Jeff Guhin
@jeffguhin.bsky.social
Pronounced Gyoo-in, Assoc Prof
@SociologyUCLA. Religion/Schools/Theory, he/él/هو, Dad to 2, Book 2: Against Achievement: What Meritocracy (and Social Science) Misses About Schools
@SociologyUCLA. Religion/Schools/Theory, he/él/هو, Dad to 2, Book 2: Against Achievement: What Meritocracy (and Social Science) Misses About Schools
Really proud of this article with Sean Drake!“The Achievement Narrative and Alienation in School: A Typology of Academic Disconnection” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Really proud of this article with Sean Drake!“The Achievement Narrative and Alienation in School: A Typology of Academic Disconnection” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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🎙️ ON AIR:
We're speaking with Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, sociology professor Jeffrey Guhin, and @pontifactspod.bsky.social host Bry Jensen about the conclave process and who might succeed Pope Francis.
❓ What are your hopes for the next pope?
📻 Listen: buff.ly/nPcD1lK
We're speaking with Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, sociology professor Jeffrey Guhin, and @pontifactspod.bsky.social host Bry Jensen about the conclave process and who might succeed Pope Francis.
❓ What are your hopes for the next pope?
📻 Listen: buff.ly/nPcD1lK
What Are Your Hopes for the Next Pope? | KQED
We’ll look at the conclave process and examine who might succeed Pope Francis — and whether he’ll continue Francis’s legacy of environmentalism, openness and compassion.
www.kqed.org
April 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🎙️ ON AIR:
We're speaking with Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, sociology professor Jeffrey Guhin, and @pontifactspod.bsky.social host Bry Jensen about the conclave process and who might succeed Pope Francis.
❓ What are your hopes for the next pope?
📻 Listen: buff.ly/nPcD1lK
We're speaking with Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, sociology professor Jeffrey Guhin, and @pontifactspod.bsky.social host Bry Jensen about the conclave process and who might succeed Pope Francis.
❓ What are your hopes for the next pope?
📻 Listen: buff.ly/nPcD1lK
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📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!
February 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!
Re: Vance’s ordering of obligations, this is not quite the same as subsidiarity, but it’s similar. I wrote about this four years ago and it still applies. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Joe Biden Is a Different Kind of Catholic
To understand his position on workers’ rights, and even his centrism, look to his religion.
slate.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Re: Vance’s ordering of obligations, this is not quite the same as subsidiarity, but it’s similar. I wrote about this four years ago and it still applies. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The best encapsulation of an academic’s many small failures is the shocking amount of things we plan to get done in the airport and then, of course, on the plane. So much will be done! And then we land, having opened one PowerPoint file, watched a movie, and fixed the internet connection 27 times.
January 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The best encapsulation of an academic’s many small failures is the shocking amount of things we plan to get done in the airport and then, of course, on the plane. So much will be done! And then we land, having opened one PowerPoint file, watched a movie, and fixed the internet connection 27 times.
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A must read story that offers a terrifying window into the world of contemporary far right and pro-MAGA paramilitaries. The friendly ties between these aspiring terrorists and law enforcement is especially concerning. Not surprising to folks familiar with the history of the far right, but still bad.
The infiltrator’s name is John Williams.
To learn what he revealed about the paramilitary movement — and how a mole managed to become a senior leader in a major American militia — read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
To learn what he revealed about the paramilitary movement — and how a mole managed to become a senior leader in a major American militia — read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A must read story that offers a terrifying window into the world of contemporary far right and pro-MAGA paramilitaries. The friendly ties between these aspiring terrorists and law enforcement is especially concerning. Not surprising to folks familiar with the history of the far right, but still bad.
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Great thread alert! 👇
Why have glittery tech promises fooled every generation of school reformers for 200 years?
B/c we Americans are addicted to the idea that poverty is just a glitch, not a feature of the American dream.
Here's the 1824 version: adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t....
Why have glittery tech promises fooled every generation of school reformers for 200 years?
B/c we Americans are addicted to the idea that poverty is just a glitch, not a feature of the American dream.
Here's the 1824 version: adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t....
