Mastodawn

EmilyErikson Mar 11, 2024

Jiwon Lee 이지원 Mar 9, 2024

What would a sociological approach to solving global poverty look like? The annual conference of the ASA Sociology of Development Section will take place Oct. 18–20 at Johns Hopkins. Abstract due: April 2, 2024. #ProblemSolvingSociology https://socdev2024.weebly.com/call-for-papers.html

Call for Papers

We invite abstracts for papers for a conference hosted by the American Sociological Association Sociology of Development Section and Johns Hopkins University. While the theme is "Solving Global...

MY SITE

EmilyErikson Mar 9, 2024

ben chambers 🏴Mar 6, 2024

i want to highlight 'small to medium size regional firms' because we focus so much on big business & multinational corporations that we overlook how small businesses, regional cartels and local dynasties are actually more fascistic ideologically & structurally & the main funders of the radical right

EmilyErikson Oct 16, 2023

The amazing work of Lina Khan deserves all kinds of attention! https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/tech/lina-khan-risk-takers/index.html

EmilyErikson Sep 19, 2023

jimi adams Sep 19, 2023

The latest book review in the Journal of Social Structure is posted - https://sciendo.com/article/10.21307/joss-2023-002. Louis Bissières on @emilyerikson's _Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought_
- https://cup.columbia.edu/book/trade-and-nation/9780231184359

Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought

EmilyErikson Sep 1, 2023

miranda_lubbers Sep 1, 2023

I don’t know if anyone of #IAS Linköping is (still) on Mastodon to promote this, but their online seminar program for fall is stellar. So here it is:

EmilyErikson Aug 29, 2023

https://olizardo.github.io/mysite/posts/CA-viz-tabular-data/
I'm convinced! @omarlizardo

Omar Lizardo - Using Simple Correspondence Analysis to Present Tabular Data

Post using Correspondence Analysis to visualize tabular data with Examples.

EmilyErikson Aug 27, 2023

Rebecca Sear Aug 27, 2023

"Health inequalities emerge where scroungers acquire power over producers, driving increasing exploitation. In racialised societies, symbolic categorisation is used to assign some individuals to low-rank producer roles, embedding exploitation in society. Efforts to reduce health inequalities must address whole of society, altering producer-scrounger dynamics rather than simply targeting resources at exploited groups”

https://academic.oup.com/emph/advance-article/doi/10.1093/emph/eoad026/7243375

An evolutionary perspective on social inequality and health disparities:insights from the producer-scrounger game

Abstract. There is growing concern with social disparities in health, whether relating to gender, ethnicity, caste, socio-economic position or other axes of ine

OUP Academic

EmilyErikson Jul 28, 2023

We are hiring a junior quantitative person! Please apply or tell your students to apply. http://apply.interfolio.com/127990

Apply - Interfolio

EmilyErikson Jul 25, 2023

Kris Inwood Jul 25, 2023

Just published on the economic history of China: quantitative analyses of censorship 1644-1790, marital fertility over 300 yrs, transmission of artisanal skills across 16 generations, the economic significance of the Great Wall & informal networks among merchant groups in Republican China. Thoughtful intro & overview by Zhiwu Chen & Chicheng Ma https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/2832157x/current
@economics @econhist @devecon @politicalscience @sociology @geography @demography @anthropology #China #histodons #history

EmilyErikson Jun 28, 2023

total lack of knowledge about relevant social science. why?: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/26/science/3-body-problem-nuclear-china.html?smid=url-share

What the 3 Body Problem Means for Nuclear War

Physicists have long explored how phenomena in groups of three can sow chaos. A new three-body problem, they warn, could lead to not only global races for new armaments but also thermonuclear war.

The New York Times