Sociological Inquiry

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

Now they have come for the Sociologists. How is this not content/viewpoint discrimination and therefore unconstitutional? Where is our First Amendment now?
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Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

truthout.org/articles/flo... #florida #sociology @truthout.org Critical article for everyone's review. My former home state -- a state which imbued its educational system in the 1970s-1990s with teaching critical, supported theories -- is now being hijacked by .... (1/3)

Florida Has Deemed All Existing Intro to Sociology Textbooks Illegal and Produced Its Own The Board of Governors overseeing the new curricula includes roofing contractors, insurance execs, and no professors.

Red states are like a different fucking planet where nothing makes sense if you have a functioning brain. truthout.org/articles/flo...

NEW from SI!

“Valuing Asian-Ness, Eschewing Whiteness: Ethnic Hierarchies and the Relative Salience of Minority Ethnicities Among Mixed-Race Asians in the United States” from Takeuyuki (Gaku) Tsuda @arizonastateuni.bsky.social

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Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns* The ways in which public officials, citizens, and social institutions are held accountable for social problems, including police-involved killings in the United States, reflect changing attributions ...

Analyzing 165 opinion columns from 2020, this study shows how writers either deflected responsibility or centered accountability—positioning opinion spaces as arenas where social problems are defined and responsibility is assigned.

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“Beyond Deflection: Accountability Frames in Opinion Columns” from Deborah A. Potter @uofl

How did local opinion writers frame responsibility following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd? 🧵⬇️

The article is a strong classroom resource for environmental sociology, medical sociology, and methods courses alike!

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It also models community-based participatory research (CBPR)—centering equitable partnerships and power-sharing between researchers and community members.

The article explores the concept of contested illnesses by examining how environmental health harms are denied or individualized rather than recognized as structural, medical problems.

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New Teaching Takeaway from Sociological Inquiry 🧵

Malin et al. (2025) explore how oil refining creates unjust environmental health impacts for children—and how communities respond.

Community‐Level Food Sovereignty and Wellbeing in the Upper Yakima River Basin: Framing Lived Experiences within Multi‐Scalar Food Systems Discourse Food sovereignty, a framework focused on systemic change in the food system that accounts for food access, food justice, and food security, is an important driver of community wellbeing. However, the....

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Community-level food sovereignty matters for community wellbeing.

New research in SI examines lived experiences in Washington’s Upper Yakima River Basin—linking food access, agriculture, and community well-being.

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First Publics is hosting another FREE webinar on February 23 from 1-2 PM EST! Join us for a conversation with Drs. Arturo Baiocchi, Sarah Lageson, and Piper Sledge about methods for/as public engagement!

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Scholarship becomes more powerful when it enters the classroom. ✊

Bring Teaching Takeaways from Sociological Inquiry into your classroom and spark meaningful discussion.

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Using Ann Swidler’s “tool kit” theory, the authors show how culture shapes behavior by providing a repertoire of habits and skills we draw on to act.

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Based on interviews from Spring 2021, the study examines how on-campus students responded to institutional rules during the COVID-19 Pandemic—a great catalyst for discussions on framing risky behavior in the sociological literature.

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How did students navigate COVID-19 regulations on campus?

Piness & Harger (2025) explore “strategies of action” during unsettled times.

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The Color of State Governance: Examining the Primacy of Race in Social Welfare and Criminal Justice Spending Across Multiple Levels of Government Over the past 50 years, scholars have documented a retrenchment of social welfare systems alongside an expansion of criminal justice systems across the United States. Yet, research rarely examines wh...

How does race shape state governance?

This featured article from our latest issue examines racial composition and social welfare & criminal justice spending across states, counties, and cities (1982–2020).

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Equal Time, Unequal Labor Division: Adolescents' Domestic Labor Time During the COVID‐19 Pandemic While existing research offers mixed evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected adults' division of housework, adolescents have remained largely overlooked in this regard. Using nationally repres...

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How did the COVID-19 pandemic shape adolescents’ domestic labor?

Using national time-use data, Suyeon Park Jang finds that gender gaps in routine housework persisted—girls continued to do more than boys.

These insights are especially useful for courses on gender, family, methods, or social inequality.

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A key teaching moment: qualitative sampling.

The authors note who is and is not represented—opening space for discussions about race, class, and exclusion in research.

Drawing on Gunnarsson et al. (2025), this research shows how women and men interpret dating struggles through broader gender relations—not just individual choice.

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How do gender and power shape experiences of involuntary singlehood in online dating?

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“Through Thick and Thin” How Black Educators Support Urban Students' Postsecondary Plans How does exposure to Black educators influence minority students' postsecondary planning processes and long-run educational ambitions? Prior studies have documented positive effects of student-teache....

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How do Black educators support urban students’ postsecondary plans?

This SI research from Joseph Sageman (@princeton.edu) highlights the relational & institutional mechanisms that shape minority student trajectories.

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First place winners are eligible to have their papers published in Sociological Inquiry should they choose to submit them 👇

Materiality, Agency, and the Reciprocal Dynamic of Reflexive Consumption: A College Student Thrifting Case Thrift shopping, or “thrifting,” has gained widespread popularity over the past 15+ years. Sociological inquiry into thrifting has linked the phenomenon to a wide-ranging blend of conditions and fact...

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“Materiality, Agency, and the Reciprocal Dynamic of Reflexive Consumption” by Matthew M. Mars (@uarizona.bsky.social) explores thrifting as an agentic, identity-forming practice among college students.

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🎓 Turning scholarship into teaching

These takeaways help instructors connect empirical research to classroom discussions on inequality, caregiving, and health.

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📊 Methods Spotlight: Mediation Tests

The authors examine whether depressive symptoms, parenting perceptions, household labor, and health behaviors help explain gendered health outcomes.

🧠 Key Concept: Self-Rated Health

A well-validated, holistic measure that predicts mortality and functions similarly across genders—making it a powerful tool for sociological research and instruction.

📚 Teaching Takeaways from Sociological Inquiry

This study from Martin et al. (2025) examines gender differences in employed parents’ self-rated health during COVID-19 school closures—offering timely insights for teaching health, gender, and family.