Ioana Sendroiu, “From reductive to generative crisis: businesspeople using polysemous justifications to make sense of COVID-19,” American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2022 A woman wearing a mask shopping at grocery store. Image by Anna Shvets under Pexels license. Psychology research suggests that crisis and uncertainty lead humans to think in stark binaries, which fuel division and […]

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New & Noteworthy TSP has three new pieces for you to read: From the Archives More from our Partners & Community Pages Context’s new pieces for you to read include: The Council on Contemporary Families latest includes:

In this episode, TSP board members Daniel Cueto-Villalobos and Forrest Lovette speak with Dr. Samuel L. Perry from the University of Oklahoma on his co-authored book The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy. Dr. Perry discusses his intellectual background, the role of race in Christian nationalism, and explains how to prevent the ‘Big […]

Originally published March 30, 2022. Today “help wanted” signs are commonplace; restaurants, shops, and cafes have temporarily closed or have cut back on hours due to staffing shortages. “Nobody wants to work,” the message goes. Some businesses now offer higher wages, benefits, and other incentives to draw in low-wage workers. All the same, “the great […]