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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 16h

And, whatever core we once had (Weber/Marx/Durkheim??) has largely eroded due to the weaknesses of a humanities form of theory pedagogy and the general lack of introductory foundations.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 16h

some of the reasons why enrollments are falling everywhere. The methods alone are the true transposable skills we teach, that much I know. But, what else is sociology imparting as a degree if each class has its own epistemic basis, theoretical and philosophic foundations, and logic?

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 16h

I have had students remark 1/2 through theory that they are surprised to see a coherent picture of the social world. I imagine taking a bunch of classes in a free-for-all field leads to zero threads tying everything together. Mind you, this is not a full critique, but reflections that may point to

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 16h

a working def. of status. Maybe they know the names of Marx or Durkheim, but couldn't articulate anything theoretically relevant or rich. Anomie and alienation are virtually absent from their vocabularies. The big tent approach has its weaknesses, and this is one of them. We have no real core.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 16h

Does taking 100 (or whatever your dept calls it) matter to stats? Theory? Or anything substantive? My sense is there is no "core" to the field. Maybe once there was, but even that remains murky to me. Students in my theory courses no virtually nothing conceptual. Not roles or identity; barely have

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 16h

Dept had a discussion abt pre-reqs in #Sociology (not bc they aren't worth having, but Workday has created a practical issue that's constraining enrollment and is really only resolvable via having them or eliminating them). In any case, it made me think do we need them?

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 16h

damn, more UBC #sociology colleagues killing it!

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 18h

⛅ The climate of political polarization ⛈️

E. Huddart, T. Silva, P. Muzzerrall & S. Dimitrakopoulos’ #Socius study analyzes #survey data on attitudes towards #decarbonization policies to link affective #climate polarization to #political identity-based boundary-making

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · 1d

Section Opportunity:

We are looking for volunteers to help organize the Theory Section reception in NYC for ASA 2026! 🎉 If you are interested, please reach out to Rebecca Emigh ([email protected]).

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 1d

#sociology job!! Soc of religion, even, which is rare.

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 1d

UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social

Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position specializing in the sociology of religion. We are particularly interested in a theoretically engaged scholar whose work addresses religious pluralism in complex modern societies, the relationship between religion, civic engagement, and democratic political cultures, the social and economic impact of religion from a cultural and historical perspective. Relevant questions may include but are not limited to: how does religion shape cultural and political conflicts? How does religion relate not only to political participation but to the shaping of collectives? How do different understandings of the sacred inform the development of, and dispute over, morality?

For additional information about our dynamic department, please visit https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/. For questions regarding this position, please contact Isaac Reed, Search Chair, at iar2c@virginia.edu.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 3d

#sociology

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 6d

An irony of GOP/MAGA's attacks on university sector is that, structurally, it's as close to a "free market" as you'll find in US.

There are 1000s of universities, mostly operating independently.

Unlike tech sector (or coal, oil/gas, eyeglasses, etc), market concentration is incredibly low.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 6d

#sociology jobs

Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 6d

Job posting! OU Sociology is looking to hire a TT Assistant Professor or an accelerated TT or tenured Associate Professor, teaching criminology, criminal justice, & race/ethnicity courses. OU is OK's flagship R1, PhD program, 2-2 load with TA help. Please share!

Details: apply.interfolio.com/174925

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 7d

#sociology jobs

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 7d

Junior and senior faculty positions in computational social scientists at Bocconi, one of the world's best universiites: Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 7d

#sociology

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 7d

Fascinating piece that lends support to cultural arguments about immigrant success... #sociology

Chris Martin @chrismartin76.bsky.social · 7d

Does Asian American success emerge from Confucian values in Japan/Korea/China? This hypothesis has been controversial, and sociologists are rewarded for "falsifying" it, but a new paper (1/n)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Abstract: Asian Americans, even those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, achieve extraordinary educational outcomes, defying the expectations of the well-established status attainment theory that family background is strongly associated with educational attainments. This phenomenon is known as the Asian American Achievement Paradox (AAAP). Positive selectivity of Asian immigrants and cultural accounts are two competing explanations, but they are rarely disentangled empirically due to the high collinearity between immigrant selectivity and culture. This study offers a modified version of cultural explanations, clarifies the distinctions between competing explanations based on the same criteria, and tests them by investigating the educational achievements of second-generation Asian Americans using the full-count 1940 Census matched to the 1930 Census. During this period, Asian immigrants were not hyper-selected, so the entanglement of immigrant selectivity and culture is less of a concern. The results are largely consistent with the cultural explanation, revealing the AAAP to be a century-old phenomenon with a previously unknown complexity. The transmission of culture from the society of origin is further evident in that the AAAP is limited to East Asians and does not apply to Filipino Americans, even though contextual selectivity in education is similar across Asian ethnic groups in 1940.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

#sociology

Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Wendy Roth @wendyrothsoc.bsky.social · 8d

Job alert! Hunter College is hiring an Associate Professor of Sociology for their Asian American Studies Program. Please share the news!
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

Finally, the piece that sort of began this whole process...a #sociological social psychology of anomie, or the horrors of disintegration and meaninglessness.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Toward a General Theory of Anomie The Social Psychology of Disintegration | European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie | Cambridge Core

Toward a General Theory of Anomie The Social Psychology of Disintegration - Volume 60 Issue 1

www.cambridge.org

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

Here is another piece, specifically on COVID and my theoretical interpretation of the sort of disintegrative forces unleashed first by Obama's election, accelerated by Trump's, and ossified by COVID:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 8d

In 2019, after more than half a decade of studying youth suicide, I began writing a bit about disintegration of attachments, pain, and trauma. Real happy stuff. COVID made these ideas more urgent, in my mind. Here is my fave piece, on social trauma:
sage.altmetric.com/details/1569...

Report for: The Roots of Social Trauma: Collective, Cultural Pain and Its Consequences

In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11d

Not sure why Americans aren’t protesting daily. Bringing the economy to a halt. Yall are past the early stages of ethnic cleansing. They’ll be wearing ID on their clothes soon enough

albertny3412 @albertny3412.bsky.social · 11d

And they dragged children naked out of building
www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-d...

ICE agents dragged naked children out of homes in Chicago: Neighbors

Two residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the raid.

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe, also, lack of social media dampened the larger cacophony of celebrity. Combined with mtv’s singularity?

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Seth Abrutyn @sethabrutyn.bsky.social · 11d

Another #sociology job

uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 13d

Sneaks and peeks! Just sharing a little taste of our Spotify playlist for the next issue of Contexts--think of them as catchy clues to the contents of Vol. 24, Issue 3 🎧

A screenshot shows a sample of a Spotify playlist with the songs:
"Island in the Sun," by Weezer
"Just Me & My Plants," by Rocco Elliot
"This Is America," by Childish Gambino
"Just Got Paid," by ZZ Top
"Elbows Up Canada," by King of the Cipher
"You Can't Hurry Love," by The Supremes
"Runnin'," by Pharrell Williams
"What's Love Got to Do with It," by Tina Turner
"Octopus's Garden," by The Beatles

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