Author Ericka S. Weathers discusses the article, "Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps," published in the December 2024 issue of American Sociological Review.

Authors Freeden Blume Oeur and Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana discuss the article, "The Philadelphia Negro at 125 Years: A Critical Commemoration," published in the December 2024 issue of City & Community.

Author Ariel Azar discusses the article, "Work–Family Life Course Trajectories and Women’s Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Defamilization Policies in 15 European Territories," published in the December 2024 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Author Fabian Anicker discusses the article "The Matrix of AI Agency: On the Demarcation Problem in Social Theory," published in the December 2024 issue of Sociological Theory.

Authors Jun Zhao and Christabel L. Rogalin discuss the article, "Discrimination in Sentencing: Showing Remorse and the Intersection of Race and Gender" published in the December 2024 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

Author Michelle Eilers discusses the article, "Attitudes and Behavior Feedback Loops for Young Women’s Premarital Sex" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

Author Patrick Sheehan discusses the article, "To the Moon: Hype and Start-Up Work" published in the Fall 2024 issue of Contexts.

As an investigative journalist, Julia Ebner had the freedom to do something she freely admits that as an academic (the hat she currently wears as postdoctoral researcher at the Calleva Centre for Evolution and Human Sciences at the University of Oxford) she have been proscribed from doing - posing as a recruit to study violent extremist groups. Tha…

Author Martha Morales Hernandez discusses the article, "Centering Agency: Examining the Relationship between Acts of Resistance, Anxiety, and Depression Among Undocumented College Students," published in the November 2024 issue of Society and Mental Health.

Author Freeden Blume Oeur discusses the article, "Of the Meaning of Pedagogy: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Progress, and Positive Propaganda," published in the October 2024 issue of Teaching Sociology.

Author Demetrius Miles Murphy discusses the article, "Affirming Blackness in a “Colorblind” Anti-Black Nation: How Brazilians Negotiate Police Killings of Afro-Brazilians" published in the October 2024 issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Authors Anthony Abraham Jack and Becca Spindel Bassett discuss the article, "Pink Slips (for Some): Campus Employment, Social Class, and COVID-19," published in the October 2024 issue of Sociology of Education.

The relationship between citizens and their criminal justice systems comes down to just that - relationships. And those relations generally start with essentially one-on-one encounters between law enforcement personnel and individuals, whether those individuals are suspects, victims or witnesses. When those relations get off on the wrong foot - or …

Authors Ken Hanson and Hannah Bolthouse discuss the article, "“Replika Removing Erotic Role-Play Is Like Grand Theft Auto Removing Guns or Cars”: Reddit Discourse on Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Sexual Technologies" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

Authors Margot Moinester and Kaitlyn K. Stanhope discuss the article, "Extending Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing Perinatal Outcomes Following This Policy Shift," published in the September 2024 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Author Tamkinat Rauf discusses the article, "Happiness Scholarship and Redistributive Preferences" published in the September 2024 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

Listening to the ongoing debate about artificial intelligence, one could be forgiven for assuming that the technology is either a bogeyman or a savior, with little ground in between. But that’s not the stance of economist Daron Acemoglu, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author, with Simon Johnson, of the new book Power…

Author Beiyi Hu discusses the article, "Talking about Race in a Race-Taboo Land" published in the Summer 2024 issue of Contexts.

Author Minwoo Jung discusses the article "Rights Projects: A Relational Sociology of Rights in Globalization," published in the September 2024 issue of Sociological Theory.

Author Callie Burt discusses her article, "Polygenic Indices (aka Polygenic Scores) in Social Science: A Guide for Interpretation and Evaluation," published in the August 2024 issue of Sociological Methodology.

How much of our understanding of the world comes built-in? More than you’d expect. That’s the conclusion that Iris Berent, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and head of the Language and Mind Lab there, has come to after years of research. She notes that her students, for example, are “astonished” at how much of human behavior and…

Author Mario L. Small discusses the article, "The Avoidance of Strong Ties," published in the August 2024 issue of American Sociological Review.

Author Matt Grace discusses the article, "Medical Authority, Trans Exceptionalism, and Americans’ Willingness to Believe Claims of Inadequate Training as Justification for the Denial of Care to Trans People" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

Author Jessica Brantez discusses the article, "Revisiting Durkheim: Social Integration and Suicide Clusters in U.S. Counties, 2006–2019," published in the July 2024 issue of Society and Mental Health.

