ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Heeyoung Lee (@idlhy.bsky.social), Jungmin Shin, and Jonathan Dirlam examine the effect of structural sexism and the #MeToo movement on workplace sexual harassment charge rates. Read more at bit.ly/4wwOfEg

OPEN ACCESS New in TSQ: Patrick Schenk, Makiko Hashinaga, and Jörg Rössel examine how social class structures "buycotting"—the purchase of products with ethical qualities such as organic or fair trade—in Japan and Switzerland. Read more at bit.ly/4fAO7w8

ONLY TWO DAYS LEFT! Join us for Finding Your Regional Sociology Community— learn about publishing, networking, conferences, leadership, & professional development in sociology. July 30 | 10–11 a.m. CDT Register here: forms.office.com/r/XQnTZCEenQ #AcademicPublishing #RegionalSociology

OPEN ACCESS In this new TSQ article, Katie Mueller examines how college-aged feminists carefully consider their audiences and weigh potential consequences before deploying feminist identity. Read more at bit.ly/4x7Rd1Y

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Claire Duncan and colleagues develop the notion of “light money,” a type of money earned through what they call “light work.” Read more at bit.ly/4vuWrDG

NEW IN TSQ Anneliese Schenk-Day and Jack Wippell show that the recent surge in anti-transgender legislation has been accompanied by a rise in moralized rhetoric--but bills with more moralized rhetoric are less likely to pass. Read more at bit.ly/4pdxUBJ

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Avery E. Warner examines the role of region and country of citizenship in criminal case processing in Texas. Read more at bit.ly/44oIHzl

It's release day! My and Golshan Golriz's new edited volume, LGBTQ Religious Activism: Rethinking Identity, Faith, and Social Change, is now out in the world. Order the book at the @uncpress.bsky.social website - uncpress.org/978146969292... - and use the discount code 01DAH40 to get 40% off.

LGBTQ Religious Activism

Despite the LGBTQ movement’s rapid growth and significant policy successes over the past few decades, many mainstream religions continue to discriminate ag...

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Another week, another set of new books hitting shelves near you 📚 @sharronwconrad.bsky.social @jonathancoley.bsky.social

It's release day! My and Golshan Golriz's new edited volume, LGBTQ Religious Activism: Rethinking Identity, Faith, and Social Change, is now out in the world. Order the book at the @uncpress.bsky.social website - uncpress.org/978146969292... - and use the discount code 01DAH40 to get 40% off.

LGBTQ Religious Activism

Despite the LGBTQ movement’s rapid growth and significant policy successes over the past few decades, many mainstream religions continue to discriminate ag...

uncpress.org

It’s June, & with it comes my 279th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 279 (6/7/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

It’s June, & with it comes my 279th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy,...

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Darci Schmidgall and colleagues' article "Deciding for Her: Religio-Political Conservatism, Christian Nationalism, and Public Opposition to Legal Abortion across circumstances" is now FREE TO READ through the end of July! Read it at bit.ly/4jarZKo

The Sociological Quarterly@socquarterly.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Darci Schmidgall, Popy Begum, and Christopher Seto (@criminovelist.bsky.social) show how the convergence of religious and political conservatism through Christian nationalism shapes abortion attitudes among the American public. Read more at bit.ly/4jarZKo

New ASR paper finds no effect of state right-to-work laws on employment or number of business establishments (1946-2019). Argues that state spillovers, such as tax breaks in non-right-to-work states, explain the non-effect of right-to-work. gated: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor

The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.

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My first copy arrived! 🥳 My and Golshan Golriz’s new edited volume LGBTQ Religious Activism is officially out June 9 from The University of North Carolina Press (@uncpress.bsky.social). Order at uncpress.org/978146969292...

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Kayla Allison, Caitlin Tidwell, Casey T. Harris, and Jeff Gruenewald examine the factors associated with print news media coverage of bias-motivated murders in the United States. Read more at bit.ly/4uaTB7f

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

ONLINE FIRST In this new TSQ article, Maddie Kerr (@maddie-o-k.bsky.social) examines the discursive strategies that advocates of gender exploratory, change, and affirmative therapies use to legitimate their models. Read more at bit.ly/49gRIgu

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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ONLINE FIRST In this TSQ article, Xinyan Cao (@xcao.bsky.social) and Senhu Wang examine whether flexible working arrangements are associated with labor market exits and how those associations vary by gender and parenthood status. Read more at bit.ly/4cUEHud

NEW IN TSQ Katherine S. Cho, Jiaming Zhou, and Gabriela Córdova examine students' perceptions of institutional responses to race-based campus activism. Read more at bit.ly/41Vh9QV

ONLINE FIRST In this TSQ article, Gabriela Gonzalez Vaillant examines how student movements balance considerations related to leverage, visibility, and repression when making decisions about strategies and tactics. Read more at bit.ly/4ezjKaA

The 2028 ASA meeting will be in Baltimore, MD! The 2028 meeting was initially planned to be virtual but was then switched to in-person. This will be the first ASA meeting in the South since the 2010 meeting in Atlanta.

NEW IN TSQ Kayla Preston examines the process by which some young people become involved in right-wing organizations following their exposure to far-right YouTube content during adolescence. Read more at bit.ly/4mgk6oB

🚨 CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA! 🚨 Are you an ex-fundie, an exvangelical, or a progressive Christian who was subjected to religious trauma? Do you have a story to tell? I want to hear from you!

How do local government officials' religious affiliations, behaviors, and beliefs shape their attitudes toward transgender rights policies? My colleagues and I address this question in a new Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion article: doi.org/10.1111/jssr...

How do local government officials' religious affiliations, behaviors, and beliefs shape their attitudes toward transgender rights policies? My colleagues and I address this question in a new Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion article: doi.org/10.1111/jssr...

ONLINE FIRST In this TSQ article, Gazela Pudar Draško and colleagues examine a recent wave of student-led protests in Serbia and describe how direct democratic practices—participatory plenums—emerged as adaptive responses to political constraints in a hybrid regime. Read more at bit.ly/4dyDCKK

“The proposal also cuts all funding for the NSF division that funds research on the social sciences and economics. At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate…” 👇👇👇

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social