Who remembers AltSchool? What a great cautionary tale of edtech and data-driven schooling exuberance for our current AI moment. Funded by Andreessen Horowitz, Zuckerberg and Founders fund, it was a Silicon Valley experimental lab school for the kind of AI schooling hyped everywhere today ... 1/5
January 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Great thread alert! 👇
Why have glittery tech promises fooled every generation of school reformers for 200 years?
B/c we Americans are addicted to the idea that poverty is just a glitch, not a feature of the American dream.
Here's the 1824 version: adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t....
Why have glittery tech promises fooled every generation of school reformers for 200 years?
B/c we Americans are addicted to the idea that poverty is just a glitch, not a feature of the American dream.
Here's the 1824 version: adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t....
You know the micro concussions football players get every play? I get a micro aneurism every time an economist “discovers” a 100 year old sociological concept.
January 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
You know the micro concussions football players get every play? I get a micro aneurism every time an economist “discovers” a 100 year old sociological concept.
Education friends: any good work on how teachers are handling Chat GPT/AI for writing assignments in high school and colleges? I found best practices and think pieces, but what about actual scholarship on what teachers are doing, how students narrate choices, how much cheating is alleged/found, etc?
January 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Education friends: any good work on how teachers are handling Chat GPT/AI for writing assignments in high school and colleges? I found best practices and think pieces, but what about actual scholarship on what teachers are doing, how students narrate choices, how much cheating is alleged/found, etc?
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We assume that highly paid professionals consistently beat the market. Yet research shows that active funds often underperform passive funds, and analysts’ recommendations can be unreliable. Why does this system persist?
Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h
Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h
Inertia | Columbia University Press
Financial professionals are paid as if they were capable of “beating the market” on a regular basis. In fact, active fund managers routinely underperform... | CUP
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December 24, 2024 at 11:05 AM
We assume that highly paid professionals consistently beat the market. Yet research shows that active funds often underperform passive funds, and analysts’ recommendations can be unreliable. Why does this system persist?
Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h
Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h
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"Of course I can’t say it officially," Shane Lamond wrote to the head of the Proud Boys after Jan. 6, “but personally I support you all and don’t want to see your group’s name or reputation dragged through the mud." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Former D.C. police intel chief found guilty of tipping off Proud Boys leader ahead of Jan. 6 attack
Shane Lamond was charged for tipping then-Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio off about the warrant out for his arrest in the leadup to the Capitol attack.
www.nbcnews.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:23 PM
"Of course I can’t say it officially," Shane Lamond wrote to the head of the Proud Boys after Jan. 6, “but personally I support you all and don’t want to see your group’s name or reputation dragged through the mud." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Friends who know marriage the history and social science of marriage, how is Stephanie Koontz’s *Marriage, A History* regarded as a general introduction?
December 17, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Friends who know marriage the history and social science of marriage, how is Stephanie Koontz’s *Marriage, A History* regarded as a general introduction?
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libro.fm - libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
audible - www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers...
I guess. I feel like I need to keep marketing sorry.
audible - www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers...
I guess. I feel like I need to keep marketing sorry.
Oathbreakers Audiobook on Libro.fm
""This is a serious, meticulous history that will also appeal to Game of Thrones fans, who will discover intriguing parallels between history and fiction.” — Booklist""An enlightening portrait of the ...
libro.fm
December 12, 2024 at 2:30 PM
libro.fm - libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
audible - www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers...
I guess. I feel like I need to keep marketing sorry.
audible - www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers...
I guess. I feel like I need to keep marketing sorry.
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It is wild how contemporary these 1890s academic freedom cases seem.
December 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM
It is wild how contemporary these 1890s academic freedom cases seem.
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ASA sections on Bluesky. Hopefully we can get more to set up accounts here.
Theory Section - @asatheory.bsky.social
Section on Labor & Labor Movements - @asalabor.bsky.social
SKAT - @asaskat.bsky.social
Section on Political Sociology - @asapolisoc.bsky.social
Theory Section - @asatheory.bsky.social
Section on Labor & Labor Movements - @asalabor.bsky.social
SKAT - @asaskat.bsky.social
Section on Political Sociology - @asapolisoc.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 2:28 AM
ASA sections on Bluesky. Hopefully we can get more to set up accounts here.
