{"id":7416,"date":"2025-02-04T15:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2025-02-04T15:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T20:10:44","slug":"tsp-tuesdays-february-4th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2025\/02\/04\/tsp-tuesdays-february-4th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TSP Tuesdays | February 4th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New & Noteworthy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This week’s Clippings<\/a><\/strong> by Mallory Harrington<\/a> includes Swiss sociologist and mental health advocate Jennifer Walter\u2019s<\/a> Threads post<\/a> on the Trump administration’s \u201cshock doctrine\u201d to cognitively overwhelm citizens; Tonika Lewis Johnson<\/a> and Maria Krysan\u2019s<\/a> new book, Don\u2019t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It<\/a><\/em>, highlighting how warnings to avoid Chicago\u2019s South and West sides reinforce harmful segregation; Ardeshir Geravand\u2019s<\/a> caution that Iran\u2019s soaring inflation<\/a> may foment social unrest if citizens\u2019 legitimate paths to economic mobility remain blocked; and Jamie Lee Kucinskas\u2019s<\/a> forthcoming The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy<\/a><\/em>, on the challenges American civil servants faced during Trump\u2019s first term<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our latest podcast episode<\/strong><\/a> includes TSP Board members Jordyn Wald, Emma Goldstein, and Forrest Lovette discussing Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a> recent opinion piece in The New York Times<\/a><\/em> on \u201cDry January\u201d, or avoiding drinking alcohol during the month of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francesca Bernardino<\/a>‘s new piece, Listening to Music (and Being Tracked) In the Streaming Age<\/strong><\/a>, writes on research by Michael James Walsh<\/a> in Media, Culture & Society<\/em><\/a>, covering how music streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music blur the line between personal listening habits and public identity. These social media-like elements heighten self-consciousness and spotlight the burden of constant data collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Archives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

According to a recent NYT article<\/a>, 33% of 8th graders read at a “below basic” level according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. COVID-19 and the move to online classes (which has been associated with absenteeism) has been one suggested source of the decline, as well as the increased shift of reading on devices. Check out this Discovery from 2022<\/strong><\/a> on how virtual schooling had (and has) impacts beyond the classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Trump signed an executive order<\/a> directing the Education Department to prioritize funding school choice programs and making alternative schooling more accessible to families. This TROT from 2019<\/strong><\/a> reviews research on school choice and public education, showing that school choice can reinforce inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Super Bowl is this weekend. Check out this list of some sociology<\/strong><\/a> pieces by us and our partners before the big game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More from our Partners & Community Pages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Contexts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n