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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 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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🎀🍺 Alcohol Miss-Use
C. Uscola’s (@colteruscola.bsky.social) new #Socius study examines how women and men seek to resist #familytrauma informed #genderexpectations through their performance of #alcoholuse.
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What's the collective in this #collectiveaction?
A. Kotanko’s (@akotanko.bsky.social) #Socius study of an #immigration clinic demonstrates how #socialmovement organizations draw on #personalidentity to encourage collective action participation.
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Same work, (perceptions of) different pay?
C. Diehl, J. Lang, O. Brüggemann, & S. Strauss compare relative #wageinequality and perceptions of wage inequality for #gendered differences in the perception and acceptance of wage inequality.
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📚How do gender-typed aspirations influence academic performance?
Dr. Liza Reisel’s #Socius study examines how gender-typed occupational goals and educational expectations help explain the #gender gap in #education achievement.
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⚖️ Same facts, different outcomes.
A #Socius study by Drs. Christopher Kleps, Vincent J. Roscigno & Reginald A. Byron shows how #RacialDiscrimination in the #Workplace gets interpreted in court—filtered through #Narratives and legal assumptions.
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🦄 Who gets heard in Washington?
Dr. @wendyyli.bsky.social (from @jhu.edu)'s #Socius study unpacks how revolving-door #Lobbyists cultivate #PoliticalCredibility through claims to #Expertise & #InsiderKnowledge.
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🌐 One flag invites another: Swedish #ClimateDenial isn’t just homegrown.
A new #Socius study by Drs. Anton Törnberg & Victoria Vallström shows how global #ClimateSkeptic content fuels far-right, antiestablishment alliances online.
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🔄 Identities shift, even when #SkinColor doesn't.
In #Jamaica, #SES and #Mixedness shape self-identification. Dr. Monique D. A. Kelly (@michiganstateu.bsky.social)’s #Socius study shows rising #RacialFluidity as “Black” and “Mixed” blur.
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🍹 “$10 for you, $6 for him.”
A #Socius study shows #Black men face higher drink prices than white patrons in urban #nightclubs—subtle but telling #Antiblack #Discrimination in #PublicSpace.
By Drs. Reuben May, Matthew Soener, Carileigh Jones & Quinesha.
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💼 How do people who use drugs navigate the #LaborMarket?
In #Socius, Drs. Mike Vuolo, Anneliese Ward, and
@leschneider.bsky.social show how #Stigma, survival strategies & low-wage work shape reentry for #JusticeInvolved adults.
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👨👩👧 #Interracial parents are rethinking how they raise mixed-race kids—using #RacialHumility to move beyond the #MonoracialParadigm and support their kids' identities.
Dr. Katherine Johnson explores these practices in #Socius.
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