Ji-won Lee 이지원

@g1lee.bsky.social

Sociology PhD | Political Sociology of Stratification and Equalization | https://g1lee.notion.site

Who's up for a good old fashioned (but short, bc I'm tired) paper thread? Thrilled to be in this special issue of Gender & Society (an absolute dream!), where we propose a feminist-inspired extension of how to theorize and model the spread of ideas in science + journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What Gets Lost in Translation? Epistemic Tensions between Translation and Diffusion in Practice-Oriented Scholarship

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This paper proposes a feminist-informed metascience theory to explain the interconnected processes of idea creation, translation, and diffusion. Drawing on feminist critiques of science centered on perspective, power, and praxis, we develop a creation–diffusion model that jointly examines how ideas are created and then how the content of ideas influences their spread across academic fields. Using a nationally funded gender equity program as a case of a practice-oriented knowledge-production community, we analyze how gender equity research concepts were translated and diffused through the program-funded publications. We operationalize substantive engagement with gender equity research using word embeddings and Concept Mover’s Distance. Then, with additional contextual variables, we measure (1) the predictors of this engagement (ideas) and (2) the impact of engagement on citation counts and citation interdisciplinarity (the diffusion process) across social science and STEM fields. Our findings show that, in addition to context, the content of the idea matters for diffusion: Engagement with critical dimensions of gender equity research, such as feminism and structural concepts, diffused less often, whereas other dimensions, such as gender and methods, achieved broader uptake. Our empirical findings highlight the role of perspectives and epistemic power in shaping both knowledge production and diffusion. Our theoretical framework and methods demonstrate how metascience can incorporate feminist theory directly into diffusion studies, and why it should.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Introduction to a special issue on feminist metascience and open science by Christin Munsch and @divreyes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Abstract This introduction brings feminist scholarship into conversation with metascience and open science. Drawing on feminist epistemology, we argue scientific reform is not a neutral technical project. Rather, practices intended to improve rigor, transparency, and accessibility may also expose marginalized scholars and research participants to harm, reproduce inequality, and facilitate hostile scrutiny, particularly in the current political environment. These tensions point to the need for feminist metascience and feminist open science. We define feminist metascience as the study of how gender and intersecting relations of power shape the production, evaluation, circulation, and correction of scientific knowledge, and we define feminist open science as an approach to transparency that remains attentive to care, protection, and risk. We offer these definitions and the articles in this special issue as a starting point for larger conversations about how feminist scholarship might contribute to emerging debates over scientific reform.

Just got word that my proposed session on “Labour, Power, and Politics” has been approved for the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, which will be held in Gwangju, South Korea from July 4-10, 2027. 1:

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We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

here is something (I think) interesting: ANES has been asking people what they like and dislike about Democratic and Republican parties since 1952. here is a simple model on the *number* of considerations, showing that, with age, people have a lot more ideas to offer about each party.

a coefficient plot, showing that with each year of age the number of considerations on Democratic and Republican parties increase, until about ~age 35, after which the numbers stabilize.

Oh my god, he was one of the most sincere people I have met in this academic online sphere. I truly hope he rests in peace.

Jessica Van Meir 🩵@jessicavanmeir.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am so devastated to learn of the passing of @raulpachecovega.bsky.social, who I just had coffee with a week ago. We met at @repalconference.bsky.social and he was one of the kindest, most genuine people I have ever met in academia. He made me feel like my work mattered.

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Check out my new article in the Review of Higher Education! Based on the incongruity between which college graduates use skills at work and which have good employment conditions, I advance a framework for the college-to-work transition that considers majors as unique sites of cultural value. Link 👇

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cultural sociologists apparently study beliefs, attitudes, preferences, values, repertoires, schemas, orientations, worldviews, dispositions, boundaries, toolkits, norms, frames, logics, imaginaries, affects, motives, identities, discourses, categories, and vocabularies.

It's always a blast doing events for my book. Here I am presenting at the Labor Studies and Employment Relations department at Rutgers. Next stop, ESS in DC. If you're attending the conference this weekend, stop by and say hello, and/or come see my book’s AMC session this Sunday at 9:30.

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