Hi Friends! We’ve got some exciting news this week: TSP is hosting a contest! If you teach with TSP content, tell us how! Details below. This week we have new content featuring social science research on competitive victimhood and conflict, how student debt is racialized, and the blurred lines between work and leisure. You can also read about the myth of poisoned Halloween candy, sexuality in aging adulthood, and nationalism in Korean ice hockey.
Editor’s Desk:
“The ‘Teach with TSP’ Contest,” by Evan Stewart. Do you use TSP content in your classroom? Tell us how! We’ll publish our favorites and send the winners TSP swag!
There’s Research on That!:
“Competitive Victimhood in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” by Mark Lee. Using the concept, “competitive victimhood,” social science can help explain why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has persisted for so long and how a breakthrough might finally be achieved.
“Why Witchcraft Appeals to Marginalized Groups,” by Allison Nobles and Jacqui Frost. For Halloween we brought back a spooky favorite, examining witchcraft’s long history of empowering marginalized groups.
Discoveries:
“The TANF Tinkle Test,” by Amy August. New research in The Sociological Quarterly finds that states implementing drug testing policies for “Temporary Aid to Needy Families” program applicants were more likely to see recent declines in white labor force participation and have a Republican governor.
Clippings:
“The Racialized Burden of Student Debt,” by Mark Lee. CNBC talks to Jason Houle about how student loans contribute to the racial wealth gap.
“Work + Leisure = Weisure,” by Amy August. In a recent Vox article, Gaby DelValle calls upon the work of sociologist Dalton Conley to describe this latest trend in ‘weisure.’
From Our Partners:
Sociological Images:
“When Science Gets Scary,” by Sofia Lindgren Galloway and Evan Stewart.
“Collective Nightmares Movie Analysis,” by Marshall Smith and Laura Patterson.
Contexts:
“Foraging on the Margins of the Labor Market,” by Kelsey Drotning.
“Of Pigs and Public Sociology,” by Christian Vaccaro.
“Poisoned Halloween Candy: Sociological Debunking,” by Letta Page.
Council on Contemporary Families:
“The Push and Pull of Sex, Gender, and Aging,” by Nicholas Velotta and Pepper Schwartz.
And a Few from the Community Pages:
- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies sounds the alarm in response to the recent Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting.
- Cyborgology ponders Reddit’s revamping of their quarantine function.
- Engaging Sports contemplates nationalism in Korean ice hockey.
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