifton Evers - contexts.org/articles/int...

🥇 What makes a 3-year-old applicant “worthy” of admission to an elite preschool? Incoming managing editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social reviews @estelabdiaz.bsky.social & Lauren Rivera's recent ASR article. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377354

New in Contexts! @dmmurphy.bsky.social on political rhetoric versus reality.

Just a couple more days in the year to support emerging sociologists by donating to the ASA Student Travel Award Fund! Help students experience the professional side of the discipline and donate before Jan. 1! https://www.asanet.org/donate. #ASA #sociology #donate

Contexts Magazine is closing out 2025 by celebrating outgoing co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social! Editor-elect David Grazian will take the helm in 2026, with @elenavanstee.bsky.social as managing editor.

I'm thrilled to share the final issue from Contexts Magazine's outgoing editorial team: @aminghaziani.bsky.social, @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, and @lettapage.bsky.social! Working with this team over the past few years has been an absolute joy. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctxa/24/4

The "Academic Publishing in a New Era" feature in the latest issue of @contexts.org magazine includes my short piece "A Service, Not a Product." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Hot off the presses! Contexts co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social & @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social, are signing off with the Fall 2025 issue. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctxa/24/4 @sagepublishing.bsky.social

TSP Friday Roundup! Stay up-to-date on all things sociology from us and our partners @contexts.org, @ccfamilies.bsky.social, @kylethegreen.bsky.social's give theory a chance here: 🔗 bit.ly/3Kj9mr0 🔗

Check out @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social's excellent review of @mlamont.bsky.social's Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World & @ruha9.bsky.social's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want in the newest issue of @contexts.org - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Help shape a dynamic and impactful program of sociology research at ASA 2026 Annual Meeting in NYC, August 7-11! The online portal is open for submissions until Feb. 25. https://bit.ly/ASA26portal

“During the holiday season, mothers are spending the equivalent of an extra work week on housework and shopping compared to fathers.” Read Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Great piece by Lawrence Eppard in @contexts.org challenging how we measure poverty.

Tune in to sociology! Hear interviews with authors of articles published in ASA journals, including the American Sociological Review, @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, @sociusjournal.bsky.social, @contexts.org, @teachingsociology.bsky.social, @spquarterly.bsky.social, and more! https://bit.ly/3LMjWqK

In a thoughtful essay, Laurel R. Davis-Delano and Stephanie A. Fryberg explain how our summer 2025 cover reflected and reinforced settler colonialism. Read their essay and the Contexts editorial team's apology: contexts.org/articles/the...

Get it while it’s open-access! Today is the last day to read our latest issue for free! contexts.org/articles/su2...

Q&A! aminghaziani.bsky.social speaks with former Contexts editors Jodi O’Brien & ajoystein.bsky.social about translating research and engaging with the public. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Contexts is thrilled to have @jonwynn.bsky.social on the team as our new Books section editor! 🥳 Send your 📚 pitches to [email protected] cc: @umassamherst.bsky.social @sagepublishing.bsky.social

#sociologists who like fiction! I am the new Books section editor for @contexts.org, and I would *love* to see your pitches for essays + reviews on sociological novels, memoirs or trade books! More info here: contexts.org/submission-g...

cc: @sthv.bsky.social

In brief! In "Coding our AI Interactions," @colteruscola.bsky.social reviews Elizabeth Rodwell's research on the UX designers who decide how machines "talk" to people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Nantucket construction uncovered human remains right where the map said they’d be. Read "Digging into Indigenous History" by Stephanie A. Bohon and Shaylee Hodges in @contexts.org! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377360

🥇 What makes a 3-year-old applicant “worthy” of admission to an elite preschool? Incoming managing editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social reviews @estelabdiaz.bsky.social & Lauren Rivera's recent ASR article. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377354