{"id":3151,"date":"2015-01-05T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2015-01-05T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T16:00:59","slug":"best-of-2014-contexts-blog-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2015\/01\/05\/best-of-2014-contexts-blog-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Best of&#8230; 2014&#8221;&#8212;Contexts Blog Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2012\/04\/Stars-big.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-939 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2012\/04\/Stars-big.jpg\" alt=\"Stars big\" width=\"330\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>To continue honoring the best and most widely disseminated posts on TSP in 2014, we&#8217;re moving first into our partner sites. Here are the thought-provoking blockbusters from the editors of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.contexts.org\"><em>Contexts<\/em><\/a> Magazine, the public outreach journal of the American Sociological Society, hosted here online at TSP:<\/p>\n<p>1) &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.contexts.org\/2014\/12\/20\/i-can-breathe-and-the-occasional-fear-of-covering-protests\/\">&#8216;I Can Breathe&#8217;: The Occasional Fear of Covering Protests<\/a>,&#8221; by Steven Thrasher. A Contexts board member, Thrasher is a professional journalist and photographer with a sociological lens like no other.<\/p>\n<p>2) &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.contexts.org\/2014\/12\/19\/contexts-quicklit-11-recent-sociological-findings-on-race-and-the-criminal-justice-system\/\">Contexts Quicklit: 11 Recent Sociological Findings on Race and the Criminal Justice System<\/a>,&#8221; by Lucia Lykke. University of Maryland grad student Lykke gives a rundown of some of the important numbers for placing today&#8217;s widespread protests in, well, context.<\/p>\n<p>3) &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.contexts.org\/2014\/12\/01\/sociologys-irrelevance-in-the-news\/\">Sociology&#8217;s Irrelevance in the News<\/a>,&#8221; by Syed Ali. Co-editor Ali largely agrees with Orlando Patterson that sociology, as a discipline, has excused itself from much of the news and offers way to get back in the mix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To continue honoring the best and most widely disseminated posts on TSP in 2014, we&#8217;re moving first into our partner sites. Here are the thought-provoking blockbusters from the editors of Contexts Magazine, the public outreach journal of the American Sociological Society, hosted here online at TSP: 1) &#8220;&#8216;I Can Breathe&#8217;: The Occasional Fear of Covering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2012\/04\/Stars-big.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}