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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22d

one relevant starter pack:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · 23d

new GTaC! Stefano Bloch shares lessons from his recently published article “Crime as Relational Concept in Political Geography” and says nice things about @timcresswell.bsky.social -
thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/...
@sunybrockport.bsky.social @thesocietypages.bsky.social @uarizona.bsky.social

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Sep 1

thank you thank you!

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Sep 1

thank you! this essay is in the very early stages so currently happily taking films from any and all places

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Aug 30

Hi all, I’ve got a crowd sourcing request for an essay I plan on writing.
Please send me the names of any movies where someone chops wood with an axe, maul, or wedge (or I guess chipper or saw).
*the scene does not have to central to the plot!
*many thanks in advance!

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Aug 28

As sociologists we have failed to adequately address the absurdity and canon prophesying powers of Max Weber’s full name.
*Unless this is a wikipedia joke that made it into the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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Andrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · Aug 5

Can't wait to listen. The mundanity paper is one of my all-time favorites. Thanks for sharing!

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · Aug 2

"...this is an ideological project to remove local news access from rural communities...It eliminates access to information within one’s own community. This is about changing the information ecosystem that eliminates local news & replaces it with national news."

Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Aug 2

I gave an in-depth interview with my hometown Chicago Tribune about what’s going to happen to NPR and PBS, and how cutting public media is part of a broader anti-democratic ideological project.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

www.chicagotribune.com

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 25

Some more of Claudia Fung's work -->

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 25

Another artist friend who should be on bluesky but isn't! Always looking for design work, especially with animal themes! - claudiafung.squarespace.com

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 25

My friend, who is not yet on bluesky does some amazing cat (and other pet) collages! Find her on instagram at @catsareready and www.hannahfrickart.com#/petportraits/

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 23

New GTaC! @danchambliss.bsky.social joins us to reflect on life lessons that can be taken from reading social theory. Really enjoyed thinking about how the "mundanity of excellence" extends far beyond the pool. @sunybrockport.bsky.social
#hamiltoncollege - thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/...

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Jul 18

What will defunding NPR, PBS, and public media affiliates mean for democratic media, and how will the rescission bill affect First Nations communications? I wrote a concise analysis with Allison Perlman (UC-Irvine).

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism

Public broadcasting has long been a target of conservative Republicans.

www.yahoo.com

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am scared to press play.

Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 16

incredibly creepy and depressing

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Letta Page @lettapage.bsky.social · Jul 11

One of my faves this issue is @ashley-c-rondini.bsky.social and @dcunningham-stl.bsky.social's piece, "TQ+: public memory, structural violence, and transgender erasure," on the indelible trans and queer community refusing erasure by Executive Order! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Jul 11

Our new issue is free to read, download, and share: contexts.org/articles/sp2...

Peer-reviewed features include:
↪️@cantonwiner.bsky.social‬ on asexuality and queer gatekeeping
↪️‪@makchur.bsky.social‬ and JV Bastidas on environmental justice
↪️@avbsoc.bsky.social‬ on conservatorships

#Sociology

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Jul 11

It's here! Our latest issue takes up big social problems, from the multi-front assault on queer and trans people to the opioid epidemic, urban segregation, and environmental racism. #sociology

Clickable table of contents: contexts.org/articles/sp25-toc/

Companion playlist: tinyurl.com/CTXsp25tunes

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 11

"The Set Up reads like a version of Wynn’s sociology freed from
the constraints of empirical justification, and it presents sociology as a way of noticing what is already in plain sight. That it takes the form of a detective novel only sharpens this vision of the sociological imagination."

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 11

The new issue of @contexts.org is a good one! And be sure to check out @dsilver432.bsky.social's examination of the @jonwynn.bsky.social
ouvré (including The Setup, Jon's debut work of fiction) - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Letta Page @lettapage.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hot damn! @uchicagopress.bsky.social is now shipping @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's lively and incisive new book on the reorientation of US policing and punishment toward the relentless extraction of resources from America's most vulnerable. Only $26! tinyurl.com/LegalPlunderBook

Book Cover for "Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice" by Joshua Page and Joe Soss. The design is a reddish orange background with two white lengths of barbed wire running top-to-bottom.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · Jun 28

#sociology

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · Jun 27

Read @danchambliss.bsky.social's essay on the mundanity of excellence! I spoke with @kylethegreen.bsky.social about it the other day, with both of expressing love for a short, terse, excellent piece. Its all about the small wins! #sociology

thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/...

Seth Abrutyn reads Daniel Chambliss - Give Theory A Chance

The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota

thesocietypages.org

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jun 20

New GTaC! @sethabrutyn.bsky.social returns (!) to discuss Daniel Chambliss's "The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on the Stratification of Swimmers" (1988) - thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/...
@sunybrockport.bsky.social #hamiltoncollege

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · Jun 17

🚨New blog! Yolanda Wiggins, SJSU sociologist and Public Voices Fellow w/ The Op-Ed Project, urges us to "Let Sociology Majors Dream Bigger" and trust that the discipline "can thrive beyond traditional academic spaces"

↪️contexts.org/blog/dream-bigger/

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Kyle Green @kylethegreen.bsky.social · Jun 18

New GTaC! Rahsaan Mahadeo introduces us to the ideas of Denise Ferreira da Silva and helps us understand the radical/generative possibilities of engaging with her work.
thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
@sunybrockport.bsky.social
@thesocietypages.bsky.social

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