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Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social · 16d

Fascism only works if it has a social base. I wrote a book about efforts across the country to organize predominantly white communities away from this base. How? By showing them their shared stake in fighting for racial and economic justice. The book is out Jan 2026. @surj.org

White Flank: Organizing White People for Racial Justice

Organizing White People for Racial Justice

bookshop.org

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 16d

Wow, thrilled to see this. That’s my old friend Erin Heaney’s organization!

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · 25d

Tressie, for the uninitiated sociologist of gender, is there any good article or book on gamergate you’d recommend reading?

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 27d

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

jobportal.ku.dk

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Daniela Urbina J. @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social · Sep 2

It also includes my article on women's education and marriage/cohabitation in Colombia :) Check it out!

Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · Sep 2

The August issue posted last week--5 notes, 9 articles & a note from the new Editors in Chief. This issue includes research on mobility-based segregation, child migration in Africa, educational inequality in biological aging, and inequalities in dementia risk. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...

Volume 62 Issue 4 | Demography | Duke University Press

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks so much for sharing. I'm grateful for the reassurance that these long "Awaiting Decision" periods are not unusual and don't necessarily signify anything about the end result. Congrats on the R&R!

Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · Sep 2

Have you had any update? I've been "awaiting decision" for three weeks now: such an anxious place to get stuck in the process.

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Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social · Aug 31

✍️ In grad school, @courtneyboen.bsky.social and I talked often about the emotions that seemed to undergird racism. Trayvon, Tamir, Mike Brown and too many more changed us. Ten years later, our findings in @sfjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Robert (Bob) Faris @bobfaris.bsky.social · Aug 29

UC Davis Sociology will be hiring an assistant professor specializing in gender. If that's your area, apply here:

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07293

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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Christina J. Cross @christinajcross.bsky.social · Aug 27

I never planned on writing a book. Few demographers do. But 9yrs ago, I unearthed a puzzling finding that upended everything I thought I knew about race and family structure. And I knew I had to share it with the world.

Check out this video to learn more: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BxtCBd/

The surprising findings that led Christina J. Cross, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, to write her critical new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between ...

TikTok video by Harvard University Press

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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨 New paper 🚨

In the latter half of the 20th c, states in the US passed massive suites of “tough-on-crime” sentencing policies.

In this paper, we investigated how (& why) these policies shaped pop health, esp racialized patterns of birth outcomes in the US.

track.smtpsendmail.com/9032119/c?p=...

Heterogeneous and racialized impacts of state incarceration policies on birth outcomes in the United States

Abstract. While state incarceration policies have received much attention in research on the causes of mass incarceration in the United States, their roles

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Adam Gamoran @agamoran.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great to see @greermellon.bsky.social with the lead article in the latest ASR. And there’s good news: even in polarized times, school boards are selecting superintendents based on perceived competence and interpersonal skills, not party affiliation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents - Greer Mellon, 2025

In recent decades, affective polarization and partisan animosity have risen sharply in the United States. To what extent have these trends affected hiring decis...

journals.sagepub.com

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · Aug 14

Finalizing my syllabus for the fall and facing a question I often face: How much CJ Pascoe is too much CJ Pascoe?

a close up of a woman 's face with a purple shirt on .

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a purple shirt on .

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Demographic and Health Surveys Program has been saved! At least in part. According to the announcement, “Several donors and host countries are funding the completion of selected surveys.”

Great news for global health in spite of US government’s war on data.

www.dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N...

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Kirsten Slungaard Mumma @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social · Aug 11

Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.

High School Effects on Civic Engagement

Preparing young people for the rights and responsibilities of citizenship is cited as a fundamental purpose of public education, yet little is known about whether or how K-12 schools impact civic enga...

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Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social · Aug 9

Penn @ #ASA2025

Presenters SATURDAY PM

Y. Wang
@margaretrutheby.bsky.social
@joeljm.bsky.social
J. Schnittker
@pgonalon.bsky.social
@elenavanstee.bsky.social
@jenksd.bsky.social
D. Kirk
M. Hanna-Ghattas
@wendyrothsoc.bsky.social
@lindseydcameron.bsky.social

FULL SCHEDULE HERE:
bit.ly/4m472RQ

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · Aug 8

Excited to head to Chicago today for ASA. I'm really looking forward to being part of this panel on the past and future of Sociology of Education: join us!

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RC28 Social Stratification @isa-rc28.bsky.social · Aug 7

This year’s RSSM publication award goes to

The long-run causal effects of single-sex schooling on work-related outcomes in South Korea

Kim, Ahn, Behrman, Choi, Dimant, Hannum, Lee, Mutz, Park
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 89, 100876, 2024

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · Jul 31

@adambonica.bsky.social and I are economists now (economist salary coming soon, I imagine)

Ungated until the end of September: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States

Politicians in the United States rank among the oldest globally. This study examines how money in politics contributes to age inequality in political …

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Elena Ayala-Hurtado @elenaah.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just a month left until the deadline for the BJS special issue that Lorenza Antonucci and I are co-editing on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socioeconomic insecurity! We've heard about some really interesting papers in progress so far--consider submitting!

The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences

Submission deadline: Tuesday, 2 September 2025

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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UW-Madison Sociology @uwsoc.bsky.social · Jul 29

We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · Jul 28

Some mail arrived this morning.

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Leafia Ye @leafiaye.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

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Tamara Kay @tamkay.bsky.social · Jul 16

Well this is a first. My 2004 ASR article with Nicola Beisel on abortion in the 19th century was cited in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision striking down the state's 1849 abortion ban!
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Wisconsin Supreme Court Strikes Down 1849 Abortion Ban

www.nytimes.com

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Lauren Valentino @sociologylauren.bsky.social · Jul 16

Nice to see our recent AJS article featured in Contexts! @evangelinewarren.com

"Defining Discrimination Changes Policy Preferences" by Parker Muzzerrall.

There’s widespread consensus that racism, sexism, and classism are pervasive social problems requiring consensus and coordination to address. However, a recent study in the American Journal
of Sociology suggests that Americans understand these problems in very different terms.

Using a mixed-methods approach combining
interviews with a nationally representative survey, sociologists Lauren Valentino and Evangeline Warren discover that Americans define instances of race-, sex-, and class-based discrimination using
three interpretive criteria: the intentionality of the act, whether the act led to equal or unequal outcomes, and the balance of power between
the perpetrator and victim. Importantly, though, Americans do not weigh these criteria equally. Conservatives and men tend to emphasize intentionality and individual acts while liberals, women, and racial minorities are more likely to define discrimination based on
unequal outcomes and systemic power imbalances. Most striking, this variation in definitional criteria strongly predicts policy attitudes, much more so than socio-demographic attributes alone. Those who emphasize outcomes and power structures in their definitions are much more likely to support policies of redress, like affirmative action and anti-discrimination laws.

By shedding light on the deep cultural and cognitive divides in how Americans interpret social problems, this research offers a crucial insight: meaningful progress in addressing racism, sexism, and classism may require bridging not just political divides, but also fundamental differences in how we perceive and define discrimination.

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