{"id":8246,"date":"2026-02-02T14:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2026-02-02T14:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:21:07","slug":"clippings-february-2nd-2026-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2026\/02\/02\/clippings-february-2nd-2026-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings | February 2nd, 2026 | TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nicole Bedera <\/a>(Affiliated Educator at the Center for Institutional Courage<\/a> and co-founder of Beyond Compliance<\/a>) wrote an opinion piece for MS Now <\/em><\/a>about how ICE Watch is an effective tool to de-escalate violence. She describes how \u201cthe vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of \u2014 and reward them for \u2014 that violence.\u201d ICE Watch can de-escalate situations by clearly expressing disapproval for violence. Bedera\u2019s research was also covered by MPR News<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Nicole Bedera<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sociology faculty at Florida International University are speaking out against their department\u2019s requirement that they use a state-approved textbook to teach introductory courses. Matthew Marr<\/a> (Associate Professor of Sociology at FIU) described the textbook as “scraped out\u201d and \u201csanitized.\u201d Marr described how the textbook omits key sociological concepts\u2013such as structural racism: \u201cNot only are these omissions an incorrect representation of the field, but they also fail to prepare students for majors and graduate education that require or recommend Introduction to Sociology.\u201d This story was covered by Inside Higher Education<\/em><\/a> and WLRN Public Media<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a>Matthew Marr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss<\/a> (Professor of Public Affairs at American University) appeared on The Contrarian<\/em><\/a>, discussing the connections between violence and masculinity. Miller-Idriss describes how people may gravitate toward a \u201cprotector\u201d narrative of masculinity in times of economic hardship (when a \u201cprovider\u201d narrative of masculinity is less achievable). Miller-Idriss notes that we are in a cultural moment of \u201chyper masculinity that associates being a man with being violent\u201d and this image appears in recruitment for federal agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a>Cynthia Miller-Idriss<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a> (Professor at the University of North Carolina\u2019s School of Information and Library Science) appeared on PBS News Hour<\/em><\/a> to discuss how to fight political exhaustion. McMillan Cottom describes how we often feel tired from passively taking in negative news: \u201cWe are tired then, not from doing too much, but from doing too little.\u201d She suggests that political action, rather than disengagement, is the antidote to political exhaustion: \u201cPeople who feel agentic aren’t as tired; they are not as easily overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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