Authors Stephen Sweet and Susan J. Ferguson discuss the article, "Program Review with the Curriculum Mapping Toolkit for Sociology: Assessment of a Publicly Available Resource for Sociology Departments," published in the July 2024 issue of Teaching Sociology.

Do policies built around social and behavioral science research actually work? That’s a big, and contentious, question. It’s also almost an existential question for the disciplines involved. It’s also a question that Megan Stevenson, a professor of law and of economics at the University of Virginia School of Law, grapples with as she explores how w…

Author Paige L. Sweet discusses the article, "Clustered Vulnerabilities: The Unequal Effects of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence," published in the June 2024 issue of American Sociological Review.

Authors Xiaowen Han and Tom VanHeuvelen discuss the article, "Cumulative Unionization and Physical Health Disparities among Older Adults," published in the June 2024 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Authors Linda Lobao and Paige Kelly discuss the article, "Urban Austerity Theory, Politicizing Space, and Cutback Policies across Urban and Rural Communities," published in the June 2024 issue of City & Community.

Author Ali Meghji discusses the article "From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory," published in the June 2024 issue of Sociological Theory.

Authors Meggan M. Jordan and Jennifer M. Whitmer discuss the article, "Why Believe Conspiracy Theories?" published in the Winter 2024 issue of Contexts.

Author Saverio Roscigno discusses the article, "The Status Foundations of Conspiracy Beliefs" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

Here's a thought experiment: You want to spend a reasonably large sum of money providing assistance to a group of people with limited means. There's a lot of ways you might do that with a lot of strings and safeguards involved, but what about just giving them money -- "get cash directly into the hands of the poor in the cheapest, most efficient way…

Authors Susan C. Pearce and Jennifer O’Neill discuss the article, "One World, Many Stories: Finding Human Connection through Global Sociology," published in the April 2024 issue of Teaching Sociology.

Author Tiffany J. Huang discusses the article, "Translating Authentic Selves into Authentic Applications: Private College Consulting and Selective College Admissions," published in the April 2024 issue of Sociology of Education.

Author Matthew Ward discusses the article, "Slavery’s Legacy of White Carceral Advantage in the South" published in the April 2024 issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Author Walker Nelson Kahn discusses the article, "Safe as Houses: Financialization, Foreclosure, and Precarious Homeownership in the United States," published in the April 2024 issue of American Sociological Review.

How hard do we fight against information that runs counter to what we already think? While quantifying that may be difficult, Alex Edmans notes that the part of the brain that activates when something contradictory is encountered in the amygdala - “that is the fight-or-flight part of the brain, which lights up when you are attacked by a tiger. This…

Author Jo Phelan discusses the article, "Impostorization in Academia, Psychological Distress, and Class Reproduction," published in the March 2024 issue of Society and Mental Health.

Authors John N. Robinson, III, and Shai Karp discuss the article, "Performing Social Control: Poverty Governance, Public Finance, and the Politics of Visibility," published in the March 2024 issue of Sociological Theory.

Author Bin Xu discusses the books, The Science and Art of Interviewing by Kathleen Gerson and Sarah Damaske, Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research by Mario Luis Small and Jessica McCrory Calarco, and Data Analysis in Qualitative Research: Theorizing with Abductive Analysis by Stefan Timmermans and Iddo Tavo…

Authors Laura Hamilton and Heather Daniels discuss the article, "The For-Profit Side of Public U: University Contracts with Online Program Managers" published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.

Authors Steven Elias Alvarado and Alexandra Cooperstock discuss the article, "The Echo of Neighborhood Disadvantage: Multigenerational Contextual Hardship and Adult Income for Whites, Blacks, and Latinos," published in City & Community in June 2023.

Authors Orit Avishai, Jonathan S. Coley, Golshan Golriz, and Dawne Moon discuss the article, "How LGBTQ+ People are Creating Change in Their Faith Communities" published in the Winter 2024 issue of Contexts.

Authors Kenneth Hanso and Nicholas Theis discuss their article, "Networked Participants, Networked Meanings: Using Networks to Visualize Ethnographic Data," published in the February 2024 issue of Sociological Methodology.

Authors Emily Dore and Surbhi Shrivastava discuss the article, "Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States" published in the March 2024 issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.