Hyunsik Chun
@hyunsikchun.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology @ Kyung Hee University, South Korea | Complex Organizations, Political Sociology, Quantification, Social Movements
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These students speak super fast, but they made English, German, and French subtitles. You might enjoy their analysis of #cute culture in #EastAsia #Japan #Korea #China
Can you leave them a thumbs up?
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Can you leave them a thumbs up?
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Weaponized cuteness : from control to creativity in East Asia
YouTube video by Friederike Wolf (Frieda)
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November 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
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Sociologist Christina Cross’s new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families, seeks to challenge the emphasis on nuclear families being the key to success for Black children.
September 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Sociologist Christina Cross’s new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families, seeks to challenge the emphasis on nuclear families being the key to success for Black children.
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Sociology we have to talk about ASA/Footnotes' decision to publish an article about how *checks notes* a sociologist in upper admin *checks notes* used Sociology to *checks notes* cut the Sociology Program at their university. 🙃
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Sociology in the Provost’s Office: Leading through Contraction | American Sociological Association
Across the United States, higher education is contracting. Since 2010, colleges and universities have lost more than two million students. The
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September 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Sociology we have to talk about ASA/Footnotes' decision to publish an article about how *checks notes* a sociologist in upper admin *checks notes* used Sociology to *checks notes* cut the Sociology Program at their university. 🙃
www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...
www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...
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ICYMI: Rainer Diaz-Bone, '‘Enrichment’ as a Pragmatist and Structuralist Contribution to Economic Sociology: Perspectives on the Approach of Economics and Sociology of Conventions' (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
‘Enrichment’ as a Pragmatist and Structuralist Contribution to Economic Sociology: Perspectives on the Approach of Economics and Sociology of Conventions - Rainer Diaz-Bone, 2023
The article discusses main contributions and results of the monograph Enrichment: A Critique of Commodities, written by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski an...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
ICYMI: Rainer Diaz-Bone, '‘Enrichment’ as a Pragmatist and Structuralist Contribution to Economic Sociology: Perspectives on the Approach of Economics and Sociology of Conventions' (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families' forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigrant detention site. bit.ly/466O5sk
August 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Americans of Japanese heritage say they hear echoes of their families' forced internment in the Trump administration's newest immigrant detention site. bit.ly/466O5sk
"As the deployment of digital technologies continues to generate ever-more stratospheric concentrations of wealth, the masses sink deeper into the void left by the evisceration of social solidarity and the rise of automation."
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The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age | Aeon Essays
Data has created a new and paradoxical social order: the promise of emancipation is made possible by classifying everything
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August 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"As the deployment of digital technologies continues to generate ever-more stratospheric concentrations of wealth, the masses sink deeper into the void left by the evisceration of social solidarity and the rise of automation."
aeon.co/essays/the-s...
aeon.co/essays/the-s...
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Veit Braun publishes a well-informed and really entertaining history of the Bielefeld school of STS/Sociology of science: To add one point: All the major protagonists of this story are still there and active - with the exception of the premature death of Niklas Luhmann in 1998 /1
Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to?
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS?
An expanded repost from Twitter/X
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August 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Veit Braun publishes a well-informed and really entertaining history of the Bielefeld school of STS/Sociology of science: To add one point: All the major protagonists of this story are still there and active - with the exception of the premature death of Niklas Luhmann in 1998 /1
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Michel Callon's foundational work in actor network theory has inspired generations of STS scholars. Callon was 4S president 1998–2000. He was awarded the Bernal Prize in 2002. We thank the Center for the Sociology of Innovation for sharing this in memorium: www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/featured-...
Michel Callon (1945-2025)
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu
August 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Michel Callon's foundational work in actor network theory has inspired generations of STS scholars. Callon was 4S president 1998–2000. He was awarded the Bernal Prize in 2002. We thank the Center for the Sociology of Innovation for sharing this in memorium: www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/en/featured-...
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Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide
August 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide
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This looks potentially useful for junior scholars.
"The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting"
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"The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting"
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August 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This looks potentially useful for junior scholars.
