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"Sociology gives us a framework to see that this is not just bad housing structure. It is a structural problem. When the employer controls housing, every complaint becomes a risk."
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I’m always looking for good explainers I could show students, and this report is great and the viz work makes me miss when websites had graphic design

Where did the wealth go? Shay O'Brien (@shayobrien.bsky.social) can tell you! Find Shay's essay & data viz on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/the-gen...

@harvardkennedy.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sasemeeting.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social

"Zombie's tattoos were a way for him to tell off the world. But the world didn't get the message ...[and] his perception of himself changed." @socimages.bsky.social's founders @lisawade.bsky.social and Gwen Sharp, 2010, in "Skull Face and the Self-Fulfilling Stereotype." tinyurl.com/SI-SkullFace

Tradwife life isn't as good as it looks on TikTok – just ask former tradwives Tradwives make it look glamorous to quit the workforce to stay home with the kids. But women who have tried the lifestyle themselves say there's a lot you're not seeing on TikTok.

Quoted on NPR! Our book #GenderOrderOfNeoliberalism
explains the embrace and disavowal of #tradwife #girlboss
and lean-in feminism! @politybooks.bsky.social oks.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...

The Lie That Won't Die Why We're Still Talking About Autism and Vaccines

We tend to think of anti-vaxxers as affluent, White, crunchy granola-type moms. But that stereotype ignores how precarity creates vulnerability to anti-vaxx messaging.

Take Tara, whose daughter had a sudden shift in temperament not long after a routine vaccine. 🧵1/
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@socimages.bsky.social our team has been creating some of these biscale maps. Here we looked at blood pressure inequalities by neighborhood in Cleveland. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29764

6 hours under martial law in Seoul On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

This is legendary from @sarahjeong.bsky.social. I appreciate her drunkenly walking the world through a coup attempt and then writing it up. www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...

"We might assume that tradwives hearken back to an earlier 'backward' mode of femininity and marriage. But this way of being in the world is unmistakably modern because it involves 'choice' and entrepreneurship."
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Race, Class, and the Displacement of White Residents from Gentrifying U.S. Neighborhoods Abstract. Are the adverse consequences of gentrification distributed more along racial or class lines? To answer this question, scholars must consider when

What happens to White people displaced from gentrified neighborhoods? My newly published article shows they are demographically similar to non-White displacees but end up in better-off neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

TSP is here! Glad to see this important network up and running on Bluesky - with partners like @firstpublics.bsky.social, @socimages.bsky.social, & much more content of their own, definitely worth a follow. #socsky

Chart showing the percentage of U.S. adults who say it's extremely or very likely that they will do various things on Thanksgiving this year. 35% of Americans expect to watch sports, while the same share (35%) expect to talk about work or family. Going to a bar is at the bottom of the list: Only 2% expect to do so.

Besides eat, what do Americans expect to do on Thanksgiving this year? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Class activity/academic procrastination:

Find other references to colors and gender in the HathiTrust archive. Here's the oldest "pink for boys" (1890).

This week on the @contextsmag.bsky.social blog, Roman Williams discusses how he’s combining sociology + photography to bridge religious divides. 📷

Find our conversation about Roman’s new book, #SacredSnaps, and his commitment to doing sociology *with* the public ➡️ contexts.org/blog/roman-w...

My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is OUT! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. go.ted.com/danarfisher

Here's the longer-term trend that draws out your point

Pinball wizards and wannabes, this photoessay is for you! New from Ryan Banfi (NYU Tisch School):
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A graph showing the salary level at which members of certain generations would feel successful Here’s the average salary older adults said would make them feel successful: Gen Z: $587, 800 Millennials (ages 28 to 43): $180,865 Gen X (ages 44 to 59): $212,321 Baby boomers (ages 60 to 78): $99,874

I haven't drilled down on the details of this survey. But even as anecdotal evidence of economic assumptions, it is clear that "relative deprivation" theory needs to be understood alongside a new "bubble" of economic expectations that will never be reached by most of us. www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...

A vintage air conditioning advertisement. One poor soul sweats outside, while his counterparts are nice and cool inside (even wearing full suits!)

"As policymakers face an increasing need for adequate cooling to address public health issues, they will need to account for the fact that the public may still be thinking of air conditioning as a luxury or comfort good.”
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Totalitarian regimes have a conflicted relationship with sociology. On the one hand, they have no elections or free media from which to learn about the public mood, so they need sociologists even more than democratic governments do. On the other hand, their fear of information is directly proportional to their need for it. They fear that sociologists, if allowed to work freely, will obtain knowledge about the vulnerabilities of the regime. An ideal totalitarian regime would find a way to obtain sociological data without the sociologists.

Here is Gessen in the Times in 2016, noting that authoritarians need to tamp down on sociologists because we tend to expose their nonsense.

What a great bit of data visualization. The chart is striking!

Tweet from Hillary Clinton, with a quote and a link to a New York Times article in which I'm quoted saying "Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women." The quote is originally from an interview I did with Anne Helen Peterson for her Culture Study newsletter.

"Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women."

Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/

Your friends, on average, have more friends than you do—that’s the friendship paradox. But your enemies have more enemies than you do too, research by Amir Ghasemian & @nachristakis.bsky.social suggests, which is called… (you guessed it) the enmity paradox: buff.ly/3SzQx3E

Is this little book on social class the best gift I ever received?! Possible

Home The Annex Sociology Podcast The Annex Sociology Podcast is a podcast that features and speaks to academic sociologists. Our e

The Annex is back! Lauren Olsen (Temple University) is our guest. Olsen goes inside medical schools to show us the messy, conflictual process of building a four-year curriculum that both includes, and sidelines, the social sciences and humanities. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/laur...

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The survey also asked current and recent Twitter users how likely they are to use the platform a year from now. A plurality (40%) say they are extremely or very likely to use the site in a year, and 35% say they are somewhat likely to use it. But a quarter say they are not very or not at all likely to be on Twitter a year from now. Among current or recent Twitter users, a larger share of women than men say it is unlikely they will be on the platform in a year (30% vs. 20%). Conversely, current or recent Twitter users who are men are more likely than women to say they likely will use the platform a year from now (47% vs. 31%). This analysis also finds partisan differences in users’ plans to remain on the site, aligning with previous Center research that highlights how Republican and Democratic Twitter users have differing views of the platform. Greater shares of current or recent Twitter users who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning say it is unlikely they will be on Twitter in a year compared with their GOP counterparts (29% vs. 20%). Current or recent users who are Republican or Republican-leaning, in turn, are more likely than Democrats to say it is likely they will use the site a year from now (45% vs. 36%). Republicans are also more likely than Democrats to say they are extremely likely to be on the site at that time (25% vs. 17%).

In March 2023, five months after Musk acquired Twitter, we asked Twitter users if they would use the site in 2024. A quarter said it was unlikely.

Republican men were most confident they'd still use the site. Democratic women were most confident they wouldn't.
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"We might assume that tradwives hearken back to an earlier 'backward' mode of femininity and marriage. But this way of being in the world is unmistakably modern because it involves 'choice' and entrepreneurship."
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