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- Food insecurity and IPV among women living w/ HIV/AIDs in Ghana
- Managing racial identities
- Gender and firearm ownership
- Merit, fit & diversity and academic gatekeeping in US universities
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Inside this issue:
- Reconceptualizing crisis
- Immigration attitudes
- Gender identity and safety
- Women's autonomy & Child mortality in Tanzania
- Excessive internet use
- First generation precocity in higher ed
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New issue out now 🎉
Sociological Inquiry, Volume 96, Issue 2 (May 2026) 📘
Featuring research on inequality, identity, and social structure across global contexts.
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When #sociology is facing real challenges, connection matters more than ever.
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🗓 April 9 | 6:30–9:30 PM
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📚 Featured in Sociological Inquiry: a 2025 review of Le Lin's The Fruits of Opportunism by Pham Jasmin Ngoc.
📖 Read the full review of the @uchicagopress.bsky.social book via the link: doi.org/10.1111/soin...
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Now featured in the latest issue of Sociological Inquiry:
How do people make sense of work that grants them no economic recognition?
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Together, these concepts offer powerful tools for teaching immigration, attitudes toward social groups, and inequality.
📚 Use the article in your classroom to join us in turning scholarship into teaching!
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Blumer’s theory of group position adds another layer.
👉 Prejudice reflects how groups perceive their place in a broader social hierarchy.
Using Bogardus’s social distance scale, the study examines how much distance residents prefer from a newer ethnic group in their community.
It’s not just about interaction, but also boundaries.
Social distance shapes how communities define belonging.
This Teaching Takeaway from Sociological Inquiry explores attitudes toward ethnic and immigrant groups through classic sociological frameworks.
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How do various #JobDemands & resources impact perceived stress and, consequently, how people cope?
This #EarlyView article in SI examines how job conditions influence substance use for cognitive enhancement in Germany.
📖 Open access 👉 doi.org/10.1111/soin...
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Samantha M. Frisk (@uconn.bsky.social) shows how these ideas connect late nineteenth-century Germany to mid-twentieth-century America—offering insights that still resonate today.
Read the full review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
How do Du Bois’s writings help us understand anti-Semitism and the color line across different historical contexts?
📘This Sociological Inquiry #BookReview explores The Souls of Jewish Folk by James M. Thomas.👇
Join us in turning scholarship into teaching and use this Teaching Takeaway to help students critically examine the state’s complex role in justice and resistance!
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This study is grounded in deep ethnographic work:
📍 83 antimafia events
📍 56 interviews
📍 37 months in Palermo
A strong example of how immersive research can illuminate the realities of resistance.
Collective resistance doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Political institutions and elites can either enable or obstruct social movements, depending on shifting “political opportunities” like public opinion, policy changes, or leadership transitions.
What does it mean to fight for justice when the state is unreliable?
This Teaching Takeaway explores the “dual-edged state paradox” in Messina (2024) .
A powerful way to bring conversations about power, resistance, and institutions into the classroom. 🧵
NEW Featured Article!
🔥“In the Heat of the Moment: The Emotional Labor Strategies of Women Restaurant Servers Responding to Sexual Harassment” by Krista Lynn Minnotte & Elizabeth M. Legerski @UofNorthDakota
Read the article 👉 doi.org/10.1111/soin...
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📚 New book review in Sociological Inquiry 👉 Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South challenges prevailing assumptions and misrepresentations surrounding human mobility.
Reviewed by Gennaro Errichiello
Read at the link: doi.org/10.1111/soin...
For instructors, this framework helps students connect hate crime research with sociological theory and examine how conflict and social change shape patterns of violence.
Access the full text here: doi.org/10.1111/soin...
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Drawing on Donald Black’s theories of social control and social time, the authors conceptualize hate crime as a strategy used to manage conflict.
In this view, hate crime can emerge during periods of social change as groups respond to shifting social relationships.
Hate crimes are often defined as a legal category, but focusing only on law can obscure earlier forms of similar behavior and make cross-national comparisons difficult.
Sociology pushes us to ask deeper questions about the phenomenon.
📚 Teaching Takeaway from Sociological Inquiry
Borg & Holder (2025) revisit hate crime through the lens of sociological theory, asking us to look beyond legal definitions to understand how hate crime functions socially.
A thread 🧵
Now they have come for the Sociologists. How is this not content/viewpoint discrimination and therefore unconstitutional? Where is our First Amendment now?
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truthout.org/articles/flo... #florida #sociology @truthout.org Critical article for everyone's review. My former home state -- a state which imbued its educational system in the 1970s-1990s with teaching critical, supported theories -- is now being hijacked by .... (1/3)
Red states are like a different fucking planet where nothing makes sense if you have a functioning brain. truthout.org/articles/flo...
NEW from SI!
“Valuing Asian-Ness, Eschewing Whiteness: Ethnic Hierarchies and the Relative Salience of Minority Ethnicities Among Mixed-Race Asians in the United States” from Takeuyuki (Gaku) Tsuda @arizonastateuni.bsky.social
Full text: doi.org/10.1111/soin...
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Analyzing 165 opinion columns from 2020, this study shows how writers either deflected responsibility or centered accountability—positioning opinion spaces as arenas where social problems are defined and responsibility is assigned.
Read the article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New Early View in Sociological Inquiry 📚
“Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns” from Deborah A. Potter @uofl
How did local opinion writers frame responsibility following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd? 🧵⬇️
The article is a strong classroom resource for environmental sociology, medical sociology, and methods courses alike!
How would you use it?
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