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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 4d

📣 Please SHARE WIDELY with graduate students in your departments and direct them to the following Google Form to participate in the campaign: forms.gle/6rQLWDoxWcGM...

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 4d

We are SO excited to launch our ✨Student Voices Campaign✨ with the purpose of uplifting graduate students in sociology and giving them a space to share their intellectual ideas publicly!

The campaign asks students to share reflections on SI articles they've recently read.

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 5d

🎉 Congrats to all the authors of these TOP 5 trending articles in SOC Inquiry! 📈

👀 See the full list and browse the articles at the link: www.altmetric.com/explorer/rep...

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#Sociology #SocialSciences #ResearchMatters

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Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society @alphakappadelta.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Applications open!

AKD’s Social Justice Award recognizes sociologists using sociology to promote social justice.

Up to 3 chapters will receive $1,500!

Apply here 👉 alphakappadelta.org/social-justi...

#Sociology #SocialJustice #AlphaKappaDelta

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 16d

📣 New #EarlyView article from UCLA researchers!

Access "Queer Social Exclusion: Fields and Forces in South Korea" from Yeon Jae Hwang & Todd M. Franke at the link 👇

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Queer Social Exclusion: Fields and Forces in South Korea

Despite existing literature on social exclusion as a multidimensional phenomenon, critical inquiries arise as to whether a single deprivation is sufficient to be phrased as exclusion or if multiple r...

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 26d

In moments of heightened debate, research offers clarity.

Our 2021 #SpeicalIssue on 🔫 policy brings together sociological perspectives to deepen understanding of one of today’s most urgent social issues.

Explore the scholarship 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1475682x...

#Sociology #Research

Sociological Inquiry: Vol 91, No 2

Click on the title to browse this issue

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · 28d

Have you browsed our #SpecialIssue on "gardening" policies? 🍃

Today, we peek inside the issue at an article from University of La Verne researchers Nicholas Athey & Michelle Newhart. 👀

Access the article at the link!

👉 doi.org/10.1111/soin...

#Sociology #Gardening #SocialResearch

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Sep 3

📣 NEW this month in #EarlyView!

"'I Have to Change Sometimes Little Pieces of Me so That I Don't Come Off a Certain Way': Managing Black and Brown Identities at the White University."

Read #OpenAccess at the link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/soin...

#Sociology
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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Aug 28

Check out some of the most recent articles related to #voting, #politics, and #elections from SOC Inquiry at the link! 🗳️

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...

#Sociology #SocialSciences

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Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society @alphakappadelta.bsky.social · Aug 28

🏙️ Earlier this month, AKD hosted our annual Award Ceremony and Distinguished Lecture at the @asanews.bsky.social meetings in Chicago.

🎉 Join us in celebrating excellence in sociology w/ our latest blog recapping this special time of gathering in person!

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Celebrating Excellence in Sociology: AKD at the 2025 ASA Annual Meeting

Take a moment to recap AKD’s celebrations of excellence in sociology at the 2025 annual American Sociological Association meetings.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Aug 28

Applications for ASA’s CARI grants are due today, 8/28 by 5 pm EST. Get submission instructions and more here: https://bit.ly/3O58KCY.

#ASA #sociology #grants #research

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 The new issue of Sociological Inquiry is now available!

Topics include:

🔹 Race & mental health at HBCUs
🔹 Reproductive justice
🔹 Inequality & life expectancy
🔹 ASMR as a social phenomenon

Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1475682x...

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Aug 5

NEW #EarlyView article 👉 "Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities" authored by Leping Wang of @vanderbilt.edu.

Read at the link!

doi.org/10.1111/soin...

Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities

This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel “Merit-Fit-Diversit” framework to show how narr...

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 28

📄"'Overdried, Without Curing? F*Ck, this [Is Supposed to be] Government Licensed Skunk!' Medical Cannabis and the Refracted Publics Within an Online Polish Drug Forum" authored by Michał Wanke and colleagues.

Read #OpenAccess at the link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/soin...

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 28

👀 Take a peek inside the issue with Sociological Inquiry!

This article was published in our special issue on cannabis policy back in May. 🍃

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#Sociology #MedicalCannabis #CannabisResearch

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 25

🤳 "Toward a Holistic, Age-Graded Understanding of Excessive Internet Use: An Application of Containment Theory" authored by Marian J. Borg & Ryan Howard of the University of Florida.

Access at the link!

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#InternetUse #InternetAddiction #Sociology

Toward a Holistic, Age‐Graded Understanding of Excessive Internet Use: An Application of Containment Theory

The growing prevalence of internet use and evidence indicating both harmful and beneficial consequences of “being on-line” suggest the importance of understanding risk and protective factors that may....

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 21

Explore more via our #OpenAccess article "'Taking What's Ours': Restrictionist Attitudes Toward Immigration and Threat to Sense of Group Position in the United States" at the link 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#Polarization #Politics #USPolitics #Sociology #SociologicalInquiry

“Taking What's Ours”: Restrictionist Attitudes Toward Immigration and Threat to Sense of Group Position in the United States

Calls to limit immigration are fueled by the belief immigration threatens individual and collective welfare, yet studies on support for restrictionism remain equivocal on this relationship. We explor...

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 21

Family dinners, workplace conversations, & neighborhood groups can become battlegrounds in a polarized climate.

Sociological inquiry explores how identity, media bubbles, and fear of “the other” are shaping personal divides in American life.

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ASA Sociology of Mental Health @asasmh.bsky.social · Jul 21

🌻 Best Article Award

“Deportation Threat Predicts Latino U.S. Citizens’ and Non-Citizens’ Psychological Distress, 2011-2018.” PNAS (2024)

Amy Johnson, Lehigh University
Christopher Levesque, Kenyon College
Neil Lewis Jr., Cornell University
Asad L. Asad, Stanford University

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 11

⚥ Read our latest #EarlyView article, "Reconceptualizing #Gender Transitioning: Recognition, Flexibility, and Safety in #Nonbinary Identity Journeys" from The London School of Economics and Political Science ‪researcher S. M. Rodriguez at the link!

🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reconceptualizing Gender Transitioning: Recognition, Flexibility, and Safety in Nonbinary Identity Journeys

This article interrogates gender transitioning by centering nonbinary experiences, which challenge the binary-driven narratives that dominate both medical and sociological frameworks of transition. D...

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 11

📘 "This study builds on and critiques theories of doing, redoing, and undoing gender by demonstrating how nonbinary transitioning disrupts dominant models of gender accountability, recognition, and self-determination."

@lseblogs.bsky.social @socwomen.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social #sociology

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 7

Learn more from our collection of recent articles about elections 👉 tinyurl.com/3jkkennd

#Elections #PoliticalAnalysis #PoliticalNews #Sociology #SociologicalInquiry #SocialSciences #USPolitics #UnitedStates #PoliticalClimate

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 7

🔎 What are the sociological roots of political distrust?

🗳 Whether it's skepticism about elections, public health guidance, or government transparency, sociological inquiry examines how institutional betrayals & unequal access to power fuel distrust.

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Sociological Inquiry @socioinquiry.bsky.social · Jul 5

Read the full paper from th #SpeicalIssue on #CannabisPolicy at the link 👉https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12642

#Cannabis #Gardening #Latvia #Sociology #SocialSciences #SocialResearch #AcademicResearch

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