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The Sociological Quarterly is the official journal of the Midwest Sociological Society. Editor: Jonathan S. Coley. Publisher: Taylor & Francis.

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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....

11.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4bHqznJ

11.03.2026 16:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4ukDdBn

09.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New paper! I use text and image data from UNESCO’s official website to analyze global asymmetries in the ways animals contribute to the β€œuniversal value” of Natural Heritage Sites.

03.03.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In this TSQ article, Andrew McCumber (@ahmccumber.bsky.social) examines the role of nonhuman animals in the valuation of β€œnatural” sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Read more at bit.ly/40Fgour

03.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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 β€œChicano” label in the late 2000s.

Read more at bit.ly/409VDqG

02.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€œChicano” label in the late 2000s.

Read more at bit.ly/409VDqG

02.03.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

27.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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

27.02.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4r1tpJL

26.02.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hmmmm this looks like a good one for next semester’s public health class.

23.02.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4cbzgIM

23.02.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4cliI0Q

12.02.2026 14:48 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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.

11.02.2026 17:41 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/3O2spr7

11.02.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4cg6ir2

10.02.2026 15:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This was a great presentation last year; highly encourage reading if you weren’t at MSS last year.

05.02.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4tke2OT

05.02.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

🚨 β€œPerceiving 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

03.02.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4c73BrH

02.02.2026 18:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

Read more at bit.ly/4kmN2KJ

27.01.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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...

25.01.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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 β€œemotive contestation.”...

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

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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

23.01.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Donatella della Porta, Federica Stagni, Stella Christou, and MartΓ­n Portos (@mportosg.bsky.social) discuss how pro-Palestine student camps served as eventful forms of protest that transformed social relations, identities, and temporal horizons.

Read more at bit.ly/3YDwq7d

13.01.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! πŸ’«πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ doi.org/10.1080/0038...

12.01.2026 20:37 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Volume 67, issue 1, of TSQ is now LIVE, featuring articles by @achalfoun.bsky.social, @gio-rossi.bsky.social, @daeunjung.bsky.social, @djhardingsoc.bsky.social, @criminovelist.bsky.social, @mmaroto.bsky.social, @dnpetti.bsky.social, @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social, and more!

Read it at bit.ly/45ezfzx

02.01.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In this new TSQ article, Amy Binder, Jeffrey Kidder, and Zosia Cooper examine contestation over multi-disciplinary Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) programs at U.S. colleges and universities.

Read more at bit.ly/4pnrRJg

31.12.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In this new TSQ article, Darci Schmidgall, Popy Begum, and Christopher Seto (@criminovelist.bsky.social) show how the convergence of religious and political conservatism through Christian nationalism shapes abortion attitudes among the American public.

Read more at bit.ly/4jarZKo

22.12.2025 22:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Focusing on the case of Stormfront, a prominent white nationalist forum, Jesse Callahan Bryant (@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social) investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements.

Read more at bit.ly/49tayCg

19.11.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Sociological Quarterly Queer Nightlife. Volume 66, Issue 4 of The Sociological Quarterly

QUEER NIGHTLIFE

Have you read the new issue of TSQ on queer nightlife, edited by @aminghaziani.bsky.social?

The entire issue is currently FREE TO READ! Check it out now at tandfonline.com/toc/utsq20/6...

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