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The Society Pages @thesocietypages.bsky.social · 22d

Sociology+News! This week's TSP Clippings:
🧠Women managing the household mental load
⚠️ The phantom of political violence in 2025 @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social
📻 Public radio’s donor dependence @lauragarbes.bsky.social
✊France’s Block Everything & 2018's Yellow Vests

🔗 bit.ly/4mizu1Q 🔗

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Jeff Seelbach @sievefistedfind.bsky.social · 9d

Finalist also means we are eligible for the Listener's Choice award, which means you the people can VOTE for us. Won't you? 👉 vote.signalaward.com

The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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Jeff Seelbach @sievefistedfind.bsky.social · 9d

💥💥Our podcast When The Wolves Came is a Signal finalist for Best Documentary! It explores the extremist politics that have taken over US evangelical Christianity, and the pastors, congregants, and organizers who are pushing back in favor of a pluralist path. It is, as they say, relevant.

The podcast "When The Wolves Came", about evangelicals resisting extremist politics, is a finalist for Best Documentary in the 4th Annual Signal Awards.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 27d

ASA member Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social @jhu.edu, who has studied Charlie Kirk and the Right, notes that yesterday's shooting has the potential to spike already heated political tensions in the country. @reuters.com bit.ly/3VIeLtt

Death of Charlie Kirk lays bare deep US political divisions

Kirk’s death left many of his fellow conservatives seething and blaming liberals for the assault.

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks for the shout out Sam!

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Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · Aug 15

NEW PREPRINT: RELIGION UNBUNDLED
Earlier this week at #ASA2025, @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, Brian Steensland, and I presented ideas for a new paradigm for the 21st-Century sociology of American religion. Full MS at SocArXiv for all those interested:
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Jaime Lee Kucinskas @jlkucinskas.bsky.social · Aug 15

Writing this paper has felt like spending the year doing a seminar with some of the most inspiring and theoretically savvy scholars of spirituality and religion —and friends. Our conclusion? Religion has been unbundled. Read more below:

Daniel Winchester @bishopofwestsaxons.bsky.social · Aug 15

NEW PREPRINT: RELIGION UNBUNDLED
Earlier this week at #ASA2025, @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, Brian Steensland, and I presented ideas for a new paradigm for the 21st-Century sociology of American religion. Full MS at SocArXiv for all those interested:
osf.io/preprints/so...

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 10

"We are each charged with building a common life. We build this, imperfectly, through social contracts. Taxpaying is one of those contracts." Carey Mott reviews “Taxation and Resentment” and “My Tax Dollars.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ways-and-means/

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Aug 12

Full review here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/ways...

Ways and Means | Los Angeles Review of Books

Carey Mott reviews Andrea Louise Campbell’s “Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes” and Ruth Braunstein’s “My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America.”

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited to see this review of My Tax Dollars in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, alongside a discussion of Andrea Louise Campbell’s excellent new book Taxation and Resentment. Check it out! @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Aug 12

Ahh my pager was off apparently but thanks for the heads up about this!

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Boniuk Institute @boniukinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 11

"Religion in a Changing Workplace" explores how people navigate faith on the job. What did our distinguished critics - @oneyaokuwobi.bsky.social, @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, and @evanstewart.bsky.social - have to say about it?

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jul 29

Cue Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton's Cabinet Battle #1: “Imagine what gon happen when you try to tax our whiskey”

I can’t avoid the “revenoor” even on a favorite hike in my home state of Georgia! #mytaxdollars

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Mahesh Somashekhar @msoma.bsky.social · Jul 25

I also loved my conversation with @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social about the new research I’m doing w/ @ikennedy.bsky.social on Christian nationalist consumers. Read her Substack! If you want to read the full article that inspired our Q&A, the article can be found here: academic.oup.com/socrel/advan...

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · Jul 24

When your healthcare bills go up, remember that is by design.

When hospitals start to close and nursing homes become unaffordable, remember that is by design.

Do not forget how much they've stolen from you when tax season comes and you get a couple hundred dollar refund.

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jul 24

Loved my conversation with @msoma.bsky.social about his new research on how Christian nationalist consumers are being encouraged to “shop their values” (vs. “woke” mainstream businesses) and the parallel economy that has emerged to support them. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/ruthbrau...

Inside the “Christian Alternative to Amazon”

Q&A with Mahesh Somashekhar on Public Square and the new front in the culture wars.

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · Jun 27

No one is talking about this part of the Republican budget:

Rich people can donate to private schools and get that amount knocked off their taxes.

This lets them avoid capital gains taxes.

And while public schools get choked of resources, private schools will flourish.

What?!

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jun 27

I figure out how to make even cool things nerdy.

Danielle Lindemann @djlindee.bsky.social · Jun 26

Why DO so many reality TV stars get in trouble with the IRS? I had so much fun participating in this melding of the minds for sociologist and tax expert (taxpert?) @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social’s Substack!

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Why are so many reality TV stars in trouble with the IRS?

A Q&A with reality TV expert and Princeton University professor Danielle Lindemann.

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Danielle Lindemann @djlindee.bsky.social · Jun 26

Why DO so many reality TV stars get in trouble with the IRS? I had so much fun participating in this melding of the minds for sociologist and tax expert (taxpert?) @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social’s Substack!

ruthbraunstein.substack.com/p/why-are-so...

Why are so many reality TV stars in trouble with the IRS?

A Q&A with reality TV expert and Princeton University professor Danielle Lindemann.

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jun 25

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Native-born Americans" are just immigrants plus time. Once we accept this, the logic of the Great Replacement Theory becomes nonsensical. In @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's latest essay, he offers some excellent evidence of this, including this great cartoon.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 25

Some perspective on the great conservative freak-out about Mamdani in NYC:

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The Not-So-Great Replacement Theory, Revisited

The success of Zohran Mamdani in the mayoral primary in New York City has predictably set of the worst possible takes from the worst possible people. And while I'm generally loathe to drag out any pos...

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jun 25

Fascinating tool that calculates the impact of Trump's tax bill on a family's finances. It accounts for tax changes *and* changes to benefits (like Medicaid) and policies (SNAP deduction) bc of the bill. Create diff profiles to see how various people fare. www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

How much will you save or lose with Trump’s ‘big’ tax bill?

How will Trump’s tax bill affect your finances? Check out its affects using this calculator.

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jun 20

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"She must meet them in the sea"

Have we ever really seen the Statue of Liberty?

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jun 20

You may think you know everything about Lady Liberty — Americana’s overexposed starlet, photographed ad nauseam, objectified ad infinitum. But over at Substack I share why I think we’ve missed something essential, and why she is a potent symbol of resistance today.

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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · Jun 13

Thx Dan!

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