What can sociology teach us about #neurodiversity? Micki McGee argues that increasing productivity and accelerated work schedules have gradually become the norm, recasting unforgiving institutional expectations as individual medical deficits. doi.org/10.1177/1536... @mickimcgee.bsky.social

What do you picture when you hear “red-light district”? In this visual sociological essay, Ronald Weitzer's photographs complicate the familiar image of red-light districts as uniformly dangerous and disordered. Read in Contexts ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What can marital infidelity reveal about masculinity? In Contexts, Alicia M. Walker analyzes men who use the platform Ashley Madison to seek out extramarital affairs, finding that men's consistent concerns were about masculine validation. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536... @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social

How free are we to dream? We are told that anyone can dream big. Yet inequality can shape the future long before opportunity appears. Sociologist Karen Cerulo explores how social position enters even our most private visions of the future. doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Many workplace protections we take for granted were won through collective struggle. For Labor Day, Judith Stepan-Norris writes in Contexts about how unions raise wages, reduce inequality and give workers a collective voice, and what their decline costs us. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

What if the most powerful technology in a start-up is the hype? Sociologist Patrick Sheehan shows how hype turns an imagined future into a way of extracting more labour in the present. The breakthrough is always just around the corner. Read more in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536... #Tech

How did dark skin become a deadly blind spot in dermatology? Black patients are often diagnosed later, yet prevention guidelines still center fair skin. Ashley C. Rondini and colleagues examine how racial erasure becomes medical knowledge. doi.org/10.1177/1536... @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social

AI is reshaping our relationships. What if it is also reshaping how we understand ourselves? Carsten Lund Pedersen asks what happens when algorithms become mirrors and begin shaping the selves they claim to reflect. Read in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

What if #Girlboss and #Tradwife come from the same feminist crisis? Both respond to the demand that women “have it all” by doing it all. What becomes possible when feminism expands its imagination and makes room for joy? Read in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Why do we suddenly need words like rizz, beige flag, and situationship to describe dating? Written by Gabrielle Juteau, Jaden Loo, and Susan L. Brown, this Contexts piece looks at what new dating language reveals about ambiguity, commitment, and changing relationship expectations.

What does the anti-work movement look like when Black women tell its story? On YouTube, Black women are claiming a right to rest. Sociologist Sharla Berry asks who gets to refuse work and who can afford to leave. Read in Contexts: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

Why do conspiracy theories remain compelling even after their predictions fail? Sociologists Meggan Jordan and Jennifer Whitmer show how conspiracy theories can become an identity resource. Read here ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

What happens when AI learns from a world already structured by inequality? Sociologists Sharla Alegria (@salegria.bsky.social) and Catherine Yeh show that machine learning can scale social inequalities and return them as objective predictions. @uoftsociology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1536...

What if young men aren’t only buying crypto to get rich, but to feel more like men? Dan Cassino at Fairleigh Dickinson University (@fduwhatsnew.bsky.social) explores how crypto and meme stocks can offer “gender value” through risk, mastery, and independence. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1536...

What is the point of public intellectuals? As expertise becomes more urgent and more contested, Michael D. Kennedy of @brownsociology.bsky.social asks whose knowledge counts, whom it serves, and whether public intellectuals can help build a more just world. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1536...

What are mothers of children with disabilities telling us? Interviews with mothers by Robert Crosnoe and colleagues reveal resilience, growth, and joy over decades of mothering. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

How did sexual harassment become recognized as unlawful discrimination in education? Celene Reynolds traces how 1970s and '80s feminist coalitions transformed Title IX, showing how ordinary citizens can change not just laws, but how they're interpreted. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx

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 · 3mo ago

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 · 3mo ago

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

Sociology!

Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · 3mo ago

New issue! Our Spring '26 issue is free to read, share, and download through July 22. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx

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 · 4mo ago

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 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 · 3mo ago

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/