Seth Abrutyn

ghosts & goblins may defeat that game...it was designed to be impossible. And, even if by some chance you beat it on the one life you were given, it started over and mocked you by saying that first round was just a "dream"

The new norm is seems to wait till the day or two before a paper is done and then put the professor in an untenable position to decide what to do. And when you don’t get the extension make the accommodations people put pressure on you. Why assign a paper and a deadline if it is just up to students?

In a class of 42 students (minus 6 that are grad students). I’ve had 9 asks for extensions. Maybe 10.

Predictably, I’ve had to say no at every turn, in part bc I have other students who have been telling me all term abt this issue or that and are still working to be on time. Then there are all the students balancing papers and exams in other classes. How did we do it in the 90s?

Ah, the annual day-before-paper is due late rush to tell me about some persisting medical issue that has finally taken its toll and please, give me an extension. How about I give everyone an extension to the day before I turn grades in? Why even have deadlines?

JOB: Université de Montréal - Department of Sociology -Assistant Professor in Feminisms, Genders, and Sexualities in Black, African, and Caribbean Worlds (Description and details in French)

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New recording 🎥
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What happens when you kick millions teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out | CNN In the next two weeks, social media platforms will start deactivating accounts for children under 16 in Australia under new laws designed to reduce harm online. Other countries are watching, but some ...

I sincerely hope sociologists are collecting longitudinal data on this. What a great experiment. I sincerely hope it works...
#sociology

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I see talks as central to our careers and not remunerative things. The rewards are innumerable. Exposure to new ideas. Others exposed to your work. Mentor opportunities. Network building. I think demanding pay or expecting it feels dirty.

Completely agree with this. I wouldn’t review or edit if I wasn’t compensated from my job - at least not as much as I do now. Definitely see the work as work.

That $$ to a copy and managing editor.

Your salary pays for these things. The salary a prof gets does not just pay for the 3-12 hours of teaching they do a week. IMO. Same goes for just about every bit of service one does for the dept, uni, and profession. I am fine with editors getting some kind of cut or honoraria but I’d sooner give

Should we restrict its use with adults? Is that the fairer recommendation or are you saying there is little evidence to restrict it for children?

Human totality and the total social fact In this paper, we reconsider Marcel Mauss’s concept of the ‘total social fact’ (TSF) and its potential to redefine the sociological analysis of various phenomena. The prevailing interpretation of T...

New #sociology paper on Mauss, total social facts, and bridging bio-psycho-social accounts

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Constructing inclusivity: how state laws and local community contexts shape LGBTQ+ student inclusion and belonging in schools ABSTRACT. Though lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth face increased risk for mental health problems, research suggests that prote

A recent piece led by one of our amazing grad assistants. Explores how state laws, district policies, and school prevention efforts can protect #LGBTQ youth or can be uncoupled in ways that make it harder. #suicide

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yes. this.

Join us on Friday for the next talk in our How to Write and Publish Theory series, featuring Dr. Yuchen Yang (@dr-yang.bsky.social) on the development and publication of his award-winning ST article, “Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender.”

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Exciting opportunity for young #sociologists looking to try their hand at writing #sociological theory!

@sethabrutyn.bsky.social wrote this thread about 6 months ago, about a post contrasting classics vs model based fields. Down-thread, Seth notes that he doesn't care about Hegel or Kant. I promised a post articulating why I think he should. Here it is!
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And for the chefs kiss:
Structured social reproduction of status and structuring social reproduction of status

The 1990s: The internet is going to be the great leveler and democratizing force we need!

The 2020s: hey, put some potato slices in your socks!

#sociologists who like fiction! I am the new Books section editor for @contexts.org, and I would *love* to see your pitches for essays + reviews on sociological novels, memoirs or trade books! More info here: contexts.org/submission-g...

Dual-Process Theory, Behavioral Research, and the Explanation of Social Inequalities - Carlo Barone, 2025 This article explores how dual-process theory (DPT) can be articulated to build a comprehensive toolbox of mechanisms for explaining social phenomena and, more ...

New article by Carlo Barone on using Dual-Process Theory (DPT) to explain social inequalities, connecting cognition to social structure when explaining inequalities. Beyond Bourdieu and bounded rationality: a new map of inequality-generating mechanisms.
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#sociology job!

All, I am organizing an @asanews.bsky.social paper session for NYC '26 on neuroscience and cognition in #sociology. Please spread the word.

#sociology

Just listening to a podcast on Goodfellas...Tony Bennet's Rags to Riches!

All, I am organizing an @asanews.bsky.social paper session for NYC '26 on neuroscience and cognition in #sociology. Please spread the word.

Btw the visuals of the montage and the song, absolutely. Even before I was aware of much cognitively, I understood the show on a basic level.

For class reproduction: boxer (paul simon); livin' on a prayer (bon jovi); born under a bad sign (albert king); working class hero (john lennon)***; another brick in the wall, II (pink floyd); sheep (pink floyd)