Really proud of this article with Sean Drake!“The Achievement Narrative and Alienation in School: A Typology of Academic Disconnection” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking with Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, sociology professor Jeffrey Guhin, and @pontifactspod.bsky.social host Bry Jensen about the conclave process and who might succeed Pope Francis. ❓ What are your hopes for the next pope? 📻 Listen: buff.ly/nPcD1lK

📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!

Re: Vance’s ordering of obligations, this is not quite the same as subsidiarity, but it’s similar. I wrote about this four years ago and it still applies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The best encapsulation of an academic’s many small failures is the shocking amount of things we plan to get done in the airport and then, of course, on the plane. So much will be done! And then we land, having opened one PowerPoint file, watched a movie, and fixed the internet connection 27 times.

A must read story that offers a terrifying window into the world of contemporary far right and pro-MAGA paramilitaries. The friendly ties between these aspiring terrorists and law enforcement is especially concerning. Not surprising to folks familiar with the history of the far right, but still bad.

Great thread alert! 👇 Why have glittery tech promises fooled every generation of school reformers for 200 years? B/c we Americans are addicted to the idea that poverty is just a glitch, not a feature of the American dream. Here's the 1824 version: adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t....

 ​You know the micro concussions football players get every play? I get a micro aneurism every time an economist “discovers” a 100 year old sociological concept.

Education friends: any good work on how teachers are handling Chat GPT/AI for writing assignments in high school and colleges? I found best practices and think pieces, but what about actual scholarship on what teachers are doing, how students narrate choices, how much cheating is alleged/found, etc?

We assume that highly paid professionals consistently beat the market. Yet research shows that active funds often underperform passive funds, and analysts’ recommendations can be unreliable. Why does this system persist? Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h

"Of course I can’t say it officially," Shane Lamond wrote to the head of the Proud Boys after Jan. 6, “but personally I support you all and don’t want to see your group’s name or reputation dragged through the mud." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Friends who know marriage the history and social science of marriage, how is Stephanie Koontz’s *Marriage, A History* regarded as a general introduction?

libro.fm - libro.fm/audiobooks/9... audible - www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers... I guess. I feel like I need to keep marketing sorry.

It is wild how contemporary these 1890s academic freedom cases seem.

ASA sections on Bluesky. Hopefully we can get more to set up accounts here. Theory Section - @asatheory.bsky.social Section on Labor & Labor Movements - @asalabor.bsky.social SKAT - @asaskat.bsky.social Section on Political Sociology - @asapolisoc.bsky.social

Putin has RT to talk to the world, so naturally Trump wants the same...

OPINION: “Moana 2” tracks what I have called “The Disney Gospel,” in which good is always rewarded, evil is always punished, and, with belief in some higher power — magic, a star, a fairy godmother — a happy ending is guaranteed. https://religionnews.com/2024/12/02/moana-2-disneys-holiday-gift-from…

Brexit was the biggest own goal in history, from the nation that invented “own goal.”

How anxious international students are preparing for Trump to take office: "I personally felt an overwhelming sense of doom and uncertainty"

I still have red-hot rage at the memory of the old guy doing painful chorionic villus sampling for my first pregnancy yelling at me not to 'sing' as I screamed in pain because he was doing it so incompetently.

A really good essay reminding us that grassroots networks, civil society, and journalism are still alive and well in Syria, and will matter as much as stateness and coercion in what comes next. www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Buying nice clothes when you have kids under five is basically the same as building a beautiful mandala only to destroy it except without any of the spiritual equanimity and a significantly higher proportion of wet wipes.

Here are my book recommendations for the new year: Read the books you already bought.

*Texas doctor & professor points out on tiktok that patients are not legally required to answer citizenship question in order to receive care *Abbott threatens funding of hospital and university *Video is removed These overt threats by politicians to stifle speech becoming all too common.

Hyp: the relentless focus on STEM contributing to student mental health crisis in US unis. Some students have neither background nor interest to do what takes to excel in STEM classes. They constantly feel like failures but also bombarded w/ message that doing something they ARE good at is a waste.