Theory Section - @asatheory.bsky.social
Section on Labor & Labor Movements - @asalabor.bsky.social
SKAT - @asaskat.bsky.social
Section on Political Sociology - @asapolisoc.bsky.social
Theory Section - @asatheory.bsky.social
Section on Labor & Labor Movements - @asalabor.bsky.social
SKAT - @asaskat.bsky.social
Section on Political Sociology - @asapolisoc.bsky.social
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Putin has RT to talk to the world, so naturally Trump wants the same...
Trump has appointed election denier Kari Lake to lead the news organization VOA. It is obviously a terrible match but I don’t think people understand how big a deal the agency is, and how easily it can be turned into a mouthpiece for Trump. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Capturing State Media: Trump Edition
The weaponization of Voice of America is a preview of a second Trump term
open.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Putin has RT to talk to the world, so naturally Trump wants the same...
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OPINION: “Moana 2” tracks what I have called “The Disney Gospel,” in which good is always rewarded, evil is always punished, and, with belief in some higher power — magic, a star, a fairy godmother — a happy ending is guaranteed.
https://religionnews.com/2024/12/02/moana-2-disneys-holiday-gift-from…
https://religionnews.com/2024/12/02/moana-2-disneys-holiday-gift-from…
'Moana 2': Disney’s holiday gift from the gods
(RNS) — 'Moana 2,' which set a new record for Thanksgiving weekend box office receipts, is another step for Disney in broadening its faith palette.
religionnews.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:30 PM
OPINION: “Moana 2” tracks what I have called “The Disney Gospel,” in which good is always rewarded, evil is always punished, and, with belief in some higher power — magic, a star, a fairy godmother — a happy ending is guaranteed.
https://religionnews.com/2024/12/02/moana-2-disneys-holiday-gift-from…
https://religionnews.com/2024/12/02/moana-2-disneys-holiday-gift-from…
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Brexit was the biggest own goal in history, from the nation that invented “own goal.”
"54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/12/majority-of-brexit-voter…
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
buff.ly
December 12, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Brexit was the biggest own goal in history, from the nation that invented “own goal.”
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How anxious international students are preparing for Trump to take office: "I personally felt an overwhelming sense of doom and uncertainty"
How Anxious International Students Are Preparing for Trump to Take Office
Many schools have told students to return to the US before Trump’s inauguration.
www.teenvogue.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:35 PM
How anxious international students are preparing for Trump to take office: "I personally felt an overwhelming sense of doom and uncertainty"
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I still have red-hot rage at the memory of the old guy doing painful chorionic villus sampling for my first pregnancy yelling at me not to 'sing' as I screamed in pain because he was doing it so incompetently.
How many times is this going to be reported as a ‘discovery’ before the government actually do something about research funding, training doctors and dealing with waiting lists. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
‘Medical misogyny’ condemns women to years of gynaecological pain, MPs told
Damning parliamentary report blames lack of education by healthcare workers and ‘pervasive stigma’ for poor care
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I still have red-hot rage at the memory of the old guy doing painful chorionic villus sampling for my first pregnancy yelling at me not to 'sing' as I screamed in pain because he was doing it so incompetently.
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A really good essay reminding us that grassroots networks, civil society, and journalism are still alive and well in Syria, and will matter as much as stateness and coercion in what comes next.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
Hope and Fear in Syria | Journal of Democracy
The brutal regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell in a week. Syrians have been preparing for this moment for years.
www.journalofdemocracy.org
December 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
A really good essay reminding us that grassroots networks, civil society, and journalism are still alive and well in Syria, and will matter as much as stateness and coercion in what comes next.
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
Buying nice clothes when you have kids under five is basically the same as building a beautiful mandala only to destroy it except without any of the spiritual equanimity and a significantly higher proportion of wet wipes.
December 11, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Buying nice clothes when you have kids under five is basically the same as building a beautiful mandala only to destroy it except without any of the spiritual equanimity and a significantly higher proportion of wet wipes.
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Here are my book recommendations for the new year:
Read the books you already bought.
Read the books you already bought.
December 10, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Here are my book recommendations for the new year:
Read the books you already bought.
Read the books you already bought.