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Sociology's irrelevance in the news

by Syed Ali
Layers of irrelevance (photo by Dan Phiffer from Flickr Creative Commons) In an article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Orlando Patterson, an eminent … Read More

Top recent sociology on immigration

by Lucia Lykke
With President Obama’s recently announced executive action protecting some immigrant families from deportation, and the pending political battle with Congress, it’s a good time … Read More

Covering the Three Missouri Michaels

by Steven W. Thrasher
What did we learn about America as the media covered three young Black men in Missouri—an NFL recruit, an HIV-positive alleged sex offender, and a … Read More

Introducing Contexts online

by Philip Cohen
Contexts isn’t just a print magazine. As Syed Ali and I take over the editor’s desk, we’re adding a stream of online content — … Read More

About Contexts

Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge social research accessible to general readers. We're the public face of sociology.

It is a publication of the American Sociological Association, edited by Amin Ghaziani (University of California-Santa Barbara) and Seth Abrutyn (University of British Columbia), with Letta Page.