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Next week marks the launch of our new newsletter format. This week we stick with our oldie-but-a-goodie.

On TSP this week we highlighted research contextualizing cultural change and the church. Our partner and community pages wrote on orientalism and the media, the risk of genocide in Afghanistan, and queer recruitment panic. Plus, a new podcast from Give Theory a Chance.

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As Pope Francis kicks off a three-year synod to discuss Catholic doctrine and practices where a big question on the table is the ordination of women as deacons, our own Christine Delp rounds up research on gender, cultural change, and the church.

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Japonica Brown-Saracino, D’Lane Compton, and Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker write on panic over the “recruitment” of people into LGBTQ identity following the release of new Gallup data.

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Over at Engaging Sports Umer Hussain considers orientalist and islamophobic media coverage in advance of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

Will Calhoun writes for the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies considering how the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan raises the risk of genocide for the Hazara people.

Give Theory a Chance shared a new podcast this week in conversation with Michael DeLand on Herbert Blumer’s interpretation of George Herbet Mead’s work on social construction and symbolic interactionism.

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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.

Discoveries

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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Contexts

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.

Discoveries

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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Contexts

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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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.

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• 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.

Discoveries

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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Contexts

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 the historical roots of racialized mass incarceration and covered a new article about the power of framing pornography as addictive.

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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.

From Our Partners:

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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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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Contexts

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

Sociological Images

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.

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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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Contexts

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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