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Nationalism or cosmopolitanism? Abbas Jong makes the case for context-sensitive analysis, using the case of the transnational revival of Shi'i Islam.

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#sociology #openAccess #nationalism #transnationalism #cosmopolitan #Islam
Grounded Nationalism in the Context of Cosmopolitanization: The Case of Transnational Revival of Shi‘i Islam
This article critically examines the limitations of both methodological nationalism and methodological cosmopolitanism within the social sciences, particularly in the context of transnational and g...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Learn about the influences of labor markets on neighborhood crime rates, with analysis by Robert D. Crutchfield, Lauren J. Krivo, and Ruth D. Peterson.

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#sociology #openAccess #crime #labor #neighborhoods
The Labor Market Context of Neighborhood Crime: A Multilevel Analysis
This paper evaluates the role of metropolitan labor markets in neighborhood crime. We fit multilevel models with 8,931 tracts as level one units and 87 large metropolitan areas as level two units, ...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Parents want the best for their kids' education. See how high-income families leverage their advantage, illustrating stratification in forms of parental involvement.

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#sociology #education #Covid #newResearch
“You Only Get One Shot with Your Kid’s Education”: Examining Mothers’ Involvement in K-12 Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Building on existing research about intensive involvement, this study examines how mothers activated socioeconomic resources to benefit their children’s K-12 education during the COVID-19 pandemic....
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December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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College undergrads support second chances for people with felony records, but not always. Find out who is considered more deserving in this article by Rena C. Zito, Stacy De Coster, and Eden J. Ralph.

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#sociology #secondChance #felony #collateralConsequences
College Applicants with Felony Records: The Impact of Race and Offense Type on College Students’ Attitudes
This survey-based experimental vignette examines undergraduate students’ judgments of how restrictive colleges should be in admitting applicants with felony records. Using OLS regression models and...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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A close look at discrimination of workers with caregiving responsibilities, thanks to Krista Lynn Minnotte and Michael C. Minnotte.

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#sociology #discrimination #workLifeBalance #caregivers
Caregiving Penalties? Outcomes of Perceived Family-Responsibilities Discrimination Among U.S. Caregivers
Despite evidence suggesting caregivers encounter workplace stigmatization, the consequences of perceived family-responsibilities discrimination remain underexamined. Informed by stress process theo...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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If you are in the Bay Area check this even out:
#translivesmatter
I recently saw Dan speak at Tulane and it was a great event--I was surprised how much I learned. Also, should the Kinsey scale be called the Hirschfeld scale?
Author Talk | The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin — GLBT Historical Society
LOCATION GLBT Historical Society Museum 4127 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94114 ADMISSION $10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here More than a c...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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How does religious engagement relate to social capital? Adam Gemar finds that religion's role in the formation of social capital is conditional.

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#sociology #religion
Religion and Social Capital in the United States: A Comparison of Different Types of Social Capital and Religious Engagement
This study examines the relationship between religion and social capital, investigating how different dimensions of religious engagement are associated with various forms of social capital. Using d...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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“Couldn’t done this without you.” --Daniel Brook, “The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld: Visionary of Weimar Berlin.” #antifa
#lgbtqHistory #MagnusHirschfeld #Nazis #fascism
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The Einstein of Sex
An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld., The Einstein of Sex, Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin, Daniel Brook, 978132400724...
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September 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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New study from Purdue’s Center on Aging and the Life Course “Neighborhoods can play a constructive role in helping older adults maintain cognitive function,” says Distinguished Professor Kenneth Ferraro, PhD.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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What even is self-care in a culture of hypervisibility? Abigail M. Letak investigates how feminists navigate perceived tensions between their values and behaviors.

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#sociology #feminism #consuption #selfCare #television
“The Concessions That We Make”: Self-Care, Television, and Feminist Vocabularies of Motive
In recent years, interest in the practice of “self-care” has skyrocketed, yet relatively little sociological work has interrogated the way self-care plays out in everyday life. Contributing to the ...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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A deep dive into the relationships between antiblackness, modernity, race, and postcoloniality in East Asia, thanks to Jae Kyun Kim and Yeon-Hwa Lee.

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#sociology #history #asia #antiblackness
Remaking Colonial Modernity: Race, Antiblackness, and Historical Sociology in East Asia
After past historical sociologists examined diverse aspects of the material and political unfolding of modernity, recent scholarship on race has revealed the indivisible relationship between modern...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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We've seen religious elites and social media warriors call for the end of women’s suffrage. But we don’t have a sense of how everyday Americans feel about women’s political rights.

Until now.

We preview new survey results about repeal of the 19th Amendment and adoption of a household vote.
The Coming Battle Over Women’s Suffrage
By Paul A. Djupe and Brooklyn Walker [Image credit. National Women’s History Museum.] Every election cycle, millions of women cast votes. For many of them, their right to vote seems uncontroversial…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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People of different race/ethnicity coped with COVID-19 stress in statistically different ways. Hearne, Jackson, and Niño consider the implications of these findings.

