Samuel Perry

Hold onto your hats! Just kicked off the RTL @ruraltalentlabs.bsky.social w. @arrc.bsky.social @drandrewk.bsky.social @proftyson.bsky.social @tycmcnamee.bsky.social Ready to hit the road to conduct community listening tours across the country. As always, I'm here to hear. #RuralTalent #ListenUp

Tailgating is awesome. With the exception of binge drinking (which I think is actually pretty rare), it's such a great cultural phenomenon that we do that. Friends and strangers eating great food, playing, laughing, uniting over common fandom. Beautiful really.

Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States Abstract. Americans with disabilities face significant hurdles across multiple social institutions in the United States. Their inclusion and equitable trea

New from @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social in Social Problems on “Christian Nationalism and Abelism in the United States.” Read at the link below.

This Friday at Cornell!

Yes! Several of the students mentioned empathy as a characteristic of positive masculinity!

Nobody expressed that would be weak or feminine. Other characteristics were: emotional intelligence, protecting, not insecure, good dads.

What @gelliottmorris.com calls the "Strategist's Fallacy" is an instance of what my favorite French sociologist (Bourdieu) calls the Scholastic Fallacy - the assumption that the way academics think about and see their objects of study will help them make sense of how other, regular people do so.

Takeaway for me was that young people were eager to consider positive messages about masculinity and thoughtful leaders need to be better at putting forward a constructive vision or it’ll be manosphere YouTubers and authoritarian politicians.

Everyone could identify what “toxic masculinity” looked like, but it challenged students in a good way to consider the possibility of “positive masculinity.” In what ways might it be different from femininity, what it might look like at all, and what would need to change for that to be normalized.

We'd already spent the previous week talking about gender inequality, patriarchy, glass ceilings vs. escalators, wage gaps, etc. That was great. But it caught students off guard talking about obvious struggles young men are having & why that's a social problem too. Wheels were turning in good ways.

Just a recommend. In my Social Problems class I dedicated today to discuss struggles young men/boys are facing in school, employment, dating, etc. We talked about structural reasons, the possibility of "positive masculinity," & policy recommendations. Best class all semester in terms of engagement.

A substantial minority of Americans―white biblical literalists in particular―favor unjust punishment to erroneously acquitting the guilty because they often have racial minorities in mind when queried about the criminal justice system.

We find that being a white biblical literalist is the strongest predictor of preferring wrongful conviction. Preference for wrongful conviction over erroneous acquittal stems from the combination of sacralized authoritarianism & perceived racial threat.

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Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social

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Same here! While you’re waiting to grade, buy my new book, which comes out in two weeks! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/max-p...

Hot take: pastors and missionaries shouldn’t make fun of the places where they serve or the people there. Even if the dominant culture is not your native one and you disagree with most residents. It always comes off as dishonoring. A fool’s exchange for a cheap laugh.

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Norman, OK

¿Qué Está Pasando? Generational Assimilation & Latino America’s Rightward Shift by Rolando Ortega (class of ‘26)

Was talking to my students about this trend just this week. As Hispanics/Latinos become generationally removed from the immigrant experience, they start to identify with White America in literal identity & on various political views concerning ethnic minorities.
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Yeah the ritualized stuff was hard to read about. Hard to imagine hitting children regularly as a way to remind them who is in authority or because they might have hidden sins or to use it as the go-to discipline for everything from hesitating, to mistakes, to sass, to not obeying joyfully.

Makes stuff the authors cite in their chapter on spanking advice more disturbing. You've got folks waking up kids to spank them, spanking them for mistakes, spanking over & over again, spanking kids just to remind them who is in authority. And it's enmeshed in culture warring, so they double down.

Update on the update: Been down a rabbit hold of meta-analyses on spanking's affects on kids. VAST majority of studies show negative effects. Even the "pro-spanking" social scientists can only attempt to argue, "Well, the effects aren't *that* bad." Almost never point to evidence for real benefits.

Update: whole book has been fascinating. But the chapter on spanking advice in evangelical parenting manuals & research on its consequences is worth the price of the book itself. Revealing and frankly horrifying.

Already some fascinating participant observation tonight at the TPUSA event at OU. Way more middle-aged adults than college students. But a lot of the latter too.

Today seems like an auspicious day to remind folks that next week I'll be at Penn State delivering a De Jong Lecture on the contemporary pronatalist movement. Demographers Shelley Clark & Nancy Luke will also give lectures on pronatalism.

Zoom option is available! Just use the QR code to register.

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

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Fellow Social Scientists,

When your grad students say they can't co-author with me because they're too busy grading for your classes, that's a problem. Yes, TA help is awesome. Yes, training includes learning how to manage time. But we gotta free/encourage students to prioritize their own research.

🚨 I created a new guide on how to make nice dot charts. These can be really informative, yet remain weirdly underutilized. The examples are with @statacorp.bsky.social but the logic applies to all
software. Link in thread. 👇

Made it mostly for my students but hope you find it useful, too! 😁

Visited your tutorials just today, John! So glad you've made another post!

And FWIW, I had terrific evangelical parents who were only rarely practitioners of the disciplinary practices the authors describe. And they didn't subscribe to the parenting prosperity gospel. But I know plenty of adults now alienated from parents who will identify with stories in this book.

Got my copy on audible today and already well into it. Really fascinating insights into the vast literature on evangelical parenting and its consequences. I’m sure this will resonate with many evangelicals and exvangelicals. Well done, @mburtwrites.bsky.social & @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social.