Contexts

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Thinking in Context

by James M. Jasper

Documenting Disaster After Katrina

by Gary K. Perry and Michael Mizell-Nelson

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Got Power?

by Christine Williams

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What They’re Reading

by Deborah Carr, Ted Conover, Avery F. Gordon, Mary Pattillo, Jeffrey Prager, and Erik Olin Wright

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In Pictures

Guantanamo Bay

by Christopher Sims

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Jargon

Crowdsourcing

by Hana Shepherd

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Understanding “Occupy”

by Ruth Milkman, Benjamin Barber, Mohammed A. Bamyeh, William Julius Wilson, Dana Williams, and Deborah B. Gould

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Ubiquitous Spirituality

by Michele Dillon

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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 David Grazian with managing editor Elena G. van Stee, both at the University of Pennsylvania.

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