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Really proud of this article with Sean Drake!“The Achievement Narrative and Alienation in School: A Typology of Academic Disconnection” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Oh thank you!!!

What Are Your Hopes for the Next Pope? | KQED We’ll look at the conclave process and examine who might succeed Pope Francis — and whether he’ll continue Francis’s legacy of environmentalism, openness and compassion.

🎙️ ON AIR:

We're speaking with Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, sociology professor Jeffrey Guhin, and @pontifactspod.bsky.social host Bry Jensen about the conclave process and who might succeed Pope Francis.

❓ What are your hopes for the next pope?

📻 Listen: buff.ly/nPcD1lK

That was fun! Thanks for including me!

📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!

Joe Biden Is a Different Kind of Catholic To understand his position on workers’ rights, and even his centrism, look to his religion.

Re: Vance’s ordering of obligations, this is not quite the same as subsidiarity, but it’s similar. I wrote about this four years ago and it still applies. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The best encapsulation of an academic’s many small failures is the shocking amount of things we plan to get done in the airport and then, of course, on the plane. So much will be done! And then we land, having opened one PowerPoint file, watched a movie, and fixed the internet connection 27 times.

A must read story that offers a terrifying window into the world of contemporary far right and pro-MAGA paramilitaries. The friendly ties between these aspiring terrorists and law enforcement is especially concerning. Not surprising to folks familiar with the history of the far right, but still bad.

Great thread alert! 👇

Why have glittery tech promises fooled every generation of school reformers for 200 years?

B/c we Americans are addicted to the idea that poverty is just a glitch, not a feature of the American dream.

Here's the 1824 version: adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t....

 ​You know the micro concussions football players get every play? I get a micro aneurism every time an economist “discovers” a 100 year old sociological concept.

Basically, I’m looking for something that in a relatively systematic way, talk to teachers and students just about what they’re thinking, what it means, what’s happening, vs. the much more common “here’s what we did at my school and it kinda worked!” That’s great but I’m looking for the research.

Education friends: any good work on how teachers are handling Chat GPT/AI for writing assignments in high school and colleges? I found best practices and think pieces, but what about actual scholarship on what teachers are doing, how students narrate choices, how much cheating is alleged/found, etc?

Inertia | Columbia University Press Financial professionals are paid as if they were capable of “beating the market” on a regular basis. In fact, active fund managers routinely underperform... | CUP

We assume that highly paid professionals consistently beat the market. Yet research shows that active funds often underperform passive funds, and analysts’ recommendations can be unreliable. Why does this system persist?
Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h

Former D.C. police intel chief found guilty of tipping off Proud Boys leader ahead of Jan. 6 attack Shane Lamond was charged for tipping then-Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio off about the warrant out for his arrest in the leadup to the Capitol attack.

"Of course I can’t say it officially," Shane Lamond wrote to the head of the Proud Boys after Jan. 6, “but personally I support you all and don’t want to see your group’s name or reputation dragged through the mud." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Friends who know marriage the history and social science of marriage, how is Stephanie Koontz’s *Marriage, A History* regarded as a general introduction?

Oathbreakers Audiobook on Libro.fm ""This is a serious, meticulous history that will also appeal to Game of Thrones fans, who will discover intriguing parallels between history and fiction.” — Booklist""An enlightening portrait of the ...

libro.fm - libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

audible - www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers...

I guess. I feel like I need to keep marketing sorry.

An 1897 political cartoon titled How to Build Up a University, which shows Brown University seeking a "young man of submissive disposition as president. A reasonable amount of scholarship will not be a disqualification but the chief requisite will be an obsequious and ingratiating behavior toward millionaires and the ability to RAKE IN THE DOLLARS."

It is wild how contemporary these 1890s academic freedom cases seem.

ASA sections on Bluesky. Hopefully we can get more to set up accounts here.

Theory Section - @asatheory.bsky.social
Section on Labor & Labor Movements - @asalabor.bsky.social
SKAT - @asaskat.bsky.social
Section on Political Sociology - @asapolisoc.bsky.social

Putin has RT to talk to the world, so naturally Trump wants the same...

'Moana 2': Disney’s holiday gift from the gods (RNS) — 'Moana 2,' which set a new record for Thanksgiving weekend box office receipts, is another step for Disney in broadening its faith palette.

OPINION: “Moana 2” tracks what I have called “The Disney Gospel,” in which good is always rewarded, evil is always punished, and, with belief in some higher power — magic, a star, a fairy godmother — a happy ending is guaranteed.
religionnews.com/2024/12/02/moana-2-disne...

Brexit was the biggest own goal in history, from the nation that invented “own goal.”

How Anxious International Students Are Preparing for Trump to Take Office Many schools have told students to return to the US before Trump’s inauguration.

How anxious international students are preparing for Trump to take office: "I personally felt an overwhelming sense of doom and uncertainty"

I still have red-hot rage at the memory of the old guy doing painful chorionic villus sampling for my first pregnancy yelling at me not to 'sing' as I screamed in pain because he was doing it so incompetently.

Hope and Fear in Syria | Journal of Democracy The brutal regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell in a week. Syrians have been preparing for this moment for years.

A really good essay reminding us that grassroots networks, civil society, and journalism are still alive and well in Syria, and will matter as much as stateness and coercion in what comes next.

www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Buying nice clothes when you have kids under five is basically the same as building a beautiful mandala only to destroy it except without any of the spiritual equanimity and a significantly higher proportion of wet wipes.

Here are my book recommendations for the new year:

Read the books you already bought.

*Texas doctor & professor points out on tiktok that patients are not legally required to answer citizenship question in order to receive care
*Abbott threatens funding of hospital and university
*Video is removed

These overt threats by politicians to stifle speech becoming all too common.