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Contexts is a quarterly magazine of cutting-edge social research. We're the public face of sociology and the chillest mag in town. Our website: contexts.org

15/01/2025

New Blog! Anticipating ' "Great Wealth Transfer," Shay O'Brien (Harvard University) traces the socialized, gendered patterns of inheritance by which Dallas's White elites passed down *more*--but different *forms* of--wealth to women: https://contexts.org/blog/the-gender-of-inheritance/

17/12/2024

New! "Lead with Your Heart" finds Amin Ghaziani in conversation with Alondra Nelson about doing public sociology, on the page and in the White House: https://contexts.org/blog/qa-nelson/

10/12/2024

🚨 New on the blog! Corey Abramson reflects on AI as part of the sociologist's evolving toolkit in "From Carbon Paper to Code: Crafting Sociology in an Age of AI"

https://contexts.org/blog/soc-ai/

02/12/2024

ICYMI: Interfaith Photovoice founder Roman Williams chats with blog editor Elena van Stee about his approach to participatory action research--what Roman calls "Sociology 'With'"

25/11/2024

New! Interfaith Photovoice founder Roman Williams discusses his work combining sociology + photography for intergroup and interfaith engagement with blog editor Elena Van Stee. It's not just *for* the public, it's sociology *with* the public!

https://contexts.org/blog/roman-williams/

21/11/2024

Find us where the skies are blue! .bsky.social

20/11/2024

To the moon! 📈 Inside Silicon Valley start-up Brainshare, the young men who pile in are not far-out believers but children of the upper middle classes with outsized expectations for work.

Patrick Sheehan writes about hype and start-up work: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042241293431

19/11/2024

Resilience. Vulnerability. Protest. And joy... no matter what's to come. The Contexts Magazine Fall 2024 issue is now live and free to read, download, and share through Dec. 15! https://contexts.org/articles/f24-toc/

29/10/2024

New on the blog! Joyce Kim hands out fun-sized sociology in "Career Choices at a Crossroads" (see her king-sized Social Problems paper), in which low-income, first-gen students weigh post-grad salary vs. fulfilling purpose.

https://contexts.org/blog/career-choices/

22/10/2024

Congratulations to Contexts feature authors Laurel Westbrook & stef shuster, recipients of the 2024 CCF Families Research Translation Award!

Check out their article "Transgender Joy: Flipping the Script on Marginality" in our Fall '23 issue!
https://doi.org/10.1177/15365042231210824

08/10/2024

📚Happy publication day to Musa Al-Gharbi! Learn more about & Musa’s commitment to reaching audiences across political lines in a new interview with blog editor Elena van Stee.

Then order your copy from Princeton University Press!

➡️https://contexts.org/blog/qa-al-garbi/

26/09/2024

Interested in editing the only ASA journal aimed at broad audiences, from fellow sociologists to students, policymakers, journalists, and your mom?
Find more information about the position & application instructions here:
https://www.asanet.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Contexts-Call-for-Editor-Applications-2026.pdf

The ASA Publications Committee invites applications for the next editors(s) of Contexts, ASA’s quarterly journal devoted to bringing sociology to a wide audience by presenting the findings and ideas of sociology in engaging, non-technical language. The journal includes peer-reviewed feature articles, photo essays, book reviews, culture reviews, trends and teaching and learning pieces, and first-person essays. The new editor(s) should be committed to addressing a broad public through timely topics and an accessible style of presentation.

Editor(s) will serve a term of three years (2026-2028), but the editor transition will begin a few months earlier. Applications are due by December 1, 2024. Find additional information on the application process and guidelines here: https://bit.ly/3B8FXL7.

12/09/2024

🎣 In our latest blog post, Caleb Scoville lands the story of a "tiny, tiny little fish," the Delta Smelt, that became a political whopper for partisan "division entrepreneurs"

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Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.

03/09/2024

We're thrilled that Contexts' blog editor, Elena van Stee (University of Pennsylvania & Harvard University), has received the Council on Contemporary Families' 2024 Graduate Student Public Scholar Award. Not only does she amplify her own terrific research, she champions others' innovative contributions to the field!

Learn more about Elena's work and her commitment to public sociology at https://contexts.org/blog/meet-contexts-new-blog-editor/.

01/09/2024

Sociology is always in season! Our summer issue is live and free to read, download, and share through September 29! ctx.sagepub.com

22/08/2024

Amanda Cheong received the 2024 Publication Award from ASA’s Section on Public Sociology and Sociological Practice for her Contexts article, “How Driver’s Licenses Matter for Undocumented Immigrants”! Read her chat w/ blog editor Elena Van Stee about this deeply personal, community-engaged research:

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers.

13/08/2024

Happy publication day to Tony Jack! Learn more about & Tony's mission to write for readers in Elena Van Stee new interview & order your copy at Princeton University Press’ booth!

https://contexts.org/blog/q-a-tony-jack/

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In her Summer '23 @contextsmag feature, Elena G. van Stee explores how students from different class backgrounds understood parental support during COVID-19 campus closures. Learn more! https://youtu.be/vorfGCidq2I & www.elenavanstee.com #ASA2023 #inequality #privilegeddependence #precariousautonomy

Aptly, Sarah Elton says she gravitated toward Contexts: Sociology for the Public because it "makes complex ideas... nicely digestible." Here, we chat about her Spring '23 feature "Eating for Two Trillion." #foodjustice #publicsociology Learn more--and read, download, and share the article: https://contexts.org/blog/qa-with-dr-sarah-elton/

Today we're talking with Catherine Corrigall-Brown (UBC Sociology) about why she wanted to write for Contexts: Sociology for the Public--and why you should, too!

"The #Retirement Paradox," explains University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science's Michelle Pannor Silver, is a fundamental mismatch between expectations and lived experience. Learn more in this video interview and read her Spring 2023 Contexts: Sociology for the Public feature at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042231172461 View other articles by this author: https://journals.sagepub.com/authored-by/Silver/Michelle+Pannor

Jennifer Randles (@Jennifer Randles), co-author w/ Jennifer Sherman of "Diaper Despair and Deflecting Inequalities": "The case of #diaperneed is a really good example of how there is a tendency to individualize social problems—and the ramifications of that." Check out their current article at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15365042221142830 and its predecessor piece, "The Diaper Dilemma"

Q&A with Lauren Crosser

New! Check out our Q&A with Lauren Crosser (Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), co-author of Winter '23 research fea. "Aisle Inequality" (along with Sarah Mayorga and Megan R. Underhill UNCA Sociology & Anthropology Department). #consumption #inequality #racialcapitalism #liberation Read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042221142831

"Being able to present our work as #sociologists to a general audience via publications like @contextsmag is really important," says Chiara Cooper, if we are "to challenge or change social problems." Read her new piece! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042221142829 #consent

"Fear of something--like fear of children being taken away--has consequences for how groups navigate institutions," argue DeAnna YSmith and Alexus Roane (University of Michigan) in our latest issue. Learn more!

Contexts in the Classroom! Curious about using our short, accessible pieces in class? Seth Abrutyn (UBC Sociology) shares a discussion on #Durkheim and #zombies! Get the discussion prompts and begin using "Durkheim's 'Suicide' in the Zombie Apocalypse" in your courses today! Article is free to read and download at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1536504217714260

What is Dr. Beth Hirsch’s (UBC Sociology) favorite section of Contexts? The policy briefs, which help the broader public see sociology's utility for solving real-world problems. Contexts: Rigorous. Relevant. Readable. Rad.

About Contexts and its trends section, Dr. Laura Nelson (UBC Sociology) enthuses, "This is what we [sociologists] do: We take data and we turn it into social insights!" American Sociological Association

At UBC Sociology , the new home of Contexts, the faculty are already fans! Dr. Ethan Raker talks Trends, the section that "provides sociologists and the general public with digestible figures and graphs that help them grasp what's going on in the world." See more in our latest video!

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