Meet the Pipeline Team – Part 1!
Time for real exchange in academia is rare. The ISI Pipeline Program changes that: an international mentoring fellowship connecting researchers who benefit from each other’s expertise.
This week: elenavanstee.bsky.social and samfriedman.bsky.social.
This was a fascinating read. I especially love the concept “crisis egalitarianism” which was so ubiquitous in the early days of COVID. So helpful to identify the leading narratives in times of disruption and reflect on how they shape our collective sense of possibility.
Contexts Magazine is closing out 2025 by celebrating outgoing co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social! Editor-elect David Grazian will take the helm in 2026, with @elenavanstee.bsky.social as managing editor.
#sociology
Was an honor to be steward for this journal. One of the most rewarding and creative endeavors I’ve participated in.
I'm thrilled to share the final issue from Contexts Magazine's outgoing editorial team: @aminghaziani.bsky.social, @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, and @lettapage.bsky.social! Working with this team over the past few years has been an absolute joy.
➡️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctxa/24/4
Check out @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social's excellent review of @mlamont.bsky.social's Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World & @ruha9.bsky.social's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want in the newest issue of @contexts.org - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
TSP Friday Roundup! Stay up-to-date on all things sociology from us and our partners @contexts.org, @ccfamilies.bsky.social, @kylethegreen.bsky.social's give theory a chance here:
🔗 bit.ly/3Kj9mr0 🔗
Q&A! aminghaziani.bsky.social speaks with former Contexts editors Jodi O’Brien & ajoystein.bsky.social about translating research and engaging with the public.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
#sociologists who like fiction! I am the new Books section editor for @contexts.org, and I would *love* to see your pitches for essays + reviews on sociological novels, memoirs or trade books! More info here: contexts.org/submission-g...
Contexts is thrilled to have @jonwynn.bsky.social on the team as our new Books section editor! 🥳
Send your 📚 pitches to wynn@umass.edu
cc: @umassamherst.bsky.social @sagepublishing.bsky.social
There is nothing more flattering than someone taking time to read your work, except people taking time to engage your work. Thanks @amcneely.com and @contexts.org .
In brief! In "Coding our AI Interactions," @colteruscola.bsky.social reviews Elizabeth Rodwell's research on the UX designers who decide how machines "talk" to people.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
cc: @sthv.bsky.social
🥇 What makes a 3-year-old applicant “worthy” of admission to an elite preschool? Incoming managing editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social reviews @estelabdiaz.bsky.social & Lauren Rivera's recent ASR article.
➡️journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1536504...
So glad to be able to write this. Thanks to @davidyamane.bsky.social for the inspiration of the original article, and big thanks to Contexts blog editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social for her help and guidance in the writing!
New on the blog! @amcneely.com (@utdallas.bsky.social) responds to @davidyamane.bsky.social ➡️ contexts.org/blog/a-forme...
Starting soon!
What happens when public servants are asked to betray the values that brought them to service? New research traces how asylum officers under Trump navigated moral crisis and how their ability—or inability—to form with peers a shared aspiration for moral resolution determined who stayed or who left.
Why do White conservatives and White liberals disagree about what is—and is not—racist and sexist? @jessistreib.bsky.social and Betsy Leondar-Wright reveal a definitional divide driving this persistent gap and recommend a better way forward.
Read the essay ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Great article on how the AI bubble is just the latest ed tech grift that's part of a "broader effort to snatch away decision-making power over teaching, learning, and research from subject matter and pedagogy experts and give it to donors and administrators."
My PhD student (@colteruscola.bsky.social) and I have a new chapter out on social pain and how we can better integrate neuroscience into social science! Check it out! #sociology
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
New in @contexts.org! Doug Massey weighs in on the geographic distribution of (dis)advantage ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🚨 New page! Contexts Magazine is now on LinkedIn. Give us a follow to bring snack-sized sociological insights to your feed!
➡️ www.linkedin.com/company/cont...
"The Little Engine that Maybe Could" 🚂
Co-editor @aminghaziani.bsky.social interviews former editors Syed Ali and @philipncohen.com (univofmaryland.bsky.social) about overcoming challenges to deliver meaningful sociology to the public.
Paywall-free! ➡️ contexts.org/articles/su2...
Harvard Sociology Culture and Social Analysis Workshop (Elena van Stee and Guillermina Altomonte)
What does it mean to be independent, and why are people trying to claim this label?
Join ghaltomo.bsky.social and me at the @harvard.edu Culture Workshop on Tuesday (10/28) to explore these questions from emerging adulthood (me) to old age (Guillermina)!
Zoom link ⬇️
Do your students wonder why something is considered racist or sexist, why white people are split, or how to answer these questions themselves? Betsy Leondar-Wright and I answer these questions in our new book, offering insights for scholars while being accessible to undergrads. Discount code below.
Is it Racist? Is it Sexist? is officially out! Our book dives into how white liberals and conservatives differ in their views, what each gets right and wrong, and how we can all do better.
A gun-curious sociology professor? Check out @davidyamane.bsky.social's essay in our new @contexts.org issue!
@wakeforest.bsky.social @sagepub.com @asanews.bsky.social