Contexts Blog
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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by Emma Mishel
Results from a resume audit study show queer-perceived women are less likely to be called back for a job interview than their straight female counterparts.
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by Philip Cohen & Syed Ali
It’s not that information does or doesn’t want to be free, but it is certainly the case that information travels very light.
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by Kim Weeden
Segregation among faculty is bad, but not that bad.
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by Andrew Lindner
In general, I try to avoid sociology inside-baseball. I enjoy reading about the triple crisis in sociology as much as the next guy, but …
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by Jennifer Lee
Ask a Sociologist: "I’m Asian. If I want my kids to get ahead in this country, should I change their Asian-sounding last name?"
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by Jessie Ford and Paula England
Fewer people say same-sex sex is "wrong," but substantial differences between groups remain.
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