{"id":8221,"date":"2025-11-18T21:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=8221"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:33:48","slug":"clippings-november-18th-2025-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2025\/11\/18\/clippings-november-18th-2025-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings | November 18th, 2025 | TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bates News<\/em><\/a> interviewed Francesco Duina<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at Bates College) about his upcoming book, The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World<\/em><\/a>\u2013a collection co-edited with Luca Storti<\/a> (Associate Professor Economic Sociology at the University of Torino). The book examines why we accept inequality in our social world. \u201cWe were very eager to understand that acceptance \u2014 it is, after all, a major factor that sustains those inequalities and something that we may want to grasp if we in fact want to do something about those inequalities,\u201d Duina commented. Duina described four main justifications for inequality: (1) market\/economic logics \u2013 thinking of inequality as a byproduct of a functioning economic system; (2) moral logics \u2013 thinking in terms of fairness, justice, and deservingness; (3) group logics \u2013 the idea that a certain group is entitled to more; and (4) cultural logics \u2013 cultural ideas (like the \u201cAmerican Dream\u201d) that help us tolerate inequality.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Francesco Duina<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sociologist Stephen Whitehead<\/a> wrote an opinion piece for NationalWorld<\/em><\/a> arguing against the idea that \u201cmasculinity is in crisis.\u201d Whitehead first notes that \u201cmasculinity is not singular but multiple. There are countless ways of men performing maleness, manhood, masculinity.\u201d Some men are in crisis, \u201cstruggling to find a place in the world that values them as men\u201d and facing depression and isolation. Whitehead names this \u201ccollapsed masculinity.\u201d Whitehead also notes that, while there is widespread concern about \u201ctoxic masculinity,\u201d he would not describe these men as \u201cin crisis.\u201d Male fundamentalists\u2013those who embrace an \u201cunapologetic, explicitly anti-female, misogynistic position\u201d–are convinced of their superiority and do not trend towards depression or social isolation. Whitehead says that, while this group is dangerous, they are not in crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a>Stephen Whitehead<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bailey Brown<\/a> (Assistant Professor of Sociology at Spelman College) wrote an article for The Conversation<\/em><\/a> describing how \u201cschool choice\u201d \u2013 the expanding range of school options for young children \u2013 is a source of anxiety for parents. Parents \u201cfelt pressure trying to select a school for their elementary school-age children\u201d and \u201csome parents experience this pressure a bit more acutely than others,\u201d Brown writes. \u201cWomen often see their choice of school as a reflection of whether they are good moms, my interviews show. Parents of color feel pressure to find a racially inclusive school. Other parents worry about finding niche schools that offer dual-language programs, for example, or other specialties.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Bailey Brown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Willy Pedersen<\/a>\u2019s (Professor of Sociology at the University of Oslo) new book The Beauty and Pain of Drugs<\/em> reveals an eye-catching correlation: Norwegians who drank heavily in their late teens and early twenties reported higher income and education levels later in life, as compared to their sober or light-drinking peers. \u201cThe most likely explanation is that all alcohol is a kind of marker of sociality, and that habit comes with some types of benefits,\u201d Perdersen explained. That is, drinkers forged bonds and social skills that paid off later in life. This story was covered by The Times (London)<\/em><\/a>, Vice<\/em><\/a>, and the New York Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Willy Pedersen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Onyilor Achem<\/a> (Researcher in Sociology at the University of Ibadan) wrote an article for The Conversation<\/em><\/a> on how Nigeria\u2019s Benue State Anti\u2011Open Grazing Law<\/a> (which \u201cbanned the open grazing of livestock and required herders to establish ranches instead\u201d) impacted the dynamics between farming and herding communities. Achem describes how the law\u2013intending to reduce conflict\u2013faltered in both design (as \u201cit expected herders \u2013 many of them nomadic, landless and low-capital \u2013 to invest in ranches with minimal support\u201d) and enforcement. This left herders feeling \u201ccriminalized\u201d and farmers feeling \u201cabandoned.\u201d The law also became a symbol of power, land-based identity, and religious tension: \u201cBoth farmers and herders saw it as a struggle for survival, one group fighting to defend ancestral land, the other to preserve livelihood and identity,\u201d Achem writes. \u201cIt became a law about belonging, rights, who gets to claim the land, and whose identity is recognised.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Victor Onyilor Achem<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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