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Hello and Happy New Year from TSP! We were out last week, so we have a lot of great stuff to share. We have some new pieces from around the site to highlight,\u00a0and we continue recognizing our\u00a0Best Of and Most Popular posts from 2016. Also, in case you missed it, the latest issue of Contexts<\/em> is available for free online<\/a> until Jan. 20! So grab a warm beverage and start your year off right with some sweet sociology.<\/p>\n “Fatalistic Suicide in a Tight-Knit Community<\/a>,” by Sarah Catherine Billups<\/a>. Durkheim thought fatalistic suicide was the least common type, but new research in\u00a0ASR<\/em> finds it to be quite common in small communities.<\/p>\n “Sex and Cardiovascular Risk in Old Age<\/a>,” by Edgar Campos<\/a>. A new study in\u00a0JHSB<\/em>\u00a0explores the varied\u00a0health risks and benefits of sexual activity and the ways they affect men and women differently.<\/p>\n *~!BEST OF 2016!~* *~!BEST OF 2016!~* “How Post-Election Questions Burden People of Color<\/a>,” by Caty Taborda-Whitt<\/a>.\u00a0In\u00a0a candid conversation with\u00a0Slate<\/em>,\u00a0Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>describes\u00a0the emotional labor that these post-election interactions demand from people of color.<\/p>\n “Life Expectancy and Inequality<\/a>,” by Edgar Campos<\/a>.\u00a0The Huffington Post<\/em> talks to\u00a0Jarron Saint Onge<\/a>\u00a0about reports\u00a0that life expectancy dropped in the United States for the first time in two decades.<\/p>\n *~!BEST OF 2016!~* *~!MOST POPULAR 2016!~* *~!BEST OF 2016!~* “How Passers-by and Policymakers View Beggars in American Communities<\/a>,” by Shai Dromi<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Why Does Immigration Arouse Deep Feelings and Conflicts?<\/a>” by John D. Skrentny<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The Evidence is in: Progressive Policies Strengthen Families<\/a>,” by Molly McNulty.<\/p>\n Fall 2016 Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n “Darker Skin, Harsher Sentence<\/a>,” by\u00a0Lucia Lykke<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Viewpoints on\u00a0Financial Foreclosures<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Hello and Happy New Year from TSP! We were out last week, so we have a lot of great stuff to share. We have some new pieces from around the site to highlight,\u00a0and we continue recognizing our\u00a0Best Of and Most Popular posts from 2016. Also, in case you missed it, the latest issue of Contexts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17672],"tags":[33309,12722,12802],"class_list":["post-4413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-roundup","tag-friday-roundup","tag-roundup","tag-weekly-roundup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413","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\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4413"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4429,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4413\/revisions\/4429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discoveries<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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\n“The Whitelash Against Diversity<\/a>,” by Jennifer Lee<\/a>. Voted best Special Feature by the TSP grad board, in this piece Jennifer Lee highlights research that helps explain the significant \u201cwhitelash\u201d among white Americans that resulted in a Trump presidency.<\/p>\nThere\u2019s Research on That!<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
\n“When ‘Nice Guys’ Rape<\/a>,” by Amber Joy Powell<\/a>.\u00a0Feminist scholarship highlights the pervasiveness of rape culture and helps pinpoint how it reproduces notions that only \u201cbad guys\u201d commit \u201creal rape.\u201d<\/p>\nClippings<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
\n“Crossing an \u201cEmpathy Bridge\u201d to Understand Trump Supporters<\/a>,” by Elizabeth Tremmel.\u00a0Arlie Russell Hochschild<\/a>\u00a0talks with Wisconsin Public Radio about her research with conservatives in Louisiana.<\/p>\n
\n“The Noble Poverty in Kids\u2019 Movies<\/a>,” by\u00a0Allison Nobles<\/a>. In the most viewed Clipping of 2016,\u00a0New York Magazine\u00a0<\/em>features research helmed by sociologist Jessi Streib<\/a>\u00a0on how Disney downplays social class.<\/p>\nOffice Hours<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
\n“Jooyoung Lee on Blowin\u2019 Up: Rap Dreams in South Central<\/a>,” with Matthew Aguilar-Champeau<\/a>.\u00a0Our Best Of 2016\u00a0podcast episode features a conversation with professor Jooyoung Lee about his research and<\/em> his\u00a0many skills \u2013 from ethnography to dance.<\/p>\nFrom Our Partners:<\/h3>\n
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Contexts<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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