The Sociological Quarterly

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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

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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

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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.

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Hmmmm this looks like a good one for next semester’s public health class.

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In this new TSQ article, Chinyere Agbai, Jennifer W. Bouek, and Thomas Marlow examine how a neighborhood’s poverty trajectory shape its likelihood of social service organization deprivation.

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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.

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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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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.

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In this new TSQ article, Cihan Tuğal (@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.

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This was a great presentation last year; highly encourage reading if you weren’t at MSS last year.

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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.

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🚨 “Perceiving Protest” 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!

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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.

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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.

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Perceiving Protest: How Publics View the Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest How do people evaluate social movement protest tactics? Theories covering public perceptions of protest emphasize that activists face a tactical dilemma, employing disruptive tactics to advance goa...

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!

doi.org/10.1080/0038...

Populism, Emotions, and Boundary Work Among Political Activists in the Trump Era How do emotions shape boundary work among populists and anti-populists? Based on 52 in-depth interviews, we analyze how political activists construct their positions through “emotive contestation.”...

Our article on populism is published in @socquarterly.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Based on 52 interviews with populists and anti-populists during Trump’s first presidency, we make the following contributions
1) We demonstrate the centrality of emotions in anti-populist politics

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Donatella della Porta, Federica Stagni, Stella Christou, and Martín Portos (@mportosg.bsky.social) discuss how pro-Palestine student camps served as eventful forms of protest that transformed social relations, identities, and temporal horizons.

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Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! 💫🇵🇸 doi.org/10.1080/0038...

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!

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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.

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In this new TSQ article, Darci Schmidgall, Popy Begum, and Christopher Seto (@criminovelist.bsky.social) show how the convergence of religious and political conservatism through Christian nationalism shapes abortion attitudes among the American public.

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Focusing on the case of Stormfront, a prominent white nationalist forum, Jesse Callahan Bryant (@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social) investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements.

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The Sociological Quarterly Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly

QUEER NIGHTLIFE

Have you read the new issue of TSQ on queer nightlife, edited by @aminghaziani.bsky.social?

The entire issue is currently FREE TO READ! Check it out now at tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6...

Incurable Optimism about Getting What We Want: Anticipating Success in Everyday Requests When asking for something significant from another person, speakers not only set the tilt of the question toward the affirmative or negative but also display an optimistic or pessimistic stance tow...

When we ask for something big—time, effort, money—do we hedge against rejection or assume success? With @gio-rossi.bsky.social & Tanya Stivers, we find that people are incurably optimistic, even though big requests often meet resistance. Published open access in @socquarterly.bsky.social. #EMCA

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Andrew Chalfoun, Giovanni Rossi, & Tanya Stivers show that everyday requests are made with an optimistic stance. Across seven language communities, people ask as if the answer will be “yes,” revealing a pervasive optimism bias in routine interaction.

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The Sociological Quarterly Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly

New publication by Amin Ghaziani (@aminghaziani.bsky.social) in (@socquarterly.bsky.social). “The Sociology of Queer Nightlife.” The Sociological Quarterly 66(4): 661-674. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6....
The article provides a sociological perspective on queer nightlife.

For the Children: Attitudes Toward Marriage and Divorce in the United States The deinstitutionalization of marriage suggests more support for divorce and the forgoing of marriage. In this study, we examine attitudes toward both marriage and divorce in the context of having ...

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Over half of U.S. adults (55%) support both divorce & forgoing marriage, even w/ children involved. These views are more common among women, LGBTQ+ people, and those cohabiting or divorced, & less common among older, religious, and conservative adults. w/ @gaylekaufman.bsky.social

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Jihye Park and Rene Rocha show that restrictive interior immigration enforcement does not encourage self-deportation among undocumented immigrants and thus functions "less as an empirically grounded policy intervention and more as a form of symbolic politics."

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The latest issue of TSQ is now live! Check out this very special issue on queer nightlife, edited by Amin Ghaziani (@aminghaziani.bsky.social), at www.tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6...

I’m really proud of this paper. Partially because I got to run a survey question about the Fluke Man of Newark, but mostly because I was pretty sure what was happening with a phenomenon and I turned out to be completely wrong (Tony was right).