Contexts Blog
by Michelle J. Cera, Jessie Ford, and and Paula England
Heterosexual men’s experiences of unwanted sex are often overlooked. We tend to see sexual assault perpetrators as male and victims as female—and usually that is …
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by Kristine Wang, Jessie Ford, and and Paula England
To study immigrants’ experiences in American society, researchers often compare first- or second-generation immigrants to those whose families have been in the US for a …
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by Syed Ali and Philip N. Cohen
Contexts is a labor of love, not just for the editors, but for our writers, editorial board members, and everyone else involved. There …
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by Michelle J. Cera, Jessie Ford, and Paula England
Walking a tightrope in casual hookup situations, either they have sex and risk being seen as a “slut,” or decline to have sex and risk being seen as a “prude” or a “bitch.”
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by Mark R. Rank
Given our current age of “alternative facts” and “fake news,” moving sociological research into the hands of a wider audience has taken on added importance.
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by Seth Abrutyn and Anna S. Mueller
Note: this article contains spoilers and detailed discussions of suicide and sexual assault. Recently, Netflix released a series based on the young adult novel 13 …
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by Mónica L. Caudillo, Paula England, and Eliza Brown
It is common for couples of every social class to cohabit sometime in early adulthood in the U.S., and most marry later. However, women from …
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by Justin Maietta
Before you keep reading on, stop for a moment and think about what you see in the picture above. February was …
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by Greg Fallis
Reprinted with permission. I got metaphorically spanked a couple of days ago. Folks have been talking about the Fearless Girl statue ever since it …
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by Rose Malinowski Weingartner
Immigration statistics are everywhere, true or false. Need to clear something up in a lecture, a paper, or dinner table conversation? Lots of …
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