{"id":7570,"date":"2025-10-17T12:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=7570"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:39:59","slug":"tsp-friday-roundup-october-17th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2025\/10\/17\/tsp-friday-roundup-october-17th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TSP Friday Roundup | October 17th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/10\/image-2.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/10\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/10\/image-2.png 1080w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/10\/image-2-330x330.png 330w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/10\/image-2-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/10\/image-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2025\/10\/image-2-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New &amp; Noteworthy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2025\/10\/15\/how-abortion-access-shapes-womens-financial-futures\/\">How Abortion Access Shapes Women\u2019s Financial Futures<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cla.umn.edu\/about\/directory\/profile\/digia015\">Dylan DiGiacomo-Stumm<\/a> explores how access to abortion care impacts women\u2019s financial prospects, based on research published by <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.faculty.utah.edu\/u6002021\">Bethany G. Everett<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soc.ucsb.edu\/people\/catherine-taylor\">Catherine J. Taylor<\/a> in <em>American Sociological Review. {2 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2025\/10\/13\/clippings-october-13th-2025-tsp-media-report\/\">Media Report<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/people\/mallory-harrington\/\">Mallory Harrington<\/a> for recent news featuring social scientists. This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.cornell.edu\/michael-macy\">Michael Macy<\/a> on the politicalization of children\u2019s media censorship; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utsc.utoronto.ca\/sociology\/emine-fidan-elcioglu\">Emine Fidan Elcioglu<\/a> on the growing influence of YouTube on political education; <a href=\"https:\/\/martinshaw.org\/about\/\">Martin Shaw<\/a> on defining genocide; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sowi.hu-berlin.de\/en\/research-and-teaching-areas\/general-sociology\/andreas-reckwitz\/index\">Andreas Reckwitz<\/a> on the Western aversion to loss. <em>{3 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From the Archives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>As the government shutdown continues, funding for social safety nets like the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program is dwindling. A new bill would allocate emergency funds to continue providing food assistance to WIC recipients. However, several states have already delayed benefits. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ssn\/2013\/12\/05\/fifty-years-after-the-war-on-poverty\/\">This 2013 article<\/a> from our partners at the Scholars Strategy Network surveyed the patchy efficacy of seven government welfare programs for low-income families. <em>{5 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Virtually all major news organizations have refused to agree to new rules put forth by the U.S. Department of War (formerly Defense) that would prohibit the publication of any material not approved for release by the Pentagon. The united front, including conservative-leaning outlets like Fox News, is seen as a defense of core journalistic principles. <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2020\/02\/24\/journalisms-evasive-objectivity-norm\/\">This 2019 article<\/a> tracks the history of debates over what good journalism is and what it should be, discussing the role of journalism in hostile political contexts. <em>{3 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More from our Partners &amp; Community Pages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/firstpublics\/\"><strong>First Publics<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>First Publics<\/em> announced the formation of the <em>First Publics <\/em>Advisory Board. The inaugural Board of six public sociologists will work with leadership to increase the publication\u2019s representation of diverse scholarly viewpoints. Meet the Board and learn about <em>First Publics&#8217;<\/em> priorities <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/firstpublics\/2025\/10\/13\/toward-a-more-inclusive-first-publics\/\">here<\/a>. <em>{3 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/contexts.org\/\"><strong>Contexts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/listing-addiction\/\">Listing Addiction on your Resume<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elenavanstee.com\/\">Elena G. van Stee<\/a> highlights a phenomenon <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=W06V3csAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao\">Joseph W. Silcox<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umb.edu\/directory\/evanstewart\/\">Evan Stewart<\/a> call \u201cthe professionalization of stigma,\u201d drawing on interviews with people in long-term recovery from drug use.<em> {1 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It seems like a paradox \u2013 why would someone enter a career field they\u2019re critical of? In <a href=\"https:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/good-lawyer-bad-lawyer\/\">Good Lawyer, Bad Lawyer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elenavanstee.com\/\">Elena G. van Stee<\/a> summarizes research by <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.stanford.edu\/people\/matthew-clair\">Matthew Clair<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.stanford.edu\/people\/sophia-hunt?search=sophia+hunt\">Sophia Hunt<\/a> on the ways liberal law students justify their decision to enter professions they see as perpetuating injustice. <em>{2 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/\"><strong>Council on Contemporary Families<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Amid Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s campaign to find the biological causes of autism, historian <a href=\"https:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/history\/faculty\/shm654\">Steven Mintz<\/a> calls for a reframe. In his new piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/2025\/10\/14\/the-cultural-construction-of-autism\/\">The Cultural Construction of Autism<\/a>, Mintz argues that autism is more than a biomedical reality, and acknowledging this can contribute to more human-centered conversations. <em>{6 min read}<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/\"><strong>Give Theory a Chance<\/strong><\/a> [podcast]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouristate.edu\/sag\/sociology\/profile-display.aspx?p=AliciaWalker\">Alicia M. Walker<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/saph.umbc.edu\/ftfaculty\/person\/lx28251\/\">Arielle Kuperberg<\/a> join host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brockport.edu\/live\/profiles\/1658-kyle-green\">Kyle Green<\/a> to discuss their new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/2025\/10\/10\/alicia-walker-and-arielle-kuperberg-on-lessons-from-bdsm\/\"><em>Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons in Building a Happier Life<\/em><\/a>. <em>{42 min listen}<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New &amp; Noteworthy From the Archives More from our Partners &amp; Community Pages First Publics Contexts Council on Contemporary Families Give Theory a Chance 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