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Hello friends! This week we’ve got research on political polarization, cross-class marriages, and the relationship between gender, reproductive decision-making and mental health. We’ve also got some great sociological takes on child support, as well as the decision to give kids an allowance.<\/p>\n
“Cross-Class Marriages and Families<\/a>,” by Amy August<\/a> and Caity Curry<\/a>. It’s almost Valentine’s Day and we’ve rounded up research on marriages between people with different class backgrounds.<\/p>\n “The Political Polarization Phenomenon<\/a>,” by Allison J. Steinke<\/a>. It seems like political polarization is everywhere, so we rounded up social science research on how we define political polarization and how much really exists.<\/p>\n “Gender, Mental Illness, and Reproductive Decision Making<\/a>,” by\u00a0Caity Curry<\/a>. New research in Society and Mental Health<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>finds that\u00a0mental health professionals use both coercive and non-coercive techniques in facilitating reproductive decisions for their clients diagnosed with mental illnesses like schizophrenia and major depression.<\/p>\n “Focus On The People, Not The Wall<\/a>,” by\u00a0De Andre’ T. Beadle<\/a>.\u00a0In\u00a0a recent op-ed<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a0MinnPost<\/em>,\u00a0an interdisciplinary team<\/a>\u00a0of expert immigration scholars at the University of Minnesota\u00a0reflects on administrative changes to the\u00a0\u2018public charge\u2019 rule<\/a>\u00a0and its potential consequences.<\/p>\n “Childhood Chores as Community Obligations, Not Monetary Exchanges<\/a>,” by Jean Marie Maier<\/a>.\u00a0The Atlantic <\/i>talks to\u00a0Heather Beth Johnson<\/a>\u00a0about community, inequality, and giving children allowances.<\/p>\n “Doing Gender with Backpacks<\/a>,”\u00a0Jacqui Frost<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The Deadbeat Presidency<\/a>,” by\u00a0Rodrigo Dominguez-Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Who Goes to Jail for Child Support Debt?<\/a>” Elizabeth Cozzolino<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Gendered Partisanship in the US House<\/a>,” by Allison J. Steinke<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hello friends! This week we’ve got research on political polarization, cross-class marriages, and the relationship between gender, reproductive decision-making and mental health. We’ve also got some great sociological takes on child support, as well as the decision to give kids an allowance. There\u2019s Research on That!: “Cross-Class Marriages and Families,” by Amy August and Caity […]<\/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-5463","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\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5470,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discoveries<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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