📢 9th Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists – Call for Papers (WCJS27) The ISA announces the organization of the 9th Worldwide Competition for Junior Sociologists. Junior sociologists are invited to submit an original, unpublished paper (max. 7,000 words) in English, Spanish, or French.
EB Campbell
@ebcampbell.bsky.social
Sociologist writing on grief, drugs, and democracy. Associate Professor of Sociology Rhode Island College | Faculty Fellow Yale Center for Cultural Sociology | Art Director Contexts | Sociology PhD CUNY | Postdoc SNF Agora Johns Hopkins
What makes photography an effective tool to help students understand sociological ideas and practice? Take some time for sociology today with this free article and podcast from ASA's journal Teaching Sociology. @teachingsociology.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3RIrIoK
So true! Wonderful to develop this paper with such a theoretical dream team!
IT'S ALIVE! Brainstorming, discussing, writing, and re-writing this piece on the "unbundling" of American religion with @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, and @bsteens.bsky.social was the most enjoyable part of the process, but it's gratifying to see it officially "out" in ASR.
Reviewing proofs this morning for Clemson University Press @cupress.bsky.social Excited to share more soon!
I am both horrified and saddened to learn this. I met Raúl this spring during my time at FLACSO. He was so gracious and kind. What a loss.
@raulpachecovega.bsky.social death is under investigation as there were reported signs of violence. Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega deserved so much better. I hope justice is served. Original spanish article: www.am.com.mx/leon/2026/06... English translation: www-am-com-mx.translate.goog/leon/2026/06...
I'm honored @immanentframe.bsky.social featured my new essay "Unbundled Spiritual and Religious Innovation" : tif.ssrc.org/2026/05/20/u... And here papers inspiring this post (the first about to be published at ASR and the second under review): osf.io/preprints/so... osf.io/k59eb/overview
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Rodney Benson shares "One Thing I Know" about the ownership forms that constrain journalistic independence. Read it in Contexts! ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
Harvard University (@harvard.edu) is hiring: Civic Science Fellow in Health Communication
Read a sociological perspective on how young Americans aren’t simply abandoning religion but transforming it in ASA’s Contexts. The entire issue is free to read until May 28! @contexts.org https://bit.ly/4cFhqh5
Rhode Island College is hiring: tenuretracker.info/l/5xSbWP_1
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rhode Island College | TenureTracker
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My department is hiring! TT Assistant Professor of Sociology for a Fall 26 start. Rhode Island College is an HSI, MSI located in Providence, RI. We have a strong faculty union and supportive department culture. Review of applications will begin by mid-May. employment.ric.edu/postings/10638
Assistant Professor of Sociology (Tenure Track)
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@lindalobao.bsky.social and I need one more paper for “Rural Spaces & Services II” at @sssp1org.bsky.social. Topics include rural inequality, service delivery, policy impacts, and community resilience. Join the conversation on justice and equity in rural life. #RuralSociology
New paper out in Annual Review of Sociology with @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social #W.Foley and @l-sage.bsky.social "Luck and Predictability in the Life Course" We take stock of what we know about luck and its role in shaping life-courses and inequality 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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Took the students to Walden Pond! After a semester of wrestling with texts, we earned today! @waldenpondstate.bsky.social
University of Oslo is hiring: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Women's Health #postdoc
To give the public more insight into American nursing homes, ProPublica has added the ability to search by owner, manager or officer name to Nursing Home Inspect, our database that helps you find issues that federal inspectors have identified in more than 14,000 facilities. Check it out 👇
ProPublica Adds Ownership Search to Nursing Home Inspect Database
Our database helps you find issues that inspectors identified in more than 14,000 U.S. nursing homes. Now you can search by owner, manager or officer name.
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Learned this week that more of my undergrads get their news from SpongeBob SquarePants than legacy media.
The U.S. war on Iran is estimated to have already cost taxpayers over $2 billion dollars.
One of the most decisive consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic revolution, which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. By putting language at the centre of his analysis, Serge Gruzinski develops a fresh perspective on colonization.
📢 In this Social Forces article, I introduce occupational elitism as a novel measure of social closure: the share of upper-class background workers within an occupation. Its consequences for earnings stratification can be examined using a social closure theory lens. 🔓 doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Now posted ahead of print: "Conceptualizing Academic Freedom," forthcoming, Annual Review of Political Science. (Uncorrected proofs, so a few minor edits different from the version that will be published in June.) doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Is there a concerted effort, on the part of academic professional associations, to implore Gallup to not abandon the presidential approval rating?
The Department of Religious Studies at @wellesley.edu invites applications for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in #Religion in the Americas, beginning in fall, 2026. ➡️ Indigenous religious cultures, Christianities, Black & Diasporic religions. Apply by March 9. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/w...
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religious Studies
Please review the details for the position before applying. When applying, please confirm your legal name is entered exactly as it appears on your government-issued identification. Ensure that you hav...
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