Contexts Blog
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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by adam reich
When Walmart opened its first two stores in Washington D.C. in late 2013, Mayor Vincent Gray said that the massive retailer would help …
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by craig upright
During the 1970s, women’s greater integration into the economy coincided with significant cultural and structural changes. One of the most popular television comedies during this …
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by maria mcgarrity
This year marks the centenary celebration of Ireland’s Easter 1916 rebellion. The “Rising,” as it is called, took place on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916.
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by Grad Team
Politicians promise. Sociologists can help.
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by syed ali and philip cohen
Ethnographies are works of deep research based on in-depth, open-ended interviews and keen observations of how people go about their lives in different contexts. Researchers …
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