Happy Friday! This week, we rounded up research on how multilevel marketing intersects with culture, gender, and inequality. Our partner and community featured content on the hidden nature of class, private safety nets, civil resistance, and a review of “the New Black Sociologists.”

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Culture, Inequality, and Multilevel Marketing by Daniel Cueto-Villalobos. We round up research on how the promises of multi-level marketing square with its reality showcasing how MLM’s history intersects with gender and economic inequality.

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Rediscovering Voices in Uncertain Times by Aya Waller-Bey

Council on Contemporary Families

New Work: “I’d rather be hungry:” Why some people don’t want to ask for help by Joan Maya Mazelis

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The Mask of the “Middle Class” by Evan Stewart

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• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers how police violence threatens civil resistance and the right to protest.

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Welcome back! This week we rounded up research on suicide and adolescents and featured now research on drug arrests and race during the opioid epidemic.

There’s Research On That

Suicide and Adolescents by Mahala Miller. We round up research on suicide and adolescents, from sociological classics to social media’s contribution to “suicide contagion.”

Discoveries

Is the War on Drugs Cooling Off? Drug Policy in the Opioid Crisis by Hannah Schwendeman. We feature new research that shows that drug arrests have decreased more for Black people than for Whites, despite changes in drug policy that ostensibly benefit Whites.

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Coronavirus and Community: A Spring 2020 Course Fashioned Off Contexts’ Call for Papers on the Global Impacts of the Pandemic by Rebecca London

Council on Contemporary Families

New Work: The Labor of “Living Diaper to Diaper” by Jennifer Randles

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• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers social media affirmation and the far right.

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Welcome back. This week, we brought you a special feature on how sociological tools are helping make sense of the January 6 events at the capitol. Plus, new research on how social participation contributes to alcohol consumption among older adults.

Special Features

Sociology of the Siege by Brooke Chambers, Jillian LaBranche, and Nikoleta Sremac. In this special feature, we show how reporters, politicians, and scholars alike are using sociological concepts and ideas to understand the assault on the capitol.

Discoveries

Socializing and Substance Abuse for Older Adults by Mahala Miller. We cover new research that suggests that greater social participation might increase alcohol consumption among older adults, a population facing increasing rates of alcohol abuse.

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Council on Contemporary Families

Research reports: National Spouses Day is Next Week…. Feeling Any Pressure? A Fact Sheet on Prospects for Marriage in Contemporary America by Daniel Carlson and Stephanie Coontz.

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• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers how to explore settler colonialism theory in the secondary school classroom.
• Give Theory A Chance shares conversations with  Dr. Jocelyn Viterna on teaching our ugly roots and  Dr. Alex Channon on Stephen Lyng and edgework.

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This week we re-shared two of our favorite pieces from 2020, presenting research on the racialization of Native American children in foster care and how race shapes Black and White pastors access to resources in multiracial churches. As always, our partners and community pages shared timely and important content.

Discoveries:

Best of 2020: White Pastors Hoard Social Capital by Erika Sanborne. We present research that shows how White pastors hoard social and economic capital in multiracial churches, limiting Black pastors access to resources.

Best of 2020: Fostering Sovereignty by Hannah Schwendeman. In one of our favorite pieces from 2020, we highlight research that shows that Native American children are racialized in foster care in ways that limit tribal sovereignty.

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Contexts

The coming vaccine battle by Jennifer Reich.

Council on Contemporary Families

heard around ccf: Updated Roundup: 2020 CCF Blog Posts about Covid-19 and Families by Arielle Kuperberg

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• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies considers how last week’s events at the nation’s capital, and in Minnesota, represented a disturbing endorsement of a genocidal playbook. They also consider the politics of numbers in ex-Yugoslovia.
• Engaging Sports considers the Ibrox crowd disaster and sports stadium safety.

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This week we featured new research on how the descendants of Nazi perpetrators navigate cultural trauma. We also re-shared one of our best pieces of 2020, rounding up research on care work.

Discoveries:

Managing the Memory of Nazi Perpetrators by Jillian LaBranche. We feature new research on how the children and grandchildren of Nazi perpetrators manage this stigmatized legacy.

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Best of 2020: Caring is Work by Allison Nobles. We re-shared this piece from 2020 that highlights the contribution of care work and the ways that race, class, and gender influence how this work gets done.

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Contexts

White Allyship Means a Transfer of Power by Cynthia Levine-Rasky and Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui.

Council on Contemporary Families

Research reports: Media Messages to Young Girls: Does “Sexy Girl” Trump “Girl Power”? by Christia Spears Brown.

From Our Community Pages:

• Give Theory A Chance features conversation with Dr Anna Goulding on Elinor Ostrom and a reading of Boltanski and Thevénot by Dr. Shai Dromi
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies urges educators to refrain from using graphic images in their classrooms

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Happy new year from TSP! This week we shared some of our favorite content from 2020, and honored friend and colleague Ron Anderson. Plus, as always, great content from our partner and community pages!

