By the way, Cogs and Monsters is now out in paperback! press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

The idea that men hunt while women stay at home is at the root of many gendered assumptions about the way societies operate, but a review of the data shows this is wrong. newscientist.com/article/238001…

Biden Boom

Sometimes I think about how if we had implemented a wealth tax a decade ago maybe Elon wouldn’t have had the assets to buy my favorite website and run it into the ground

The print edition of our special issue A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology By, For, and About First- generation and Working-class People has arrived! Did you get yours? Consider adding ‘read a few pieces’ to your end of summer reading list! @fgwc_sociology #HigherEducation

Q for #soctwitter: If I were to compile a complete bibliography of all published class mobility tables, where would I start looking?

QUALITATIVE LITERACY (which won this year's Methodology Section book award) is available for 40% off from University of California Press (is on Bluesky) with code UCPASA. In the book Mario L. Small and I outline indicators for evaluating field-based research on its own terms. #ASA2023 ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

Biggest congratulations to Dawn T. Robinson, who received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Emotions Section! This distinguished career award is given every other year to someone with a body of scholarly work of

Working Ideas Brown Bag Series featuring Dr. Gregg Murray on "In Cyber We Trust. Understanding Election Legitimacy in the Age of Electronic Election Systems” is today! Join us @ Allgood Hall N126 @ 1:00pm Come learn the latest social science research.

Autoworkers during the 1936–37 Sit-Down Strike that birthed the UAW. (Library of Congress)

Well what do we have here? That’s right, it’s my new book “Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do To Fix It!” HarperCollins Drops Oct 17; available for preorder harpercollins.com/products/gray-… if you don’t want to wait. ⁦⁩(Cause why would you?)

New paper!📊 You’ve heard of the (debated) summer learning gap. We look at the summer parental investment gap. Joe LaBriola and I find larger SES gaps during the summer, and larger gaps for younger school-age children than older children. 1/9 authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvO1%7EuWq%…

In my new paper, I introduce a new economics of the common good, one where ‘how’ we achieve collective goals matters as much as the destination itself. Read ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

We would particularly welcome proposals to our Special Issue Competition that address topics which are of particular importance for the journal. See our website for further details tandfonline.com/journals/reso20

Our book has a cover! Check it out below. Left side is the back cover, middle is the spine, and right side is the front cover. And remember: The book is available for pre-order and will ship 1/30/24!!! Pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/produ… #soctwitter Oxford Academic

New article forthcoming in Sociological Methods and Research! Provides a comprehensive overview of the variety of ways word embeddings can be used to derive relations in text data and complement dictionary methods. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/soca… #soctwitter

Submit to the Critical Sociology minicon, “Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crisis” at McGill University, Aug 9 2024. Plenary panelists include: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Jason W. Moore, Dylan Riley, Greta Krippner, Cedric de Leon, Gretchen Purser, Cihan Tugal. Contact Mike McCarthy for qs.

The AAUP joins w/AFT, @nea, AAC&U, & the @Network4pubEd in launching our #FreedomtoLearn pledge to call out laws & rhetoric in multiple states aimed at banning books/curriculums, attacking teachers, & shaming LGBTQIA+ students, while pushing to gut public education. 1/

In an opinion piece in Tampa Bay Times Tampa Bay Times, ASA leaders Joya Misra, Prudence Carter @prudencelcarter, & Adia Harvey Wingfield Adia H Wingfield explain how removing sociology as a Florida course option demonstrates the danger of politicizing education. bit.ly/3OrORqZ