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Welcome back! This week on TSP you can find social science research on xenophobia’s connection to whites’ attitudes about punishment, why people often overlook lies told by political figures, and a post about the sociology of horror films.<\/p>\n
“Defining \u201cGenocide\u201d and The Power of Labels<\/a>,” by Brooke Chambers<\/a>. In light of recent debates about whether or not to call the\u00a0Burmese state\u2019s violence<\/a>\u00a0against the Rohingya \u201cgenocide<\/a>,” we rounded up social science research on the meaning, use, and consequences of labels like genocide.<\/p>\n “Xenophobia and Punitive Attitudes<\/a>,” by Neeraj Rajasekar<\/a>. New research in\u00a0The Sociological Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>finds that\u00a0xenophobia may be a strong predictor of whether whites support punitiveness in the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n “Avoidance and Activism in Response to Policing<\/a>,” by Ryan Larson<\/a>. New research in\u00a0Socius\u00a0<\/em>finds that some individuals avoid formal institutions like hospitals after an arrest while others take up activism.<\/p>\n “When Lies are Truth<\/a>,” by\u00a0Jean Marie Maier<\/a>.\u00a0Vox\u00a0<\/em>uses research from\u00a0from\u00a0Oliver Hahl<\/a>,\u00a0Minjae Kim<\/a>, and\u00a0Ezra Zuckerman-Sivan<\/a>\u00a0to explain why Kavanaugh supporters appeared unfazed by potentially false claims he made during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n “Afros and the Branding of Racial Justice<\/a>,” by Lucas Lynch<\/a>.\u00a0A recent\u00a0<\/span>article<\/span><\/a> in <\/span>The Atlantic<\/span><\/em> by <\/span>Saida Grundy<\/span><\/a> documents how modern uses of the Afro can both further social resistance and reduce the hairstyle to a mere commodity.<\/span><\/p>\n “Horror Films Are Our Collective Nightmares<\/a>,” by Marshall Smith<\/a> and Laura Patterson.<\/p>\n “Parenting Without Papers<\/a>,”by Chandra Reyna<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Cohabitation and Divorce: The Importance of Accounting for Age at Coresidence<\/a>,” by Arielle Kuperberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n Welcome back! This week on TSP you can find social science research on xenophobia’s connection to whites’ attitudes about punishment, why people often overlook lies told by political figures, and a post about the sociology of horror films. There\u2019s Research on That!: “Defining \u201cGenocide\u201d and The Power of Labels,” by Brooke Chambers. In light of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"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-5321","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\/5321","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\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discoveries<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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