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official account for the ASA journal: Sociology of Education
Editors: William Carbonaro and Anna Haskins

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👋 Greetings from the SoE media team! Introducing our weekly social media communications plan! 🎉 Each day has its own theme:

🗣️ Message Sharing Monday
📝 Tips from the Editors Tuesday
📚 New Work Wednesday
🔙 Throwback Thursday
🤔 Fresh Take Friday

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✍️Editor Tip Tuesday✍️

Fried turkey is delicious, but it can be very dangerous to prepare! Please be careful and never try to fry a frozen turkey!

#EditorTip
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
📩Message Monday📩

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📩Message Monday📩

Want to receive our Table of Contents delivered directly to your inbox or get immediate notifications when new articles are published online? Watch this video for instructions to sign up for SoE email alerts from Sage.

#MessageMonday
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
✨Fresh Take Friday✨

Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board: Lauren Schudde is an Associate Professor at University of Texas-Austin. She studies how to ameliorate social inequities in the United States through higher education policy.
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#FTF
Profile for Lauren Schudde at UT Austin
Lauren Schudde
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November 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study revealed that the number of classes failed in one year predicted alcohol use a year later more than early alcohol use predicted later class failures.

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The Connection Between Academic Failure and Adolescent Drinking in Secondary School - Robert Crosnoe, 2006
Academic failure and drinking are both problematic aspects of the adolescent stage of the life course, and the connection between these two behaviors can disrup...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
📣New Article Alert📣

This article presents evidence on linear, nonlinear, and cumulative gender peer effects on test scores. The study utilizes exceptional Swedish data containing the history of the gender composition of students’ classrooms from first to ninth grade.

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November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
✍️Editor Tip Tuesday ✍️

Editor Tip Tuesday! Authors should use endnotes sparingly in the main text of their paper. Too many endnotes distract the reader and can undermine the continuity of the text.

#EditorTip
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
📩Message Mondays📩

Teachers matter! If you know someone who has made outstanding contributions to teaching sociology and the scholarship of teaching in sociology, nominate them for the ASA 2026 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. Deadline is January 1, 2026.
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Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award | American Sociological Association
The ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award honors ASA members' outstanding contributions to the teaching of undergraduate and/or graduate
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November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
✨Fresh Take Friday ✨

Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board: Anthony Abraham Jack. He is an Associate Professor at Boston University. His research documents the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates.

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#FreshTake
Anthony Abraham Jack | Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
Anthony Abraham Jack is the faculty director of the Newbury Center and associate professor of higher education administration at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰

This study identifies five dimensions of within-school differentiation—curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, grouping, and climate—and examines how they intersect to shape educational outcomes.

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November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📣New Work Wednesday!📣

Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two disparate suburban high schools, this study shows how students’ experience of alienation is linked to an exacting achievement narrative in U.S. schooling.

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#NewWork
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November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
✍️Editor Tip ✍️

If you use AI to help write your paper, please be sure to disclose to us how it was used when you submit your paper. This should also be disclosed in the “Acknowledgements” section if the paper is published.

#EditorTip
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
📩Message Monday📩

Want to receive our Table of Contents delivered directly to your inbox or get immediate notifications when new articles are published online? Watch this video for instructions to sign up for SoE email alerts from Sage.

#MessageMonday
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
✨Fresh Take Friday✨

Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board!

Amy Hsin is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her work examines how structural forces shape educational outcomes, labor market trajectories and family life.

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#FreshTake
Amy Hsin
Our faculty, students, and alumni are addressing the world's greatest challenges with a focus on human dignity.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
⏰Throwback Article Thursday!⏰

This article examines how schools' racial and ethnic mix of students and teachers influences black, white, and Latino students' occupational expectations, educational aspirations, and concrete attitudes.

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November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
📣New Work Wednesday📣

Using in-depth interviews, this study examines exclusion and the persistence of STEM disparities for underrepresented minority (URM) students at one diverse college campus.

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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
✍️Editor Tip Tuesday✍️

“(results not shown)” and “(available upon request)” are a thing of the past. On-line appendices are the best way to include supplementary findings in your paper. They don’t count against your word count at any stage of the review process.

#EditorTip
November 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
✨Fresh Take Friday✨

Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board! Hanna Dumont is a Professor at the University of Potsdam. She examines the processes in families and schools that lead to differences in students’ cognitive and motivational development.

www.uni-potsdam.de/en/edpsy/han...

#FTF
Prof. Dr. Hanna Dumont
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November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰

By scapegoating 'redneck' students, schools deny systemic racism while ignoring deep racial & class inequalities. This ethnographic study shows how this deflection maintains the status quo.

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#TBT
Other People’s Racism - Jessica Halliday Hardie, Karolyn Tyson, 2013
This article uses data drawn from nine months of fieldwork and student, teacher, and administrator interviews at a southern high school to analyze school racial...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
📣New Work Wednesday!📣

Is teaching a calling, a profession, or labor? This study maps how 3 institutional logics—an accountability logic, a democratic logic, and a moral calling logic—shape teachers’ identities.

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#NWW
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October 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
✍️Editor Tip Tuesday! ✍️

Before submitting, please consider whether your manuscript is a good fit for Sociology of Education. A major reason why papers are desk-rejected is a lack of engagement with sociological theory and/or research in our subfield.

#EditorTip
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
📨Happy Message Monday! 📨

Read a fantastic sociology of education book lately?

Nominate that author for the ASA 2026 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. Deadline is January 1, 2026.
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Distinguished Scholarly Book Award | American Sociological Association
The ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award is presented annually to an ASA member for the best single book published in the two calendar years preceding the
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October 28, 2025 at 4:28 AM
✨️Fresh Take Friday!✨️

Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board member. Vanessa Delgado is a Assistant Professor at Washington State University. She explores the incorporation pathways and educational experiences of Latino/a families.

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#FreshTake
Vanessa Delgado | WSU Department of Sociology | Washington State University
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October 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Throwback Article!

Are school shootings examples of organizational deviance?

Using data from two schools that experienced shootings, the authors show how the organizational factors of schools can lead to the loss of information about troubled students.
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School Shootings as Organizational Deviance - Cybelle Fox, David J. Harding, 2005
This article argues that rampage school shootings in American public schools can be understood as instances of organizational deviance, which occurs when events...
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October 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
📣New Work Wednesday📣

This study examines how specific study program features affect enrollment intentions. Findings suggest that adjusting program content, flexibility, and support services enhances those intentions.

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October 22, 2025 at 5:14 PM