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Q&A with Dr. Stephanie Canizales

by Contexts Magazine
Dr. Stephanie L. Canizales is the author of the Winter 2023 Contexts article “Caught in the Dragnet: How Punitive Immigration Laws Harm Immigrant … Read More

How To Fact-Check an Ethnography (or Anything Else)

by Steven Lubet
Recent years have seen increased emphasis on fact-checking in journalism, politics, and academics. Ethnography presents a particular set of challenges that some scholars have … Read More

In Brief: Close to the Issue

by Parker Muzzerall
Why would you support a protest? Ranging from socially disruptive to catalysts for change, our perceptions of protests and social movements are often … Read More

Book Bans Impact Students’ Worldviews

by Alyssa Lyons
Do you remember the first book you read that changed your life? I do. It was Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. I was in an … Read More

Q&A with Jennifer Randles

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Jennifer Randles, co-author along with Jennifer Sherman of the Winter 2023 feature article “Diaper Despair and Deflecting Inequalities,” tells us why she loves … Read More

A Display of White Ignorance in ICE’s COVID-19 Response

by Joshua R. Hummel and Emily P. Estrada
As sociologists who study race as it relates to immigrant detention, we see White ignorance as different from ignorance in the more general sense. In … Read More

Q&A with Lauren Crosser

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Lauren Crosser is the author, along with Sarah Mayorga and Megan R. Underhill, of the feature article “Aisle Inequality” in the Winter 2023 issue … Read More

Q&A with Chiara Cooper

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In her Winter 2023 article, “Heterosex on Campus: Laced with Double-Binds,” Chiara Elena Cooper’s interviews with race- and class-privileged college students reveal a web of … Read More

Fear of CPS: A Teaching Package

by Contexts Magazine
Above, co-author DeAnna Y. Smith, who penned the Winter 2023 feature “Child Removal Fears and Black Mothers’ Medical Decision-Making” with Alexus Roane, speaks with Contexts graduate … Read More

Contexts in the Classroom: Teaching Durkheim’s Suicide at UBC

by Contexts Magazine
Contexts articles are perfect for the classroom: rigorous, relevant, readable, and rad! In this video, Dr. Seth Abrutyn, Contexts co-editor, talks about using his … 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 and Seth Abrutyn (University of British Columbia), with Letta Page.