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How do Black & Brown students navigate their identities at predominantly white universities? This study examines racial microaggressions, identity management, and resistance to pressures to assimilate within academic spaces. 🔗doi.org/10.1111/soin.70024 #Sociology #HigherEd
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How do students develop a “feel for the game” in school and how is that academic habitus shaped by family capital? This Teaching Takeaway highlights de Moll et al.’s use of latent class analysis to identify distinct types of academic habitus among secondary school students.🧵
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Drawing on Bourdieu, de Moll et al. define academic habitus as the expressive dimension of students’ habitus: the orientations that reveal how well they understand and respond to the rules of school (aka their "feel for the game").
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☀️ Editor's Summer Pick! How do race, gender, and immigration shape careers in cybersecurity? This article explores how immigrant workers of color navigate workplace expectations, inequality, and belonging in a rapidly growing industry. Read here: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70060
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When is #QualitativeResearch "enough"? This new article from Michael Carolan introduces the concept of epistemic closure to rethink debates around saturation, rigor, and sufficiency in qualitative research. Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70061 #Sociology @WileySocSci
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📚 New Teaching Takeaways! How does social class shape the ways parents advocate for children with disabilities? This week's featured article: Class Consciousness as Cultural Capital among High-SES Parents of Children with Disabilities by Gal-Jacob & Shoshana (2024) 🧵
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The authors argue that class consciousness is tied to how people perceive social hierarchy and understand the advantages associated with occupying a higher social position. They connect these ideas to cultural capital and status-related behaviors.
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#FoodInsecurity is about more than simply access to food. It shapes health, safety, and well-being across the life course. This study examines the relationship between food insecurity over the life course and #IPV among women living with HIV in Ghana. 🔗doi.org/10.1111/soin.70023
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Who's seen as the "ideal worker" in cybersecurity? This Early View article examines how racialized and gendered expectations shape the experiences of foreign-born workers of color in Canada's cybersecurity sector. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/soin.70060 #Sociology #Cybersecurity
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How do job demands shape drug use for cognitive enhancement? This Teaching Takeaway highlights research by Sattler et al. (2026), examining how job stress and workplace resources relate to the use of legal, prescription, and illegal drugs for cognitive enhancement in Germany.
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The study applies the Job Demands–Resources model, a well-established framework for understanding work-related stress. The model examines how workplace demands (stressors) and resources interact to shape employee well-being and behavior.
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Film festivals don't just screen movies—they shape culture. 🎬 This book review examines Shaping Film Festivals in a Changing World, exploring how institutions, decolonization, & inequality influence the global festival landscape. 📚 Read the review: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70042
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Being the first in your family to attend college comes with unique challenges & strengths. In this article, researchers explore how first-gen students experience university support, scholarships, & barriers. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70022 #Sociology #HigherEd #FirstGen
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How does faith influence sustainable consumption? This Early View qualitative study explores how Islamic religiosity shapes environmental responsibility among Muslims in China, framing sustainability as both a moral & religious obligation. Read here: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70059
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Teaching Takeaway 📚 How do people experience social exclusion, not just structurally, but in their everyday lives? This week's Teaching Takeaway explores queer social exclusion in South Korea using phenomenological qualitative methods. 🧵⬇️
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The article reminds us that social exclusion is fluid and context-dependent. Rather than existing only as barriers to resources, exclusion also shapes education, work, healthcare, and interpersonal relationships through everyday social processes.
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What shapes excessive internet use across the life course? This new Sociological Inquiry study applies containment theory to better understand the social and individual factors at play. 🔗 Read at the link: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70021 #InternetAddiction #Sociology #SocialResearch
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How do people come to understand racism as a systemic issue rather than an individual one? This new Early View article examines how #sociology shape students' understanding of systemic racism & the role emotion plays. Read via the link: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70058 #SocialSciences
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What can thrifting reveal about identity? This week's Sociological Inquiry Teaching Takeaway explores how college student thrifting can be understood through identity work theory, showing consumption as a process of self-discovery, self-formation, and self-expression. 🧵⬇️
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Drawing on Snow & Anderson's concept of identity work, the article examines how students actively construct & present their identities while navigating broader social & structural constraints. Great for discussions on culture, consumption, identity, or symbolic interactionism.
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Women's empowerment alone doesn't automatically improve child health outcomes. This #OpenAccess study from Tanzania explores how different dimensions of women's autonomy relate to under-five mortality & why broader policy support matters. Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70019
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New research in Sociological Inquiry finds maternal sandwich caregiving may have different mental health implications for adult children depending on their age, with older adult children experiencing greater impacts. 👉 Read the open access article: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70056
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Would a Christian nation have universal healthcare? A recent study in Sociological Inquiry explores the relationship between Christian nationalism and attitudes toward universal healthcare in the United States. 🧵
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Previous research has linked Christian nationalism to opposition toward public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. But how does Christian nationalism shape attitudes toward healthcare systems more broadly? That's the question Kawakami et al. (2025) set out to examine.
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This #OpenAccess article from our May Issue interrogates gender transitioning by centering nonbinary experiences & challenging the binary-driven narratives that dominate both medical & sociological frameworks of transition. Read at the link: doi.org/10.1111/soin.70018 #sociology
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📰 How do opinion columns shape our understanding of social problems? Potter (2026) shows that accountability isn't just discussed in the media, but actively framed. #TeachingTakeaway #Sociology
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Hilgartner and Bosk argued that social problems are defined in specific public arenas, including the news media. The way issues are framed influences who is seen as responsible and what solutions become imaginable. #SocialProblems
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