Sociological Focus

The Effect of Congregational Context on Religious Leaders’ Political Activism Prior studies of clergy’s differential political participation have examined a variety of factors, including religious leaders’ personal characteristics, perceptions of laity approval, or ecologica...

A new model of activism by religious leaders shows the effect of congregational context. Read the details from Kraig Beyerlein and Manuel Rodriguez in Sociological Focus.

#newResearch #sociology #religion #quantitativeResearch

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Plague, Food, and Freedom: Bounded Resistance in the Shanghai COVID-19 Lockdown This paper examines state–society relations and the opportunity structure for popular resistance during the 2022 COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China. Drawing on digital ethnographic data from WeCh...

Shanghai, China, offers a unique view of digital authoritarianism, popular resistance, and state capacity in the wake of the 2022 COVID-19 lockdown. Read our new report from Jinpu Wang and Yu Xiang.

#Covid #China #resistance #community #authoritarian

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations Published in Sociological Focus (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Introducing the Sociological Focus Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations!

Original articles from notable scholars. Thanks to our editor in chief Khari Brown and our guest editors @pauldjupe.bsky.social and Jacob Neiheisel.

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Linking Community-Based Research and Faith-Based Racial Justice Racial inequity is a major source of social and political division. Although religious traditions have a mixed history when it comes to racial equity, they also often have the tools and the theolog...

Community-engaged research of faith-based racial justice, thanks to Rebecca Glazier, Gerald Driskill, and Owen Haynes.

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#sociology #researchMethods #racialJustice #religion

Clergy Talk: Do Catholic Priests Discuss Immigration? Social science research has long discussed the interaction of political and religious ideologies in attitude formation and political socialization. Most research focuses on the role of these forces...

Do Catholic priests discuss immigration? How do Catholic leaders address the issue? Diane Beckman and Evan Stewart provide answers in our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #politics #immigration #Catholic

Voices from the Pulpit: Discourse on Racial Justice and Gun Violence from American Clergy Over the past years, many religious congregations have addressed issues of racial justice and gun violence following the killing of George Floyd and recent mass shootings in places like Uvalde, Tex...

Clergy address gun violence in response to tragic events. Nela Mrchkovska & Enrique Quezada-Llanes analyze what is said in 200,000 sermons and present their results in our special issue on religion and politics.

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#sociology #racialJustice #gunViolence #LLM

Do Religious Leaders Engage Community Environmental Problems? Much of the research about religious engagement with the environment has focused on individual citizens, leaving religious organizations and religious professionals (clergy) in the background or ig...

How do religious leaders engage with community problems? @pauldjupe.bsky.social and Jacob R. Neiheisel provide answers from National Survey of Religious Leaders (NRSL) data. Part of our special issue on religion and politics.

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#sociology #religion #NRSL #clergy

Walking the Tightrope: How White United Methodist Clergy Approach Race and Racial Justice Religious congregations in the United States have long been sites for political organization and mobilization. Following the summer of 2020, clergy have been increasingly reckoning with how to navi...

Read about racial activism by United Methodist clergy from Anna Holleman, Erin F. Johnston, and Kelsey Mischke in our forthcoming special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #Methodist #congregations #racialJustice

Fellowship in the Fiery Furnace: A Research Note on How Christian Persecution Beliefs Transcend Racial Divides This study aims to investigate the relationship between Christian persecution beliefs (CPBs) and race. Existing CPB research has asserted that CPBs constitute a socially appropriate tool to signal Wh....

What do #Christian persecution beliefs (CPBs) reveal about racial boundaries? Walker, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, & Calfano explore the question ➡️ Do CPBs vary by #race in their adoption, constitution, & consequences? #OpenAccess in the @jssreligion.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Priestly Politics: Faith Formation and Political Ideology Among Catholic Clergy Catholic priests have long been important political actors both in mobilizing direct political action and shaping the way Catholic faithful view important public issues. Historically, Catholic cler...

How does faith shape the politics of Catholic priests? Kathleen Sellers and Roseph Roso explore. Read more, part of our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #Catholic #politics

Politics, Protest, and Police: Assessing Religious Leaders’ Responses to Racism and the June 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests Religious organizations have long histories of advocating for particular political causes and supporting social movements, providing organizational and ideological resources to mobilize religious p...

Gilliland and co-authors explore clergy's role in framing Black Lives Matter protests. Read more, part of our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#sociology #religion #BLM #GeorgeFloyd #politics #protestant #clergy

Clergy Talk: Do Catholic Priests Discuss Immigration? Social science research has long discussed the interaction of political and religious ideologies in attitude formation and political socialization. Most research focuses on the role of these forces...

