My book is now arriving to people’s homes! If you preordered, maybe yours will arrive this week as well!! 🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Thanks for the love and support y’all.

Ultimately, I show how behavioral religiosity meanings are negatively related to fear of death, while attitudinal religiosity meaning are positively related to fear of death.

Does religiosity increase fear of death? Decrease it?

Turns out it's a little of both!

Grounded in identity theory, I introduce a framework to categorize underlying identity meanings to explain this.

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Can we unlearn race?

Yes—through neuroplasticity and structural change. The brain rewires, but society must, too.

The Racialized Brain: The Neurosociology of Race and Racism by Rengin Firat is out now in the UK

See more: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Politics and Privilege | Columbia University Press In the United States, the bottom 50 percent of households hold only 1 percent of the nation’s wealth. Scholars and commentators have long viewed democracy ... | CUP

ASA members Rory M. McVeigh, William J. Carbonaro, Chang Liu, and Kenadi Silcox @notredame.bsky.social find that status hierarchies are at the heart of political polarization, stalling efforts to tackle issues like climate change and health care. @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms.

令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social

I’m a campus sexual violence researcher and I started thinking about this in the context of traumatized students.

Extensions are horrifically bad accommodations for survivors. They aren’t going to “get better” in a few days. And that means extensions pile up, pushing the survivor farther behind.

In our June issue, @cvbrooks.bsky.social examines how social capital, social bonding, and network stress affect different health outcomes of Hispanic immigrants in Indiana. Read here to learn more: bit.ly/4lSnEfK

@IndianaUniv @asamedsoc.bsky.social

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender - Davis, California job with UC Davis | 1311028 Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for scholars conducting theoretically-driven, empirical research in the sociology of gender.

UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...

NEW PREPRINT: RELIGION UNBUNDLED
Earlier this week at #ASA2025, @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, Brian Steensland, and I presented ideas for a new paradigm for the 21st-Century sociology of American religion. Full MS at SocArXiv for all those interested:
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This snapshot of the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting shows the numerous presenters who will be sharing sociological knowledge during the meeting. That’s 1,055 presenters on Saturday; 880 on Sunday; 948 on Monday; and 679 on Tuesday.

Headed to #ASA2025 in Chicago? 🏙️ Join the conversation on Bluesky! Follow ASA's Section on Medical Sociology and connect with us and others by using #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth

Let's share ideas, build community, and reimagine health together!

It’s almost here! #ASA2025 starts the day after tomorrow. There’s still time to grab a train, plane, or automobile and meet us in Chicago for this gathering of sociologists that all your colleagues will be talking about! Register online or on site! bit.ly/RegisterASA25 

#Chicago #ASA #sociology

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This fun little article about Affect Control Theory and The Troubles got an honorable mention for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section.
Currently celebrating with ice cream.
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Syllabusin' folks:

There is no Sinners without Blues epistemology and there is no Blues epistemology without CLYDE WOODS….

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So, this paper is passion-project of mine, asking questions about #motivation, proactive social actors, & emotional/affective dispositions. It is a long time coming & is a key piece in the argument for an affective #sociology. Check it out, open access (thx UBC)

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I also aim for shorter lectures, but the length is largely determined by the subject. Sometimes they're 10, sometimes 30. I think the average is around 15-20.

White racial identity indirectly decreased support for and adherence to all COVID-19 mitigation outcomes by enhancing levels of conservatism. In addition, racial identity verification enhanced the negative effects of conservatism with most of the COVID-19 mitigation outcomes.

In reaction to these threats, white people with a strong racial identity are adopting political beliefs, and, in particular, conservative beliefs, that help restore positive distinctness to their white identity.

We conceptualized racial identity as the strength of the relationship to one’s racial group, as opposed to a categorical label, and argued that with increasing threats to the white racial hierarchy, the racial identity of white people has become salient.

White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies Research suggests that opposition to COVID-19 mitigation strategies and mandates has been notable among young adults, especially those who are conservative. The current political climate, through whic...

New publication!
We explore opposition to COVID mitigation strategies and mandates. We use social identity theory and identity theory.

White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies mdpi.com/3198468 #mdpiyouth via @Youth_MDPI
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The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...

Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is?

NO

We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference.

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If you haven't seen Trenton's Stata resources, you're missing out. He has created an excellent collection of commands, explanations, and workshops. Super helpful!

Are you tired of analyzing your nominal and ordinal variables like its the 1950s? Then read @sociologicalsci.bsky.social today and see if ME inequality and total ME are right for you. We develop new methods for summarizing effects for nominal/ordinal independent and dependent variables.

A stately beaux arts building on the left with dozens of students sitting on the steps. In the middle, Michael Burawoy stands with a megaphone wearing all black and staring at the camera with a friendly smile.

I will always remember him as the 1st professor to show up at the barricades & the last to leave whenever there was a student protest on campus. Here he is on the steps of Wheeler Hall lecturing on Foucault as students chained themselves to the roof protesting austerity. 📸 @zunguzungu.bsky.social

ICYMI: In "The Continuing Association between Racial Prejudice and Government Assistance Beliefs," Lawrence M. Eppard et al. consider racism, racial inequalities, and support for social policy responses incl. welfare and social services. Free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Congrats! Looking forward to reading it!

Racialized Religion & Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from the General Social Survey by Evan Stewart and Elena G. van Stee, Accepted at Sociology of Religion. Abstract: Research has examined differences in vaccine hesitancy by religion and by race. Complex religion theory, however, argues that research should examine these two social forces in concert with one another to understand how the religious experience is racialized. Applying this theoretical approach, we examine the interaction of religion and race in a new module for vaccine hesitancy included in the 2022 General Social Survey. We find that the association between religiosity and vaccine hesitancy observed in other work is racialized. Stronger religious commitments are more strongly associated with more vaccine-hesitant attitudes for Black Americans than for White Americans. Yet stronger religious commitments are also more strongly associated with a higher likelihood of vaccine self-reports for a flu vaccine or a COVID-19 vaccine for Black Americans, after accounting for vaccine hesitancy attitudes. These indirect negative and direct positive associations between religiosity and vaccine reporting are important for understanding racialized differences in vaccine uptake. We use these findings to discuss how theories of racialized and complex religion can better serve the study of health and well-being.

Teasing new research on religion, race, & health just accepted at Soc of Religion with @elenavanstee.bsky.social. This was a super fun collaboration inspired by great work from folks including @mattmotta.bsky.social & @pennye.bsky.social. #socsky