Welcome back! This week we cover new research that shows that surface level changes in policing might hide ongoing bias and punitive practices. We also round up research about public opinions on pay-to-play in college sports, as we await a verdict in the NCAA supreme court case.

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Punitive Policing Persists by Daniel Cueto-Villalobos. We cover new research that shows that more cooperative or cordial policing styles can be used to justify more punitive policing.

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Public Opinion on Pay-to-Play by Jean Marie Maier. With the NCAA back in the Supreme Court we round up research on who supports paying college athletes and how this relates to race, concerns about athlete exploitation, and beliefs about amateurism.

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Teaching Sociology of Gender During COVID-19: Lessons from Contexts Magazine by Gabrielle G. Gonzales and Catherine J. Taylor

Council on Contemporary Families

New Work: Multiracial children and their family lives by Kate H. Choi and Rachel E. Goldberg

From Our Community Pages:

• Dispatches from a Dean shares a thoughtful letter to colleagues in the wake of the Chauvin verdict.
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies sheds light on histories of terrorist sexual violence in Algeria.
• Cyborgology considers the past and future of artificial intelligence

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Happy Friday! This week we cover new research that explores the challenges freelancers face when looking for full-time jobs. We also explore what sociology, and other social sciences, can tell us about the social influences of intergenerational trauma.

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Freelancers Face Frustration in Full-Time Job Searches by Jean Marie Maier. We cover new research that shows that a history of freelancing sends negative signals about commitment and competence to potential employers.

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When Trauma is Passed Down by Nikoleta Sremac. We round up research that explores the cultural legacy of trauma for social groups.

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What Do Memes Tell Us about Self and Time during the Pandemic? by Michael G. Flaherty and Cosima Rughiniș

Council on Contemporary Families

The Shortest Distance is Across Not Around: Bridging Chasms in Women’s Health Care and Racial Justice to Achieve Maternal Health Equity by Irene Headen

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• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies shows how spatial tools can help students understand the Holocaust.

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Happy Friday! This week we welcomed a new community page, covered new research on sanctuary policies and crime reporting, and rounded up research on inequalities in access to mental health care.

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Introducing World Suffering on TSP. This week we announced that TSP is the new host for the website World Suffering and the Compassionate Relief of Suffering, the work of our late colleague Ron Anderson. You can find out more about the site, and Ron’s legacy, here.

Discoveries

Seeking Justice in Sanctuary Cities by Jillian LaBranche. We present new research that shows Latinx people are more likely to report crime victimization in communities with sanctuary policies.

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Inequality and Access to Mental Health Care by Mahala Miller. We round up research on the persistent challenges to equitable access to mental health care.

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Council on Contemporary Families

New Work: Gender, Parenting, and the Rise of Remote Work During the Pandemic: Implications for Domestic Inequality in the United States by Allison Dunatchik, Kathleen Gerson, Jennifer Glass, Jerry A. Jacobs, and Haley Strizel.

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• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies shares an interview with Carol Tognato on his new book The Courage for Civil Repair.

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Today we are excited to announce that The Society Pages is the new host of World Suffering & The Compassionate Relief of Suffering. From now on you can find a link to World Suffering under our “Community Pages.”

World Suffering features the unique perspective and writing of Ron Anderson. Ron Anderson, an innovative scholar of technology and society, and a dear and generous colleague to all who were privileged to know him, passed away on December 21, 2020.

In honor of Ron’s legacy, and in recognition of Ron’s support of The Society Pages, TSP now hosts this website. We will continue to feature the content that Ron wrote and curated, and seek submissions for new posts that reflect Ron’s unique perspective and vision.

Here is the vision for World Suffering in Ron’s own words:

“This site has two pillars, understanding world suffering and enabling compassion and other actions to alleviate suffering…This site will attempt to lay out the scope and nature of suffering so that we direct our empathy and compassion more effectively. Look at it as an aid to identifying the suffering most deserving of alleviation or even elimination.”

We are honored to host this website in Ron’s memory, continuing to feature its important content and seeking new posts that reflect Ron’s goal of moving towards “the compassionate relief of suffering.”

Welcome back! This week we present new research that challenges the narrative that increased mental health treatment-seeking is driven by increased psychological distress in young people. Our partner and community pages consider the meaning of refugee status, how work-family balance can aid disadvantaged children, and the Tigray crisis.

