Mirya HolmanExcited for this new article w @jeffguhin, Constantine Boussalis, and Travis Coan to be out in the world! We investigate how and where discussions of racial and economic equality occur in sermons from pastors. We use more than 100,000 sermons and a new geographic measure to show that a) evangelical pastors rarely talk about inequality, b) they do it less in more racially diverse places, and c) they use color blind frames https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jssr.12822
Jeff Guhin
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Pronounced Gyoo-in, Asst Prof Sociology UCLA, Religion/Schools/Theory, he/él/il/هو, Dad to 2, Book 2: Against Achievement: What Meritocracy Misses About Schools
Brendan NyhanImportant new work by an all-star team (and a reminder that it is *hard* to move votes) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01487-4
A 2 million-person, campaign-wide field experiment shows how digital advertising affects voter turnout - Nature Human Behaviour
A campaign-level field experiment shows how digital advertising may have affected differential turnout in the 2020 US presidential election, particularly among early voters.
I'm so excited about this! It'll be the first undergrad seminar I teach at UCLA (I usually teach large lecture courses, grad seminars, and one-credit "fiat lux" discussion classes).
The best emotivist arguments in moral philosophy would be less obsessed with sentences and more interested in sociology.
davidnewman@tprophet @Jessicascott09 The sales pitch for US airline deregulation in 1978 was that it would make things wonderful for the consumer.
In some ways it has: A ticket is far less expensive today than it was when deregulation began.
But mostly the effect has been to reduce competition, starve out smaller markets, make a mockery of the terms “convenience” and “amenities,” and transfer wealth away from reinvestment and into executive compensation and stock buybacks.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/airline-deregulation-when-everything-changed
New pub: Traces of the Dead, Actions of the Not-Alive: A Prologue to a Theory of Agentification https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00027642221144854
So after you turn 40 you just think about your mortality and the finitude of existence even more right? Because that’s been my experience. That and back pain.
Dan HirschmanLess brief: this critique of the “cult of novelty” strikes me as very apt and important:
“it puts pressure on scholars to misrepresent their work. This isn’t only a matter of creating incentives on academics to “inflate their claims in order to emphasize their novelty.” It also encourages them to misrepresent other scholarship by downplaying, effacing, or simply ignoring how much it overlaps their own.”
Fabian Pfeffer (Archived)Wealth inequality in the U.S. is extreme. So extreme, that it's hard to gain intuition. With a new interactive visualization Asher Dvir-Djerassi and I provide a tool that may help.
It lets you explore wealth levels across the full distribution (inequality among the 99%) while also allowing the display of wealth at the top that would otherwise be "off the charts".
Check it out (you can mark up the x-axis & add the Forbes 400): https://asherdvirdjerassi.github.io/wealth_thresholds_viz/figure1.html
Published version: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231221143957
C.J. PascoePublic sociologists apply for this! The deadline is January 1.
Public Understanding of Sociology Award - American Sociological Association https://www.asanet.org/about/awards/public-understanding-of-sociology-award/#.Y5Ihcyb3eoo.twitter
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