Contexts Blog
by Frank Furstenberg and Sheela Kennedy
More than a decade ago we published a piece in Contexts entitled, “Growing Up is Harder to Do” showing how the transition to adulthood …
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by Eamon Whalen
The bigotry one faces being Muslim… it’s just very present. [A]s the band, we’re traveling around, we’re a motley crew, and sometimes people don’t how to interface with that. The reality is that there are things that require dialogue, that require a bit more attention, and that can’t just be let go because, “This person’s a bigot, this person’s a racist, and that’s what it is.” Yes that’s what it is, but let’s have a dialogue about it. The Gaadi of Truth is addressing that. …[T]hese are conversations that need to be happening.
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by Dana R. Fisher
The term “Dark Money” conjures images of back-room deals, bribes and quid pro quo arrangements, but what is Dark Money, really? And why should we …
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by Ernesto Castañeda
The overwhelming majority of residents of El Paso, Texas, reported feeling safe in their city.
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by Sidra Montgomery
The misappropriation of images of wounded veterans isn’t something new to this community.
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by Paula England and Eliza Brown
Partnerships are most equally distributed among straight women and least so among lesbians.
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by joshua gamson
“Shit, this is the worst,” Anthony Weiner declares to himself at the beginning of the titular documentary (now in theaters), as he waits for someone …
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by Paula England and Eliza Brown
A novel application of the Gini coefficient shows how much sexual partners are unequally distributed.
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by Victor P. Corona
A response to Myra Marx Ferree’s review of Primates of Park Avenue.
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by Melissa Brown
If you want to learn more about how the digital relates to your sociological research, here are some great places to start.
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