Congratulations to Prof. @robbwiller.bsky.social (@pascl-stanford.bsky.social) who was just named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation! @guggfellows.bsky.social
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New in @lawandsociety.bsky.social, PhD candidate N. Hardaway and Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social show how eviction court rules and norms funnel tenants into settlement agreements that teach them they are legally culpable and often reproduce their housing insecurity.
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Qualitative studies on local police collaborations with federal immigration enforcement authorities reveal risks to the well-being of noncitizens, particularly the undocumented, and their families and communities. Yet statistical evidence of these policies’ effects is mixed. We propose that quantitative studies may misidentify the timing of when these policies begin disrupting immigrant communities by relying on a policy’s formal enactment date to indicate its activation. We test this proposal in the context of Secure Communities, a federal program with a staggered rollout that asked local police to detain noncitizens they arrested for possible transfer into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and deportation. Individual states signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the federal government as a framework for their county-by-county activation of Secure Communities. Counties were not required to activate immediately; their formal enactment frequently occurred later when prompted by ICE. We find that the date when a state signed an MOA consistently predicts a county’s increased probability of receiving ICE requests to hold noncitizens in detention, transferring detained noncitizens into ICE custody, and removing noncitizens from the country. This relationship operates most strongly in counties with preexisting enforcement infrastructure between local police and federal immigration authorities. By contrast, while we find that enactment dates are associated with increases in each outcome, pretreatment trends render these relationships statistically indeterminate. Our results highlight how multilayered relationships between local and federal authorities allow for policing to be used as a tool for facilitating the preemptive implementation of immigration enforcement across the country at the expense of noncitizens and their families and communities.
New in @pnas.org, Prof. @asadasad.bsky.social and colls. @immigrationlab.bsky.social find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” local-federal collaborations in immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal activation
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Prof. Michelle Jackson speaking about her new book The Division of Rationalized Labor. A copy of her book is in the foreground on the podium.
Prof. Gi-Wook Shin speaking about his book The Four Talents. A copy of his book is in the foreground on the podium.
We were especially thrilled to toast to two books published last year--Prof. @mivich.bsky.social's The Division of Rationalized Labor and Prof. Gi-Wook Shin's The Four Talents. Congratulations, Michelle and Gi-Wook!
About 30 or so Stanford students and faculty eating lunch. A slideshow of books published in the Stanford Sociology Department are displayed on a screen in the background
Prof. Michelle Jackson and Prof. Gi-Wook Shin hold up cupcakes with images of their book covers on top of the icing. Physical copies of their books are in the foreground. A slideshow of other recently published books in the Stanford Sociology Department are in the background
At this week's community lunch, we celebrated faculty books published in the last 5 years, covering a range of social issues from immigration and criminal justice to the division of labor in society and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region.
New in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity: @hyejk.bsky.social and Aliya Saperstein leverage over 300 survey transcripts to show how respondents and interviewers negotiate “epistemic ambiguity” when classifying a respondent’s race.
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New paper in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: PhD candidate Swan Htut shows how the ways that immigrants relate to ethnic and national labels in the US are influenced by nation-building and ethnic conflict in their home country. Congrats, Swan!
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What can we learn from immersive interviews with a large probability sample of Americans?
Listen to Stanford-affiliated sociologists Grusky, Hummel, Fielding-Singh, and Chu discuss findings from the American Voices Project with @russellsagefdn.bsky.social
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We're hiring for a senior appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor!
Apply here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
Master’s alum Ryan Cieslikowski shared research and commentary in a recent KQED news article on Stanford’s legacy admissions practices.
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Congratulations to Prof. Barbara Kiviat for winning the 2025 Theory Prize from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association! Read her winning article "The Moral Affordances of Construing People as Cases" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A screenshot of a brief article in Contexts Magazine summarizing the research of Prof. Matt Clair and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt on morals in the legal profession. The title of the summary is "good lawyer, bad lawyer" and contains an image of a law school graduate with a sign that reads "NOW WHAT?" The brief article was written by Elena G. van Stee.
Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt's recent article on moral reconciling in the legal profession is featured in the latest issue of @contexts.org. The feature was written by @elenavanstee.bsky.social
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A group of colleagues seated, listening to Prof. David Grusky at a podium speaking about Prof. Mark Granovetter. A slide of Mark Granovetter and people attending on Zoom are projected behind the podium.
A group of colleagues seated, with glasses of champagne raised in honor of Prof. Mark Granovetter. Prof. David Grusky is at the podium, with a slide comparing the annual citation counts of Marx, Weber, and Granovetter since 1950 projected behind him. In recent years, Granovetter has been accumulating more citations per year than Weber but fewer than Marx.
Prof. Mark Granovetter, seated, with champagne and brownies, speaking to a few colleagues standing next to him.
This afternoon, @stanfordsoc.bsky.social and friends from around the world celebrated Prof. Mark Granovetter on the occasion of his retirement. We are proud to call him our colleague and wish him the best in this new chapter!
A group of colleagues seated, listening to Prof. David Grusky at a podium speaking about Prof. Mark Granovetter. A slide of Mark Granovetter and people attending on Zoom are projected behind the podium.
A group of colleagues seated, with glasses of champagne raised in honor of Prof. Mark Granovetter. Prof. David Grusky is at the podium, with a slide comparing the annual citation counts of Marx, Weber, and Granovetter since 1950 projected behind him. In recent years, Granovetter has been accumulating more citations per year than Weber but fewer than Marx.
Prof. Mark Granovetter, seated, with champagne and brownies, speaking to a few colleagues standing next to him.
This afternoon, @stanfordsoc.bsky.social and friends from around the world celebrated Prof. Mark Granovetter on the occasion of his retirement. We are proud to call him our colleague and wish him the best in this new chapter!
New in Sociological Methods & Research: Soc PhD candidate @davidbroska.bsky.social, @austin-van-loon.bsky.social, & Michael Howes show how combining human subjects and large language models can yield precise estimates at low cost, with implications for scientific productivity
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NEW! Call for papers for @russellsagefdn.bsky.social journal issue on "Gender Inequality Beyond Categories: Femininity, Masculinity and Gender Expression" edited by @stanfordsoc.bsky.social's Aliya Saperstein, @laurel-westbrook.bsky.social, & Bianca Wilson.
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A graduate giving a speech from the stage facing the audience and away from the camera
A smiling graduate and their family
Faculty director of the BA program smiling with a graduate
A group of coterminal MA graduates smiling for a photo with the faculty director of the MA program
Last weekend, we celebrated our 2025 @stanfordsoc.bsky.social BA, MA, and PhD graduates. Congratulations, everyone!