Michelle Jackson
@mivich.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford https://www.mivich.com/
The brick is back!
Social Stratification (fifth edition)@socialstrat5.bsky.social · 2d agoSocial Stratification (fifth edition), edited by Michelle Jackson, Nima Dahir, Claire Daviss, and David B Grusky. Available for pre-order now! www.routledge.com/Social-Strat... Full table of contents in the rest of the thread:
🚀 CIDER Cohort V is now open for applications! ✨ Could the College for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (CIDER) be the right opportunity for you? Apply by 18 October 2026 Find out more and apply: www.leibniz-bildung.de/wp-content/u... #CIDER #EducationalResearch #EarlyCareerResearchers #LERN
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Do you have some exciting research ideas? Apply for a three-year postdoc position in sociology at Nuffield College starting September 2027. Apply by 21/9. www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology (two posts) - Nuffield College Oxford University
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Another must-see ASA 2026 Annual Meeting Plenary Session starts at noon. How Can Sociology Build a Better World? features @shelleyjc.bsky.social, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Monica Prasad, @mivich.bsky.social, and Adina Sterling. Live stream here: https://bit.ly/ASA26Plenaries.
"Zoom: Because if your clients aren't willing to wait for 10 minutes while an update installs are they even worth bothering with?"
Do you study human ecology, human behavior, or human institutions? Is your work relevant to climate change, adaptation, or sustainability? Join us at Stanford! 🌲🤓🌲 My department will be running a junior search in Environmental Behavioral Sciences this year. Happy to answer any questions.
Assistant Professor in Environmental Social Sciences, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability (Environmental Behavioral Sciences) - Stanford University, California, United States
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Environmental Behavioral Sciences within the Department of Environmental Social Sciences. The scope of t...
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It was really engaging to talk w/ the terrific Geoff Wodtke in the Inequality Podcast. Their Podcast hosted by Geoff & @durlauf.bsky.social is one of my favorite podcasts, and regardless of my episode, I strongly recommend. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
David Brady on the Politics of Poverty
Podcast Episode · The Inequality Podcast · July 27 · 58m
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New open access article about open access publishing from @mollymking.bsky.social and me: "Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Feminist Science" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Feminist Science - Molly M. King, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, 2026
Open science is an increasingly important movement in contemporary social science. Many funders have begun to mandate open practices, newer journals like Socius...
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Congrats to Prof. @mivich.bsky.social whose book The Division of Rationalized Labor (@harvardpress.bsky.social) received three awards this year! sociology.stanford.edu/news/three-n...
Three national awards recognize Michelle Jackson's book on labor | Department of Sociology
Michelle Jackson's recent book, The Division of Rationalized Labor (Harvard University Press, 2025), has received three national honors in 2026. The book won the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award fro...
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Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
Assistant Professor in Social Inequality
Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!
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ASA is ready for NYC! Are you? Register to participate in topical sessions like “How Can Sociology Build a Better World?” featuring Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Monica Prasad @jhuartssciences.bsky.social, Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social, and Adina Sterling. https://bit.ly/4b8ELXC.
🌍 Introducing the theme for SASE 2027: Rebuilding Foundations and Hope: Creative Reconstruction in a Moment of Disruption 🏴 University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland 🗓 In person: 30 June to 3 July 2027 💻 Virtual events: 16 to 18 June 2027 Learn more: sase.org/events/2027-...
Glasgow 2027 | SASE Annual Conferences
Rebuilding Foundations and Hope: Creative Reconstruction in aMoment of Disruption
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If not meritocracy, then what? Critics of meritocracy challenge the system, but fail to offer alternatives. Instead of dismissing meritocracy as a system that masks injustice, Jahel Queralt says we should make adjustments so it works for us. Listen → bit.ly/4bnD2NM
"teacher-induced learning inequalities are mainly driven by unequal exposure to highly qualified teachers, rather than unequal returns to qualifications." Just out in our journal, @sociologicalsci.bsky.social sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications
Article: Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications | Sociological Science | Posted June 30, 2026
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Sociological Science@sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: Said Hassan, "Teacher Sorting and Inequalities in Student Achievement: Unequal Exposures and Differential Returns to Teacher Qualifications" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
New at PB: Founding editor Caitlin Zaloom interviews author and scholar @ninabandelj.bsky.social about her new book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” (@princetonupress.bsky.social), the latest installment in our partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social.
The “Emotional Economy” of Parenting: A Conversation with Nina Bandelj - Public Books
“I am an observer of how intellectual ideas travel and enter into everyday life, or how they come to be performed by families in ways that give those ideas a reality of their own.”
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A fascinating article by Blyss Cleveland on the endorsement of anti-obesity drugs among Black celebrity women: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @stanfordsoc.bsky.social
GLP-1s Expand Access to Slenderness and Body Negativity - Blyss Cleveland, 2026
Blyss cleveland on the controversy surrounding the endorsement of anti-obesity drugs among Black celebrity women.
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Interested in the crossovers of gender, race, feminism, and open science? @mollymking.bsky.social and I have a new paper forthcoming at Gender & Society! osf.io/preprints/so...
UW-Madison Sociology is hiring! We're inviting applications for an assistant professor position in the fields of demography, soc of population, and health, to begin August 2027. Come join @uwsoc.bsky.social and the great @cdeuw.bsky.social! Apply here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Sociology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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NEW: Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche, "Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.
Delighted that this paper with Kristina Butaeva @butaevak.bsky.social and Alexander Shapoval is now public.
NBER@nber.org · 3mo agoIntergenerational class mobility in the late Qing era is studied, with changes in dynamics, notably a collapse in upward mobility, revealing the footprints of late imperial crises, from Kristina Butaeva, @durlauf.bsky.social, and Alexander Shapoval www.nber.org/papers/w35313
📣One week left to apply! Don't forget to submit your application for our Vancouver Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity and Inequality hosted at @ubcvse.bsky.social. 🚨Applications close next Friday June 19th! Learn how to apply here: zurl.co/nHIo9
A new Annual Review article by @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social and colleagues worth a read. Don't let the formal modeling of luck fool you. This is one of the more interesting, and all around crazier, articles I've read recently. Super cool. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to...
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