Contexts Blog
by stefanie DeLuca, susan clampet-lundquist, and and kathryn edin
In the mid-1990s, the federal government launched a high-profile social experiment in five cities to determine if escaping concentrated neighborhood poverty could change the lives …
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by Kimberly Kay Hoang and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
On January 3, 2009, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote an op-ed “If This Isn’t Slavery, What Is?” In it he described the …
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by annette lareau and aliya hamid rao
A key strength of in-depth interviews and ethnography is obtaining textured insights into social phenomenon. Yet, many qualitative researchers try to invoke the reliability of …
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by alexandra murphy and colin jerolmack
Demands for data transparency are sweeping across the social sciences. Calls for the sharing of survey instruments, code, databases, and even interview transcripts, have grown …
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by Carrie Clarady and Rose Malinowski Weingartner
Some of us here at Contexts Grad Team are big fans of podcasts. Here are our top picks.
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by Miliann Kang
A screengrab via Inside Edition’s YouTube page. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences issued a statement two days ago regarding offensive jokes about …
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by Stephen Barnard
Social media has come to play a significant role in Higher Education. Academics use social media for many things, including public scholarship, professional …
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by Eliza Brown and Paula England
If you know which sexual orientation people identify with, how much does that tell you about whether they have sex with women, men, or both? …
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by Rachel King
Hollywood's homogenous pap has competition, just not at the Oscars. How cheap and bleak are better than white and bland when it comes to movie-making.
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by Nicole Bedera
The latest issue of Gender & Society sets a course for the sociology of rape.
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