Ken Kolb

SSN and our chapter leaders look forward to #ASA2025 in Chicago! Please stop by and say hello!

Dan is the best!

Congratulations to 2025-2026 ASA POP Fellow Ken Kolb, Furman University! @kenkolb.bsky.social‬ bit.ly/POPfellows

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It's been a while. First ASR article featuring ethnomethodology and conversation analysis I've seen in a long time. Maybe like 10 years, unless I'm missing one.

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Ken Kolb named to cohort of inaugural ASA Policy Outreach Fellows Ken Kolb is part of a 10-member inaugural team tasked with strengthening connections between the American Sociological Association and legislative offices, think tanks and policymakers who craft publi...

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Policy Outreach Program Fellowship | American Sociological Association NOTE: Applications are closed for the 2025-2026 Cohort. Please check back in April 2026 for details about the 2026-2027 application process

I've been selected to be an inaugural fellow of the American Sociological Association's new Policy Outreach Program.

For the next year, we will meet with legislative offices, think tanks, and policymakers to learn how to gain more influence on public policy and popular opinion.

YouTube video by Number Six With Cheese Eating Korean Fried Chicken N' Waffles at the James Beard Awards Brunch

Going to Chicago for #ASA2025 next week. Been watching this channel to get my food goals in order. Found this review of a brunch for James Beard awards nominees in '24. I'm in the background at 2:08, jogging to the mimosa bar for a refill. Lost that award, but gained 5 lbs

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One hour after my post, same story came up from another New Orleanian in the local paper www.nola.com/entertainmen...

RIP Ryne Sandberg. I'm a cubs fan to this day because when cox cable came to our block in New Orleans when I was 8 years old it was either WGN (cubs) or TBS (Braves) and the cubs were always on when I got home from school. Used to tape Cey-Sandberg 5-4-3 double plays to learn his footwork at 2b.

Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

Want to know why demographers aren't panicking over low birth rates? @lesja.bsky.social, @shelleydclark.bsky.social, & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com explaining the faulty logic that underlies the low birth rate-induced population panic than fuels the pronatalism movement. 1/n

ahhh, might be for best. I was in Chicago for a thing when Taylor Swift was in town, and it was madness.

that would be wild. But I think we miss it by a week.

When it comes to home cooking, household size matters.

Average household size in US is 2.51. Percentage of households of people living alone is now 29%.

Was 2.94 and 19% fifty years ago.

The everyday realities of home cooking (is it worth the time? Will it save enough $$?) are changing.

Graphic announcing a new SSN member. On the left, text reads: "NEW SSN MEMBER — William R. Hauk, Associate Professor of Economics, University of South Carolina. Expertise: Economy, Foreign Policy and Security." On the right, there is a professional headshot of William R. Hauk, a man with light skin and short light brown hair, smiling while wearing a dark suit jacket, blue shirt, and maroon tie with a subtle pattern. The background features layered shapes in orange, mustard, and olive green tones.

We are excited to welcome @billhauk.bsky.social of @sc.edu to the network! Hauk's research focuses on international trade, foreign direct investment, economic growth, and political economy.

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By Age 30, 29% of Americans will follow a parent's footsteps and end up working for same employer

Nope. Ten days ago. But it was an awesome sunrise

Fish on in Newburyport, MA a few minutes before sunrise.

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.

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

Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, my book w/ @joesoss.bsky.social, is now available. 30% off through @uchicagopress.bsky.social (see below). Look out for info about book-related events beginning in late-August.

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Chris is the expert. If you see anything steel related in the news, check his stuff to learn what is really going on.

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New from me: "Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers" familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/p...

Thank you! I'm so glad to be part of SSN - it's so important to make research accessible and approachable right now.

Trump ratchets up steel tariffs to 50% American steelmakers will most likely be able to charge higher prices as demand for domestic sources of metal increases. But the broader economy is likely to suffer.

Write an op Ed about steel and tariffs and then got a call from an nbc news reporter www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Trump ratchets up steel tariffs to 50% American steelmakers will most likely be able to charge higher prices as demand for domestic sources of metal increases. But the broader economy is likely to suffer.

Write an op Ed about steel and tariffs and then got a call from an nbc news reporter www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

This is the most granular analysis my team has done of community assets in its struggle with gentrification. Pink parcels are LLC owned. Overlay is of non-profit, land-banked parcels.

RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cites Research Studies That Don't Exist Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s MAHA Report featured several seemingly fake studies and incorrect attributions.

AI hallucinations. I had a student try this last semester. DeepSeek just created quotes, journal articles, page numbers, and years out of thin air. It's easy to miss if you aren't looking closely. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Wins are wins

Commentary: Steel trade and tax policy should be based on evidence, not nostalgia Vice President Vance told good story about his grandfather working at Ohio steel mill, but steel trade and tax policy should be based on evidence, not nostalgia

#Trump has claimed that steel #tariffs will bring back American manufacturing jobs. In this op-ed, ‪ @kenkolb.bsky.social writes that targeted tax credits would better help support workers & modernize the steel industry.

Learn more in @postandcourier.bsky.social. ⤵️

Base Steel Policy on Data, Not Nostalgia Tariffs won't make American steel any cheaper, but expanding the 45X tax credit could

Published an op-ed recently. Here is a enhanced version (free) with hyperlinks to all data sources