My department is hiring: at least one senior lecturer (~assistant or associate prof, tenured/ permanent) in sociology w/ a focus on working life & organisation. Feel free to reach out with questions about the department or about working as a foreigner in Sweden ;) Applications due March 27.

https://lu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:593381/?lang=en

we did it guys, we created a new gilded age

"By 2021, the top 1% income share has reached an all-time high of 27.4% much higher than the previous record of 23.9% in 1928"

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2021.pdf

Alaska Says It’s Now Legal “in Some Instances” to Discriminate Against LGBTQ Individuals
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On the advice of the state’s attorney general, Alaska’s civil rights agency quietly deleted language promising equal protections for LGBTQ Alaskans against most categories of discrimination, and it began refusing to investigate complaints.

#Alaska #LGBTQ #CivilRights #Discrimination #SCOTUS

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-drops-lgbtq-discrimination-ban?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

1/ Florida has proposed a bill intended to intimidate & silence people--bloggers--who want to critique the governor or state officeholders

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-who-write-about-governor-to-register-with-the-state/

I won't call it fascism--which it IS--because the word has no meaning for some

Instead let's look at the 1798 Sedition Act

Passed by the Federalist-controlled nat'l government, it made it a crime for US citizens to "print, utter, or publish...any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" re: the gov't.

#florida #fascism #politics

When Alaska rolled back its protections for LGBTQ people, it didn't send out a press release.

Instead, the state quietly announced the policy change via the social media feeds of its human rights commission.

The agency's Twitter and Facebook accounts had a total of 102 followers as of yesterday.

New, from @ProPublica & Anchorage Daily News:

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-drops-lgbtq-discrimination-ban?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Alaska #LGBTQ #CivilRights #HumanRights #SCOTUS #Employment #Discrimination #Housing #Credit

Manuscript word limits (or page limits) for #sociology and related journals. I spent way too long on this. I didn't finish and there were a couple I couldn't find, but hopefully this will be useful to someone else anyway.

#sociodon #demogrodon @sociology

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qUc982Pd8SboCwdGcHgPyMhh4Yk1KDo0/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=111990666523779577232&rtpof=true&sd=true

Why galloping right-wing fascism might not even be the biggest threat to universities: Matt Seybold on the Temple University President and other EdTech "disrupters" dreams of Uber U.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/jason-wingards-edtech-griftopia/