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Samuel L. Perry is an American sociologist known for his research on American Christianity, politics, and sexual behavior. He is… more

Samuel L. Perry
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Political science 43%
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by Samuel L. Perry

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And FWIW, I had terrific evangelical parents who were only rarely practitioners of the disciplinary practices the authors describe. And they didn't subscribe to the parenting prosperity gospel. But I know plenty of adults now alienated from parents who will identify with stories in this book.
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by Samuel L. Perry

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Got my copy on audible today and already well into it. Really fascinating insights into the vast literature on evangelical parenting and its consequences. I’m sure this will resonate with many evangelicals and exvangelicals. Well done, @mburtwrites.bsky.social & @kkramermcginnis.bsky.social.
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Congratulations to Anthony Abraham Jack, whose book Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price was selected as a Winner of the @aesatalk.bsky.social's Critics' Choice Book Award!

Learn more about this timely work here: hubs.ly/Q03MyM-Y0
Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price by Anthony Abraham Jack Anthony Abraham Jack
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by Samuel L. Perry

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Yep saw that.
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead, Andrew Jacobs , and 1 more

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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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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Victor Asal, Andrew L. Whitehead

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PUBLICATION ALERT: Religion in Sociological Perspective, 8th edition, was just published by @sagepub.com. Pleased to have @jh1791.bsky.social join me as a co-author.

FREE COPIES: Retweet this post before 10/17 for a chance to win one of 5 copies!
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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Alan Richardson

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Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964
Description Job Summary: The Interdisciplinary Program in Organizational Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan seeks applicants for a full time Lecturer III position to begin August 25, 2026. Organizational Studies is a small but growing selective undergraduate major in the arts and sciences. This is a non-tenure track position with a university year appointment. The initial appointment period will be four (4) years, and the appointment may be renewed (based on programmatic need, funding, and performance). The appointment is subject to final approval by the college. Responsibilities: Duties and responsibilities for this Lecturer III position are expected to include four (4) undergraduate courses per year, including both lectures and seminars, as well as departmental service, including undergraduate advising and mentoring equivalent to a third class per semester, and service on appropriate committees. Candidates may also contribute to our core class rotation (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods), depending on program needs and candidate background. A typical full-time (100% effort) load for a Lecturer III in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts is three courses per semester, or the equivalent in administrative and/or service duties. Qualifications Qualifications: Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in a relevant social/behavioral science or professional discipline prior to the start date of the position and a range of instructional expertise. Candidates must be able to teach lower- and upper-level classes relevant to the study of organizations that are grounded in social/behavioral science and appeal to students looking to develop practical, transferable skills. Candidates must also be capable of teaching at least one and preferably two of our core classes (micro-organizational behavior, macro-organizational theory, and research methods). We espec…
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by Samuel L. Perry

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We've likewise found the stereotypes about broody teens hating their parents to be untrue. Any eye rolls I get are hard-earned rewards for my dad jokes.
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by Matthew Salganik — Reposted by Samuel L. Perry

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Dept of Social & Political Sciences at Bocconi Univ in Milan is advertising for an open-rank position in sociology. They are excited about computational social science.
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
jobmarket.unibocconi.eu
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by Samuel L. Perry

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Thanks for making all this available, Nic. Bless you.
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead

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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
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Paul A. Djupe

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Taken from The Knowledge Polity by @pauldjupe.bsky.social Amy Erica Smith, & @aesokhey.bsky.social, which I'm sharing in my grad course on The Sociology of Academic Publishing.

Median number of reviews for sociologists (in 2017) was 3 reviews with the avg. pulled up by outliers. Makes me wanna cry.
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead

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Excited to see the new paperback edition of Addicted to Lust *with a new preface*! I’m proud of the way the arguments in here about “moral incongruence” and pornography use have only received more empirical support in the past 6 years. Great deal on Amazon!
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0197...
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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Pierre Bataille, Étienne Ollion , and 6 more

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I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.
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by Samuel L. Perry

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Not that polarization is the worse thing we face. Sometimes not even a bad thing. But religion’s relationship to affective polarization tends to make a hard situation worse.
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by Samuel L. Perry

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Almost all of them mainline, politically moderate churches. For a number of reasons, not a great thing. These folks tend to be the most cross-pressured politically. The end of such churches will worsen partisan sorting and with it affective polarization.
www.axios.com/2025/10/03/u...
15,000 churches could close this year amid religious shift in U.S.
Megachurches spread influence but fewer Americans going to church
www.axios.com
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Andrew L. Whitehead

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Important new FREE study by Amy Brooke Grauley. Experiments show when Christian leaders warn Christians against Christian nationalism, they're less likely to identify with it, especially if they don't have strong views on it yet. Effects are weaker in the opposite direction.
doi.org/10.1007/s111...
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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry

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***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for October 2025.

A thread.

I will update the thread over the course of the month.

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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, James Goodwin, Greg Linden

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Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House. Convincing colleagues to vote with them is the literal job of politicians - if they can’t do that, they can’t do their jobs. They own this shutdown and all of the consequences.
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Andrew L. Whitehead

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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Richard McElreath, Martin Tomko , and 5 more

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Life satisfaction mostly declines with age. Previous findings (esp. the famous U-shaped age-SWB trajectory) were artifacts of misspecified models. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Will Jennings

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Cross-country analysis of voter reactions to economic crises.

tldr: economic crises benefit the right. If a center-right party is in power when the crisis hits, there is a shift even further to the right.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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by Samuel L. Perry

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I’ve heard Bryan Stevenson speak in person. Kind, brilliant, and courageous. Would vote him for President tomorrow if he ran.
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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 17d
So exhausting..
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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele , and 23 more

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So exhausting..
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Mirya R. Holman

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Hot take: pastors who claim to preach the Truth (capital T) from the pulpit ought to be the most obsessively fact-checky critics of *every* claim their own sermons, including references to history, science, & politics. If your history is fast & loose, I expect your use of the Bible is too.
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by Samuel L. Perry — Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Patrick Präg

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by Samuel L. Perry

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Camping with my boys in the Wichita Mountains. 3rd tarantula we’ve seen in 12 hours. Suckers are big.
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Reposted by Samuel L. Perry

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I’ve stood up to right-wing billionaires and stood up for kids and families.

This is my home. And our country is in danger.

And I’m running for Congress to defend them both.

Please join us.
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