By the 1990s and 2000s.... Doctors, academics, consultants, bankers and journalists – careers that had been insulated from the most savage forms of labour exploitation – watched their independence erode as management became more profit-driven and bureaucratic.
A really great substack by the ever-brilliant @dsilver432.bsky.social charting the rise and fall and sometimes rise again of sociological research areas, discourse, and interests. Sadly, I find myself somewhere in that mid-20th century world...
thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/sociologys...
ASA member Japonica Brown-Saracino @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social traces how the concept of gentrification has evolved to express widespread ambivalence about economic inequality and unease with various forms of social change. @princetonupress.bsky.social
So basically today we're just sitting around waiting to see if war crimes are committed later tonight. Last time I felt this dread and anxiety was when everything was starting to shut down due to COVID.
I see that working for small classes, but more complicated for larger ones. It's going to get worse. I wish I could retire early!
Teaching race & ethnicity this semester has certainly been something. Then again, I said this last year. btw. using Race in America
Students are getting better at bypassing AI detectors, which means the ones that are getting flagged are especially bad slop. #CheatGPT
My drywall research somehow took me to the origins of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
$56 for a book review. Scholarly publishing is so messed up.
Moore Staff are Union Yes! Sign our solidarity petition!
BIG NEWS! The Staff at Moore College of Art & Design are unionizing with UAP! We are honored to support Moore Staff as they organize to WIN their Union, alongside the unionized Moore faculty of the Moore Federation of Teachers.
I wonder if this year's meeting will have sociologists trying to disrupt the status quo of ASA?
Miss you too. We had a Social Media Theory and Strategy major that was put into moratorium.
It continues nationally. It should be noted math and chemistry are getting cut also. People need to start thinking about the larger political economy of higher ed and not just their own administrations. www.nytimes.com/2026...
Bundled-up employees strike outside of a building.
Striking Portland Staff Reach Agreement; Faculty Remain on Strike https://bit.ly/4m2L7f9
Got gas this morning. The same station was +10¢ when I passed by on the way home.
"...hours worked is a cost-of-living issue, just as central to job quality or affordability as wages and prices are. If we focus exclusively on... more hours or higher wages, we’re neglecting the magnitude of the exhaustion and burnout that the working class is facing"
I like my beer like my social movements.
Agencies beholden to politicians play around with categories and data. It ends up hurting everyone. An important point I want to make is STEM is also under threat everywhere. Everyone in higher ed is targeted.
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While using the CIP-SOC crosswalk to link majors & jobs is problematic the report states that there is greater demand in community, legal, protective & arts jobs than STEM. This is an area that most social science majors end up. However, that's not the point. Undergrads can end up anywhere.
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A post about how different agencies classify the social sciences. PASSHE doesn't classify social sciences as STEM-H. This often hurts us when they talk about priorities. Yet, PDE and NSF both classify us as such. This is a report by Baker Tilly for PDE on workforce.
www.pa.gov/content/d...
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Brought up Regular Substantive Interaction w/ union & admin. This was a problem before AI. All sorts of cheating by BOTH students & faculty previously. I will always remember our former. It's about to get worse.
A malfunctioning dancing robot in California and Philly attempts to kill another robot. Kyle Reese should have been from Philly not LA.
www.sfgate.com/food/...
www.usatoday.com/sto...
“Research published this month by [Knapp & Willey, GMU] shows that 7 of the 10 most-cited legal scholars in the US last year were women. That marks the highest number since the annual ranking began 3 yrs ago& more than doubles the representation of women in the top 10 [BOOM]”🧪
@josiecox.bsky.social
I'd add that they pretty much ignore everything that is going on in the world, despite the nature of our discipline.
Even for those of us who do decently financially (yay unions), the decline of American higher ed is real. We've never recovered from the Great Recession. Universities are being merged, smaller colleges are shutting down, and programs are being put into moratorium. ASA seems to ignore this reality.
