Contexts

sociology for the public

Winter 2025

Volume: 24 | Number: 1

With new endings and new beginnings, the world never stops changing. That can be stressful and painful, but from it can spring forth so many good things. Whether, as in our evocative photo essays and trends pieces this issue, we step into that more generative space by crossing boundaries and blazing paths or, as in our special election reflections, by bringing our knowledge to bear on pressing social problems, we believe this first issue
of the year illuminates an irrevocable insight: agency, like the contexts in which we live our lives, matters—and it provides an inextinguishable spark of hope amid the sting of heartbreak.

letter from the editors: winter 2025

And so begins our end. With this issue we step forward into the final year of our editorship of Contexts, embodying in … Read More

winter 2025 table of contents

from the editors in brief: “Cash and Control,” Colter J. Uscola. “Place-Based Politics,” Parker Muzzerall. “New Labor Model, Same Old Problems,” Parker Muzzerall. Read More