Caroline Lee

I continue to sincerely want the term “Kavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.

We're hiring an outstanding Assistant Professor whose core research is in the field of cultural sociology with demonstrable expertise in the sociology of #culture and #technology.

📅 Applications close Sunday 30 November 2025.

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TCU to close departments dedicated to women, gender and race studies Two departments will be shuttered after this year. Courses that remain intact will move under the umbrella of the English department.

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More unreal higher ed news

So much depressing news in higher ed

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

deadline for this position is approaching. please share with anyone job searching in film and media studies!

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
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adding to my "what the hell is danielle allen doing" file alongside that book promo event she did with curtis yarvin

“plant languishing plant purchases” hits home 💀🪴

Always show this to my intro soc students as an example of urban soc, symbolic interaction, observation as opposed to participant observation, etc.

related: for Texas friends, H-E-Bs (at least across Austin) have open vaccine slots and don't ask if you're high-risk

FDA ends broad Covid vaccine authorization as RFK Jr. limits access to immunizations It's unclear how easily patients without high risk factors will be able to get a Covid shot, and whether insurance plans will still cover them.

We're in the worst and stupidest timeline www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...

I love Zach Pepper's cooking videos.

May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.

There are no sociologists named Mark

There are only sociologists named Marc

Last chance for FREE Pol Soc grad student section memberships!!! DM or email me for details! Time is running out! @asapolisoc.bsky.social

Antonucci and Zhirnov find that "more than a third of the effect of insecurity on populist outlook is through social status." Cultural backlash "contributes in part to the devpt of populist attitudes but not the only (or most determinant) factor."

The British Journal of Sociology Call for Papers The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences

Lorenza and @elenaah.bsky.social are coediting a BJS special issue on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socioeconomic insecurity, deadline coming soon! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Lorenza Antonucci @unibirmingham.bsky.social ‬presents her and Andrei Zhirnov's @exeter.ac.uk SEM work on the intertwined effects of insecurity and social status on populist attitudes in Europe.

Fascinating work in the WWI era on the weaponization of this new nonpartisanship. Nonpartisanship is a "capacious category and can be exploited by different actors."

@uwsoc.bsky.social team @bwitkovsky.bsky.social and Carter Burg present on the production of nonpartisanship in Prog Era Wisc. Benny's dissertation sheds even more light on how "nonpartisan local governance was always the product of political parties, partisan conflict, and partisan institutions."

📄 Grad student Benny Witovsky and undergraduate research scholar Carter Burg had a paper accepted to #ASA2025!

Catch their presentation of "Stalwarts, Socialists, and Reformers: The Contested Meaning of Nonpartisan Politics in Progressive Era Wisconsin" this August in Chicago. @asanews.bsky.social

The Bruxelles and Rouen team ask "God or Cash?" in the paper and find "God is more powerful than cash." Evangelicalism was a significant predictor of support for Bolsonaro.

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The Edge of the Law How street vendors tangle with the law in São Paulo, Brazil.   With a little initiative and very little startup money, an outgoing individual might sell you a number of delights and conveniences famil...

Run, don't walk, to grab Jacinto's brand new book from @uchicagopress.bsky.social The Edge of the Law: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Jacinto Cuvi, Frédéric Louault, Margaux De Barros on how cash transfers affected support for right-wing populism during Brazil's 2022 presidential elections based on exit poll surveys in low income neighborhoods that included questions on multiple dimensions of religion.

Team led by Heather Harper at NMSU with @toocold115.bsky.social and Mackenzie Dybvik argue that racial resentment is a significant predictor of opposition to green energy policy, only partly explained by conservatism and negative partisanship.

@martinlukk.bsky.social presenting on territorial identities in European cleavage politics argues that the "scope of polarization is overstated," and "globalists are nationalists, too"