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#sociology #covid #stress
Coping at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences in Psychological Distress by Race/Ethnicity and Educational Attainment
Variations in psychological distress and coping across race/ethnicity and education early in the COVID-19 pandemic remains insufficiently examined. In this study, we analyzed both survey data (Amer...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Social media "have become a huge part of people's lives that people cannot let go of." Read more.

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#sociology #mentalHealth #socialMedia #lesotho
Social Media as a Social Fact: A Sociological Exploration of Social Media Usage and Suicide Risk Among Youth Populations in Lesotho
Ever since Emile Durkheim published his work on suicide, there has been a long-sustained interest in studying it. With the rise of social media and the culture of competitiveness, a gap exists in t...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Learn how self-care improved nurses' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to research from V. Savage, M. N. Barringer, and Addy Lindsay.

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The Statistical Significance of Embodied Experiences and Self-Care Practices on the Mental Health of Female Nurses in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic placed heavy demands on the bodyminds of healthcare workers in the United States, yet more targeted research is needed to uncover both the pandemic’s impact on nurses and the ...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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A new model of activism by religious leaders shows the effect of congregational context. Read the details from Kraig Beyerlein and Manuel Rodriguez in Sociological Focus.

#newResearch #sociology #religion #quantitativeResearch

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The Effect of Congregational Context on Religious Leaders’ Political Activism
Prior studies of clergy’s differential political participation have examined a variety of factors, including religious leaders’ personal characteristics, perceptions of laity approval, or ecologica...
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August 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Shanghai, China, offers a unique view of digital authoritarianism, popular resistance, and state capacity in the wake of the 2022 COVID-19 lockdown. Read our new report from Jinpu Wang and Yu Xiang.

#Covid #China #resistance #community #authoritarian

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Plague, Food, and Freedom: Bounded Resistance in the Shanghai COVID-19 Lockdown
This paper examines state–society relations and the opportunity structure for popular resistance during the 2022 COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China. Drawing on digital ethnographic data from WeCh...
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August 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Introducing the Sociological Focus Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations!

Original articles from notable scholars. Thanks to our editor in chief Khari Brown and our guest editors @pauldjupe.bsky.social and Jacob Neiheisel.

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Religion and Politics in American Congregations
Published in Sociological Focus (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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July 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Community-engaged research of faith-based racial justice, thanks to Rebecca Glazier, Gerald Driskill, and Owen Haynes.

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#sociology #researchMethods #racialJustice #religion
Linking Community-Based Research and Faith-Based Racial Justice
Racial inequity is a major source of social and political division. Although religious traditions have a mixed history when it comes to racial equity, they also often have the tools and the theolog...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Do Catholic priests discuss immigration? How do Catholic leaders address the issue? Diane Beckman and Evan Stewart provide answers in our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #politics #immigration #Catholic
Clergy Talk: Do Catholic Priests Discuss Immigration?
Social science research has long discussed the interaction of political and religious ideologies in attitude formation and political socialization. Most research focuses on the role of these forces...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Clergy address gun violence in response to tragic events. Nela Mrchkovska & Enrique Quezada-Llanes analyze what is said in 200,000 sermons and present their results in our special issue on religion and politics.

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#sociology #racialJustice #gunViolence #LLM
Voices from the Pulpit: Discourse on Racial Justice and Gun Violence from American Clergy
Over the past years, many religious congregations have addressed issues of racial justice and gun violence following the killing of George Floyd and recent mass shootings in places like Uvalde, Tex...
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July 7, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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How do religious leaders engage with community problems? @pauldjupe.bsky.social and Jacob R. Neiheisel provide answers from National Survey of Religious Leaders (NRSL) data. Part of our special issue on religion and politics.

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#sociology #religion #NRSL #clergy
Do Religious Leaders Engage Community Environmental Problems?
Much of the research about religious engagement with the environment has focused on individual citizens, leaving religious organizations and religious professionals (clergy) in the background or ig...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Read about racial activism by United Methodist clergy from Anna Holleman, Erin F. Johnston, and Kelsey Mischke in our forthcoming special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #Methodist #congregations #racialJustice
Walking the Tightrope: How White United Methodist Clergy Approach Race and Racial Justice
Religious congregations in the United States have long been sites for political organization and mobilization. Following the summer of 2020, clergy have been increasingly reckoning with how to navi...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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What do #Christian persecution beliefs (CPBs) reveal about racial boundaries? Walker, @pauldjupe.bsky.social, & Calfano explore the question ➡️ Do CPBs vary by #race in their adoption, constitution, & consequences? #OpenAccess in the @jssreligion.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fellowship in the Fiery Furnace: A Research Note on How Christian Persecution Beliefs Transcend Racial Divides
This study aims to investigate the relationship between Christian persecution beliefs (CPBs) and race. Existing CPB research has asserted that CPBs constitute a socially appropriate tool to signal Wh....
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July 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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How does faith shape the politics of Catholic priests? Kathleen Sellers and Roseph Roso explore. Read more, part of our special issue on religion and politics in American congregations.

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#sociology #religion #Catholic #politics
Priestly Politics: Faith Formation and Political Ideology Among Catholic Clergy
Catholic priests have long been important political actors both in mobilizing direct political action and shaping the way Catholic faithful view important public issues. Historically, Catholic cler...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM