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Justin Huft
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Part time researcher and lecturer in sociology & psychology. Full time lover of The Muppets.
PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Race, gender, religion, social psych.
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In our June issue, @cvbrooks.bsky.social examines how social capital, social bonding, and network stress affect different health outcomes of Hispanic immigrants in Indiana. Read here to learn more: bit.ly/4lSnEfK

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July 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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UC-Davis is hiring for a tenure-track assistant professor in the sociology of gender. See more details here: careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311028/...
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Sociology of Gender - Davis, California job with UC Davis | 1311028
Tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level for scholars conducting theoretically-driven, empirical research in the sociology of gender.
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September 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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NEW PREPRINT: RELIGION UNBUNDLED
Earlier this week at #ASA2025, @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, Brian Steensland, and I presented ideas for a new paradigm for the 21st-Century sociology of American religion. Full MS at SocArXiv for all those interested:
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August 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This snapshot of the ASA 2025 Annual Meeting shows the numerous presenters who will be sharing sociological knowledge during the meeting. That’s 1,055 presenters on Saturday; 880 on Sunday; 948 on Monday; and 679 on Tuesday.
August 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Headed to #ASA2025 in Chicago? 🏙️ Join the conversation on Bluesky! Follow ASA's Section on Medical Sociology and connect with us and others by using #MedSoc #ASAChicago or #ReimaginingHealth

Let's share ideas, build community, and reimagine health together!
August 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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It’s almost here! #ASA2025 starts the day after tomorrow. There’s still time to grab a train, plane, or automobile and meet us in Chicago for this gathering of sociologists that all your colleagues will be talking about! Register online or on site! bit.ly/RegisterASA25 

#Chicago #ASA #sociology
August 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This fun little article about Affect Control Theory and The Troubles got an honorable mention for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section.
Currently celebrating with ice cream.
#sociology

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May 26, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Syllabusin' folks:

There is no Sinners without Blues epistemology and there is no Blues epistemology without CLYDE WOODS….
May 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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So, this paper is passion-project of mine, asking questions about #motivation, proactive social actors, & emotional/affective dispositions. It is a long time coming & is a key piece in the argument for an affective #sociology. Check it out, open access (thx UBC)

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April 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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New publication!
We explore opposition to COVID mitigation strategies and mandates. We use social identity theory and identity theory.

White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies mdpi.com/3198468 #mdpiyouth via @Youth_MDPI
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White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies
Research suggests that opposition to COVID-19 mitigation strategies and mandates has been notable among young adults, especially those who are conservative. The current political climate, through whic...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Say you’ve got very good causal IDENTIFICATION. Can you say you have causality, can make a causal general claim, and can say what “THE causal effect” is?

NO

We explain why in new article at Journal of Causal Inference.

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The necessity of construct and external validity for deductive causal inference
The Credibility Revolution advances internally valid research designs intended to identify causal effects from quantitative data. The ensuing emphasis on internal validity, however, has enabled a negl...
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February 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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If you haven't seen Trenton's Stata resources, you're missing out. He has created an excellent collection of commands, explanations, and workshops. Super helpful!
sociologicalsci.bsky.social Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · Feb 5
NEW: Trenton D. Mize, Bing Han, "Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables."
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February 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Are you tired of analyzing your nominal and ordinal variables like its the 1950s? Then read @sociologicalsci.bsky.social today and see if ME inequality and total ME are right for you. We develop new methods for summarizing effects for nominal/ordinal independent and dependent variables.
sociologicalsci.bsky.social Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · Feb 5
NEW: Trenton D. Mize, Bing Han, "Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables."
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February 5, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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I will always remember him as the 1st professor to show up at the barricades & the last to leave whenever there was a student protest on campus. Here he is on the steps of Wheeler Hall lecturing on Foucault as students chained themselves to the roof protesting austerity. 📸 @zunguzungu.bsky.social
A stately beaux arts building on the left with dozens of students sitting on the steps. In the middle, Michael Burawoy stands with a megaphone wearing all black and staring at the camera with a friendly smile.
February 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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ICYMI: In "The Continuing Association between Racial Prejudice and Government Assistance Beliefs," Lawrence M. Eppard et al. consider racism, racial inequalities, and support for social policy responses incl. welfare and social services. Free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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January 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Teasing new research on religion, race, & health just accepted at Soc of Religion with @elenavanstee.bsky.social. This was a super fun collaboration inspired by great work from folks including @mattmotta.bsky.social & @pennye.bsky.social. #socsky
Racialized Religion & Vaccine Hesitancy: Evidence from the General Social Survey by Evan Stewart and Elena G. van Stee, Accepted at Sociology of Religion. Abstract: Research has examined differences in vaccine hesitancy by religion and by race. Complex religion theory, however, argues that research should examine these two social forces in concert with one another to understand how the religious experience is racialized. Applying this theoretical approach, we examine the interaction of religion and race in a new module for vaccine hesitancy included in the 2022 General Social Survey. We find that the association between religiosity and vaccine hesitancy observed in other work is racialized. Stronger religious commitments are more strongly associated with more vaccine-hesitant attitudes for Black Americans than for White Americans. Yet stronger religious commitments are also more strongly associated with a higher likelihood of vaccine self-reports for a flu vaccine or a COVID-19 vaccine for Black Americans, after accounting for vaccine hesitancy attitudes. These indirect negative and direct positive associations between religiosity and vaccine reporting are important for understanding racialized differences in vaccine uptake. We use these findings to discuss how theories of racialized and complex religion can better serve the study of health and well-being.
January 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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To everyone planning on attending the @asanews.bsky.social conference in Chicago:

I'll be arriving a day early, and there will not be any more hot dogs or pizza left in the city when you get there.

Really sorry you had to find out like this.

#ASA2025
#sociology
January 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Very happy to have published this, and grateful for two excellent co-authors.

I think we found some interesting stuff!

#Sociology
socquarterly.bsky.social The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · Jan 13
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In this new TSQ article, Justin Huft (@justinhuft.bsky.social) and colleagues examine the role of ethnic-racial socialization in white young adults' support for far-right groups.

Read more at bit.ly/4jds13W
January 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
January 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Ah, we've reached that point in the year where we are finalizing our courses. I would love to share some of my own thoughts on teaching classical theory. This is the oldest of the bunch. Well, almost as old as a paper on the challenges of our heuristics

#sociology

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The Pedagogical Dead-End Known as “Classical” Sociological Theory
This is the first in a series of (increasingly more practical) posts about teaching classical theory; or, perhaps, not teaching it. I have written about  this elsewhere, recently tweeted a thr…
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January 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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It's LIVE: Political Sociology has its first Starter Pack! Follow us all here: go.bsky.app/QaLr2JG
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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ONLINE FIRST

In this new TSQ article, Christopher Seto (criminovelist.bsky.social) and colleagues examine how Christian nationalism inclines some adults to deny racial inequality in policing.

Read more at bit.ly/3ZyPu6A
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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New publication!
We explore factors that contribute to early leaving in dual diagnosis treatment.

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Clinical Characteristics of Early Leavers From a Private Dual-Diagnosis Program
Objective: Early leaving in substance use disorder treatment may be the single largest variable undermining treatment success. Existing work on early leaving tends to explore either client factors,...
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December 10, 2024 at 4:43 PM