Nicholas Vargas
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#LatinxStudies scholar drawing from the #socialsciences; Moving from FL (UF) to CA (#UCBerkeley) starting Summer ‘23; Researching Latinx racializations, classifications, stratifications, and #HSIs.
Avid fan of thunderstorms, porch swings, hammocks, and #vintage #Latino #baseball cards.
@jayrope Coquito is love & celebration in the form of a Puerto Rican Christmas/New Year drink. Find some, drink it, and thank me later. https://matadornetwork.com/read/coquito-holiday-drink/
Nicole AuerbachUC Regents meeting is over. UCLA is headed to the Big Ten and will spend $ to make sure the Bruin athletes have support for travel, academics, nutrition, etc. UCLA will also end up paying Cal somewhere between $2 and 10 million for leaving without them.
Daniel Laurisonhello #sociology #sociodon @sociology - the deadline for the Public Understanding of Sociology award - for which I'm on the committee - is January 1st. Nominate yourself or someone else! More info here https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/public-understanding-sociology-award - this is the award for sociologists who are doing something great to share sociology with the public (as opposed to the award that's for non-sociologists/non-academics doing similar).
Today, I finished teaching my last class at the University of Florida (#Race and #Latinxs). I suppose that’s worthy of a celebratory drink.
bilgeyesilUnsettling the University: Confronting the Colonial Foundations of US Higher Education (Introduction and first chapter free here) https://www.press.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/media/2022/10/Unsettling_the_University_Intro_and_Ch1.pdf
PwnallthethingsLots of folks warning that overreliance on AIs can lead to bias.
But that can sound a bit abstract, so let's just leave these examples here.
Pamela Oliver#Sociology @sociology
Analysis of #AmericanSociologicalReview acceptances & rejections 1990-2010. Main finding is those in elite depts more likely to be accepted & less likely to be rejected. Higher rejections for not-White not-male or for gender/race topics are "explained" by elite dept. variable.
https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/7/192
Analysis of #AmericanSociologicalReview acceptances & rejections 1990-2010. Main finding is those in elite depts more likely to be accepted & less likely to be rejected. Higher rejections for not-White not-male or for gender/race topics are "explained" by elite dept. variable.
https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/7/192
Who Gets Accepted and Who Gets Rejected? Status in the Production of Social Science
This article considers science as a stratified social system that may reflect and reproduce broader social patterns of stratification. Analyses are based on a unique data archive with more than ten thousand published and unpublished manuscripts and the associated peer reviews, all submitted between 1990 and 2010 to the American Sociological Review , a leading journal in the discipline. The analysis considers how race, gender, manuscript topic, and institutional affiliation are associated over time with publication decisions. These decisions shape the future of the discipline and have broader social implications. The findings show patterns that may limit emerging perspectives in the discipline and provides recommendations as to how the discipline can not only make the stratification system more permeable, but also emphasizes the significance of flattening the hierarchy altogether.
MireiaMy first peer-reviewed paper just came out!
In it, I use the sudden removal of racial vocabulary in social-science textbooks in Spain to investigate what happens to the concept of race when racial vocabulary is removed from the public sphere?
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01419870.2022.2146451?journalCode=rers20
Racism without race: reconstructing race through culture in Spanish social-science textbooks
What happens to race when racial vocabulary disappears? This paper leverages a sudden change in the Spanish social science curriculum in the 1990s to empirically trace how the removal of the langua...