Corissa Draper, Missy Fuentes Delgado, Blake Glatley, Rosario Barraza, Wendy de los Reyes
{"title":"Peer power: The role of peers on the sociopolitical development of immigrant-origin Latinx youth","authors":"Corissa Draper, Missy Fuentes Delgado, Blake Glatley, Rosario Barraza, Wendy de los Reyes","doi":"10.1111/josi.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Peers play a vital role in socialization throughout adolescent development. Latinx youth, particularly those who are immigrant-origin, navigate unique obstacles in the American sociopolitical context, often shaped by anti-immigrant rhetoric. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 immigrant-origin Latinx youth (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 20) from across the U.S. Through Constructivist Grounded Theory, we explored the role of peers in their sociopolitical development, leading to a theory of peer sociopolitical socialization that captures how peers were both supportive and obstructive. Participants identified that peers provided support through (a) providing emotional support, (b) creating space for dialogue, (c) collectively engaging in action, and (d) influencing their curiosity. Peers also hindered their sociopolitical development through inhibiting dialogue and action. We provide recommendations for future research and youth development interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Soe Young Lee, Xinyu Gu, Tina M. Durand, Michael A. Medina
{"title":"We are Resolved: Critical consciousness development among Black and Latino boys in schools","authors":"Soe Young Lee, Xinyu Gu, Tina M. Durand, Michael A. Medina","doi":"10.1111/josi.70072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70072","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Black and Latino boys exist at an intersection of underrepresented, harshly disciplined, and over-scrutinized student populations in schools. Yet, both groups regularly display adaptive strategies such as resilience, determination, and resistance in the face of historic inequities. Integrating the literature on critical consciousness and ethnic-racial identity with the phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory, this study examined Black and Latino youths’ perceptions of and engagement in critical action among participants enrolled in the Boston Debate League's Resolved Program for urban middle and high school youth of color. Thematic analysis of data from program observations, student focus groups, and staff interviews showed participants engage in forms of critical action found within their sphere: programmatic, personal acts resisting oppressive expectations, or behavioral changes that build their influence for social change. Findings suggest that a contextualized understanding of Black and Latino boys’ full selves should guide programmatic efforts aimed at nurturing their advocacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “(Critical) Multicultural Cues Promote Identity Safety and Desire to Learn About STEM Inequity Among Students of Color”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/josi.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Laiduc, G., and Covarrubias, R. (2026). “(Critical) Multicultural Cues Promote Identity Safety and Desire to Learn About STEM Inequity Among Students of Color.” <i>Journal of Social Issues 82</i>(2) e70064. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70064</p><p>The title of the first published version of this manuscript, “(Critical) Multicultural Cues Promote Identify Safety and Desire to Learn About STEM Inequity Among Students of Color” was incorrect. This should have read “(Critical) Multicultural Cues Promote Identity Safety and Desire to Learn About STEM Inequity Among Students of Color.” This has been updated in the original publication.</p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148386365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stories in Action: Childhood Counternarrative Development and Emerging Adult Social and Critical Action","authors":"David L. Gordon Jr, Regina D. Langhout","doi":"10.1111/josi.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70071","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how children (9–12 years old) construct liberatory counternarratives regarding adultism within a youth participatory action research (YPAR) program and how these narratives inform social and critical action in adulthood. Analyzing archival ethnographic data and interviews with former participants both as children (<i>n</i> = 30, or all children in the program) and emerging adults (<i>n</i> = 5) via thematic analysis and the Listening Guide (LG), the study reveals children utilized critical dialogue to challenge dominant narratives about youth capabilities. Results indicate dialogue enabled children to name power disparities and articulate counternarratives, voiced in poems created through the LG process. Furthermore, emerging adults continued to leverage these childhood counternarratives, prioritizing collaboration, advocacy, and the elevation of marginalized voices in their social justice efforts. Implications suggest that to support long-term critical action, adults must prioritize critical dialogue, making space for youth to interrogate dominant narratives and mobilize their liberatory truths.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148324866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bernardette J. Pinetta, Hilary A. Simpson, Sarah M. Stilwell
{"title":"Inquiry-Based Learning for Sustained Adolescent Critical Action: A Systematic Review","authors":"Bernardette J. Pinetta, Hilary A. Simpson, Sarah M. Stilwell","doi":"10.1111/josi.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In an educational climate marked by increasing censorship and the marginalization of historically oppressed communities, fostering critical consciousness (CC) among adolescents is both urgent and necessary. Schools can function as transformative spaces where students critically examine social inequities and work to address them. This systematic review examines how inquiry-based learning approaches (IBL), specifically Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) facilitated adolescents’ engagement in critical action. Grounded in a sociopolitical development framework, the review analyzes how these pedagogies cultivate social analysis, and political agency. Twenty-five studies (23 YPAR; 2 PBL) were included. Findings indicate that PBL and YPAR foster opportunities for adolescents to interrogate power structures, develop collective strategies, and engage in critical action beyond the classroom. Overall, this review posits IBL as a powerful approach for advancing educational equity and youth empowerment, composed of seven key mechanisms that foster students’ critical action. Through this review, we map specific inquiry-based strategies that facilitate adolescents’ critical consciousness development from reflection to action within a classroom setting. We emphasize key recommendations for research, practice, and policy.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148292500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline Cerda-Smith, Sholeh Najafian, Shevaun D. Neupert, Kelly Lynn S. Mulvey
