Hello, everyone! While the pundits are sorting out everything that happened this week, we’re here with a look at the best of TSP post-Super Tuesday.

The Editors’ Desk:

“The Sociology of Nate Silver and 538: #TSPpolitics” With Super Tuesday come and gone, but polling and projections still going strong, our editors brought back a classic piece by Andrew Lindner from The Social Side of Politics. 

There’s Research on That!:

“Safer Sex for Male Inmates” by Sara Anderson. A guest post this week rounds up research on the growing problem of sexual health in America’s prison system.

Discoveries:

“‘Who Had An Abortion?’ The Social Circulation of Sensitive Information” by Ryan Larson. New research from Sarah Cowan sheds light on how we share secrets.

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And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Sociology Toolbox reflects on college and social class
• Cyborgology takes a look at Facebook’s new reactions and Trump’s tweets.
• Sociology Lens asks, are we facing Uber-geddon?

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Good morning! As we head into the Nevada caucuses this weekend and next week, TSP has a host of great research coverage on current political issues. Check out our politics page for more!

The Editors’ Desk:

“Beyonce is Black: Did You Know?” Whaaaaat? Doug Hartmann looks at the sociology behind SNL’s latest.

“Racial Minority Presidential Candidates: #TSPpolitics.” Our first volume, The Social Side of Politics, sheds light on the 2016 primaries.

There’s Research on That!:

“How ‘Banning the Box’ Helps in Offender Reentry.” With bipartisan support for criminal justice reform brewing, Amber Joy Powell looks at research on why “Ban the Box” may work.

“Rape as a Weapon of War” by Miray Philips. Research shows how sexual violence is also a social force.

Discoveries:

“Gasland and Anti-Fracking Movements” by Jack Delehanty. New research highlights how a documentary can mobilize the masses.

Clippings:

“Coates: Poverty Is a Black and White Issue” by Neeraj Rajasekar. Work from Patrick Sharkey, Robert Sampson, and others shows how poverty works different across racial groups.

“A Potential Dark Side to Iran’s ‘White Marriages’” by Allison Nobles. As marriage norms change worldwide, Payvand and the BBC look at the costs and benefits of cohabitation in places like Iran.

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Scholars Strategy Network:

Contexts:

“Online Dating Choices, Constrained” by Joanna Pepin. New research from Jennifer Lundquist and Ken-Hou Lin looks at racial preferences in online dating across sexualities.

And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Cyborgology on Apple’s encryption fight with the U.S. Government
• ThickCulture on this year’s strange soccer season 
• Education and Society looks at how Color-Blind Classrooms Socialize Students to Disregard History

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Happy February and happy Friday, everyone!  From family leave policy to the facts behind the latest Netflix drama, we have a feast of new sociology to kick off your weekend.

The Editors’ Desk:

“Sociologists Writing and Being Read.” Doug Hartmann looks at public sociology in The New Yorker and The Atlantic this week.

There’s Research on That!

“Un-Making a Murderer Still Leaves a Mark.” While we all start armchair law school with Netflix’s Making a Murderer, Ryan Larson looks at the social science of exoneration.

Discoveries:

“Bilingual Benefits Vary by Gender” by Allison Nobles. New research from Jennifer C. Lee and Sarah J. Hatteberg shows how the stigma of speaking Spanish affects Latino men and Latina women differently.

Clippings:

“Policies to Support Working Parents” by Amber Powell. Michael Kimmel writes in Fast Company about how corporations can live out their “family first” ideals.

Give Methods a Chance:

C.J. Pascoe on Ethnographic Research. This week’s podcast discusses the joys of being an ethnographer, the difficulties of accessing youth culture, and how entering a school allowed a more nuanced understanding of contemporary masculinity.

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Scholars Strategy Network:

“The Downside of Urban Growth By Undemocratic Means.” Michael Peter Smith shows how cities turn to private boards to fix their infrastructure, and how this can undermine voters’ voices.

Contexts:

“A Gap Between Soc Classrooms and the Field.“Andrew Lindner looks at a gap in teaching and research citations that shows we may not always practice what we preach.

And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Families as They Really Are says Americans put too much weight in romantic love.
• Feminist Reflections looks at bringing theatre into the sociology classroom.

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Good morning! This week at TSP we extend a hearty welcome to Sociology Toolbox—a new community page courtesy of Todd Beer at Lake Forest College. Check it out and have a look at what else we’ve been up to below!

