Contexts Blog
by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas
Photo by Changbok Ko (Source: Unsplash) COVID-19 has exposed America’s fragile fault lines associated with economic and racial inequality.
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by Keera Allendorf
Image by rajeshkoiri007 (Source: Pixabay) In Netflix’s docuseries, “Indian Matchmaking,” singles search …
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by Elizabeth Balzac, Paula England, and and Andrew Levine
Image by chayka1270 (Source: Pixabay) You can tell something about a person—or a state—by their Google searches. This is …
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by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas
COVID-19 has forever changed the world and our lives. As of the beginning of July, the total COVID-19 cases around the world is approaching …
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by Jean Beaman and Catherine J. Taylor
On April 27, 2020, Dove promoted a hashtag #CourageIsBeautiful with the tagline “Thank you, Frontline Heroes.” The next day, Ivanka Trump tweeted about a military …
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by Musa al-Gharbi
One key insight of the “discursive turn” in social research is how concepts are defined, and by whom, reveals a lot about power relations within …
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by Josh McCabe
On behalf of Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public, Dr. Josh McCabe interviewed Dr. Scott Winship about his time working in Congress. Winship is …
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by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas
The coronavirus epidemic is a classic “right now” crisis. A new disease has entered the human population and is quickly claiming hundreds of thousands of …
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by Rashawn Ray and Fabio Rojas
Most colleges and universities in the United States, and universities in many countries around the world, are now physically closed. Since the reckoning of the …
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by Tiffany Joseph
As a sociologist, my research has examined the intersection of race, ethnicity, immigration, health, and policy with migrant communities domestically and abroad. Through that research, …
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