Contexts

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Is there anything positive coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic?

by Jacob Thomas
Photo by Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash.   Social critics typically have the role of highlighting negative or … Read More

Pandemic Intensified Motherhood

by Laura Limonic
Photo by Alexander Dummer on Unsplash. I feel responsible for my son’s well-being –  his happiness, his … Read More

Remembering Sinikka Elliott

by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas
Sinikka Elliott (Photo Source: UBC Department Profile) It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing … Read More

From The Critical Race Initiative: In solidarity with our Asian and Asian American colleagues and friends

by Chandra Reyna and Sydney Yarbrough
Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona (Source: Unsplash). On Tuesday, a white man purchased a gun and within hours walked … Read More

Cross University Collaboration for STEM Education and Social Justice

by Monica J. Carter, Luis A. Colón, Anna De Cheke Qualls, Kamla Deonauth, and Panos S. Shiakolas
Image by Harish Sharma (Source: Pixabay) Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “My humanity is bound up in … Read More

Coronavirus and Community: A Spring 2020 Course Fashioned Off Contexts’ Call for Papers on the Global Impacts of the Pandemic

by Rebecca A. London
Photo by Caniceus (Source: Pixabay). As the world moved to remote teaching and learning this past spring, … Read More

The damage done

by Marco Z. Garrido
Photo by Fred Moon on Unsplash. The storming of the US Capitol building came as a shock … Read More

Contextualizing the Capitol Riot

by sdurham
A photo of the Capitol during the January 6, 2020 riot in response to Trump’s loss in the 2020 … Read More

Kim Ng’s rise does not solve baseball’s gender and race problems

by Margaret M. Chin
A panoramic view of Miami Marlins Park. (Photo by David Aughinbaugh II. Source: Flickr, CC) Kim Ng’s … Read More

Empathy is Hard. What We Need is (Sociological) Imagination

by Clare L. Stacey
Photo by David Drexler (Source: Flickr) I live in the liberal bubble of Kent, Ohio, home to … Read More

About Contexts

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. We're the public face of sociology.

It is a publication of the American Sociological Association, edited by Amin Ghaziani and Seth Abrutyn (University of British Columbia), with Letta Page.