"The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"The Research Paper Playbook: A PhD Student's Guide to Writing and Presenting"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"Scholars have long been skeptical of arguments that a problematic parental culture causes children’s under-attainment. We should be equally skeptical of arguments that a productive parental culture causes attainment (a point HMLS also make; p. 337). [1/2]
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How Does Culture Matter for Attainment, and How Would We Know If It Did? - David Brady, Aliza Luft, Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan, 2025
In their 2022 ASR article, Horwitz, Matheny, Laryea, and Schnabel (HMLS 2022) argue that religious subculture significantly shapes educational stratification, e...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"Scholars have long been skeptical of arguments that a problematic parental culture causes children’s under-attainment. We should be equally skeptical of arguments that a productive parental culture causes attainment (a point HMLS also make; p. 337). [1/2]
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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“The Trump administration will restore and reinstall the only statue that had honored a Confederate official in the U.S. capital after demonstrators toppled and set it on fire during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Trump Administration Will Reinstall Confederate Statue in Washington
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
“The Trump administration will restore and reinstall the only statue that had honored a Confederate official in the U.S. capital after demonstrators toppled and set it on fire during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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Some people aggressively preach scientism, propagating their beliefs as if it represents the only legitimate approach to science. This is problematic not only because the epistemological assumptions underlying such claims were debunked long ago, but also because
August 1, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Some people aggressively preach scientism, propagating their beliefs as if it represents the only legitimate approach to science. This is problematic not only because the epistemological assumptions underlying such claims were debunked long ago, but also because
"I theorize that grading systems—the specific scales used to assign final course grades (e.g., A–F grading or pass/fail)—may have independent effects on demographic segmentation and stratification in undergraduate education." doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
Offering safe passage: grading systems and gendered enrollment patterns in undergraduate mathematics
Abstract. While copious research documents that early grades in college are fateful for persistence in STEM fields, social scientists have seldom considere
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July 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"I theorize that grading systems—the specific scales used to assign final course grades (e.g., A–F grading or pass/fail)—may have independent effects on demographic segmentation and stratification in undergraduate education." doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Happy to share new paper on "State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations"
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July 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Happy to share new paper on "State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New review paper in Sociology Compass on quantification: How do numbers shape organizations? Most research focuses on "interlopers"—outsiders who bring quantification to create commercial opportunities. However, this view has limitations.
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Toward New Organizational Sociology of Quantification: From Interlopers to Plurality and Contestation
Sociologists examine various forms of quantification and their consequences. In organizational sociology, the interloper perspective represents the dominant view on quantification, conceptualizing it....
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July 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
New review paper in Sociology Compass on quantification: How do numbers shape organizations? Most research focuses on "interlopers"—outsiders who bring quantification to create commercial opportunities. However, this view has limitations.
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Excellent, timely, and sobering paper by @leadavid.bsky.social and @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social on Gaza, genocide, and the sociology of war. The overall conclusion suggests that what we are seeing in Gaza may indicate the future of organized conflict. Recommended.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
July 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Excellent, timely, and sobering paper by @leadavid.bsky.social and @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social on Gaza, genocide, and the sociology of war. The overall conclusion suggests that what we are seeing in Gaza may indicate the future of organized conflict. Recommended.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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By cutting Medicaid they are making the decision to kill people.
May 19, 2025 at 5:35 AM
By cutting Medicaid they are making the decision to kill people.
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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
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The Annex is back! @danielrmorrison.bsky.social interviews @bhbradlow.bsky.social about his award winning book Urban Power. Bradlow investigates the politics of public goods in two megacities after the transition to democracy. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/benj... #sociology #academicsky
Benjamin Bradlow on Urban Power
Dan Morrison speaks with Dr. Benjamin Bradlow, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Bradlow discusses his 2024 bo
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May 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The Annex is back! @danielrmorrison.bsky.social interviews @bhbradlow.bsky.social about his award winning book Urban Power. Bradlow investigates the politics of public goods in two megacities after the transition to democracy. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/benj... #sociology #academicsky
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Yeah guys going after judges is like no longer 101 authoritarianism. It's 300 level at least.
April 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Yeah guys going after judges is like no longer 101 authoritarianism. It's 300 level at least.
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The Sociological Review Foundation is hosting an event on 'Palestine: A Sociological Issue', in collaboration with Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians (SISP), on 8 May from 6:30 to 8:00 pm (UK time). More information and register here: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation
Part of The Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, this 8 May 2025 event explored the role of sociology in responding to genocide in Gaza, student resistance, campus securitisation, an...
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April 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Sociological Review Foundation is hosting an event on 'Palestine: A Sociological Issue', in collaboration with Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians (SISP), on 8 May from 6:30 to 8:00 pm (UK time). More information and register here: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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1) Excellent that this is happening
2) The article is correct that universities still should be filing their own lawsuits
3) With notable exceptions (Rutgers, UMD, Georgetown, MI State), the supporting schools are not large research universities.
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2) The article is correct that universities still should be filing their own lawsuits
3) With notable exceptions (Rutgers, UMD, Georgetown, MI State), the supporting schools are not large research universities.
www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/u...
Over Eighty Universities File Amicus Brief in Case Challenging Trump's Speech-Based Deportations of Non-citizen Students
In a previous post, I urged universities to band together to file a lawsuit challenging Donald Trump's policy of speech-based deportation of foreign
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April 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
1) Excellent that this is happening
2) The article is correct that universities still should be filing their own lawsuits
3) With notable exceptions (Rutgers, UMD, Georgetown, MI State), the supporting schools are not large research universities.
www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/u...
2) The article is correct that universities still should be filing their own lawsuits
3) With notable exceptions (Rutgers, UMD, Georgetown, MI State), the supporting schools are not large research universities.
www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/u...