I'm revising my field methods class and I'm looking to include a list of compelling methodological appendices. Do you have a favorite sociology methods chapter? Send it my way! Self promotion encouraged!
C.J. Pascoe
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Sociology. Running. Banjos. Bikes. Books. Knitting. Would rather be on a trail. 📚Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High 📚Dude You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School www.cjpascoe.org
@cjpascoe.bsky.social I'm sure your dance card is full, but you are the right person to write a book accounting for the post-2016 use of this word (in public settings) to do gender and race boundary work.
I worked for a bit in a district where “nice” was one of the top characteristics parents wanted students to have. It was often code for conformity.
Slate@slate.com · 11mo agoA small town. A quiet rebellion. An ugly backlash: Inside a "No Kings" protest in Red America. slate.trib.al/y4dv2Oi
Just received in the mail! Our new volume on queer kids and bullying is out now! Thank you to all the outstanding contributors! @uminnpress.bsky.social
Looking forward to talking with Mike Messner about his new book, The High School, tomorrow. Join us - it's a virtual event! calendar.usc.edu/event/levan-...
Levan Book Chat—Michael A. Messner, The High School
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I’m getting to serve as a faculty advisor to a class of LGBTQIA+ first year students this year (so exciting!) and I need your help! I’d love to assign some inspirational/uplifting/ affirming essays, films, and poetry. I know that you folks must have some fabulous ideas, so please send them my way!
All I have to say about Dobson's passing is that the public policy team at Focus on the Family sent me a going away gift basket when I moved away from CSprings. Even after I declined to star in a video for first year Christian college students about how to get along with their secular professors.
I get that we can't self care our way out of this. But this morning message from the YMCA coffee counter is a little too on point for me and my colleagues at U of O who are facing unprecedented, unpredictable and unclear firings of staff, tenured and nontenured faculty.
It's not surprising that the pastor gave this sermon during a "Men's Preaching Night" event. As @cjpascoe.bsky.social told us in her research almost 20 years ago, straight men use homophobia to police each other's masculinity.
Every time a misogynist calls another misogynist a rapist, I always think of @cjpascoe.bsky.social and Jocelyn Hollander’s article: “Good Guys Don’t Rape: Gender, Domination, and Mobilizing Rape”
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As I said in my blurb: The High School takes us on a compelling historical journey, offering a unique blend of sociology, history and personal memoir…A brilliant and insightful work that may have many of us digging out our own yearbooks and revisiting our own stories. Check it out!
C.J. Pascoe@cjpascoe.bsky.social · last yr.How cool is Mike Messner’s new book?! It looks like a yearbook and it’s based on 100+ years of yearbooks!
How cool is Mike Messner’s new book?! It looks like a yearbook and it’s based on 100+ years of yearbooks!
Indiana plans to comply with Trump push to ban DEI from schools https://www.chalkbeat.org/indiana/2025/04/09/indiana-to-tell-trump-administration-there-is-no-dei-in-our-schools/
Indiana will promise the Trump administration there’s no DEI in the state’s schools
The U.S. Department of Education has asked states to certify there’s no DEI in schools in ways the Trump administration deems illegal. Indiana says it will comply.
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This is all horrifying, so all my little peabrain can focus on is that I am absolutely not prepared to be suitably professorial in 80+ degree temps next week.
The funny thing is, I took a little walk before prepping for this class and saw a "Be Kind" graffiti 👀
Somehow all the students who showed up to one of my Transforming Identities seminars yesterday were international students. So we did some close reading of a few ethnographic vignettes from @cjpascoe.bsky.social's Nice Is Not Enough together, as if it's an English class. It's such a fun experience!
For a more recent analysis of gender, sexuality and educational outcomes check out Nice Is Not Enough, which provides updates on a lot of the dynamics I documented in Dude - which can feel a little far from some students' lived experiences these days :). www.ucpress.edu/books/nice-i...
Jen Jennings@jenjennings.bsky.social · 2y agoIf you're teaching gender, sexuality, and educational outcomes, highly recommend pairing DiPrete & Buchmann's first chapter in the The Rise of Women, @joeljm.bsky.social (2022)'s paper (ungated below) , and @cjpascoe.bsky.social's book, Dude, You're a Fag.
Today I learned that some buildings on campus post signs noting the name & time of each course taught outside the classroom in which they are taught. I learned this because five or so men gathered around/pointed at said sign during the middle of my Sex & Society class.
"(The University of Oregon did not return a request for comment by our deadline.)" www.wweek.com/news/schools...
Oregon Universities Respond to Federal Command to Eliminate Race-Based Programs
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Hey, I'm giving a zoom talk on my book, Citizen Scholar, at University of Wisconsin Sociology's Politics, Culture, and Society Workshop, tomorrow at 1:30pm Eastern US time. @uwsoc.bsky.social It's open to the public at: uwmadison.zoom.us/j/9571632480...
So refreshing to read this call for “solution-oriented” research in sociology from @asanews.bsky.social president @joyamisra.bsky.social. Yes! Sociology can make a difference in the real world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sociological Solutions: Building Communities of Hope, Justice, and Joy - Joya Misra, 2025
In her ASA presidential address, Misra calls for making solution-oriented, community-engaged, and participatory research more central in the discipline. She arg...
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have kids so they can study sociology in college and then come home and tell you all the things that you did wrong
We are going to see increasing calls for kindness, civility & love in the coming days. From superbowl ads to the "kindness forever" signs that seem to have taken place of the pride displays at Target. 1/n
Larisa Heiphetz Solomon@drlarisa.bsky.social · 2y agoI heard about @cjpascoe.bsky.social's book Nice is Not Enough on here and finally had the chance to read this fabulous piece of work. So many smart things to say about the limits (& I'd say dangers) of kindness as a framework for addressing inequity. 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/nice...
I heard about @cjpascoe.bsky.social's book Nice is Not Enough on here and finally had the chance to read this fabulous piece of work. So many smart things to say about the limits (& I'd say dangers) of kindness as a framework for addressing inequity. 📚💙 bookshop.org/p/books/nice...
Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High
Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High
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"Like other forms of quantification, academic metrics simplify complex processes at a cost. This cost can reinforce existing inequalities and even generate new 'automated inequalities.'" journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Inequality in measuring scholarly success: Variation in the h-index within and between disciplines
Scholars and university administrators have a vested interest in building equitable valuation systems of academic work for both practical (e.g., resource distribution) and more lofty purposes (e.g., w...
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My campus was recently peppered with "choose kindness" lawn signs (hug emojis 🤗 included). I'm down for kindness, but it's been very jarring to see them pop up at exactly the same time as the state legislature introducing a bill to dismantle academic freedom at our institution.
C.J. Pascoe@cjpascoe.bsky.social · 2y agoResponding to social problems with exhortations to kindness is a way we make systemic inequalities look like individual ones, ones that can be changed if we are just nice enough, not ones that require fundamental shifts in how our institutions, organizations and society are arranged.
#MorningReads Supportive school climates & family acceptance reduce minority stress improving life satisfaction for sexual minority teens. Study finds school climate is the strongest predictor of well-being, highlighting the need for school-based interventions. #LGBTQYouth #MentalHealth #LGBTHealth
The Influence of School Climate, Family Acceptance, and Minority Stress on Sexual Minority Adolescents’ Subjective Wellbeing - Journal of Child and Family Studies
The present study investigated school climate and family acceptance as two factors for reducing the minority stress that predicts sexual minority adolescents’ mental health broadly, and specifically i...
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