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Official Bluesky account of Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, the open-access journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA) srd.sagepub.com
“The news is the one that kind of just keeps reminding me of my status”
J.C. Perez Lopez’s new #Socius research explores how #undocumented students’ legal status influences their engagement with and avoidance of #traditionalmedia and #socialmedia #immigration coverage
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🏆 Perceived Prestige & Occupational Sex Segregation 💼
S. Krueger’s new #Socius research compares absolute and perceived #OccupationalPrestige across male-dominated, female-dominated, and mixed fields in #Germany
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Reducing Constraints, Increasing Health
Z. Li’s new #Socius research uses #cross-national #survey data to develop a multidimensional measure of employee #work control and shows that greater control is associated with increased #wellbeing across contexts.
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🎶 Boy Bands & Girl Rock 🎶
X. Ma’s new #Socius article compares #music preferences and consumption for #gendereddynamics, challenging existing theories of #taste and emphasizing the role of #culturalcapital as a moderating factor.
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🏀 Who gets paid to play? 🏀
D. Shao’s new research in #Socius draws on #NBA player performance metrics to examine #employmentstability for Black and White athletes, documenting a #racialgap in the length and probability of signing a non-entry contract.
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(Mis)matching Ethnoracial Classifications
K. E. Waldman’s new #Socius research examines mismatched ethnoracial #stateclassification and #selfidentification among self-classified #Hispanic respondents, demonstrating the negotiated nature of racial subjectivities.
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How Temporary Are Temporary Student Visas?
@nicolekreisberg.bsky.social, J. Van Hook, & H. Persaud use #longitudinaldata to study the factors influencing the potential transition to #permanentresidence for #internationalstudents
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One foot out the door 🏢🧑💼
@scottschieman.bsky.social, A. Wilson, & P. Glavin’s #socius article analyzes satisfied workers' #qualityoflife and #worksatisfaction comparisons to other workers, and the impact those perceptions have on potential #jobchange
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Leaving the Nest 🏠👪
J. Jiang & C. Zhang’s new article in #Socius demonstrates variation in #youngadults' home-leaving trajectories in #China, complicating modernization and traditionalist theories of intergenerational #coresidence
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🏢 Men at work? The feminized university & gendered competence 🎓
A. Mireles’ new #Socius article uses national #survey data to study the impact of graduating from a majority-women #university on job opportunities, finding specific challenges for #malegraduates.
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Who is included in #PoC?
M. Abasacal, A. Armenta, & @wmhalm.bsky.social's new #Socius article on #Americans’ application of the “Person of Color” label uses a conjoint #surveyexperiment to compare attributes including #ancestry, #skincolor, and #selfidentification
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The Work Worlds of Older Women Entrepreneurs
E. Asanti et al.’s new #mixedmethods analysis in #Socius explores the motivations & challenges for older #womenentrepreneurs in rural #Indonesia, including #financialsecurity, #health & self-fulfillment.
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Transnational activist exchange 🌐
C. Anderson, @acalasanti.bsky.social, & @tamkay.bsky.social's new #Socius article conceptualizes “circular diffusion” to explain the strategic & symbolic exchange between #abortionrights #socialmovements in the #US and #LatinAmerica
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Spotlight: Sage Socius Podcast
Prof. Reuben A. Buford May recently joined the Sage #Socius #Podcast to discuss his recent publication on anti-Black #discrimination in #Chicago nightclubs, available with open access in Socius.
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Visualizing the DOGE Firings
D. Bloome’s new #datavisualization in #Socius highlights commonalities, inequalities, and the majority composition of #federalworkers targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency.
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They’ll never last 👫
S. Salim’s new article in #Socius uses a dyadic conjoint #survey to measure third-party evaluations of #interracial couples, including their perceived seriousness, #compatibility, and #white respondent approval of the couple.
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She’ll play support 🎮
J. Brenner-Levoy (@jbrennerlevoy.bsky.social)'s new #Socius article explores how #genderidentity and socialization manifest when selecting #videogame roles, finding links between #femininity and support/healing roles
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Who bears the mental load?
@anacweeks.bsky.social, @helenkowalewska.bsky.social, & @leahruppanner.bsky.social's new #Socius research argues that household #cognitive #labor sticks to #women regardless of time & resource constraints.
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Moving up by moving up?
D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration
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What’s happening in SEM research?
Y. Liu & E. Fong’s new #Socius article uses #machinelearning methods to track the ongoing growth of research on skilled/educated #migrants
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⛅ The climate of political polarization ⛈️
E. Huddart, T. Silva, P. Muzzerrall & S. Dimitrakopoulos’ #Socius study analyzes #survey data on attitudes towards #decarbonization policies to link affective #climate polarization to #political identity-based boundary-making
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Family backgrounds & Faculty Positions
N.T. Borgen, A.S. Hermansen (@aresherman.bsky.social), & A.M.J. Sandsør's (@astridsandsor.bsky.social) #Socius research on #Norwegian paths to #academia demonstrates how social origins carry impacts in egalitarian #welfarestates
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Changing spaces, diverse faces
W. Zhang & J. R. Logan’s new #Socius research analyzes #Census data on #racialdiversity in US #neighborhoods from 1980-2020 to understand what changes are contributing to this diversification.
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From ABCs to CVD 🫀
A. Zajacova, S. Fishman, & E. Lawrence’s new #Socius research examines national #UnitedStates #health data to uncover the complex relationship between #educationalattainment and #cardiovasculardisease
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Do Large Language Models have Religious Biases?
J. Tom, T. Ferguson, & B. Martinez’s new article in #Socius analyzes #AI generated sermons for their readability to uncover how #LLMs potentially sustain #socialbiases.
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Is the Computer Science, Engineering, & Mathematics Field gender-neutral?
Park et al.’s new research in #Socius employs #mixedmethods to understand how #gendered perceptions of #CSEM work challenges change throughout job tenure
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Labor divisions and marital divisions
Kimberly McErlean’s new research in #Socius compares how #gender egalitarian #labor divisions differently affect #divorcerates for couples across #education levels
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Shipwrecks and Shifting Opinions
N. Cavalli & E. Charitopoulou’s #Socius study demonstrates differing effects on public attitudes towards #immigration policies and #immigrants in #Italy in the wake of the #LampedusaShipwreck
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💲Relief and Righteous Anger
D. V. Reyes, M. Quesada, & K. Garcia-Galvez’s #Socius study examines the emotional impact of the #COVID #studentloans repayment pause for #Latinx #millennial borrowers.
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⛪ Unaffiliated, but not undevoted
@matthewblanton.bsky.social's new #Socius study challenges common understandings of #secularization, analyzing trends of increased personal religiosity alongside decreased institutional religiosity from 2004-2023 in #LatinAmerica.
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