Join us next Tuesday!!!

Anyway, I'm grateful that I'm working in a university that at least has some basic respect for early career scholars 🙂

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Well, after more than 2 years of waiting (?), I'm thrilled to receive a rejection from the University of Memphis for a job I applied back in 2023 🤪 I guess this tells us something about how early career scholars are being treated in the current job market? #JobMarket #AcademicSky

A clown in 4 parts meme Text: Give us your ID, it's just for adult sites Okay, now give us your ID for "dangerous content" Posting? You better have ID Your online Burger King order is on hold. Please provide valid ID to access your fries

And it doesn't even protect children.

It was such a pleasure discussing the continuing importance of Stuart Hall's work and the Birmingham School for sociology at the current conjuncture with Ben Carrington, Gregor McLennan, and my colleagues Frankie Rogan and Nick Beech at the @britsoci.bsky.social conference yesterday! #britsoc26

Join us on April 28!!!
The best thing about being part of the CCL committee is that you get to invite four of your favorite sociologists onto the same panel 😝

Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization betwee...

New open access article (w/ Marcel Paret) in the 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺:
“𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗼𝘆: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗮 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗮𝗰𝗲–𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀.”

We revisit Burawoy’s 1970s and 80s work on southern Africa to intervene in contemporary debates on racial capitalism and Du Bois.

Miyu 🐱: Yeah, sure, but have you considered Gramsci's relevance for the study of feline and cats? #AntonioGramsci #StuartHall #Cats

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Happening soon!!! #sociology #culture #diversity

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I'm especially excited to see my 2025 article on the semiotics of (un)doing gender got onto the list and superseded my 2020 article on hegemonic masculinity, even though it had only been published for three months
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thrilled to see both of my ST articles are among the Top-10 Most Downloaded Articles in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🤩
www.asanet.org/top-download...

When you feel useless and are overwhelmed by self-doubt, come to Birmingham New Street. There is a "needless alley" and I didn't even know it's there for the past year and half 🤡

Join us next Friday!!!

Really looking forward to reading this!!!

Eating rice cake (not dumplings!) on New Year's Eve is certainly a form of subaltern resistance against northern hegemony!

credit: @jiarui-sun.bsky.social

Drinks that do things.

A performative drink! #JLAustin #SpeechAct

Here's the link to the article--a must read for anyone who cares about social media, platform, digital nationalism, or China! anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This year, the week on "The Self Online" is entirely #LinguisticAnthropology! I swapped the Abidin & Gwynne reading with @jiarui-sun.bsky.social 's 2025 #JLA article, "Patriotic Youth or Toxic Men", which won the 2023 John Gumperz Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology!

Today marks one year since the tragic loss of Michael Burawoy, ISA President (2010-2014).

In his memory, we have compiled an e-book based on the commemorative online session held last February, preserving the messages, stories, and photos contributed by participants.

We kicked off our first session today with a chapter from John Lie's 2018 book, The Dream of East Asia. And we had such a very lively discussion about why it's problematic to use the so-called "Confucian tradition" to explain contemporary phenomena in China (and East Asia more broadly)!

10 years ago, I, along with my friends at the Datong Society of China Studies at Berkeley, designed & taught a student-led DECal course on Chinese society as undergrads. This semester, I'm starting a Sociology of China Reading Group for my students at @birminghamschool.bsky.social. How time flies!

Went to the cafe and hotel that appeared in K-On! The Movie! (2011) while I was in London for my birthday 😊 #KOn #animepilgrimage

Abductive logic (as opposed to inductive or deductive) is the truly human mode of discovering and making meaning from qualitative data.

Sage Sociology: Sociological Theory - Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender Author Yuchen Yang discusses the article "," published in the December 2025 issue of Sociological Theory. 

New podcast on my "Gender Uptake" article in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social! Very excited to have this opportunity to talk about the conceptual development and theoretical/methodological intervention of this paper 🤩
#theory #sociology #genderstudies
sagesociology.libsyn.com/sociological...

Opinion | What Happened When My Yale Students Gave Up Their Phones for Four Weeks

If you care about your students, ban digital devices in your classroom. Contrary to what some might think, it's easier now than ever. Students call time on screens "Rotting."

#CulturalTailWinds #EvenStudentsWantThis #Attentionism

#Ai #screens #digitaldevices #pedagogy #highered

I guess it's worth redesigning this module from scratch even though I did not get the proper workload allocation 🥺

Lecture notes for Sociology of Everyday Life

Photo of a PC monitor in a lecture hall displaying the final week's lecture slides

After 3 semesters, I finally taught a module that I'm satisfied with! In redesigning this module, I made a deliberate effort to cultivate core academic skills, and now many of my 1st-year students in the module are doing WAY BETTER than our current 3rd years!