Seth Abrutyn

I feel like someone needs to distribute Emerson’s power-dependence paper to woo the universities fretting over Trump. Power balancing is not complicate in theory

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Take note sociologists, this is why you want your professional association to hold its fire most of the time. To elevate above the din don’t be a part of the din

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Drunk Apes.

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A really formative memory for me. Visiting my bro at UM when I was 17 and going to a used tape store near the diag. One day I was really high and bought Pink Floyd’s obscured by clouds. Never heard of it. Put the headphones on and turned the volume up. That first instrumental hit sooooo hard. Epic

#sociology job! While the US melts down why not live in a place with delicious food and great scholars!

Atlanta is meh. Portland and Kansas are surprisingly interesting. Heading to Pitt in Sept so fingers crossed

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#sociology

#sociology!

Iron Maiden's Somewhere in Time was an incredible album. And, Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is an excellent song.

In 1989, Ricky Vaughan’s 96 MPH fastball was super impressive. Thirty plus years later and that’s a middle-of-the-rotation starter, at best.

I bet there is a similar, but steeper decline, in reading comics. I used to read about ten every morning in the paper and loved the Sunday edition with color versions. That time is gone. Along with box scores and basic counting stats in baseball.

Sociologist Jan E. Stets on seeing and being seen:
"One Thing I Know: Identity Verification Is Important to the Self"

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#sociology #identity #identityverification

Right. Vance or some other acolyte could murder (a la Trotsky) his rivals and tighten his grip on the spot. Of course, the movement could coalesce around someone. The Q is always whether or not Trump is the brand and the GOP are really a damaged brand...only time can answer that.

#sociology job!

Shooters’s a Mets fan? Uh, now I love him more

A third, more likely outcome is what happens when charismatic leaders die with no clear succession plan (eg Mohammad or Buddha): two to three claims to the movement that splits the movement into factions around highly specific tenets and practices. Pretty common historically.

When 32 of the wealthiest humans on earth possess rare things but become crybabies about paying for the very thing that create that unique status object. Share the wealth and shut the fuck up. Or sell the team and lose the tax breaks

I was being snarky. But I agree that most of those debates are largely moot. I think there are some theoretically interesting issues (surprisingly, for instance, macro v micro) that are alive but ignored. But I think people love making hay.

And I’ll debate that.

I disagree.

#sociology

Cue the techno apologists!

Jon Wynn on writing fiction - 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

Listen to @jonwynn.bsky.social on the “Give Theory a Chance” podcast discuss how he "tweaked the formula" for engaging different audiences by writing fiction inspired by and using sociology and social theory!

#sociology

Super cool! #sociology in fiction format! (and two of my fave people to boot

Good god, I just read what would happen if an asteroid hit the earth and that will give me nightmares for weeks.

Decision by the International Sociological Association (ISA) to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member Dear RC28-community, As members of the ISA-RC28, we are deeply committed to the values of international scholarly collaboration, academic freedom, and critical engagement. It is precisely because of this commitment that we feel compelled to express our concerns about the decision to suspend the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) as a collective member. While we share the ISA’s commitment to human rights and solidarity with people affected by violence, we believe that professional scholarly organizations should not be treated as representatives of their governments. We are aware that boycott is a means of applying pressure on governments and societies; however, in the field of academia, it can endanger the space needed for rigorous and principled academic dialogue. Academic boycotts shut down debate and silence diverse voices—precisely the opposite of what academia should represent.

Moreover, the ISS is deeply committed to democratic values, human rights, and academic freedom. Over the past four years, many of its members – including those affiliated with ISA-RC28 – have actively worked to document, critique, and stand against their government’s actions and policies. The ISA’s decision not only weakens these progressive efforts on a broader scale, but also has real, personal, and professional consequences for members of our community. RC28 has a proud tradition of supporting sociologists who were repressed for their progressive views and actions – for example, in Czechoslovakia and Hungary under Soviet rule. In that spirit, we should support, not boycott, the progressive forces within Israel and elsewhere. Questioning the ISA’s decision does not imply support for the actions of the Israeli government, nor does it diminish the destruction, death, and human suffering in Gaza. Rather, it reflects a principled belief that academic boycotts undermine the values of academic freedom, open dialogue, and international scholarly collaboration, and should not be used as a response to governmental actions. We respectfully urge the ISA Executive Committee to reconsider this decision.

Statement of @isa-rc28.bsky.social on the decision of @isa-sociology.org to suspend the Israeli Sociological Association

So, you’re preparing to teach classic #sociological theory this fall…oh me, oh my

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