{"id":8298,"date":"2026-03-09T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:50:18","slug":"clippings-march-9th-2026-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2026\/03\/09\/clippings-march-9th-2026-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings | March 9th, 2026 | TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ashley Mears<\/a> (Professor and Chair of Cultural Sociology and New Media at the University of Amsterdam) wrote an op-ed for Le Monde<\/em><\/a>, discussing how wealthy men use the normalized presence of women beside them to build ties among themselves and develop a form of capital. Mears describes the Jeffrey Epstein affair as another example of the way elite circles systematically exploit women and girls. \u201cFar beyond Epstein himself, across male-dominated elite spheres, young women circulate through intermediaries like “promoters” \u2212 men paid to bring girls to parties organized by clubs or wealthy individuals,\u201d Mears explains. \u201cTheir circulation is normalized and entirely visible.\u201d In her most recent book, Very Important People<\/em><\/a>, she spent 18 months going from New York to the Hamptons, from Miami to Saint-Tropez, investigating the mechanisms of this systemic circuit of money and beauty at VIP upscale clubs and jet-set parties.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

Ashley Mears<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Alex Law<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at Abertay University) recently reviewed David McCrone\u2019s<\/a> (Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Edinburgh University) book Changing Scotland: Society, Politics and Identity<\/em><\/a> for Bella Caledonia<\/a><\/em>. In the book, McCrone discusses how Scotland has changed in the last three decades of the twentieth century and grounds his claim in what C. Wright Mills calls \u2018the sociological imagination\u2019–the idea that we can only fully understand an individual\u2019s biography in relation to the wider historical changes in social structure. McCrone used this sociological framework to investigate the changing structure, politics and culture of Scotland. The book begins by outlining the patterns of social change in Scotland from 1945 to 1975 and then accounts for the social conditions that have shaped Scotland into what it is. McCrone argues that the meaning and institutions of Scotland were altered by civil society, state and nation and how that was transformed \u201cpractically and ideologically\u201d by the 1970s caesura. The main thesis is: \u201csocioeconomic and demographic changes since the 1970s have utterly transformed Scotland\u2026All western societies passed through similar processes of deindustrialisation, the rise of services, demand for higher educational credentials, and the feminisation of the workforce, with populations reconfigured by smaller, privatised households living in new towns and peripheral suburbs.\u201d Law describes the book as \u201ceminently readable, intellectually engaging and instructive, replete with carefully marshalled facts in support of his overarching thesis about the post-war trajectory of Scottish society, culture and politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Alex Law<\/a> & David McCrone<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gadjah Mada University<\/a>\u2019s Donnie Trisfian released a news report<\/a> on Indonesia\u2019s democracy. In the report, UGM sociologist Dr. Arie Sujito<\/a> explains how the current global instability is having an impact on national conditions such as \u201cweakening of public ethics, rising pragmatism, and diminishing respect for humanitarian values.\u201d Additionally he points out the two sides to the development of digital technology, one side advances in information expanding knowledge, communication and connectivity, while on the other side digital spaces have led to social fragmentation, political polarization, and the spread of unverified information. He argues that the challenge the younger generation faces is moving past mastering technology to cultivating it for \u201ccivic virtue.\u201d Sujito argues Indonesia must shift from orientation around market demands to educational support as a way to develop ethical and social awareness: \u201cA person\u2019s intelligence is not measured merely by the numbers that appear, but by the character reflected behind them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Donnie Trisfian & Arie Sujito<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The New York Times<\/em><\/a> ran a story about how many couples are choosing legal  domestic partnership\u2014celebrated with \u201cdomestic partnership parties\u201d\u2014over marriage and weddings. Pepper Schwartz<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington) commented that domestic partnerships are \u201cpractical and private.\u201d Schwartz describes that couples often \u201cwant security and something that differentiates them from living together or dating\u201d but can be undone more easily than a divorce. She noted that Millennials, who witnessed a high divorce rate among their parents, may be cautious about marriage as an institution. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Pepper Schwartz<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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