During the summer, we are publishing our newsletter every other week. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming in the fall.

New and Noteworthy

Board member S Ericson wrote up new research from Miloš Broćić and Andrew Miles that shows that college attendance influences moral values. Attending college is associated with compassion but not concern for social order or moral relativism.

Worth a Read, Sociologically Speaking

Danielle Bessett wrote for our partner Contexts on how her and colleagues’ research shows that abortion restrictions will cause harm to many people by making both abortions and other reproductive health care more challenging to access, particularly for black, brown, poor, and/or rural people, and by constraining physicians and other healthcare providers.

More from our Partners and Community Pages

Aaron Hoy, Jori Adrianna Nkwenti, and Sachita Pokhrel wrote for Council on Contemporary Families’ blog on how their research shows that most sexual minority youth, unlike their heterosexual peers, do not fear divorce or view it as a negative outcome.

Also for CCF, Christia Spears Brown wrote about the risks trans youth face from prejudice and discriminatory laws and the important role families play in supporting these youth.

For the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies’ blog, Nikoleta Sremac interviewed Dr. Badema Pitic on the intersections of music, memory, and politics in the aftermath of war and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Also for CHGS, Nikoleta Sremac wrote on the role of women in the cultural processing of episodes of mass violence.

From the Archives

Following the white supremacist attack in Buffalo, NY, last weekend we have writing from Amber Joy Powell on media coverage and mass shootings including how shooters’ racial and socioeconomic identities influence the news.