When leaders have cross-partisan pressure, do they talk about political issues or avoid them? Now out @socfocus.bsky.social, @umbsociology.bsky.social PhD candidate Diane Beckman & I look at the case of Catholic leaders to explore this question:
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“Narratives highlight how we can harness imagination to confront forms of discrimination in one of the most fundamental yet overlooked aspects of our daily lives: clothing.”

Rachele Reschiglian reviews ‪@katjungnickel.bsky.social‬ et al’s edited volume.

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U. S. suffering from E/D

🚨 URGENT REQUEST - PLEASE BOOST 🚨

I'm looking for names/connections

Academics, researchers, prominent figures *anywhere*, but *especially* #Canada having at least *some* connection to *any* fields related to:

- #Genocide (in general)
- #Trans Genocide
- #Geopolitics as they relate to trans people

CARTOON OF THE DAY

Interesting paper that looks at the difference between sons of mining accident fatalities and seriously injured, and finds an 18% loss of income for the orphans. Well illustrates how nice causal identification is often personally horrible
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The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion: how the UK’s Johnson government used crisis as a political opportunity - International Politics This article analyses the international queer politics of development by examining UK aid addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans, plus (LGBT+) inclusion in the context of COVID-19 and right-wing ...

So here is my first post: my latest open access article ‘The international politics of development for LGBT+ inclusion…’ in International Politics journal, discussing my experiences participating in a project to work in five African countries link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For Sociology Podcast · Kevin Caners · "For Sociology" is the podcast of the Kohli Foundation, featuring conversations with some of the most distinguished minds in sociology. In each episode, we explore our guests...

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Conforming Critical Diversity: Voicing Diversity for Equity in an Organizational Inequality Regime Diversity is a contested notion: it can be framed “uncritically,” as all differences that benefit privileged groups, or “critically,” as categorical inequalities that must be addressed to advance e...

Do diversity initiatives actually help move an organization toward equity, or are they an exercise in publicity? Dig into a case study at a large technology company through this #newResearch by Annika Wilcox.

#sociology #dei #diversity #equity #corporate
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Seems unlikely

Folk Paradigms of Justice in Commemoration and Heritage in the Postcolonial Netherlands: A Vignette Study among Opinion Leaders This study contributes to understanding how commemoration and heritage constitute part of a broader struggle for justice in the postcolonial Netherlands. By means of vignette-based interviews with ...

The Netherlands is a case of commemoration and heritage demonstrating alternative conceptions of justice within communities. Explore this through #newResearch offered by Jing Hiah, Dorota Lepianka, and Machteld Geuskens.

#Sociology #Netherlands #justice
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A thread on my paper with @masseconomics.bsky.social published earlier this year in @edqjournal.bsky.social: "Beyond Local and Traded: Evidence for a Third Industry Market Area Type and Implications for Regional Economic Development" #urbanism #sociology #geog

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And... already feeling a little less hopeful...
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Le sigh...

Graph showing US' low life expectancy per dollar spent on HC relative to other countries.

It's unfair to put all the blame for low life expectancy in US on its messed up health care system.

The US is also a leader in gun deaths and transportation (car) accidents, both of which affect LE.

Like HC system, these excess deaths are due to political choices.

Graph from Our World in Data.

In storms like Hurricane Helene, flooded industrial sites and toxic chemical releases are a silent and growing threat People living near these industries and emergency responders often have few details about the chemicals inside. New interactive maps pinpoint the risks.

Work from our Rice Social Sciences team reveals areas of the US where elevated future flood risks threaten to inundate major polluters — particularly prescient work in the aftermath of #hurricanehelene. See their interactive map and read more at Conversation US: theconversation.com/in-storms-li...

The Moderating Role of Educational Attainment in the Association Between Social Support and Depressive Symptoms Among African Americans General social support is commonly studied as a psychosocial resource that improves African Americans’ well-being; we know less about how varied indicators of social support influence African Ameri...

Education and social support both help African Americans cope with depression. Those with less education may also see less benefit from social support. Thanks to Whitney Frierson and Christy Erving for this new research based on NSAL data.
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How Educational Opportunity Structures Shape the Presence, Forms, and Outcomes of Campus Activism How do characteristics of colleges and universities shape campus activism? In this review article, we provide an overview of the growing body of sociological research on educational opportunity str...

Thanks to Jonathan Coley and team for new research related to campus activism. Discover evidence suggesting where and under what circumstances student activist groups are most likely to emerge.
#sociology #newResearch #activism

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