@jonathancoley.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Oklahoma State University | Editor-in-Chief, The Sociological Quarterly (@socquarterly.bsky.social) | social movements, politics, religion, education, work π³οΈβπ http://jonathancoley.com
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In this new TSQ article, Daisy Verduzco Reyes and Felicia Cruz-Fernandez examine how Latino millennial student activists navigated debates over the meaning and relevance of the βChicanoβ label in the late 2000s.
Read more at bit.ly/409VDqG
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Ingrid Nelson, Jeremiah Brown, and Nicole Nigro employ racialized organization and inhabited institutionalism theories to explore how athletes and non-athletes experienced campus life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Free to read through the end of April at bit.ly/4aFLDeR
Weβre looking forward to hosting a webinar with Anna Strhan on her new co-authored book "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England," 2:30pm-3:30pm EST on March 4th. To attend the free virtual event, please register here: uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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In this new open-access TSQ article, Mariana Amorim, Megan Doherty Bea, and Asude Aydagul offer a new perspective on why so many people use payday loan services.
Read more at bit.ly/4r1tpJL
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In this new TSQ article, Chinyere Agbai, Jennifer W. Bouek, and Thomas Marlow examine how a neighborhoodβs poverty trajectory shape its likelihood of social service organization deprivation.
Read more at bit.ly/4cbzgIM
Thunder Up!
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NEW: Is there really a 'quiet revival' of religion among Gen Z?
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FAQs: Checking in on the Department of Education via @brookings.edu
www.brookings.edu/articles/faq...
It just worked for me. If you are first taken to a page with an ad (annoying), you then have to click a button that says take me to the destination.
Or try this: doi.org/10.1080/0038...
The first paper from a years-long collaboration with an incredible mentor & co-author, @ktandrews.bsky.social! In it, we descriptively detail recent (complex) developments in college activism in the U.S. from 2017 to 2014, noting several instances that defy media & political discourse.
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New in TSQ: Isaiah Cohen and Mark Schafer show that different kinds of school-to-family communications prompt different forms of parental engagement in education.
Read more at bit.ly/4cliI0Q
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In this open-access TSQ article, Kenneth Andrews and Khoi Ngo examine the scope, issues, and disruptiveness of campus protest in the United States from 2017 through 2024.
Read more at bit.ly/3O2spr7
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In this new TSQ article, Cihan TuΔal (@cihantugal.bsky.social), Jonathan Smucker, and Kip Roberts examine how emotions shape boundary work among populists and anti-populists within the Republican and Democratic parties.
Read more at bit.ly/4cg6ir2
"Shaming the Corporation," and Marc Dixon et al.'s 2016 article "Social Protest and Corporate Change." Hope that helps! I'm sure I'm missing much.
05.02.2026 17:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0On the question of how social movements stigmatize companies, I think of the literature on how labor movements "name and shame" corporations. There's a lot out there, but see, e.g., Matthew Williams' 2020 book Strategizing against Sweatshops, Tim Bartley and Curtis Child's 2014 ASR article ...
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Great question. On the question of how social movements can stigmatize and divide people, you might see my article "Are social movements truly social? The prosocial and antisocial outcomes of social movements" (and some of the articles we cite), doi.org/10.1111/soc4...
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In her presidential address to the Midwest Sociological Society, Jennifer Pearson describes what sociologists can learn from scholarship on queer joy.
Read more at bit.ly/4tke2OT
π¨ βPerceiving Protestβ by Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) is now free to read through the end of March!
Read it now at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ
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In this new TSQ article, Beth Anne Shelton, Kelly Bergstrand, and Rebecca Deen examine how recent school board conflicts have affected women school board members' political ambitions.
Read more at bit.ly/4c73BrH
Our article on populism is published in @socquarterly.bsky.social
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Based on 52 interviews with populists and anti-populists during Trumpβs first presidency, we make the following contributions
1) We demonstrate the centrality of emotions in anti-populist politics
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New in TSQ: Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) examine how people view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of various protest tactics.
Read more at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ
This study began during the early stages of my PhD, several years ago. Very proud of my former grad school colleagues for getting the full paper past the finish line and published
@socquarterly.bsky.social. Check it out!
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Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! π«π΅πΈ doi.org/10.1080/0038...
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I'm happy to share that my and Jessica Schachle-Gordon's new special issue of Work and Occupations titled "Working for Social Change" is now out in the world!
The special issue examines the concept of "occupational activism" from several theoretical angles.
Check it out now at bit.ly/4svPSk1
I'm happy to share that my and Jessica Schachle-Gordon's new special issue of Work and Occupations titled "Working for Social Change" is now out in the world!
The special issue examines the concept of "occupational activism" from several theoretical angles.
Check it out now at bit.ly/4svPSk1
Volume 67, issue 1, of TSQ is now LIVE, featuring articles by @achalfoun.bsky.social, @gio-rossi.bsky.social, @daeunjung.bsky.social, @djhardingsoc.bsky.social, @criminovelist.bsky.social, @mmaroto.bsky.social, @dnpetti.bsky.social, @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social, and more!
Read it at bit.ly/45ezfzx
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In this new TSQ article, Amy Binder, Jeffrey Kidder, and Zosia Cooper examine contestation over multi-disciplinary Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) programs at U.S. colleges and universities.
Read more at bit.ly/4pnrRJg
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New article with the wonderful @jonathancoley.bsky.social on cisgendered organizations:
Christian Universities as Cisgendered Organizations: Discriminatory Policies Toward Transgender and Nonbinary Students in Christian Higher Education
Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning"
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.