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In this TSQ article, Gabriela Gonzalez Vaillant examines how student movements balance considerations related to leverage, visibility, and repression when making decisions about strategies and tactics.
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2028 ASA in Baltimore
The 2028 ASA meeting will be in Baltimore, MD! The 2028 meeting was initially planned to be virtual but was then switched to in-person. This will be the first ASA meeting in the South since the 2010 meeting in Atlanta.
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Kayla Preston examines the process by which some young people become involved in right-wing organizations following their exposure to far-right YouTube content during adolescence.
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🚨 CALLING ALL 2SLGBTQ+ WRITERS WHO EXPERIENCED RELIGIOUS TRAUMA! 🚨 Are you an ex-fundie, an exvangelical, or a progressive Christian who was subjected to religious trauma? Do you have a story to tell? I want to hear from you!
How do local government officials' religious affiliations, behaviors, and beliefs shape their attitudes toward transgender rights policies?
My colleagues and I address this question in a new Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion article: doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
CC: @garyadler.bsky.social, @mayrl.bsky.social
How do local government officials' religious affiliations, behaviors, and beliefs shape their attitudes toward transgender rights policies?
My colleagues and I address this question in a new Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion article: doi.org/10.1111/jssr...
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In this TSQ article, Gazela Pudar Draško and colleagues examine a recent wave of student-led protests in Serbia and describe how direct democratic practices—participatory plenums—emerged as adaptive responses to political constraints in a hybrid regime.
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“The proposal also cuts all funding for the NSF division that funds research on the social sciences and economics. At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate…”
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Volume 67, issue 2, of TSQ is now LIVE, featuring articles by @cihantugal.bsky.social, @jonathansmucker.bsky.social, @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social, @katherinefurl.bsky.social, @haphazardsoc.bsky.social, @criminovelist.bsky.social, @chinyereagbai.bsky.social, and more!
Read it at bit.ly/4m4hdXD
Very cool! Congrats!
Hurrah! Great news!!
This new book includes the work of the wildly talented @jonathancoley.bsky.social, @drjamiem.bsky.social, @motherindie.bsky.social, and @carstorm.bsky.social, among many others not on Bluesky.
🚨 I have an announcement! My new short-story anthology, DON’T ASK, TELL ALL: STORIES OF CHRISTIAN COLLEGES’ ANTI-QUEER REGIMES, is now set to be published! I received the reports yesterday from my peer reviewers + could not be happier with their evaluations. The book will be released in early 2027!🚨
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Annika Wilcox and Neeraj Rajasekar examine tech employees' perceptions of organizational diversity initiatives.
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New in TSQ: Kevin Steinmetz and Edward Green examine how firms in the electric guitar industry have navigated intellectual property protections to manage their relationships with other firms in a market space.
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ASA has joined a coalition of social science organizations that have signed a letter asking Oklahoma leaders to rescind an Executive Order seeking to eliminate tenure at the state’s public institutions of higher education. Read the letter here: https://bit.ly/47oAld1
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New in TSQ: Cristóbal Karle, Felipe Sánchez-Barría, and René Canales Sellés use the case of the 1980s Chilean University Student Movement to address questions about social movement institutionalization and organization building under authoritarian regimes.
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Imagine trust in polling being at an all time low and then doing “polls” where a quarter of respondents are AI agents hallucinating answers based on exit polling.
Happy first day of spring 😳😳
Awesome! Congrats!
Rural Queer Joy: Using Social Practice Art to Increase Rural LGBTQ+ Visibility by Jennifer Tabler and Bailey Russel (photographer)
Hi I have a book cover. Coming Summer 2026 💃. I took a little disciplinary detour to talk about the importance of humanizing the communities we study. Could be fun could be cool if you bought it maybe when it comes out. Will update with the official deets. 👀
Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught
The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.
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In this new TSQ article, Sadie Dempsey (sadiemdempsey.bsky.social) draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork and 90 in-depth interviews to examine how civic associations facilitate political socialization.
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Nabil Tueme examines the different types of stories that undocumented students and their citizen allies share in support of undocumented student rights.
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A truly influential social theorist is gone #sociology
New study. We had adults place historical figures on the left-right ideological spectrum. Folks most often place history's villains (Hitler, Stalin, etc) as extreme examples of their opponents. But they place heroes (Jesus, MLK, Lincoln) are on their own team. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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In this new TSQ article, Celine Liao examines how feminist student activists in China navigate illiberal political and academic opportunity structures.
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In this new TSQ article, Katy Habr examines how the proximity of traditional grocery stores in Southern California to platform firms is impacting job security and working conditions for employees.
Read more at bit.ly/4ukDdBn