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There’s Research on That!:

“AirBnb’s Anti-Black Problem” by Aisha Upton. Research shows how the popular app fits into a long history of racialized housing discrimination.

“Incarcerated Women in a Double Bind” by Allison Nobles. The U.S. criminal justice system made a big shift from rehabilitation to “tough on crime” in the last 40 years, but it looks like women still get the worst of both worlds.

Discoveries:

Give Methods a Chance:

The team is back for the new year and talking through research with discussion groups with Alejandro Baer.

From Our Partners:

Scholars Strategy Network:

And a Few from our Community Pages:

• The new Sociology Toolbox breaks down the data on police killings and race.
• Feminist Reflections scrapes movie websites to look at inequality in Hollywood.
• Cyborgology offers a critical take on big data that raises big questions about what we research and why.

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Hello, everyone! TSP is back from winter break with coverage on everything from wage inequality to man buns. Here’s a look at what we’ve been working on this week.

Discoveries:

“On Noisy Neighbors” by Evan Stewart. Research from Ori Schwarz shows how class and culture condition the way we listen.

“How Stigma Can Pay” by Caty Taborda. David S. Pedulla‘s work shows how some negative stereotypes can cancel each other out.

Clippings:

“Women Who Wait to Have Kids Healthier at 40” by Allison Nobles. Kristi Williams tells Huffington Post why the clock might not be ticking so fast.

“Saudi Women’s Success” by Miray Phillips.  New research traces progress in gender equality.

There’s Research on That!:

“The State of Queerness in the Middle East and North Africa,” Miray Phillips looks at how history helps us understand the political stakes of LGBT issues across the region.

From Our Partners:

Contexts:

“Dorothea Lange and the Art of the Caption.” Rae Meadows shows how Lange blended picture and text to produce a better social understanding.

“Culture of Overcompensation” by Joey Brown. New research from Jerry Kim, Bruce Kogut, and Jae-Suk Yang looks at how network structures cut bigger checks for CEOs

Scholars Strategy Network:

And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Cyborgology talks moral panic and man buns 
• Sociological Lens reflects on sociological theory and Star Wars
• Sociological Images looks back at the best of 2015

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Hello, everyone! As the semester winds down at TSP, we are gearing up to announce our Best Posts Of 2015! Keep an eye on the site around the end of December to see which social science stories made a splash this year. For now, here is a list of the latest to tide us all over.

Clippings:

“What ‘Chi-Raq’ Gets Wrong About Gangs In Chicago” by Eamon Whalen. Jason Harrington talks about the changing social structure of gang violence in the New York Times

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“What Public Housing Officials Can Teach Us about Overcoming Racial Discrimination.” Katherine Levine Einstein shares her surprising research on low rates of racial discrimination in public housing.

Contexts:

“7 things maps tell us about neighborhoods.” Rose Malinowski Weingartner reviews new research mapping everything from grocery stores to gender differences in the way kids travel.

“Unemployment and Well-Being” by Lucia Lykke. New work from Calvo, Mair, and Sarkisian shows how high national unemployment hurts everyone.

“Mumbai Sleeping.” Dhruv Dhawan offers a documentary photo essay on the sociology of sleep.

And A Few From The Community Pages:

• In the wake of anti-immigrant rhetoric, ThickCulture asks how much support an American National Front party would actually get
• Sociological Images looks at race, residence, and which children get asthma.
• Girl w/Pen talks about the real relationship between religion and abortion politics.

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Hello! It’s TSP. We were wondering if after all these days you’d like to see … our latest coverage of work in sociology!

Discoveries:

“(Re)Locating Recidivism” by Ryan Larson. New research from David S. Kirk shows how natural disasters can also make natural experiments in neighborhood composition.

Office Hours:

“Andrew Perrin on American Political Publics.” Jack Delehanty talks with Andrew Perrin about his new book, American Democracy: From Tocqueville to Town Halls to Twitter.

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Scholars Strategy Network:

“The Roots and Impact of Outrage-Mongering in U.S. Political Opinion Media.” Sarah Sobieraj and Jeffrey M. Berry discuss their research on when and why political media gets mad.

Contexts:

Contexts rolls out the Fall 2015 Table of Contents, free to read for the first month!

