New Guest Post! "Sociology gives us a framework to see that this is not just bad housing structure. It is a structural problem. When the employer controls housing, every complaint becomes a risk." thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...

I’m always looking for good explainers I could show students, and this report is great and the viz work makes me miss when websites had graphic design

Where did the wealth go? Shay O'Brien (@shayobrien.bsky.social) can tell you! Find Shay's essay & data viz on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/the-gen... @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sasemeeting.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

"Zombie's tattoos were a way for him to tell off the world. But the world didn't get the message ...[and] his perception of himself changed." @socimages.bsky.social's founders @lisawade.bsky.social and Gwen Sharp, 2010, in "Skull Face and the Self-Fulfilling Stereotype." tinyurl.com/SI-SkullFace

Quoted on NPR! Our book #GenderOrderOfNeoliberalism explains the embrace and disavowal of #tradwife #girlboss and lean-in feminism! @politybooks.bsky.social oks.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...

We tend to think of anti-vaxxers as affluent, White, crunchy granola-type moms. But that stereotype ignores how precarity creates vulnerability to anti-vaxx messaging. Take Tara, whose daughter had a sudden shift in temperament not long after a routine vaccine. 🧵1/ open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...

@socimages.bsky.social our team has been creating some of these biscale maps. Here we looked at blood pressure inequalities by neighborhood in Cleveland. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29764

This is legendary from @sarahjeong.bsky.social. I appreciate her drunkenly walking the world through a coup attempt and then writing it up. www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

"We might assume that tradwives hearken back to an earlier 'backward' mode of femininity and marriage. But this way of being in the world is unmistakably modern because it involves 'choice' and entrepreneurship." thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...

What happens to White people displaced from gentrified neighborhoods? My newly published article shows they are demographically similar to non-White displacees but end up in better-off neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

TSP is here! Glad to see this important network up and running on Bluesky - with partners like @firstpublics.bsky.social, @socimages.bsky.social, & much more content of their own, definitely worth a follow. #socsky

Besides eat, what do Americans expect to do on Thanksgiving this year? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Class activity/academic procrastination: Find other references to colors and gender in the HathiTrust archive. Here's the oldest "pink for boys" (1890).

This week on the @contextsmag.bsky.social blog, Roman Williams discusses how he’s combining sociology + photography to bridge religious divides. 📷 Find our conversation about Roman’s new book, #SacredSnaps, and his commitment to doing sociology *with* the public ➡️ contexts.org/blog/roman-w...

My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is OUT! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. go.ted.com/danarfisher

Here's the longer-term trend that draws out your point

Pinball wizards and wannabes, this photoessay is for you! New from Ryan Banfi (NYU Tisch School): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

I haven't drilled down on the details of this survey. But even as anecdotal evidence of economic assumptions, it is clear that "relative deprivation" theory needs to be understood alongside a new "bubble" of economic expectations that will never be reached by most of us. www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...

"As policymakers face an increasing need for adequate cooling to address public health issues, they will need to account for the fact that the public may still be thinking of air conditioning as a luxury or comfort good.” thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...

Here is Gessen in the Times in 2016, noting that authoritarians need to tamp down on sociologists because we tend to expose their nonsense.

What a great bit of data visualization. The chart is striking!

"Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women." Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/

Your friends, on average, have more friends than you do—that’s the friendship paradox. But your enemies have more enemies than you do too, research by Amir Ghasemian & @nachristakis.bsky.social suggests, which is called… (you guessed it) the enmity paradox: buff.ly/3SzQx3E

Is this little book on social class the best gift I ever received?! Possible

The Annex is back! Lauren Olsen (Temple University) is our guest. Olsen goes inside medical schools to show us the messy, conflictual process of building a four-year curriculum that both includes, and sidelines, the social sciences and humanities. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/laur...

Hello new followers & old friends! We’re very happy to be active on Bluesky. Want to join us? 1. Share a sociological image (video, pic, chart & more with alt text) - what can we learn from it? 2. Tag us so we can pass it on! Self-promote your work! Have fun!

In March 2023, five months after Musk acquired Twitter, we asked Twitter users if they would use the site in 2024. A quarter said it was unlikely. Republican men were most confident they'd still use the site. Democratic women were most confident they wouldn't. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"We might assume that tradwives hearken back to an earlier 'backward' mode of femininity and marriage. But this way of being in the world is unmistakably modern because it involves 'choice' and entrepreneurship." thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...

This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

This can't be good papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Work makes way for family, for everyone." What Sweden gets so right - and America get so, so wrong - when it comes to supporting and empowering working parents. Sociologist and author Caitlyn Collins talks to Ezra Klein about the deep conflict between our work and parenting ideals. bit.ly/4928xJr

NEW #dataviz! In Socius, Joanna Pepin and I find growing uncertainty in marriage expectations among U.S. youth. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #sociology

Have you ever suspected that you earn less in your fancy job because you're from a working-class family? Our new article out last week in Social Forces with shows there's big class-origin pay gap in the US. About $23k! Free link - academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

In "The Friends Who Are Caring for Each Other in Older Age," Deborah Carr (Boston University College of Arts & Sciences & Boston University Sociology Department ) explains why some older adults are turning to friends rather than family as their caregivers - www.theatlantic.com/...

Struggling with Friday attendance in Intro to Sociology classes? In our latest class note, Anna Rogers details her experience with “Pop Culture Fridays” that boosts attendance and promotes sociological analysis. Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/firstpublics...

Excited that my LEGO data visualization won the U-M round and is now onto the next round in the B1G data viz competition!!! 🎉 Check out all of the other viz here: btaa.org/research/lov... and if you are at a big ten university, please vote for me! 📊

We feature essays from undergraduate sociologists! One Soc Student Spotlight: Sharif Nelson on How Systemic Racism Shaped Basketball Culture in NYC thesocietypages.org/socimages/20... Submitted from @jlkucinskas.bsky.social's course. You can work with your students to submit their blogs, too!

@philipncohen.bsky.social with a rousing defense of how academics can take vocal political positions while remaining deeply grounded in evidence and open to debate www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

I can feel it, coming in the air today...

Grin and Wear It? Guest author Rachel Bickelman on gender, status, and swollen heels in the modeling industry: thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...

People in Denmark, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France spend twice as much time eating as Americans. (Ht Philipp Heimberger). Funny, the clip art is two obviously European people seated at a table eating together. LOL we eat alone while driving, walking, or working at our desks.

Relationship expert Alicia M. Walker weighs in on the good and bad of digital dating in this week's episode of Missouri State Journal. www.ksmu.org/show/missour...

It’s just amazing to me how talented @eveewing.bsky.social is. This poem is stunningly beautiful and it breaks my brain a little bit how good she is at sociology and a thousand other things too. I was so excited to get this in poem-a-day today. poets.org/poem/eschato...

This chart shows population patterns with profound consequences. The bigger the green circle, the more a working-age population is expected to grow by 2050 (big gains in India, Pakistan & Nigeria). Orange circles represent decline (huge drop in China). www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/w... (gift link)

Will a robot take your god? New research on the surprising relationship between work automation, learning about AI, and declines in religion: thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...