Check out our new paper in American Sociological Review: "Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns" The paper is based on research we've done on efforts to preserve and protect historic Chinatowns in Canada and the United States doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns - Matt Patterson, Henry Tsang, Bryan Kuk, Weiqi Li, Mojtaba Rostami, 2026

Cultural trauma refers to how past experiences of harm can fundamentally transform a community’s shared identity, potentially generating feelings of solidarity ...

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Getting a research grant is 10% coming up with a good idea, 20% writing a polished application, and 70% hitting reload on a web browser to see if the SSHRC website will appear.

Our department is hiring!

Ariel Ducey@aducey.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

The average American has three friends

Shawn Micallef@shawnmicallef.bsky.social · last yr.

The average American has three friends

NGL it’s pretty crazy to hear Al Gore quote Adorno and reference Habermas (though he uses the past tense as if he’s dead)

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last yr.

Al Gore ripped the Trump administration to shreds in a speech Monday at a climate week event in San Francisco.

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Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life

A leading sociologist, he explored American society up close — living in a Levittown at one point — to gain insight into issues of race, class, the media and even the Yankees.

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While we look back nostalgically at the formal fashion of the 1920s, the people back then were dreaming of the day it would be socially acceptable to wear pajamas to work.

Paul Fairie@paulisci.bsky.social · 2y ago

People will be awakened by radio alarm clocks and baldness will be almost universal

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City looked nice this week.

Former YMCA, Philadelphia Chinatown (closed since 2007)

Neil Postman, in 1985, predicting TV programs like the Daily Show intended to satirize television news but ultimately just further blurring the boundaries between entertainment and news.

Coming out of social media hibernation to post my thoughts on the US election. Lots of debate over whether Harris was too centrist or not centrist enough. For me, this misses the mark. I think of this election in terms of Ronald Inglehart's concepts of materialism vs post-materialism... 1/8

For @ctownt2g.bsky.social, here’s some photos of Melbourne Chinatown

If this can be a salad, you can be anything.

Back in Canada. Melbourne did not disappoint. It is a flaneur’s paradise.

Digital technologies are transforming the city into a "gamespace" in which we are constantly encouraged to score points. Check out my latest paper: "Scoreboard Urbanism: Theorizing Mental Life in the Digitally Mediated Metropolis" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15356841231173644