{"title":"Adolescent Daily Critical Action During the 2024 US Election","authors":"Jacqueline Cerda-Smith, Sholeh Najafian, Shevaun D. Neupert, Kelly Lynn S. Mulvey","doi":"10.1111/josi.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70070","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The 2024 US election was stressful. Taking critical actions (i.e., behaviors that address social or economic inequality) may reduce or exacerbate election stress and negative emotions. This daily diary study, spanning 20 consecutive days throughout the 2024 election, takes an exploratory and descriptive approach to understand adolescents’ daily critical action and its association with political stress and emotions. Participants (<i>N</i> = 32, <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.53, <i>SD</i> = 1.19), most of whom were White (59.4%), female (62.5%) and Democrat (71.9%), reported taking critical action frequently, especially before and a few days following the election. Participants were more likely to take critical action on days when they reported political stress and negative emotions. Lagged (spill-over) effects were not significant when controlling for same-day constructs. Critical action may increase or decrease stress and negative emotions. If adolescents use critical action as a coping mechanism, they may do so in an immediate fashion.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70070","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148292501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When Policies Remove Identity Safety: Anti-DEI Laws, Prospective Students’ Perceptions, and University Messaging","authors":"Alexandra Garr-Schultz, Skyler R. Carter","doi":"10.1111/josi.70060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70060","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In a world of educational inequality, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives aim to boost the participation and success of marginalized students and act as identity safety cues on campus. A recent torrent of anti-DEI legislative initiatives threatens this safety. Across three experimental studies, the current work examines the consequences of threat introduced via anti-DEI policies in higher education and potential university responses. In Study 1 (<i>N </i>= 639), participants anticipate compromised identity safety, worse performance, and report decreased interest in attending a university with an anti-DEI (vs. control, pro-DEI) policy. Study 2 (<i>N </i>= 229) replicates results and demonstrates that both fewer expected resources and weaker multiculturalism mediate the policy's impact on outcomes; qualitative data corroborates findings. Study 3's (<i>N </i>= 302) university messaging strategy shows public disapproval of anti-DEI policies reinstates some identity safety. Findings highlight psychological and institutional costs of anti-DEI laws, while advancing safety cue theory by illuminating impacts of cue removal.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148282167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evava S. Pietri, India R. Johnson, Veronica Derricks
{"title":"We Are (Not) All in This Together: Examining When Shared Adversity Messaging Is Effective for Fostering Identity-Safety Among Black Women","authors":"Evava S. Pietri, India R. Johnson, Veronica Derricks","doi":"10.1111/josi.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70068","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Black women feel connected to leaders whom they view as having shared adversity. Examining this phenomenon in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, Study 1 found that when a Black (but not White) female leader expressed her personal struggles, Black women participants identified with her, viewed her as having a shared reality about the pandemic, and anticipated more identity-safety in her company. Participants with relatively higher awareness of the pandemic's harmful impact on Black Americans indicated higher identity-safety in the Black female leader, but not the White female leader, condition. However, in Study 2, when a White female leader acknowledged pandemic racial health disparities, Black women participants with more awareness of the pandemic's impact believed this White female leader had a stronger shared reality about the pandemic and indicated higher identity-safety at her company. Overall, this research has implications for leader messaging that foster identity-safety during stressful societal events.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148238177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sociopolitical Practices Supporting Youth Critical Action: Reflections on Play, Performance and Protagonismo","authors":"Jesica Siham Fernández","doi":"10.1111/josi.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70069","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Grounded in a sociopolitical development framework, this paper describes youth critical action via three practices: play, performance and <i>protagonismo</i>. Play is an activity associated with normative developmental behavior that is often characterized as a form of entertainment, recreation, and exploration. Performance, on the other hand, is acting with intention to convey or express a meaningful message. <i>Protagonismo</i>, while similar to play and performance in that it involves agency, is a public expression by a political actor engaged in collective action. Through an autoethnographic approach, featuring my reflections from three case studies—<i>Muñecas Negras</i>, Children Making a Change (CMAC), and Sophie Cruz—I examine how these practices support youth critical action. I conclude with insights for how these practices can be leveraged to facilitate, support and sustain critical action in relation to youth sociopolitical development.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Gender-Inclusive Language Function as an Identity Safety Cue? The Impact of Gendered Language Forms on Job Application Decisions Among Gender/Sex Minorities and Majorities","authors":"Caan Hollenbach, Anette Rohmann","doi":"10.1111/josi.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.70065","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biases toward one's gender/sex can lead to caution when choosing a workplace. Cues indicating identity safety or threat during the application process may influence employment decisions. We examined whether gender-inclusive, compared to gender-exclusive, language serves as such a cue. In Study 1, trans and/or nonbinary individuals evaluated job and organizational aspects based on differently gendered job advertisements. In Study 2, participants of all genders/sexes rated their willingness to apply based on differently gendered organizational self-descriptions. Gender-inclusive language led to more positive organizational evaluations (Study 1). It interacted with gender/sex in affecting willingness to apply (Study 2), mediated by perceived gender essentialism, anticipated stigmatization, and procedural fairness. Endosex cis individuals were unaffected by the language form, whereas trans, intersex, nonbinary, and agender individuals perceived gender-inclusive language as an identity safety cue. Gender-inclusive language offers organizations a way to signal that all genders/sexes are welcome.</p>","PeriodicalId":17008,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Social Issues","volume":"82 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/josi.70065","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148237882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}