Ji-won Lee 이지원

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3-year research fellowship at Edinburgh! A great opportunity for folks working at the intersection of medical sociology, STS and socio-legal studies. International applicants are welcome! #STS

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY639/r...

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I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year.

Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

The inaugural issue of Theory and Social Inquiry is now available! I love that it includes an orientation toward #ProblemSolvingSociology. Check it out, problem-solvers! www.theoryandsocialinquiry.org/issue/1706/i...

Sound excellent. I'm working on my diss. in Korea, and seeing many folks enjoying reading Boltanski et al. but finding hard to use them for empirical studies. Yours will help them a lot.

Assistant Professor (Sociology) - Boston, Massachusetts job with University of Massachusetts Boston | 1310899 The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) invites qualified persons to apply for a tenure-track assistant profess...

**I'll be at ASA if you'd like to chat about the position. Reach out by email.**

The Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Boston is hiring a TT assistant professor with strengths in the soc of gender/sexualities: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310899/...

Congratulations! Is this coming from your dissertation work? I've always recommended your dissertation to someones who want to use Boltanski for empirical sociology. Thanks for sharing!

There was an error in my initial link, so here it is a second time:

I'm very happy to share my new article, "When Is a Job Not a Job: Justifications of Part-Time Faculty Work in English and Math Departments at Three Colleges and Universities" in the journal Higher Education Politics & Economics.

Come join us at Berkeley Sociology! Multiple positions, various ranks...

Very grateful to @schechtlm.bsky.social for this generous review of URBAN POWER in @sfjournal.bsky.social!

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"For urbanists, comparativists, and social theorists alike, Urban Power offers both a sobering reminder of democracy’s limits and a hopeful map of its possibilities."

#sociology job!

Some mail arrived this morning.

A preview to my first book on bilateral summits between the US and adversaries is now published online in @ejir.bsky.social. I revisit the 1972 US-China summit to illustrate how summits emphasize types and strengths of social relations between states for the audience of world politics.

Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Berkeley Sociology is hiring faculty! Sept 1 application deadline. Two positions: (1) open area junior search. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05013, (2) associate or full professor in Anti-Black Racism and Social Inclusion aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05012 Please help spread the word!

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various t...

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

🚨 Job opening: Villanova is hiring an assistant prof of Sociology in my department, specializing in digital or media or sts preferred. I'll be at ASA and happy to chat department or Villanova or Philly with people. Details here: jobs.villanova.edu/postings/31795 #socsky #sociology

Late post but excited to finally see my chapter in the book Theory Reimagined: Voices of Sociologists from around the World.

Check out the book here: frontpagepublications.com/book/theory-...

Wesleyan University's sociology dept is searching for an assistant professor this fall - especially interested in scholars of space with an interest in questions of method. Non-sociology PhDs are encouraged to apply! Feel free to share and reach out with questions!

We are seeking to appoint a Tenure-Track Professor in Sociology with focus on #QuantitativeMethods @ifswien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

For the call and how to apply 👇
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Thank you! I will follow your work later then.

Will this talk rely on your recent book chapter about machine learning and theorizing? Looks like a great talk, and I wonder if we can read it in print or watch a recording!

Engagement and qualitative sociology in health research: proximal, but incongruent - Social Theory & Health This paper argues that sociology’s distinctive value in health research lies not in amplifying experiential accounts but in analysing the social structures and norms that shape them—a contribution oft...

Engagement and qualitative sociology in health research: proximal, but incongruent | Social Theory & Health link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#sociology job

Toward New Organizational Sociology of Quantification: From Interlopers to Plurality and Contestation Sociologists examine various forms of quantification and their consequences. In organizational sociology, the interloper perspective represents the dominant view on quantification, conceptualizing it....

New review paper in Sociology Compass on quantification: How do numbers shape organizations? Most research focuses on "interlopers"—outsiders who bring quantification to create commercial opportunities. However, this view has limitations.
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University of Toronto is hiring:
Assistant Professor - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Villanova University, where I am currently working, has a position in digital sociology and/or STS studies. I am not on the search committee and happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Need to stop now.

One section of my first dissertation chapter may be 5,000 words, and now I realize it's not a three-paper dissertation. It can be a three-dissertation dissertation.

Great postdoc opportunity here at @ndsociology.bsky.social! Project: “Novel Empirical Approaches to Examine Spatial-Social Integration and Suicide.” careercenter.asanet.org/job/1310854/... @asanews.bsky.social

I had a blast discussing Major Trade-Offs with @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social for the Council on Contemporary Families blog. Check it out!
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(41) We usually bemoan large bureaucracies. But what if they were more "effective"?

TLDR: My new paper with Sociology of Education investigates the largest bureaucracy in the Philippines, with almost a million employees! Read it at bit.ly/JET_041