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Official Bluesky account of Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, the open-access journal of the American Sociological Association (ASA) srd.sagepub.com
They’ll never last 👫

S. Salim’s new article in #Socius uses a dyadic conjoint #survey to measure third-party evaluations of #interracial couples, including their perceived seriousness, #compatibility, and #white respondent approval of the couple.

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November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
She’ll play support 🎮

J. Brenner-Levoy (@jbrennerlevoy.bsky.social)'s new #Socius article explores how #genderidentity and socialization manifest when selecting #videogame roles, finding links between #femininity and support/healing roles

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November 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Who bears the mental load?

@anacweeks.bsky.social, @helenkowalewska.bsky.social, & @leahruppanner.bsky.social's new #Socius research argues that household #cognitive #labor sticks to #women regardless of time & resource constraints.

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October 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Moving up by moving up?

D. Witteveen (@dirkwitteveen.bsky.social)'s new #Socius study pushes back against the logic of #industrialism by comparing career trajectories for Black and White men by #domesticmigration status during and after the #GreatMigration

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October 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What’s happening in SEM research?

Y. Liu & E. Fong’s new #Socius article uses #machinelearning methods to track the ongoing growth of research on skilled/educated #migrants

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October 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
⛅ The climate of political polarization ⛈️

E. Huddart, T. Silva, P. Muzzerrall & S. Dimitrakopoulos’ #Socius study analyzes #survey data on attitudes towards #decarbonization policies to link affective #climate polarization to #political identity-based boundary-making

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October 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Family backgrounds & Faculty Positions

N.T. Borgen, A.S. Hermansen (@aresherman.bsky.social), & A.M.J. Sandsør's (@astridsandsor.bsky.social) #Socius research on #Norwegian paths to #academia demonstrates how social origins carry impacts in egalitarian #welfarestates

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October 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Changing spaces, diverse faces

W. Zhang & J. R. Logan’s new #Socius research analyzes #Census data on #racialdiversity in US #neighborhoods from 1980-2020 to understand what changes are contributing to this diversification.

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October 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
From ABCs to CVD 🫀

A. Zajacova, S. Fishman, & E. Lawrence’s new #Socius research examines national #UnitedStates #health data to uncover the complex relationship between #educationalattainment and #cardiovasculardisease

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October 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Do Large Language Models have Religious Biases?

J. Tom, T. Ferguson, & B. Martinez’s new article in #Socius analyzes #AI generated sermons for their readability to uncover how #LLMs potentially sustain #socialbiases.

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October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Is the Computer Science, Engineering, & Mathematics Field gender-neutral?

Park et al.’s new research in #Socius employs #mixedmethods to understand how #gendered perceptions of #CSEM work challenges change throughout job tenure

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September 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Labor divisions and marital divisions

Kimberly McErlean’s new research in #Socius compares how #gender egalitarian #labor divisions differently affect #divorcerates for couples across #education levels

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September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Shipwrecks and Shifting Opinions

N. Cavalli & E. Charitopoulou’s #Socius study demonstrates differing effects on public attitudes towards #immigration policies and #immigrants in #Italy in the wake of the #LampedusaShipwreck

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September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
💲Relief and Righteous Anger

D. V. Reyes, M. Quesada, & K. Garcia-Galvez’s #Socius study examines the emotional impact of the #COVID #studentloans repayment pause for #Latinx #millennial borrowers.

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September 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
⛪ Unaffiliated, but not undevoted

@matthewblanton.bsky.social's new #Socius study challenges common understandings of #secularization, analyzing trends of increased personal religiosity alongside decreased institutional religiosity from 2004-2023 in #LatinAmerica.

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September 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🎀🍺 Alcohol Miss-Use

C. Uscola’s (@colteruscola.bsky.social) new #Socius study examines how women and men seek to resist #familytrauma informed #genderexpectations through their performance of #alcoholuse.

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September 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What's the collective in this #collectiveaction?

A. Kotanko’s (@akotanko.bsky.social) #Socius study of an #immigration clinic demonstrates how #socialmovement organizations draw on #personalidentity to encourage collective action participation.

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September 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Same work, (perceptions of) different pay?

C. Diehl, J. Lang, O. Brüggemann, & S. Strauss compare relative #wageinequality and perceptions of wage inequality for #gendered differences in the perception and acceptance of wage inequality.

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September 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
📚How do gender-typed aspirations influence academic performance?

Dr. Liza Reisel’s #Socius study examines how gender-typed occupational goals and educational expectations help explain the #gender gap in #education achievement.

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September 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
⚖️ Same facts, different outcomes.

A #Socius study by Drs. Christopher Kleps, Vincent J. Roscigno & Reginald A. Byron shows how #RacialDiscrimination in the #Workplace gets interpreted in court—filtered through #Narratives and legal assumptions.

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September 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🦄 Who gets heard in Washington?

Dr. @wendyyli.bsky.social (from @jhu.edu)'s #Socius study unpacks how revolving-door #Lobbyists cultivate #PoliticalCredibility through claims to #Expertise & #InsiderKnowledge.

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September 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🌐 One flag invites another: Swedish #ClimateDenial isn’t just homegrown.

A new #Socius study by Drs. Anton Törnberg & Victoria Vallström shows how global #ClimateSkeptic content fuels far-right, antiestablishment alliances online.

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September 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🔄 Identities shift, even when #SkinColor doesn't.

In #Jamaica, #SES and #Mixedness shape self-identification. Dr. Monique D. A. Kelly (@michiganstateu.bsky.social)’s #Socius study shows rising #RacialFluidity as “Black” and “Mixed” blur.

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August 31, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🍹 “$10 for you, $6 for him.”

A #Socius study shows #Black men face higher drink prices than white patrons in urban #nightclubs—subtle but telling #Antiblack #Discrimination in #PublicSpace.

By Drs. Reuben May, Matthew Soener, Carileigh Jones & Quinesha.

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August 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
💼 How do people who use drugs navigate the #LaborMarket?

In #Socius, Drs. Mike Vuolo, Anneliese Ward, and
@leschneider.bsky.social show how #Stigma, survival strategies & low-wage work shape reentry for #JusticeInvolved adults.

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August 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM