New & Noteworthy

• Leo LaBarre’s new Discovery, Blinded by Love: How Online Fraudsters Scam Victims, looks at research by Timothy Dickinson and Fangzhou Wang. They posed as fictitious victims to 87 real online romance fraudsters and then looked at the tactics used to manipulate and coerce. One of the most common tactics was asking for money for something pressing, such as bills or rent. Give it a read to learn about the other 3 tactics.
• Our latest Clippings, include Sherry Turkle on NPR’s Body Electric for the latest on AI chatbots,  Safia Dahani on The Conversation Weekly and The New York Times on France’s recent parliamentary election, Terry Shoemaker wrote an article for The Conversation applying sociologist Robert Bellah’s concept of “civil religion” to the Summer Olympics, and Sofia Hiltner‘s new study was in Phys.Org in the waning focus on climate change by sociology.

From the Archives

• Nearly 10 years ago, an armed man jumped the perimeter fence and entered the White House, leading to the resignation of Julia Pierson (the first female Director of the Secret Service). Check out this piece from Sociological Images, highlighting the heightened and gendered expectations that women often face.

More from our Partners & Community Pages

• ok, boomer in Contexts by Elena G. Van Stee breaks down research by Rob Gruijters, Anette Fasang, and Zachary Van Winkle. They found that Millennials are generally less wealthy than Boomers at age 35, and wealth inequality within the Millennial generation has increased – with the richest Millennials surpassing their Boomer counterparts at the same age.
• Parents, Partners, and Pandemic Housing Decisions in Council on Contemporary Families by Elena G. Van Stee and colleagues cover a new Socius article revealing that undergraduates’ decisions to move in with parents during the COVID-19 pandemic were influenced by housing and financial needs, age, romantic partnerships, and feelings about asking for money – highlighting the complex social factors affecting parental support.