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Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 3d

#sociology

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 5d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
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In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating piece that lends support to cultural arguments about immigrant success... #sociology

Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 3d

Does Asian American success emerge from Confucian values in Japan/Korea/China? This hypothesis has been controversial, and sociologists are rewarded for "falsifying" it, but a new paper (1/n)
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Abstract: Asian Americans, even those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, achieve extraordinary educational outcomes, defying the expectations of the well-established status attainment theory that family background is strongly associated with educational attainments. This phenomenon is known as the Asian American Achievement Paradox (AAAP). Positive selectivity of Asian immigrants and cultural accounts are two competing explanations, but they are rarely disentangled empirically due to the high collinearity between immigrant selectivity and culture. This study offers a modified version of cultural explanations, clarifies the distinctions between competing explanations based on the same criteria, and tests them by investigating the educational achievements of second-generation Asian Americans using the full-count 1940 Census matched to the 1930 Census. During this period, Asian immigrants were not hyper-selected, so the entanglement of immigrant selectivity and culture is less of a concern. The results are largely consistent with the cultural explanation, revealing the AAAP to be a century-old phenomenon with a previously unknown complexity. The transmission of culture from the society of origin is further evident in that the AAAP is limited to East Asians and does not apply to Filipino Americans, even though contextual selectivity in education is similar across Asian ethnic groups in 1940.

Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 5d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 5d

#sociology

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 5d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

Jobs | City University of New York

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Wendy Roth @wendyrothsoc.bsky.social · 5d

Job alert! Hunter College is hiring an Associate Professor of Sociology for their Asian American Studies Program. Please share the news!
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Toward a General Theory of Anomie The Social Psychology of Disintegration | European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie | Cambridge Core

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 5d

Finally, the piece that sort of began this whole process...a #sociological social psychology of anomie, or the horrors of disintegration and meaninglessness.

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Toward a General Theory of Anomie The Social Psychology of Disintegration - Volume 60 Issue 1

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 5d

Here is another piece, specifically on COVID and my theoretical interpretation of the sort of disintegrative forces unleashed first by Obama's election, accelerated by Trump's, and ossified by COVID:

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Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 5d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

Not sure why Americans aren’t protesting daily. Bringing the economy to a halt. Yall are past the early stages of ethnic cleansing. They’ll be wearing ID on their clothes soon enough

albertny3412 @albertny3412.bsky.social · 8d

And they dragged children naked out of building
www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...

Two residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the raid.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe, also, lack of social media dampened the larger cacophony of celebrity. Combined with mtv’s singularity?

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

Another #sociology job

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 9d

Sneaks and peeks! Just sharing a little taste of our Spotify playlist for the next issue of Contexts--think of them as catchy clues to the contents of Vol. 24, Issue 3 🎧

A screenshot shows a sample of a Spotify playlist with the songs:
"Island in the Sun," by Weezer
"Just Me & My Plants," by Rocco Elliot
"This Is America," by Childish Gambino
"Just Got Paid," by ZZ Top
"Elbows Up Canada," by King of the Cipher
"You Can't Hurry Love," by The Supremes
"Runnin'," by Pharrell Williams
"What's Love Got to Do with It," by Tina Turner
"Octopus's Garden," by The Beatles

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 10d

Such a titan. We knew nothing about chimps at the turn of the century and she was instrumental to erasing that gap

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10d

Jane Goodall has died at 91.

Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 10d

I fucking love the smell of winning in the morning

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 10d

There always are a few Jews willing to sell their shit out only to find out exterminations don’t discriminate

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10d

"Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources."

The organization stands by a separate resource that describes Kirk’s Turning Point USA’s ties to ‘extremists’

jewishinsider.com

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 10d

Some zen moments for the day

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11d

It’s an obscene age.

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11d

There aren’t any leaders on any side here worth a damn. The world is bereft of leadership as we are now in the age of meme leadership

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11d

Right. But who is their leader? Don’t get me wrong I have plenty of feelings about the proposed plan. But let’s be honest who negotiates this? This mess has been a mess for so long and the only ppl who have come close to being honest brokers are dead or super old.

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11d

to American history, regardless of the version one promotes. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so dangerous.