Editor’s Desk:

Why Social Distancing is the Wrong Phrase by Ron Anderson. In memoriam of beloved colleague and friend, Ron Anderson, we shared his writing on the “social” in “social distancing.” In the coming weeks we will share more of Ron’s writing.

Discoveries:

Best of 2020: Make Yourself at Home, Unless You’re Renting by Amy August. We re-shared this discovery on the differences in home searching for high and low-income families.

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Kim Ng’s rise does not solve baseball’s gender and race problems by Margaret Chin.

From Our Community Pages:

• Give Theory A Chance shares a conversation with  Dr. Shai Dromi on Luc Boltanski.
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies asks why peaceful protests for Black Lives Matters were met with police brutality.

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Happy Friday! After some technical difficulties early in the week, we brought you a timely round-up of research on waiting and cover some new research on how gendered care work affects anxiety about covid-19. Plus, as always, great content from our partners and community pages.

There’s Research on That:

We All Hate to Wait; Research Explains Why by Nick Mathews. We round up research on why we hate waiting, how technology helps us pass the time, and power and inequality in waiting.

Discoveries:

Care Works Matters for Covid Worry by Mahala Miller. We cover new research by Janani Umamaheswar  and Catherine Tan that finds that differences in care work responsibilities underlie disparities in men and women’s covid worry.

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Council on Contemporary Families:

Is Denmark a Feminist Utopia? Lessons about gender from the Danish TV show “Borgen.” by Barbara Risman

Contexts:

Fall 2020 letter from the editors by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas

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• Engaging Sports considers sleep and basketball.
• Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies thinks about seriousness and Yiddish.
• Cyborgology thinks about technology and society in the design classroom.
• Give Theory A Chance features conversations with Jeff Guhin on Charles Taylor, and Dr. Tina Sikka on Helen Longino.

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This week we round up research on the how memories of Pearl Harbor are constructed and used, and consider how job quality is stratified by race in the service sector. Plus, excellent content from our partner and community pages.

There’s Research on That:

Shifting Memories and Meanings of Pearl Harbor by Jillian LaBranche. On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor we rounded up research on how memories of this historical event were constructed then, and now, to serve political ends.

Discoveries:

Race and Racism in Service Sector Work by Daniel Cueto-Villalobos. We cover new research that shows that non-white workers are more likely to have inflexible and unpredictable working conditions in the service sector.

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Council on Contemporary Families:

Research reports: Defining Sexual Consent on Campus: Media vs. Policies by Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Sandra Levitsky, Kamaria Porter, Miriam Gleckman-Krut, Elizabeth Chase, and Jessica Garrick

From Our Community Pages:

• Cyborgology explores relationships with AI.
• Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies considers potential changes to social studies education to include discussion of Indigenous genocide, and how queer lives endured in post-genocidal Turkey.
• Give Theory A Chance is joined by Neil Gong to discuss Norbert Elias.

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Happy Friday! This week we cover new research that shows we worry more about the risk-taking of loved ones than ourselves and round-up research on online dating’s potential and entrenchment of existing inequality.

There’s Research on That:

Inequality and Opportunity in Online Dating by Mahala Miller. We round up research on online dating that shows that it expands the dating pool for some while reproducing inequality and assortive mating more broadly.

Discoveries:

“I Really Don’t Want You to Do That” by Erika Sanborne. We feature new research that shows we are more concerned about our significant others’ taking risks than we are about ourselves taking the same risks.

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Council on Contemporary Families:

Do the Media’s “Sexy Girl” Messages Trump Their “Girl Power” Ones? by Virginia Rutter.

From Our Community Pages:

• Cyborgology considers “wellness washing” in contrast to pleasure for pleasure’s sake.
• Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies compares Joe Biden at this moment to Konrad Adenauer as Germany’s first chancellor after WWII.

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Welcome back! We round up research on voter fraud and voter suppression and bring you new research that demonstrates that children of same-sex kids perform well in school. Plus, great content from our partners and community pages.

There’s Research on That:

The Fantasy of Voter Fraud & The Reality of Voter Suppression by Neeraj Rajasekar. We round up social scientific research that shows that voter fraud is extremely rare but voter suppression, in the form of felon disenfranchisement or voter id laws, is common and troubling.

Discoveries:

Kids of Same-Sex Parents Succeeding in School by Nikoleta Sremac. We present new research using administrative data from the Netherlands that shows that children raised from birth by same-sex parents do just as well, if not better, in school than other children.

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Critique of Title IX and Universities by Katelyn Foltz.

Council on Contemporary Families:

The Social Production of Campus Sexual Assault by Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Kahn.

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• Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies considers both the trauma and the transformative power of holocaust education.

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