@mohunt.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. Father, husband, swimmer, wannabe-chef. Alum of Miami University and Indiana University. Views my own. 🎗
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New retort available: “Is the Pope American??”
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New article on racial and ethnic differences in fecundability (per-cycle probability of conception) published with @wisewoman75.bsky.social and others.
doi.org/10.1093/humr...
Today was tough.
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That was my first thought when I saw the “new construction” label…
10.03.2025 02:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s a good idea!
13.02.2025 01:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gerth and Mills:
Character and Social Structure
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
Riesman’s The Lonely Crowd (three character types: tradition-directed, inner-directed, and other-directed).
13.02.2025 01:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think there have been some replication issues, and some studies suggest the finding is more context dependent that originally thought.
13.02.2025 00:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This one resonates with my intro students as much as anything I can recall.
13.02.2025 00:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Rosenthal and Jacobsen - The Pygmalion Effect
13.02.2025 00:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Cooley’s Looking-glass Self
13.02.2025 00:02 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thomas Theorem
13.02.2025 00:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0I feel like we're moving closer by the day toward that (as yet unnamed) space in a Venn diagram where oligarchy, plutocracy, and kleptocracy intersect.
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I'm starting a 2025 reading list. So far:
Escape from Freedom, Fromm
The Authoritarian Personality, Adorno
They Thought They Were Free, Mayer
The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Hofstadter
Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Hofstadter
What else?
JOB!
My department is looking to fill a non-tenure-track faculty opening. The search is open rank, and will focus on teaching introductory sociology, research methods, and/or social theory.
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Really interesting and smart application of intergroup contact theory.
bit.ly/3BowZtL
Take Intro to Sociology and find out! 🤣
10.12.2024 20:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Today's student paper quote: "Societal forces have been shaping my individual behavior for the past 18 years and I had no idea."
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Walked across campus today with a colleague who reported he was about to teach his final class of a very long career. It was an honor to share the walk, I said, and asked if he planned anything special to mark the occasion. Answer: no. How will you approach your last lecture?
05.12.2024 00:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0From a student's email today: "After having read your paper from way back in 1996 where you covered different racial opinions on poverty..."
03.12.2024 13:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0From an undergraduate's paper I'm grading:
"Next, I feel like culture is a very big part of our world."
Indeed!
New(ish) co-authored article shows how (often discarded) "don't know" survey responses can yield interesting insights...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
twitter.com/familyunequa...
08.11.2024 14:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Job!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
