New in @socprobsjournal.bsky.social w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social: the rapid growth of the admissions consulting industry has raised questions about inequality, privilege, and merit. We combine two original data sources to ask how consultants make sense of their work. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession

Abstract. Prior research has described how middle-class and affluent families draw on private supplemental educational resources to help their children mai

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Some exciting developments with @ffcws.bsky.social at Notre Dame! Stay tuned for postdoc announcements and conference convenings!

Notre Dame Sociology@ndsociology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@annarhaskins.bsky.social has used the FFCWS dataset to study inequality in the education system, family, and criminal legal system for nearly 2 decades. Now, the ND Poverty Initiative has awarded her (and ND Pop Analytics) generous funding to drive a new and exciting chapter of her FFCWS work.

You have one month left to apply to this! Applications will be reviewed beginning September 22nd, 2025.

Terence McDonnell@mintytem.bsky.social · 12mo ago

@ndsociology.bsky.social is hiring an Endowed Chair in Demography at the Full level! Building ND Pop Analytics: populationanalytics.nd.edu. Check out the ad here: apply.interfolio.com/171683 Share widely!

Great to see @greermellon.bsky.social with the lead article in the latest ASR. And there’s good news: even in polarized times, school boards are selecting superintendents based on perceived competence and interpersonal skills, not party affiliation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Competence over Partisanship: Party Affiliation Does Not Affect the Selection of School District Superintendents - Greer Mellon, 2025

In recent decades, affective polarization and partisan animosity have risen sharply in the United States. To what extent have these trends affected hiring decis...

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Today I fulfilled my millennial dream and appeared on @vox's Today, Explained podcast, talking about Trump's executive order around homelessness and civil commitments. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Trump evicts homeless people

Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 08/21/2025 · 27m

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Erin McDonnell's (@profmcdonnell.bsky.social) amazing new paper "Bureaucracy in Action: The Sociology of Public Administration" is online now at the Annual Review of Sociology. Check it out!!! @ndsociology.bsky.social @artslettersnd.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Endowed Chair in Demography at the rank of Full Professor at Notre Dame Population Analytics is now open for applications. I highly encourage established faculty with a strong research program and entrepreneurial spirit to apply! @ndsociology.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/171683

Now out in Social Networks Network analysis aspires to be “anticategorical,” yet its basic units—relationships—are usually readily categorized ('friendship,' 'love'). Thus, a nontrivial cultural typification is asserted in the very building blocks of most network analyses. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

I’m delighted to share that the August 2025 special issue of Sociological Methods & Research on Generative AI is out now. Along with my co-editor, Daniel Karell, we put together this issue to build on the conference we organized last year. Here's a thread on each of the ten papers:

Georgia ranks dead last in mental health affordability. Almost 50% of psychiatrists opt out of Medicaid/Medicare. How do psychiatrists navigate the tension between helping those in need and the economic incentives of a privatized healthcare system? My new Social Forces paper examines this 🧵👇

✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)! apply.interfolio.com/169206