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Tara Gonsalves, “Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification,” American Journal of Sociology, 2024 A small pile of piles next to a stack of money, by Kaboompics.com is licensed under Pexels License Over the past two decades, insurance coverage for gender affirming healthcare has rapidly expanded. Gender affirming care includes surgical, hormonal, or other care that enables […]

New & Noteworthy Jordyn Wald’s latest StoryMap leverages S. Ericson’s piece on conspiracy theories, summarizing research on how belief in hidden powers offers comfort amid uncertainty. The piece traces the rise of conspiratorial thinking across social classes, examines how distrust in institutions fuels belief, and highlights the internet’s role in transforming “stigmatized knowledge” into shared […]

Your most recent book, Misrepresentation in Silence in United States History Textbooks, demonstrates the distortion of history in American textbooks. What are the implications or effects of misrepresentation? Dr. Gellman: Misrepresentation continues to allow certain kinds of stories to be told about groups of people in ways that maintain and perpetuate dominant social hierarchies. For […]

Check out this TSP article, which discusses how conversations around race have changed in online spaces, focusing on colorblind nationalism.

In this episode, Dr. Daniel Silver, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life (2020), joins us to discuss and read from Talcott Parsons’ On Institutions and Social Evolution, edited by Leon H. Mayhew. In our conversation, Dan helps me understand the logic […]

In February 2024, the New York Times published a two-part series on the results of a survey of men who are fans of women’s soccer. The survey addressed how and why men became fans of women’s soccer, the relationship between their fandom of men and women’s sport, and how they perceived and participated in fan […]

Jordyn is a first year PhD student in the Sociology Department at the University of Minnesota. Her interests lie on the perpetuation of gender inequality across intersecting dimensions of culture, media, race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and family.

I’ve recently reimagined an introductory sociology course into a digital sociology course that introduces students to social science research methods and foundational sociological concepts. In this class, students conduct a digital auto-ethnography of their social media feeds on platforms like Instagram and TikTok and use theories like C. Wright Mills’ “sociological imagination” to better understand […]

This article by García-Albacete and Hoskins (2024) examines the effect of higher education on political self-efficacy. The article suggests that some teaching methods may widen the gender gap in political self-efficacy.

New & Noteworthy From the Archives More from our Partners & Community Pages Council on Contemporary Families: Center or Holocaust and Genocide Studies:

Prof. dr. Sarah Cramsey is the Special Chair for Central European Studies at Leiden University, an Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, she will be the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY, a project […]

Marcus A. Brooks, “Online discourse in the post- “new racism” era?: Toward a theory of colorblind nationalism,” Sociology Compass, 2024 Three social media message bubbles with blurred graphics. Image by author, Jordyn Wald. Racist talk among conservatives has long been divided by scholars into two main types: forms of which are “overt” (open and direct) […]

TSP Board members discuss a recent episode of Normal Gossip. Kelsey McKinney (Author and Journalist) discusses her new book, You Didn’t Hear This From Me, and how she thinks about the functions of gossip with some inspiration from sociology.

Did you know that the American Sociological Review has a podcast? See this link to get access to various episodes that you can use in your courses.

New & Noteworthy From the Archives More from our Partners & Community Pages Council on Contemporary Families

Are you teaching a course on health care? This video from ASA’s video series features Paul Starr of Princeton University as he discusses how the healthcare industry has changed over time and why it’s important.

A young woman sitting on her couch with her laptop, drinking coffee alone.  Image by Vlada Karpovich from Pexels is licensed under Pexels license. Stories of young people self-isolating frequent national headlines, with The Atlantic, NPR, Fox, The New York Times and others shedding light on this growing pattern. Loneliness, an inherent source of human […]

This piece, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, offers instructors various ideas for sparking joy and fostering connection in the classroom. Many of these activities can even be adapted for online classes.

New & Noteworthy This week’s Clippings includes: Jonathan Rauch wrote in The Atlantic on how Trump’s administration embraces “patrimonialism,” a loyalty-based governing style that breeds corruption. Karyn Vilbig explained in The Conversation how improved views of Black Americans from 2012 to 2020 drove increased support for social welfare programs. The ASA and AFT sued over […]

Jill E Yavorsky, Lisa A Keister, Yue Qian, and Sarah Thébaud, “Separate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite,” Social Forces, 2023 A father and his three children wearing surfing wetsuits, running on a beach. Photo by Kampus Production under Pexels license. Gendered work and family patterns among couples in the financial […]