Contexts Magazine

🚨New Blog from @cantonwiner.bsky.social: Does everyone *have* a #gender? "The concept of gender detachment resists the assumption that everyone does (and should) have a gender identity—an assumption I call compulsory gender." #sociology #ASA2025 #ASA25
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"From words on the page to bodies in the streets, let's pull together to protect the dolls," implore @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social in their latest letter from the editors. Read more and explore the full no-paywall issue at contexts.org/articles/eds...

It's here! Our latest issue takes up big social problems, from the multi-front assault on queer and trans people to the opioid epidemic, urban segregation, and environmental racism. #sociology

Clickable table of contents: contexts.org/articles/sp25-toc/

Companion playlist: tinyurl.com/CTXsp25tunes

Whoops! Forgot to alert #sociology feeds to Reggie Byron's latest trends piece, this time on whether urban broad-daylight shootings really are on the rise ⤵️

Shootings in broad daylight! No, really, have they risen, or is this just another moral panic? Reginald A. Byron, @contexts.org's trends editor at the University of Denver, with the preliminary data: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Free to read, download, and share through 8/11/25

One week left to read the Spring issue ASA’s Contexts Magazine @contexts.org for free! Check out the piece by Alex V. Barnard @nyu.edu, in which he takes a close look at the policy and practice of conservatorships in California. Open access until 8/11! https://bit.ly/ContextsSpring25

↪️ "DEI as Infrastructure--and Why We'll Miss It When It's Gone" by Jessica R. Gold (Northeastern), Laura K. Nelson (@lauraknelson.bsky.social), and Kathrin Zippel (@kzippel.bsky.social)

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↪️"Can DEI Save Lives? Diversity and Health Care Professions" by Adia Harvey Wingfield (WUSTL)

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↪️"Making a Business Case for DEI" Shelley J. Correll (@shelleyjc.bsky.social) and Adina J. Sterling (@columbiabusiness.bsky.social)
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The title page of a special section in Contexts Magazine titled "The War on Woke--and What It Means," with the introductory byline Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn. The image, which has a pink, black, gray, and white color scheme, shows the phrase DEI and the word woke crossed out. The text reads: In our Winter 2025 issue, we invited five scholars to comment on the U.S. presidential election, shedding sociological light on a current issue from several different angles. In this issue, six more esteemed researchers draw our attention to a lighting rod in the so-called culture wars: DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion].

"The War on Woke--and What It Means" 4 #sociology essays underscoring what we lose by abandoning #DEI efforts across business, healthcare, and academia.
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In our latest photoessay, @louisesparza.h-net.social.ap.brid.gy bears witness to a movement of some 8,500 Columbian sugarcane workers striking against poverty--an emancipatory network that cared for its own and won concessions from plantation owners over 58 days: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Congratulations to co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social, a finalist for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards for his latest book, Long Live Queer Nightlife!

Like Reading The New Yorker: An Interview with @jamesmjasper.bsky.social and Jeff Goodwin, editors of @contexts.org 2005-2007: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Read the latest issue of Contexts with no paywall through 8/11!

Sociologist Jan E. Stets on seeing and being seen:
"One Thing I Know: Identity Verification Is Important to the Self"

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#sociology #identity #identityverification

"Birthright #Citizenship Works," a new piece by sociologist Philip Kasinitz (@cunygcsociology.bsky.social) explores a successful but threatened constitutional conferral. Free to read, download, and share through 8/11: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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The Spring 2025 issue of ASA’s Contexts Magazine @contexts.org! It includes the piece “Is Asexuality Queer?” in which Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social, Northern Illinois U, extends sexualities research to consider queer gatekeeping. Open access ends 8/11. https://bit.ly/ContextsSpring25

Be sure to check out the Spring 2025 issue of ASA’s Contexts Magazine @contexts.org, which includes the special section “The War on Woke—and What It Means.” Open access until 8/11! See the full TOC here: https://bit.ly/ContextsSpring25

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Check out LSA Member and University of Minnesota Professor @chrisuggen.bsky.social‬’s comments on the concept of public #Sociology in an interview with @contexts.org ‬!

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Stay up-to-date with the latest Soc from TSP, @contexts.org, @ccfamilies.bsky.social, @firstpublics.bsky.social, & @umnchgs.bsky.social:
🧕 Muslim American gender beliefs
🌈 Marriage & ambivalence
📚 Secular childhoods
🗣️ Teaching social theory
🕯️ Genocide edu
& more!

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Since this was written, the "B" representing bisexual Americans in the remaining "LGB" acronym has also been removed from the national memorial literature. It is difficult to keep up with the damage being done. @dcunningham-stl.bsky.social @contexts.org @lettapage.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

Thanks for researching and writing it!

Nice to see our recent AJS article featured in Contexts! @evangelinewarren.com

A screenshot of a brief article in Contexts Magazine summarizing the research of Prof. Matt Clair and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt on morals in the legal profession. The title of the summary is "good lawyer, bad lawyer" and contains an image of a law school graduate with a sign that reads "NOW WHAT?" The brief article was written by Elena G. van Stee. 

Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt's recent article on moral reconciling in the legal profession is featured in the latest issue of @contexts.org. The feature was written by @elenavanstee.bsky.social
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Latest issue is here! contexts.org/articles/sp25-toc/

Peer-reviewed features:
↪️ @cantonwiner.bsky.social on asexuality and queer gatekeeping
↪️ @makchur.bsky.social and JV Bastidas on EJ metrics
↪️ @avbsoc.bsky.social‬ on conservatorships
↪️ Burr et al. on med school debt

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Our latest "In Brief" summaries of new #sociology research fea. work on wildfires and out-migration, discrimination and policy preferences, structuring family lending, morals and the legal profession, aging with imagination, and more! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

Love seeing @contexts.org in the wild!

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Dr.s Seth Abrutyn (L) and Amin Ghaziani (R) stand in front of the Equity and Inclusion office at the University of British Columbia. Ghaziani wears a black shirt that reads, in white lettering, PROTECT THE DOLLS.

"From words on the page to bodies in the streets, let's pull together to protect the dolls," implore Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn in their latest letter from the editors. Read more and explore the full no-paywall issue at contexts.org/articles/eds...

#sociology #publicsociology