Discoveries

Mental Health Treatment Seeking, Not Distress, Increasing for All by Mahala Miller. We present new research that shows that treatment seeking for mental health care is increasing for people of all ages, despite no meaningful increase in psychological distress.

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Contexts

The Meanings of Refugee Status by Katherine Jensen

Council on Contemporary Families

Research reports: Across Rich Nations, Disadvantaged Children Do Better When Work-Family Balance Is a Policy Priority by Matthew A. Andersson, Michael A. Garcia, and Jennifer Glass

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• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers the Tigray Crisis, from the perspective of a former Peacecorps volunteer.

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This week we cover new research on the connection between gender inequality and homicide. Our partner and community pages bring you a conversation with journalist Maria Ressa and consider covid memorials in the face of state failures to act.

Discoveries

Gender Inequality Kills by Jillian LaBranche. We cover new research that shows that state’s with higher levels of gender inequality have higher instances of homicide for both males and females.

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Contexts

Q&A With Maria Ressa: Journalism, the Philippine Government, and Cyber Libel by Marco Garrido and Victoria Reyes.

From Our Community Pages:

• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers how memorialization of covid victims interacts with state’s failure to provide material protection and relief.

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Welcome back! This week we present new research on the barriers to healthcare seeking for targets of violence. Our partner and community pages also bring timely and important reads.

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Avoiding the Doctor: Targets of Violence and Health Care by Hannah Schwendeman. We present new research that shows how personal relationships, sexual violence, and past experience shapes healthcare seeking among targets of violent crime.

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Winter 2021 Letters from the Editors: New Ethnographies of the Global South by Rashawn Ray, Fabio Rojas, Victoria Reyes, and Marco Garrido.

Council on Contemporary Families

Why Families Need More Financial Support during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Lawrence Stacey and Kristi Williams.

From Our Community Pages:

• Cyborgology considers instagram mourning and “phatic templates”
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers gender and protest in Argentinian activists fight for legalized abortion.

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Happy Friday. This week we rounded-up research on women in combat sports and the politics of public memorials. As always, our partner and community pages also bring you great content.

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A Woman’s Place is in the Octagon by Jillian LaBranche. We round-up research on how women in combat sports confront gender norms.

The Politics of Public Memorials by Daniel Cueto-Villalobos. We review research on public memorials, from immediate to official, highlighting the contested nature of these public projects.

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Cross University Collaboration for STEM Education and Social Justice by Monica J. Carter, Luis A. Colón, Anna De Cheke Qualls, Kamla Deonauth, and Panos S. Shiakolas

Council on Contemporary Families

New Work: African American mothers’ racial stressors are related to their parenting and adolescents’ academic and behavioral outcomes by Kathleen Holloway, Fatima Varner, and Stephen T. Russell

From Our Community Pages:

• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers Minnesota’s acknowledgement of the Khojaly massacre as genocide, and the politics of naming.

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Happy Friday! This week we rounded-up research on the historical roots of racialized mass incarceration and covered a new article about the power of framing pornography as addictive.

There’s Research On That

Historical Roots of Racialized Mass Incarceration by Hannah Schwendeman. We overviewed social scientific research that helps us understand the historical basis of racialized mass incarceration.

Discoveries

The Power of “Porn Addiction” by Mahala Miller. We feature new research that shows how understandings of pornography as “addictive” help justify judgements about sexuality and gender.

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Happy Birthday, W. E. B. Du Bois! by Evan Stewart.

Council on Contemporary Families

Parents of the 1920s set the stage for today’s intensive parenting by Richard A. Settersten Jr., Glen H. Elder Jr., and Lisa D. Pearce.

From Our Community Pages:

• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies spotlights student Michael Soto.
• Engaging Sports considers gender and sports fandom.

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This week, our partner and community pages brought you great content, including a conversation on Erving Goffman and musings on social roles and dying. They also considered the aftermath of famine, and the relationship between “nagging” and cheating.

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Council on Contemporary Families

The Relationship between Nagging and Cheating by Alicia Walker

From Our Community Pages:

• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers how the 1932 Ukrainian famine was shaped by the past and reached into the future.
• Give Theory A Chance speaks with Jonathan Wynn on Erving Goffman.
• A Backstage Sociologist talks about social roles and socialization, eleven years after a terminal cancer diagnosis.

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