Jonathan Coley

New study. We had adults place historical figures on the left-right ideological spectrum. Folks most often place history's villains (Hitler, Stalin, etc) as extreme examples of their opponents. But they place heroes (Jesus, MLK, Lincoln) are on their own team. 1/4 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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In this new TSQ article, Celine Liao examines how feminist student activists in China navigate illiberal political and academic opportunity structures.

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In this new TSQ article, Katy Habr examines how the proximity of traditional grocery stores in Southern California to platform firms is impacting job security and working conditions for employees.

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In this TSQ article, Andrew McCumber (@ahmccumber.bsky.social) examines the role of nonhuman animals in the valuation of “natural” sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

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In this new TSQ article, Daisy Verduzco Reyes and Felicia Cruz-Fernandez examine how Latino millennial student activists navigated debates over the meaning and relevance of the “Chicano” label in the late 2000s.

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A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Ingrid Nelson, Jeremiah Brown, and Nicole Nigro employ racialized organization and inhabited institutionalism theories to explore how athletes and non-athletes experienced campus life before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Free to read through the end of April at bit.ly/4aFLDeR

We’re looking forward to hosting a webinar with Anna Strhan on her new co-authored book "Growing Up Godless: Non-Religious Childhoods in Contemporary England," 2:30pm-3:30pm EST on March 4th. To attend the free virtual event, please register here: uwaterloo.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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In this new open-access TSQ article, Mariana Amorim, Megan Doherty Bea, and Asude Aydagul offer a new perspective on why so many people use payday loan services.

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In this new TSQ article, Chinyere Agbai, Jennifer W. Bouek, and Thomas Marlow examine how a neighborhood’s poverty trajectory shape its likelihood of social service organization deprivation.

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Is there really a 'quiet revival' of religion among Gen Z? A fierce debate is taking place about whether there really has been a revival in Christianity.

NEW: Is there really a 'quiet revival' of religion among Gen Z?

FAQs: Checking in on the Department of Education | Brookings A year into the second Trump administration, Brown Center scholars offer a check-in on the Department of Education—what has happened and what might lie ahead.

FAQs: Checking in on the Department of Education via @brookings.edu

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It just worked for me. If you are first taken to a page with an ad (annoying), you then have to click a button that says take me to the destination.

Or try this: doi.org/10.1080/0038...

The first paper from a years-long collaboration with an incredible mentor & co-author, @ktandrews.bsky.social! In it, we descriptively detail recent (complex) developments in college activism in the U.S. from 2017 to 2014, noting several instances that defy media & political discourse.

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New in TSQ: Isaiah Cohen and Mark Schafer show that different kinds of school-to-family communications prompt different forms of parental engagement in education.

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In this open-access TSQ article, Kenneth Andrews and Khoi Ngo examine the scope, issues, and disruptiveness of campus protest in the United States from 2017 through 2024.

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In this new TSQ article, Cihan Tuğal (@cihantugal.bsky.social), Jonathan Smucker, and Kip Roberts examine how emotions shape boundary work among populists and anti-populists within the Republican and Democratic parties.

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"Shaming the Corporation," and Marc Dixon et al.'s 2016 article "Social Protest and Corporate Change." Hope that helps! I'm sure I'm missing much.

On the question of how social movements stigmatize companies, I think of the literature on how labor movements "name and shame" corporations. There's a lot out there, but see, e.g., Matthew Williams' 2020 book Strategizing against Sweatshops, Tim Bartley and Curtis Child's 2014 ASR article ...

Are social movements truly social? The prosocial and antisocial outcomes of social movements A growing body of research demonstrates that U.S. politics has become increasingly polarized over the past few decades. In these polarized times, what potential roles might social movements play in b...

Great question. On the question of how social movements can stigmatize and divide people, you might see my article "Are social movements truly social? The prosocial and antisocial outcomes of social movements" (and some of the articles we cite), doi.org/10.1111/soc4...

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In her presidential address to the Midwest Sociological Society, Jennifer Pearson describes what sociologists can learn from scholarship on queer joy.

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🚨 “Perceiving Protest” by Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) is now free to read through the end of March!

Read it now at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ

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In this new TSQ article, Beth Anne Shelton, Kelly Bergstrand, and Rebecca Deen examine how recent school board conflicts have affected women school board members' political ambitions.

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Populism, Emotions, and Boundary Work Among Political Activists in the Trump Era How do emotions shape boundary work among populists and anti-populists? Based on 52 in-depth interviews, we analyze how political activists construct their positions through “emotive contestation.”...

Our article on populism is published in @socquarterly.bsky.social

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Based on 52 interviews with populists and anti-populists during Trump’s first presidency, we make the following contributions
1) We demonstrate the centrality of emotions in anti-populist politics

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New in TSQ: Austin Vo, Katherine Furl (@katherinefurl.bsky.social), Todd Lu, and Neal Caren (@haphazardsoc.bsky.social) examine how people view the disruptiveness and effectiveness of various protest tactics.

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Perceiving Protest: How Publics View the Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest How do people evaluate social movement protest tactics? Theories covering public perceptions of protest emphasize that activists face a tactical dilemma, employing disruptive tactics to advance goa...

This study began during the early stages of my PhD, several years ago. Very proud of my former grad school colleagues for getting the full paper past the finish line and published
@socquarterly.bsky.social. Check it out!

doi.org/10.1080/0038...

Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! 💫🇵🇸 doi.org/10.1080/0038...

I'm happy to share that my and Jessica Schachle-Gordon's new special issue of Work and Occupations titled "Working for Social Change" is now out in the world!

The special issue examines the concept of "occupational activism" from several theoretical angles.

Check it out now at bit.ly/4svPSk1

I'm happy to share that my and Jessica Schachle-Gordon's new special issue of Work and Occupations titled "Working for Social Change" is now out in the world!

The special issue examines the concept of "occupational activism" from several theoretical angles.

Check it out now at bit.ly/4svPSk1