Contexts Magazine
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Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers. Edited by David Grazian with managed editor Elena van Stee. contexts.org
Analyzing Fox News broadcasts from 2012–2024, Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Shelby Frye, Bri Londerée, Ryleigh Adkins, and Shreya Yogesh identify the rhetorical strategies broadcasters use to fuel an anti-transgender moral panic. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
"To be called 'essential' in America in 2020 was to be deemed expendable by our government and our society." Read David Grazian's interview with Eric Klinenberg in the latest issue of Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
In our Spring 2026 issue, Joslyn Brenton shows how middle-class parents experienced tensions between recognizing inequality and benefiting from it. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share my new piece on AI policy in @contexts.org! In my 2024 article with Leslie McCall, we identified two emerging approaches to AI policymaking focused on safety vs. equity. Here, I discuss the rise of a third approach focused on hegemony and its implications. doi.org/10.1177/1536...
The new issue of Contexts is out! As the new Books Editor, I'm particularly jazzed about @joyamisra.bsky.social's banging review of RF Kuang's Katabasis, but lots of great public-facing work in here!
Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · last mo.New issue! Our Spring '26 issue is free to read, share, and download through July 22. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx
"a large body of research shows the ineffectiveness of deterrence-based migration policies and how such politically motivated policies reliant on overly simplistic understandings of migration can cause real harm to both migrant and native-born communities." Jenks journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Research Briefs - Ana Ramirez Calderon, Daniel Jenks, Frank Y. Meng, Charlotte Scott, Sherry Wang, 2026
Migration enforcement, gender in court, and meritocratic myths in the NBA.
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Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · last mo.New issue! Our Spring '26 issue is free to read, share, and download through July 22. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx
Are you curious about how young Americans are practicing religion? Sociology has an answer for that! Take some time for sociology today with this free article and podcast from ASA's magazine Contexts. @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4uNdoZH
New in @contexts.org: PhD candidate Blyss Cleveland examines how pharmaceutical companies enlist Black celebrity women, like Oprah Winfrey and Serena Williams, to market GLP-1 weight loss drugs journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
GLP-1s Expand Access to Slenderness and Body Negativity - Blyss Cleveland, 2026
Blyss cleveland on the controversy surrounding the endorsement of anti-obesity drugs among Black celebrity women.
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How do we envision new social worlds—and work to build them? In the spring issue of ASA's Contexts, Celene Reynolds examines archival records + interviews to show how feminist coalitions advanced justice and equality in the law. Free to read thru July 22 @contexts.org https://bit.ly/ASAContexts
What do mothers in the US have to tell us about raising children with disabilities? In ASA's Contexts, several UT-Austin researchers share what moms revealed to them about the challenges they face and the ways they adapt and find joy. Free to read until 7/22 @contexts.org https://bit.ly/ASAContexts
As long as the Ellisons need the Trump admin. to approve the WB-Paramount merger, don't expect them to care about what journalists think, or even about lost ratings and profits. Their indifference to the staff revolt at '60 Minutes', alas, continues to confirm what I wrote for Contexts.
Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · 3mo agoRodney Benson shares "One Thing I Know" about the ownership forms that constrain journalistic independence. Read it in Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
New issue! Our Spring '26 issue is free to read, share, and download through July 22. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx
American Sociological Association@asanews.bsky.social · last mo.The spring issue of ASA's Contexts is now available to read for free online and includes two photo essays: The Work of Tarot + Beneath the Pagoda. All articles are open access until July 22! @contexts.org www.asanet.org/contexts/
"Across countries & within the US, the same relationship appears: In places of concentrated wealth, individuals’ willingness to help others and engage in volunteerism tends to decrease." Important work by @schechtlm.eurosky.social & colleagues in @contexts.org. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New in Books! 📚 Ryanne Pilgeram reviews Dividing Paradise and Who We Are Is Where We Are. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Rodney Benson shares "One Thing I Know" about the ownership forms that constrain journalistic independence. Read it in Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
New photo essay! 📸 David Bacon on indigenous dance as an act of resistance. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Many schools have moved away from formal suspensions and expulsions, but more informal disciplinary practices have emerged in their place. Rebecca Gleit and Lily Steyer have the story ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Check out this article from @landonschnabel.bsky.social, Ilana Horowitz & @contexts.org on DIY Faith, especially among young & LGBTQ+ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Great w/our forthcoming article @ Am Soc Rev on the Unbundling of Religion: osf.io/preprints/so... @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social
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Read a sociological perspective on how young Americans aren’t simply abandoning religion but transforming it in ASA’s Contexts. The entire issue is free to read until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5
In the latest issue of ASA’s Contexts, author and social science researcher Julie Fennell considers how updating our legal and cultural vocabulary around sexual violation could benefit both survivors and offenders. Read for free until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5
Why do some people accept, or even approve of, economic inequalities? Francesco Duina and Luca Storti examine market, moral, and cultural justifications in the recent issue of ASA’s Contexts. The entire issue is free to read until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5
Many schools have moved away from formal suspensions and expulsions. Why have more informal disciplinary practices emerged in their place? Get answers in ASA’s Contexts. The entire issue is free to read until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5
Check out my newest article in the magazine Contexts!
Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · 3mo agoWhereas homicide laws scale charges by intent, sexual assault laws do not. Julie Fennell considers how updating our legal and cultural vocabulary around sexual violation could benefit both survivors and offenders. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Why do some people accept, or even approve of, economic inequalities? Francesco Duina and Luca Storti examine various justifications—market, moral, cultural, and group-based—that people across the world invoke to defend their views. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Whereas homicide laws scale charges by intent, sexual assault laws do not. Julie Fennell considers how updating our legal and cultural vocabulary around sexual violation could benefit both survivors and offenders. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Young Americans aren't simply abandoning religion—they're transforming it. Landon Schnabel, Ilana Horwitz, Peyman Hekmatpour, and Cyrus Schleifer show how young people are breaking away from traditional religious institutions while pursuing new forms of community. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Challenging common notions about kink, BDSM practitioners share their media-fueled awakenings in their own words. Read Alicia M. Walker and Arielle Kuperberg in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...
In New York City, a restorative justice approach is helping to connect civil servants and the public as they navigate everyday conflict. Read Caroline Hanley in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...
