TSP Tuesdays, July 23rd, 2024
New & Noteworthy Leo LaBarre’s new Discovery, Blinded by Love: How Online Fraudsters Scam Victims, looks at research by Timothy Dickinson and Fangzhou Wang. They posed as fictitious victims to 87...
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New & Noteworthy The latest pieces from TSP include: Clippings, with The Nation and its article on Michael Sierra-Arévalo’s recent book The Danger Imperative, Jordan Travis Radke in the New York...
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New & Noteworthy TSP’s John Purnell wrote up a new Discovery, Pharmacist Deputies from research by Elizabeth Chiarello in American Sociological Review. This piece describes how Prescription Drug...
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New & Noteworthy Our latest Clippings (Sociology/Sociologists in the news) includes Jeffrey W. Swanson in The New York Times on gun laws in Georgia, Scott Thumma in PBS News, discussing...
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New & Noteworthy This week’s Clippings of sociology in the news includes Julia Sonnevend in Public Seminar on her new book Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics, Eric Klinenberg...
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New & Noteworthy Daniel Cueto-Villalobos‘s latest Discovery on research by Ioana Sendroiu on how small business during COVID-19 navigated the balance between keeping their doors open, and...
View ArticleTSP Tuesdays, October 1st, 2024
New & Noteworthy Eleanor Nickel’s latest Discovery features research by Megan C. Kurlychek, Matthew C. Kijowski, and Alysha M. Gagnon, which investigates the long-term impacts of placing youth in...
View ArticleTSP Tuesdays, October 15th, 2024
New & Noteworthy TSP Board member Shania Kuo writes up research by Patrick Krueger and colleagues’ in a new Discovery. This piece highlights that while working parents lose sleep (especially those...
View ArticleTSP Tuesdays, October 22nd, 2024
New & Noteworthy A growing online movement, the “manosphere,” fuels gender-based culture wars by promoting misogynistic beliefs. These subcultures, including Incels and MGTOW, view society as a...
View ArticleTSP Tuesdays, October 29th, 2024
New & Noteworthy A dark fascination with the paranormal grips society during this spooky time of year, drawing many into the “cultic milieu,” where interest in beliefs of witchcraft, astrology,...
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