“Context is Everything.” Joshua Page talks to New York Times food critic Pete Wells

And a Few From the Community Pages:

• It’s all about the internet this week, with Cyborgology examining white supremacy and Girl w/ Pen looking at masculinity in online spaces.
• Sociological Images talks Millennials and tolerance and brings back the Black Friday posts

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Well, folks, it has been a bit of a rough week here at TSP with bad news abroad and at home. We’re thankful to be here doing what we do, though, and we’re glad to be able to share it with you. Here’s a look at what we were up to on the site this week.

The Editors’ Desk:

“Refugee Realities” Doug Hartmann rounds up work on refugees from across TSP.

There’s Research on That!:

“Dunce Caps and Jump Suits: Discipline and Policing in Schools.” Amber Powell and Ryan Larson look at the research on what happens when we treat students like suspects.

Discoveries:

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Scholars Strategy Network:

“How the Privatization of “GED” High School Equivalency Degrees Has Created New Roadblocks for the Poor” by Janet Page-Reeves. Research shows that private education services might turn GEDs to GE-Don’ts.

Council on Contemporary Families:

“What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish?” Sarah Thébaud shows us how good family policy supports entrepreneurs just as much as employees.

Contexts:

“Six Lessons of Suicide Bombers” by Robert J. Brym. A classic Contexts piece re-posted in light of last week’s tragic events in Paris.

“Not a Snowball’s Chance for Science.” Research from Dana R. Fisher, Joseph Waggle, and Lorien Jasny looks at the echo chamber on climate science.

And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Cyborgology on everything from normal terror to Taco Bell.
• Sociology Lens asks big questions about piracy and 3D printing
• Families as they Really Are looks at how we live now

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Hello everyone! With the candy consumed and the early evenings setting in, we have rounded up the latest work at TSP to brighten your morning! Here is a look at what we’ve been up to:

Special Feature:

“The Invisibility of Today’s Women Refugees” by Katharine Donato.

“…most of the images I have seen are of men making the trip from Syria and other countries to Western Europe…I know that the gender composition of most displaced persons and refugees generated by warfare is balanced, half men and half women. So where are the women among these refugees?”

Office Hours:

“Sharmila Rudrappa on Global Surrogacy” with Sarah Catherine Billups. Sharmila Rudrappa explains why India has become an increasingly popular destination for American couples searching for affordable pregnancy assistance.

The Editors’ Desk:

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Discoveries:

“When and Why Arab Americans Mobilize for Protest” by Miray Philips. New research from Wayne Santoro and Marian Azab shows how political repression brings new activists into the fold.

From Our Partners:

Scholars Strategy Network:

And a Few From the Community Pages:

• Sociological Images discusses civil disobedience and Barbie—everything you need in a morning read!
• Cyborgology talks research ethics and launches Theorizing the Web 2016!
• Education & Society looks at research on how digital tutoring can charge more, and offer less, than a face-to-face study buddy.

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Hello, everyone! TSP has been buzzing with everything from elections abroad to academics at home this week. Here’s a look at our latest work.

There’s Research on That!:

“Is #MasculinitySoFragile?” Allison Nobles and Aisha Upton look at the research that makes this hashtag resonate.

“Mass Incarceration’s Challenges for Black America: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Edition.” Amber Powell rounds up research from the sociologists featured in Coates’ latest article for The Atlantic.

Discoveries:

“Fact or Fiction: NFL Players More Criminal than General Population” by Amber Powell. Research from Wanda Leal, Marc Gertz, and Alex Piquero shows the answer may surprise you!

Give Methods a Chance:

Vinnie Roscigno on Mixed Methods Research. “I feel more confident when I can pull off this blending of methods…this type of sociology is poignant. It’s powerful.”

Clippings:

“Men Who ‘Wait for Marriage‘” by Amber Powell. Sarah Diefendorf talks to The Huffington Post about her research on male abstinence support groups.

“An Academic Bind: ‘Publish or Perish’ Means Playing It Safe” by Miray Philips. A study on the sociology of studies. So meta.

“Surviving Gun Violence” by Eamon Whalen. “Getting shot really changes a person’s social world”

From Our Partners:

Scholars Strategy Network:

“The Complexities of Black Youth Suicide” by Kimya N. Dennis

Contexts:

“Something’s Going on North of the Border, Eh?” Howard Ramos gives us a look at the Canadian elections this past week.

And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Sociological Images talks planned obsolescence and the links between masculinity, marines, and My Little Pony
• Cyborgology talks authenticity in political campaigns and small town internet
• Sociological Lens analyzes the airport

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