How can we stop scapegoating and channel our collective energy into real solutions?
Join the Problem-Solving Sociology coffee hour with Maurizio Catino (Univ. of Milano-Bicocca; NYU visiting scholar) on May 15.
sites.google.com/view/problem...
I often introduce this article to Korean students. Great research to show that sociology is very relevant to their everyday concern.
Check out my new article in the Review of Higher Education! Based on the incongruity between which college graduates use skills at work and which have good employment conditions, I advance a framework for the college-to-work transition that considers majors as unique sites of cultural value. Link 👇
Fantastic opportunity to work with Bruno and his team in a very exciting project. 👇
the front page of the paper, which can be read in: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pops.70056
we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology.
in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard.
we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:
We’re delighted to announce a tenure track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SEARCH. Fields: public management, implementation, governance, institutions & policy process.
We will start reviewing applicants immediately & until position is filled. Start date is negotiable.
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These are excellent guidelines
a plot showing % favoring laws against interracial marriage in the GSS.
there is a fantastic visualization strategy coming from cultural evolution circles. I thought it'd be a perfect way to describe public opinion data, so I adapted it for aggregate survey data, created an R package, and wrote a post introducing it here:
tkeskinturk.github.io/blog/publicopin
cultural sociologists apparently study beliefs, attitudes, preferences, values, repertoires, schemas, orientations, worldviews, dispositions, boundaries, toolkits, norms, frames, logics, imaginaries, affects, motives, identities, discourses, categories, and vocabularies.
How can we fix the STEM gender gap? Join Elena De Gioannis (Uni Milano) for a #ProblemSolvingSociology talk on multiple strategies for equality.
🗓️ April 10, 11 AM ET / 17:00 CET
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#Conference
ℹ️ ISA RC30 Online Seminar Series
A series of 4 online seminars organized by ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Work (RC30) between March and May. Free inscription.
🗓️ March 13, March 27, April 24, May 22, 2026 at 2:30-4:30pm CET
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It's always a blast doing events for my book. Here I am presenting at the Labor Studies and Employment Relations department at Rutgers. Next stop, ESS in DC. If you're attending the conference this weekend, stop by and say hello, and/or come see my book’s AMC session this Sunday at 9:30.
Join the #ProblemSolvingSociology virtual talk, "Problem Solving and Global Development: Fads, Fashions, Fantasies, Futility and Fixes?" with Sanjay Reddy (New School).
🗓️ Friday, March 6, 11 AM ET.
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Join us next Friday!!!
AI 🤖 is becoming increasingly common in qualitative research, but many remain unsure about its use. On Feb 17 at 15:00 CET, join an open conversation to discuss questions, doubts, concerns, and experiences with #AI in #qualitative #research 🌹
Join us!
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Final reminder! 📢 Feb 6 at 11 AM ET.
Let's talk about teaching sociology with a problem-solving lens. You won't want to miss this lineup! 🎓💻
#ProblemSolvingSociology
Thank you! I hope to share more refined, published articles in the near future. :) But let me know if you happen to need a quick reference. I will send the full file.
Thank you so much, Michelle! I put a short note of gratitude to you in the acknowledgements section :)
Thank you so much Pepe!! :)
Thank you again!!
Thank you!
Not the best timing for a celebration, but I've defended my dissertation on origins of egalitarian education reforms. Deeply grateful to my committee: Angie, Aaron, Peter, and @epopppp.bsky.social. Thanks to other mentors including @mivich.bsky.social for her @asa-ipm.bsky.social mentorship.
This is unfortunately, unsurprising. From my perspective, the best advances in education technology are those that broaden access to traditional learning (e.g., an online course that can best replicate an in-person course). There's just no substitute for traditional old-school learning.
SOUTH KOREAN COURT SENTENCES EX-PRIME MINISTER HAN DUCK-SOO TO 23 YEARS IN PRISON IN CASE RELATED TO MARTIAL LAW
I will be part of this panel on teaching with a problem-solving lens in early February, with the #ProblemSolvingSociology group! Looking forward!
How can we bring sociological research to bear on real-world problems? Join our panel on "Teaching with a Problem-Solving Lens" with Erin McDonnell, Tyler Bateman, Subadevan, and Filippo Barbera.
🗓️ Friday, Feb 6, 11 AM ET. #ProblemSolvingSociology
www.problemsolvingsociology.com/problem-solv...
Fantastic piece from Youbin Kang in Lux Magazine exploring the intersecting solidarities of labour, queer, and feminist activists (bound together by K-Pop) that brought down the Yoon Suk-Yeol government last year 🫰✊🏳️🌈
lux-magazine.com/article/comr...
We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.