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Hello again everyone and Happy New Year! We are slowly easing into the new year with a roundup of all the TSP posts that were voted Best of 2015, along with a few new pieces from our community pages that might pique your interest.

Best of 2015!

Best TROT!: “Is #MasculinitySoFragile?” by Allison Nobles and Aisha Upton.

Best Discovery: “The KKK’s Living Legacy,” by Evan Stewart.

Best Office Hours: “David Pellow on Nonhuman Members of the Community,” with Erik Kojola.

Best Clipping: “Women at the Top Find the View Depressing,” by Caty Taborda.

From Our Partners:

Contexts:

“Protest Works,” by Melissa Brown. How social movements can effect social outcomes.

And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Feminist Reflections on family work policies and David Bowie.
• Cyborgology talks Jedi mind tricks, how fashion bias reproduces racism, and why the DNC can shut down a campaign.
• Families As They Really Are corrects assumptions about the correlation between housework and sex.
• Sociological Lens attempts to measure happiness.

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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

From Our Partners:

Scholars Strategy Network:

“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 there! The semester may be winding down, but that has not stopped us from producing some great content this week. Come check it out!

There’s Research on That!:

“Corporate Denial of Climate Change Risks,” by Erik Kojola. Research finds that everything from corporate greed to everyday anxieties helps fuels climate change denial.

Discoveries:

“Constrained Classroom Choices,” by Sarah Catherine Billups. “School choice seems to simply reinforce existing gaps: those likely to benefit from school choice are already privileged enough to transfer schools.”

Clippings:

“Can Conservatives Get Climate Change?” by Neeraj Rajasekar.  Riley Dunlap and Aaron McCright talk to The Huffington Post. 

From Our Partners:

Scholars Strategy Network:

“Community Environmental Projects as a Gateway to Greater Citizen Participation,” by Dana R. Fisher.

Contexts:

Editors Syed Ali and Phil Cohen preview the new issue in Science and Politics.

But wait – there’s more! Check out two new Viewpoints pieces that feature multiple scholars on the same issue.

“It’s High Time.” Craig Reinarman, Wendy Chapkis, and Jake Browne on legalizing marijuana.

“Black and Blue.” Shehzad Nadeem, Sudhir Venkatesh, Laurence Ralph, Elliott Currie, and Katherine Beckett on police violence.

Also, don’t miss…

“Strike Days for Public Sector Workers in Quebec,” by Avi Goldberg.

“Book Gift Ideas” from the Contexts grad team.

And A Few From The Community Pages:

• Give Methods a Chance talks quantitative data analysis.
• Cyborgology is all about twitter this week – on how its makes us feel bad and the tweetability of Trump.
• Sociological Images looks at wealth inequality and the business of buyouts.
• Sociological Lens on profiting from precarity.

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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.

Clippings:

From Our Partners:

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:

 Clippings:

From Our Partners:

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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Happy Friday! Be sure to stop by TSP and check out what we’ve been up to this week.

There’s Research on That!:

“Prescription Drug Use on the Rise,” by Caty Taborda. How pharmaceutical companies convince us we need pills for problems we didn’t even know we had.

Discoveries:

“Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Raises Gun Sales,” by Neeraj Rajasekar. “In short, anti-immigration legislation and rhetoric can shape public attitudes, and social anxiety can predict the likelihood that locals ‘lock and load.'”

Clippings:

“The Sociology of North Carolina Barbecue,” by Eamon Whalen.  John Shelton Reed talks to The New Yorker and explains how “barbecue is to the American south what wine and cheese are to Europe.”

“Racial Profiling? There’s an App for That,” by Eamon Whalen. Leslie Hinkson talks to The Washington Post about the potential consequences of crime monitoring apps.

From Our Partners:

Scholars Strategy Network:

“Why America’s Women of Color Have Lost Ground Since the Great Recession,” by Marion Johnson. Limited access to health insurance, minimal representation in the government, and discriminatory voter ID laws all contribute to this troubling trend.

Contexts:

“College Men Having Sex With Men: Are They Exclusively Tops or Bottoms? (No),” by Eliza Brown and Paula England. Research shows that most men are “versatile” rather than always one or the other.

And a Few from the Community Pages:

• Feminist Reflections reflects on rape culture and pop music.
• Cyborgology asks why we don’t like our neighbors and peeks at Mizzou’s Yik Yak.
• Sociological Images looks at resistance to trans-friendly public bathrooms and asks who gets to break the rules.
• Give Methods a Chance talks to Clifton Evers about mobile video ethnography.

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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:

Clippings:

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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Happy Halloween weekend all! Before you put on your costumes, turn on your favorite scary movies, and embark on a self-induced candy coma, check out the treats we have for you over at TSP this week.

There’s Research on That!:

“#ShoutYourAbortion Shouts Back at Stigma,” by Amber Powell and Jacqui Frost. Sociological research details why women have generally felt compelled to stay silent about having abortions and the potential benefits of speaking up.

“Fantasy Sports and the Culture of Fandom,” by Evan Stewart and Alex Snidarich. Thinking of trying your luck on a fantasy sports website? Find out what they offer beyond the promise of money.

Clippings:

“The Context of Cult Violence,” by Miray Philips. Bernadette Barton talks to Broadly Vice about the recent violence in an upstate New York church and how isolated religious groups get away with and justify abuse.

“The Missing Women of Wikipedia,” by Eamon Whalen. Julia Adams talks to The Atlantic about the gender imbalance of Wikipedia’s editors.

Discoveries:

Check out “The Personal (Financial) is Political” by Evan Stewart to put Wednesday’s Republican debates in context.

From Our Partners:

Contexts:

“Regulating Unpredictable Schedules to Cut Down the Chaos.” Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson suggest much needed changes to shift some of the burden of unpredictable schedules off of employees and onto employers.

Scholars Strategy Network:

“Can Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Activists Recognize the Socioeconomic Realities of Abortion?” by Hannah Phillips. Why the two sides of the abortion debate need to come together and agree to be “pro-women.”

Council on Contemporary Families:

“Promoting Marriage among Single Mothers: An Ineffective Weapon in the War on Poverty,” by Kristi Williams. What is effective? Supportive social and economic family policies.

And a Few From the Community Pages:

• Sociological Images gets into the Halloween spirit with a sociology of zombies, a look at Halloween as an alcoholiday, and their annual “Sexy What?!” Halloween post.
• Sociological Lens talks the sociology of debt and finance.
• Feminist Reflections reflects on man buns and feminist mentoring.
• Cyborgology turns 5 and revisits how Black Lives Matter hacked the social system.
• Families As They Really Are reports on the state of women’s reproductive health.

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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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Hello everyone! Here’s a look at what TSP has been up to this week.

The Editors’ Desk:

“Thoughts on immigration policy and race,” by Doug Hartmann, on the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act.

There’s Research on That!:

Discoveries:

“Higher Education Lowers Depression” by Sarah Catherine Billups. New work from Shawn Bauldry captures the difference a degree makes for disadvantaged populations.

Clippings:

From Our Partners:

Scholars Strategy Network:

“How Erratic Schedules Penalize Workers.” by Naomi Gerstel. “Just-in-time” scheduling is great for employers, but just not enough for working families that need a stable workday.

Contexts:

“Black in Black Rock City.” Steven Thrasher explores race at Burning Man.

And a Few From the Community Pages:

• Sociological Images on American gun laws and the tragedy of the false negative
• Cyborgology talks bad news on Facebook.
• Families As They Really Are looks at the new U.S. Department of Education college scorecard
• Sociology Lens looks at race and the politics of natural hair.

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