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Elena G. van Stee

@elenavanstee.bsky.social

PhD Candidate in Sociology @upenn.edu | Fellow in Sociology @harvard.edu | Incoming managing editor @contexts.org‬ | www.elenavanstee.com

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Posts by Elena G. van Stee (@elenavanstee.bsky.social)

This was a fascinating read. I especially love the concept “crisis egalitarianism” which was so ubiquitous in the early days of COVID. So helpful to identify the leading narratives in times of disruption and reflect on how they shape our collective sense of possibility.

29.12.2025 17:55 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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.

29.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

#sociology

Was an honor to be steward for this journal. One of the most rewarding and creative endeavors I’ve participated in.

22.12.2025 17:12 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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

22.12.2025 15:19 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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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....

17.12.2025 23:34 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
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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 🔗

05.12.2025 20:02 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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....

17.11.2025 17:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#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...

15.11.2025 14:11 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

Contexts is thrilled to have @jonwynn.bsky.social on the team as our new Books section editor! 🥳

Send your 📚 pitches to wynn@umass.edu

cc: @umassamherst.bsky.social @sagepublishing.bsky.social

17.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There is nothing more flattering than someone taking time to read your work, except people taking time to engage your work. Thanks @amcneely.com and @contexts.org .

08.11.2025 14:08 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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....

14.11.2025 18:35 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

cc: @sthv.bsky.social

14.11.2025 18:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#sociology

10.11.2025 21:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🥇 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

10.11.2025 20:07 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

So glad to be able to write this. Thanks to @davidyamane.bsky.social for the inspiration of the original article, and big thanks to Contexts blog editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social for her help and guidance in the writing!

07.11.2025 17:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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New on the blog! @amcneely.com (@utdallas.bsky.social) responds to @davidyamane.bsky.social ➡️ contexts.org/blog/a-forme...

07.11.2025 17:32 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

Starting soon!

28.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Asylum Decision-Making Under Trump: Shared Aspirations for Moral Realignment as a Mechanism of Moral Boundary Work in Times of Crisis | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

What happens when public servants are asked to betray the values that brought them to service? New research traces how asylum officers under Trump navigated moral crisis and how their ability—or inability—to form with peers a shared aspiration for moral resolution determined who stayed or who left.

23.10.2025 16:47 — 👍 17    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3
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Why do White conservatives and White liberals disagree about what is—and is not—racist and sexist? @jessistreib.bsky.social and Betsy Leondar-Wright reveal a definitional divide driving this persistent gap and recommend a better way forward.

Read the essay ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

24.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Great article on how the AI bubble is just the latest ed tech grift that's part of a "broader effort to snatch away decision-making power over teaching, learning, and research from subject matter and pedagogy experts and give it to donors and administrators."

23.10.2025 23:57 — 👍 41    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0
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The Pain of Social Loss: The Biosocial Roots of Motivated Action and Solidarity Social pain, of all detrimental experiences, remains largely overlooked by sociological inquiry. While attention to the sources are fused to Durkheim, from anomie to fatalism, the discipline centers i...

My PhD student (@colteruscola.bsky.social) and I have a new chapter out on social pain and how we can better integrate neuroscience into social science! Check it out! #sociology
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

24.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

New in @contexts.org! Doug Massey weighs in on the geographic distribution of (dis)advantage ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

23.10.2025 20:57 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 New page! Contexts Magazine is now on LinkedIn. Give us a follow to bring snack-sized sociological insights to your feed!

➡️ www.linkedin.com/company/cont...

22.10.2025 19:26 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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"The Little Engine that Maybe Could" 🚂
Co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social interviews former editors Syed Ali and @philipncohen.com (univofmaryland.bsky.social) about overcoming challenges to deliver meaningful sociology to the public.

Paywall-free! ➡️ contexts.org/articles/su2...

22.10.2025 18:59 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop | Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop

Register for the Zoom link here! (open to the public)
cultureworkshop.sociology.fas.harvard.edu

22.10.2025 11:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Harvard Sociology Culture and Social Analysis Workshop (Elena van Stee and Guillermina Altomonte)

Harvard Sociology Culture and Social Analysis Workshop (Elena van Stee and Guillermina Altomonte)

What does it mean to be independent, and why are people trying to claim this label?

Join ghaltomo.bsky.social and me at the @harvard.edu Culture Workshop on Tuesday (10/28) to explore these questions from emerging adulthood (me) to old age (Guillermina)!

Zoom link ⬇️

22.10.2025 11:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Do your students wonder why something is considered racist or sexist, why white people are split, or how to answer these questions themselves? Betsy Leondar-Wright and I answer these questions in our new book, offering insights for scholars while being accessible to undergrads. Discount code below.

17.12.2024 18:02 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Is it Racist? Is it Sexist? is officially out! Our book dives into how white liberals and conservatives differ in their views, what each gets right and wrong, and how we can all do better.

14.01.2025 19:01 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

A gun-curious sociology professor? Check out @davidyamane.bsky.social's essay in our new @contexts.org issue!

@wakeforest.bsky.social @sagepub.com @asanews.bsky.social

20.10.2025 18:49 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How I Fell for Guns - David Yamane, 2025 David Yamane on the 'serious leisure' of shooting.

To fully appreciate why people own guns, we need to understand the individual & communal pleasures associated with shooting. These are the pleasures that led me to fall for guns. New essay in @contexts.org by @sagepub.com and @asanews.bsky.social.

OPEN ACCESS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

20.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 4    📌 3