I'm working on a few different papers about citizenship, and I keep coming back to an assumption I can't shake that if we're concerned about a group of people, we have to have real, ongoing human interactions with them. An effective altruist saving the world while sequestrated from it feels wrong.

Wrote the linked @newrepublic.com article in 2013, ~1 month after the U.S.-Russia deal to destroy Syria's chemical weapons. Today, with a decade gone by and countless dead, including in Douma, those same chemical weapons sites are being bombed. newrepublic.com/article/1153...

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

From Nikki Giovanni. Not a bad reminder for today.

Seth’s dives are always amazing. This guy is an amazing follow.

Kinda love that along with bringing the fashions of the 90s back we are back to the moral panic discourse about how playing video games makes killers. like there isn’t a whole field of experts who spent decades studying this and the answer is no (to both that and low rise jeans)

My goals for winter break: 1. Finish every writing project. 2. Lose ten pounds. 3. Bake and eat all the pies. 4. Work out everyday. 5. Prep for each meeting of every class for next quarter. 6. Catch up on emails. 7. Just chill and relax ya know? This is not at all a recipe for disappointment.

The cruelty and torture in Syrian prisons is no news for those who were following the country closely. The evidence and documents were there all along. See the Caesar photos and the HRW Report from 2015: www.hrw.org/report/2015/... See the book "Syrian Gulag": www.bloomsbury.com/us/syrian-gu...

I remember I took a required teaching course to be a TA back in graduate school and our teacher was bragging about how he had 100 hours of teaching experience from being a TA and I was thinking man I had that within a month of being a high school teacher.

I'm interested in interviewing any activists in the abortion rights movement in the last 50 years. I've spoken to hundreds of figures thus far for my forthcoming book. But anyone who remembers the back alley days, the antiabortion extremism, or the recent ballot initiatives can DM me. #abortion

Waiting for Godot at the Geffen was great! Though clearly some people came just because there were celebrities in it. During intermission, I heard people in the crowd saying “what the hell play is this? nothing happens!” And then there were various patches of empty seats in the second half.

I’m at the gym and realizing that the difference between how much I used to be able to squat and how much I can squat now is itself a number I am unable to squat:

Holy fuck, Whole Foods union just dropped. 300 grocery store workers for Whole Foods in Philly are unionizing with UFCW local 1776. As far as I can tell, this is the first organizing effort at a whole foods *store,* ever.

Giving my first ever talk at a political theory workshop today. Let's see if I can pull off political theory cosplay! Seriously I’m super excited to give the talk and quite grateful for the opportunity. Come by if you can!

my student in seminar: wait a minute, isn't this really more philosophy than sociology? me: crissakes man don't you want me to make full

Right out of the authoritarian playbook

There is a certain kind of communitarian mapping of social theory (in sociology and elsewhere) which starts in different places (what is authority, how does difference work, cultural epistemology, etc, etc) but usually winds up with something like a lament for moral realism...

Inheritance explains more than 60% of wealth inequality nationwide Any serious attempt to address inequality should start there. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/o...

Do sociologists care about human universals? I think we’re a bit vague about this, perhaps intentionally. Does field theory or front stage/backstage work in any society in any time in human history?

New preprint w/ @emroberto.bsky.social : We develop and demonstrate a sociological approach for analyzing satellite and streetscape imagery with gpt-4o, and share thoughts for ensuring that large-scale image analysis w/genAI is rigorous, reproducible, ethical, and sustainable. osf.io/preprints/so...

My essay, '22, & Arendt so on point. French salon society, she says, "did not doubt that homosexuals were ‘criminals’ or that Jews were ‘traitors’; they only revised their attitude toward crime and treason." Trump & co. have long benefited from similarly revisionist attitudes toward crime and treason

this is because the high-profile political reporters are often highly educated elites with vaguely center-left views that they feel embarrassed about and think they can atone for

Similar to the way "evangelical" is becoming more of a cultural/political signifier than a religious one