I'm at #PAA2024. If you want to meet up, let me know.
Also, I'll be giving a talk on Saturday in the last session (Migration Around the World) on how population-level educational attainment affects individual-level wages, with a special focus on nativity (domestic- vs- foreign born).
Note: This is a good paper, but I only got this slot because everyone else has to be at the airport then. So I'm a little afraid for the attendance.
New paper from me and Jill Hamm! The title tells you everything you need to know: "Network Position Affects Social Status in Early Adolescence." #sociology #sociodon @sociology
I'll try and post a preprint and write things up a bit better soon.
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WJGKPF4MAXU9TYEATPJI/full?target=10.1080/00380253.2024.2337696
Published today, my latest on Harvard's higher ed blog explores how I leverage Quick Cases: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/reap-the-benefits-of-case-teaching-without-all-the-prep
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Hey #sociologists #sociodon @sociology
I had a student ask me about Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste". Have any of you read it? Is it consistent with sociological research on race and racism? (I'm hoping it is good, #sociology could use some accessible writing)
Not ready to do a full writeup of this at the moment (and I don't have a preprint up yet either) but I have some work to share!
By myself and Sagi Ramaj: Educational expansion, fields of study, and the gender gap in analytic skill usage on the job
Free to download at this link! Via RSSM. I'll get a full thread and a preprint up in early 2024.
Frustrated that department seminars are no longer on zoom? A new online seminar series just dropped. Recommended. #EconTwitter #Sociodon #HigherEd #inequality https://sites.google.com/view/rnim-seminar
Wow I'm delighted that #WaterfallWednesday is a thing. First #Bloomscrolling, now this.
Academics, maybe we need some pithy hashtags to increase engagement too. #MondayMethods? #WritingHackWednesday? #NewResearch...Thursday?
#SocAF on Twitter did something similar.
@academicchatter @sociology #AcademicMastodon #Academia #PhDChat #Sociology #Sociodon
(I don't have any recent flower or waterfall photos, but I offer this mushroom and still water instead)
Is Evolutionary Theory celebrating a comeback in political science?
At least, there is this new book:
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/b2/c3/5f/oa9783839465271.pdf
If you work on a college campus, remember, leaving campus early is a good deed (freeing up a parking space for someone else).
Do your part. Go home early.
This line in Barbara Baig's writing book triggered a memory: "most adults are very self-conscious about learning anything new."
Years ago I took an ink painting class at my local arts center. A middle-aged woman cried because she wasn't immediately good at it. To me this is a convincing case for #ungrading.
#teaching #pedagogy #Academia #Sociodon #Sociology #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
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5) All that said, I am so glad I went to my first disciplinary #sociology conference! I am buzzing with learning and excitement about ideas, my love for the urban, and new connections with like-minded folks. Thank you #ASA2023 for a great experience!
I’ll end with a photo of the Percy Street public art project - big thanks to Jason who showed us around your neighborhood on the last day of the conference. I hope to be back in Philly soon!
How does similarity and spatial proximity shape neighbour relations within residential buildings?
#Homophily & spatial proximity predict #WeakTies. More distant building residents may be #FamiliarStrangers or complete #strangers
Our new paper is out and #OpenAccess!
Co-authored with the fabulous
@marinatulin
@pklampros
& Guillaume Favre
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14036096.2023.2247404
#Sociology #Sociodon #SocialNetworkAnalysis #urbansociology @sociology
My colleagues in RTI's Center for #Education #Evaluation and #Research are searching for candidates with strong #quant methods and interest in conducting grant-funded evaluations. Very open to #remote workers.
Happy to chat with folks who are interested!
First position (typically PhD and 6+ years, $110k+): https://careers.rti.org/jobs/10760?src=JB-10203
Second position (typically PhD and 10+ years, $160k+): https://careers.rti.org/jobs/10761?lang=en-us
#AltAcJobs #EdPolicy #EdResearch #Sociodon #Econ #SocialScience #RCT #Eval @sociology
Final grades for my summer class submitted today! Any post-teaching recovery ideas? I still have small deadlines but whew it feels good to wrap an intensive daily class. 
It is official now: The University of Toronto (Downtown campus) is HIRING an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR area of Science and Technology!
Link to the job ad here:
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Science-and-Technology-ON/572583417/
Please boost! I will add a few of my own thoughts in reply to this post.
The latest data from the 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) are out in the wild! Happy exploring.
And some #NewSociologists in the fediverse …
@ZTS_ZeitTheoSoz (ZTS – Zeitschrift für theoretische Soziologie)
@sanjay_digital (sanjay sharma)
@conleyjr (Jim Conley)
@michamahler (Michaela Mahler)
For the complete list with keywords etc. visit: https://trutzig89182.github.io/Mastodon-Sociologists/
If you want to be on the list or be removed from it, just let me know.
If you are looking for #sociologists in the fediverse, here is a long thread for you (
) – or you use our tool for bulk following multiple accounts:
https://trutzig89182.github.io/Mastodon-Sociologists/
There are also two #NewSociologists on the list:
@SociologyMag (SociologyMag)
@jonathanwyrtzen (Jonathan Wyrtzen)
@lloydsoc (Jonathan LLoyd)
@zmunson (Ziad Munson)
If you want to be on the list or be removed from it, just let me know.
I have an undergraduate student who did his own quantitative study of university student extension-asking. It's thoroughly grounded in the state-of-the-art theory (Lareau, @jessicacalarco), and he did it just going off of survey design textbooks I gave him, a stats course in multiple regression, and using stuff he learned in my stratification class.
I have had a *lot* of extremely smart students but I am not used to this.
Stats / demography question: Say you have two populations with different standard deviations. Let's say you wanted to determine how much compositional differences affect the standard deviation, in contrast to the average differences of each group. The key is that it's *not* about the mean, but the dispersion, so a Kitagawa decomposition doesn't really make sense. What would I use?
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