Contexts Magazine
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Contexts is a quarterly magazine that makes cutting-edge sociology research accessible to journalists, policymakers, sociologists, and general readers. Edited by David Grazian with managed editor Elena van Stee. contexts.org
What are mothers of children with disabilities telling us? Interviews with mothers by Robert Crosnoe and colleagues reveal resilience, growth, and joy over decades of mothering. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
How did sexual harassment become recognized as unlawful discrimination in education? Celene Reynolds traces how 1970s and '80s feminist coalitions transformed Title IX, showing how ordinary citizens can change not just laws, but how they're interpreted. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Analyzing Fox News broadcasts from 2012–2024, Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Shelby Frye, Bri Londerée, Ryleigh Adkins, and Shreya Yogesh identify the rhetorical strategies broadcasters use to fuel an anti-transgender moral panic. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
"To be called 'essential' in America in 2020 was to be deemed expendable by our government and our society." Read David Grazian's interview with Eric Klinenberg in the latest issue of Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
In our Spring 2026 issue, Joslyn Brenton shows how middle-class parents experienced tensions between recognizing inequality and benefiting from it. Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
New issue! Our Spring '26 issue is free to read, share, and download through July 22. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx
New in Books! 📚 Ryanne Pilgeram reviews Dividing Paradise and Who We Are Is Where We Are. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Rodney Benson shares "One Thing I Know" about the ownership forms that constrain journalistic independence. Read it in Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
New photo essay! 📸 David Bacon on indigenous dance as an act of resistance. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Many schools have moved away from formal suspensions and expulsions, but more informal disciplinary practices have emerged in their place. Rebecca Gleit and Lily Steyer have the story ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Why do some people accept, or even approve of, economic inequalities? Francesco Duina and Luca Storti examine various justifications—market, moral, cultural, and group-based—that people across the world invoke to defend their views. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Whereas homicide laws scale charges by intent, sexual assault laws do not. Julie Fennell considers how updating our legal and cultural vocabulary around sexual violation could benefit both survivors and offenders. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Young Americans aren't simply abandoning religion—they're transforming it. Landon Schnabel, Ilana Horwitz, Peyman Hekmatpour, and Cyrus Schleifer show how young people are breaking away from traditional religious institutions while pursuing new forms of community. ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
New Issue! Read it paywall-free for the next 30 days at journals.sagepub.com/home/ctx
Challenging common notions about kink, BDSM practitioners share their media-fueled awakenings in their own words. Read Alicia M. Walker and Arielle Kuperberg in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...
In New York City, a restorative justice approach is helping to connect civil servants and the public as they navigate everyday conflict. Read Caroline Hanley in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...
State legislatures and education officials are rapidly advancing policies that increase religious influence in American public schools. Read Orit Avishai's feature in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...
From Tupperware to Mary Kay, multi-level-marketing companies promise sellers they can have it all—but at what cost? Read Nicole Muffitt's feature in our Fall '25 issue! ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...
Owen Whooley explains why crisis intervention training often fails in its stated goal of improving police officer responses to calls involving mental health crises. ➡️ contexts.org/issues/fall-...
New in Contexts! @dmmurphy.bsky.social on political rhetoric versus reality.
Contexts Magazine is closing out 2025 by celebrating outgoing co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social and @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social! Editor-elect David Grazian will take the helm in 2026, with @elenavanstee.bsky.social as managing editor.
Hot off the presses! Contexts co-editors @aminghaziani.bsky.social & @sethabrutyn.bsky.social, along with senior managing editor @lettapage.bsky.social, are signing off with the Fall 2025 issue. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctxa/24/4 @sagepublishing.bsky.social
“During the holiday season, mothers are spending the equivalent of an extra work week on housework and shopping compared to fathers.” Read Kate Prickett and Jennifer Augustine on a maternal Third Shift: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
In a thoughtful essay, Laurel R. Davis-Delano and Stephanie A. Fryberg explain how our summer 2025 cover reflected and reinforced settler colonialism. Read their essay and the Contexts editorial team's apology: contexts.org/articles/the...
Get it while it’s open-access! Today is the last day to read our latest issue for free! contexts.org/articles/su2...
Q&A! aminghaziani.bsky.social speaks with former Contexts editors Jodi O’Brien & ajoystein.bsky.social about translating research and engaging with the public. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
In brief! In "Coding our AI Interactions," @colteruscola.bsky.social reviews Elizabeth Rodwell's research on the UX designers who decide how machines "talk" to people. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Nantucket construction uncovered human remains right where the map said they’d be. Read "Digging into Indigenous History" by Stephanie A. Bohon and Shaylee Hodges in @contexts.org! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377360
🥇 What makes a 3-year-old applicant “worthy” of admission to an elite preschool? Incoming managing editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social reviews @estelabdiaz.bsky.social & Lauren Rivera's recent ASR article. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377354
New on the blog! @amcneely.com (@utdallas.bsky.social) responds to @davidyamane.bsky.social ➡️ contexts.org/blog/a-forme...