It's a pokemon

I'll be at the BJS conference this week and otherwise in most days

We need more screenplays that are papers www.jstor.org/stable/10.10...

Wait until you read my latest... it has data from 1968 *and* personal anecdotes

Happy to send a copy your way

And yes, for once I actually meant typing 'casually' and not 'causally'

Downward mobility? I don’t know if I can’t even imagine it. I mean for example if you classify downward mobility as being an elementary school teacher where you only have a bachelor’s degree and you really don’t make very much money but you really enjoy your job. I don’t think that should be considered downward mobility because you have career satisfaction.

Like, this is what any decent parent would say but sociologists can't stand it

The Micro-Foundations of Predictable Stability: How Multigenerational Achievement Informs Upper-Middle-Class Parenting - Qualitative Sociology Drawing on interviews with upper-middle-class parents in a large North-eastern city, we examine how “predictable stability” informs their assessment of downward mobility risks for their children. In c...

I'm kind of in love with this paper which casually shows that parents are not in the least concerned with children reproducing their advantage and suchlike

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Amazing

Academia is mostly moving commas around while waiting for someone else to move your career forward

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Beautiful!

地下のアーカイブに保管されており、予約制で閲覧可能ですが、予約の受付は年に1回程度です。

paragraph 2 of book review

You really have to admire the French indifference to whether anyone outside France can access their work

and the dig at a certain character. Like I read a substack recently that went "he reads two books a week and finishes none of them. he tries on a new religion every year. he calls himself a rationalist." That's the character

Worlds collide. As someone who enjoys both sincerity and gentle satire this lands for many reasons: human flourishing as a casual hobby, acting like you can be new to it, the lack of specificity...

The literature review is where you prove you’ve suffered enough to have an opinion

Nothing clarifies your contribution like being told it’s incremental

15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.

what are some good values or principles for someone just getting into human flourishing

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What drives the growth of private wealth? Has inequality increased? How does tax policy shape wealth across generations? Now published in Nature-Scientific Data: the data descriptor of the GC Wealth Project Data Warehouse by @stone-lis.bsky.social & Roma Tre University
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

As Plato once asked, who reviews the reviewers?

My take on this: let business research use silicon respondents, and maybe real people will go back to answering social science surveys again

Toward a critical approach to shitposting

I've been at Indiana University for nearly 20 years and only *today* did I learn that the term "white-collar crime" was coined by IU sociologist Edwin Sutherland in his 1939 presidential address to the ASA www.asanet.org/wp-content/u...

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations

In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How did they decide preference for owls was an unwanted trait tho