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Carrying Guns, Contesting Gender
The author at a shooting range. Courtesy photo. I remember looking at myself in the mirror that first morning, the familiar feminine ritual of checking my looks before heading out for the day disrupted...
View ArticleWinter 2015 Table of Contents
Well, gosh! First day out with our first issue in the new site design, and we figured out the “one big thing” we forgot: an easy way to show you everything that’s in our issue! This way you know what...
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Same Trailer, Different Park
I’m in my Florida room inside the Silver Sands Mobile Home Court. It is a linoleum-floored, screened in porch that runs the length of my single-wide trailer. Fifteen feet away, in front of my...
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Women’s Queer Sexuality in College
Photo by COD Newsroom of people unrelated to this report from Flickr Creative Commons What queer sexuality are college women engaged in on today’s campuses? Using data from the Online College Survey of...
View ArticleGood news – it’s a special issue
When reading sociologists, it’s hard not to get down. They’re usually so critical, so focused on what’s wrong. Racial inequality, sexism and rape, poverty and exploitation, heteronormativity — and,...
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Academic terms on the rise in Google-land
Photo by Chase Carter from Flickr Creative Commons Recent controversies in the media have brought terms familiar in academia to the popular arena. If that means academics are getting their work out...
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A Drinking Game for Sociology T.A.’s
Image: Contexts collage / PNC & LL Disclaimer: Don’t get us wrong, we love our undergraduates! We all started out as undergraduates trying to wrap our brains around the sociological imagination,...
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Contexts quicklit: baseball sociology
Happy opening day! Although technically the first game of the season was played yesterday, today marks the first day of the 2015 baseball season for the other 28 major league baseball teams. It’s a...
View ArticleSociology’s next hot topic
Update: We closed this poll after 30 days and over 5,000 votes. See the results here! We’ve all had a burning question about social life that remains unaddressed by the leading journals. You’ve tried...
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Riot Grrrl: Love You Like a Sister
Boston’s Mayor Marty Walsh declared April 9th “Riot Grrrl Day.” Kate Angell reflects on the Riot Grrrl movement and gives us an awesome playlist to boot. Riot grrrl zine show. Photo courtesy of...
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The triple crisis of sociology
Ivan Szelenyi is professor emeritus and former dean of social sciences at New York University Abu Dhabi. Alvin Gouldner published The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology just 45 years ago, in 1970. Like...
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Gay Rights and National Vertigo
As the U.S. Supreme Court readies itself to weigh in on same-sex marriage rulings in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, Guardian reporter and Contexts board member Steven Thrasher looked to...
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Results are in: Sociologists should study…
We asked, you answered: what should sociology’s next hot research topic be? 5,162 votes on 95 ideas later, we have results for you. A little background on this survey: We used All Our Ideas, “a data...
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Quicklit: 6 Recent Sociological Findings on Domestic Violence
From the recent buzz over boxer Floyd Mayweather’s history of violence and misogyny to multiple NFL scandals and lines to see Fifty Shades of Grey that wrapped around the block, we have been surrounded...
View ArticleTrouble in the Nail Industry
How can we address labor rights violations in nail salons without making immigrant workers more vulnerable, painting all nail salon owners with a single brush, and fueling anti-immigrant sentiment?...
View ArticleFitting in or finding a way out?
Several weeks ago I traveled with a group of undergraduate students to a public lecture by ASA President Paula England on “relationships and sex among young Americans,” a talk based on the kind of work...
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Marrying Across Class Lines
All marriages have their ups and downs, but cross-class marriages may see unique challenges. Photo by Garry Knight. Christie, a cheerful social worker in her mid-40s, told me about the first time she...
View ArticleSpring 2015 Table of Contents
Here’s the full list of Spring 2015 goodies to go seeking over on contexts.sagepub.com (free for four weeks, so have at it). Items that are available on contexts.org are linked below and will be added...
View ArticleSpring 2015 Letter from the Editors
Hi. We’re so excited once again to bring you such high quality fare from high quality folk. Many of our articles this time dovetail with the theme “boundaries and unstable states.” Marketplace’s Amy...
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“Honey, Your Name Looks Great in Lights”
Zarela Martinez is one of America’s top culinary professionals, cookbook authors, and television personalities. Martinez was a trailblazer in the male-dominated culinary world, succeeding as a young,...
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