Sneaks and peeks! We’re working on the spring issue, coming May 15. Don’t forget to pick Contexts as your print journal when you renew your ASA membership!

Update: that’s the Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professor Samuel Perry! 🎉

Don’t miss this write-up from Colter Uscola in Contexts Magazine! 🇺🇸

Today it was announced that I've been awarded the Sam K. Viersen Presidential Professorship at OU.

I'm overwhelmed with gratitude that I get to research, write, teach, & mentor for a living. Even more grateful to be able to do that with stellar colleagues, coauthors, & students.

Discover insights in sociology with the Contexts Winter 2024 edition from ASA Sociology! From culture to policy, this issue covers a diverse range of topics.

Browse all their latest articles here:
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In Brief! UBC Sociology student Colter J. Uscola covers new The Sociological Quarterly research by Sam Perry (@OU_SocCrim) and colleagues on Christian Nationalism and U.S. attitudes toward ethno-racial inclusion and exclusion: 'Who's a True American?'
contexts.org/articles/true-…

UBC Sociology PhD student Parker Muzzerall and I worked with Kathleen O'Grady to use insights and evidence from sociology to weigh in on Canada's federal budget. #Sociology #ClimateAction

Excited to share my new article, “Engineering Inequality: Informal Coaching, Glass Walls, and Social Closure in Silicon Valley” - out now in AJS! This one was years in the making and I’m so glad it’s finally out in the world. Read on below: doi.org/10.1086/729506

Unlike helping an adult child with, say, a down payment on a home, paying their court fines and fees is a 'stigmatized transfer,' putting extra financial and emotional strain on parents and parent-child relationships. -Veronica Horowitz et al in The Sociological Quarterly tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

So happy to share our new paper!
Ryan Larson Robert Stewart Chris Uggen

And so grateful for the support from Arnold Ventures

Fines, Fees, and Families: Monetary Sanctions As Stigmatized Intergenerational Exchange tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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We love our editors! 🥳Contexts Magazine co-editors @[email protected] & Amin Ghaziani are rocking the world with their new books!

UBC Media Relations UBC Sociology Contexts Magazine Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s @OxfordUp Oxford Academic

Coming up! Contexts Magazine co-editor @[email protected] and co-author Anna S. Mueller talk with @gladwell at the The 92nd Street Y, New York about their new book on youth suicide (+prevention), Life Under Pressure (@OUPAcademic). In-person and online, 5/6, 7pm ET

92ny.org/event/anna-mue…

New from Catherine D. Tan (@Vassar) on the Contexts Magazine blog: Who Gets to Speak for #Autism ? '...there remains much uncertainty about autism’s causes, prevention, and treatment. However, two groups confidently—and defiantly—claim to have the answers.' contexts.org/blog/autism/

I made a Sociology themed Connections+ game! 🤓 connectionsplus.io/game/qolksU

Why write for Contexts Magazine? Hear from authors who have published with us!

According to DeAnna Y. Smith (@UMich), Michelle Pannor Silver (@UofT_Sociology) & emily huddart kennedy (@UBCSociology), it’s a journal that does justice to storytelling.

Learn more: contexts.org/blog/storytell…

Strengthen your op-ed writing skills! Participate in the Op-Edathon to work in small groups on a topic of your choice, build support for op-ed writing, and learn about pitch strategies. Register today: bit.ly/3J4QdVj

Congratulations Ellen Bryer & Alex Adames!

In the spirit of public engagement, Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s & I collaborated on a creative project: we advertised my book at tube stations in the London underground! Here are images, including a photo shoot to make the ephemeral everlasting. ASA Sociology UBC Media Relations UBC Sociology Contexts Magazine

So glad that Catherine D. Tan is sharing work on Contexts Magazine blog!

Renewing your ASA Sociology membership before the annual conference? We highly suggest choosing Contexts Magazine as your print journal--it's a great way treat yourself (and your coffee table)!