Amir Goldberg
@amirgo.bsky.social
Sociologist, Prof. of Organizational Behavior at Stanford who studies culture | Co-director of the Computational Culture Lab | http://comp-culture.org
The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply.
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
Faculty Positions in Organizational Behavior
Learn about tenured and non-tenured faculty positions open in the organizational behavior area at Stanford GSB.
www.gsb.stanford.edu
July 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Stanford GSB is hiring in macro & micro OB! If you do sociology, psychology, OB, strategy, management, computational social science, please apply.
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
On the macro side, mid-career folks are especially invited to apply.
See here👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty...
Reposted by Amir Goldberg
Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
Germany still hasn’t fully recovered from expelling and killing so many of its top researchers back in 1933. A lot of brilliant minds were forced to leave—people who went on to do groundbreaking work in other countries, especially the U.S.
March 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.
Eva Illouz is a world class sociologist. She is a giant of cultural sociology, and I learned immensely from her work. That the corrupt and authoritarian Israeli government denied her this well-deserved prize is testament to her quality and intellectual integrity.
March 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Eva Illouz is a world class sociologist. She is a giant of cultural sociology, and I learned immensely from her work. That the corrupt and authoritarian Israeli government denied her this well-deserved prize is testament to her quality and intellectual integrity.
@drbjrisman.bsky.social and I are both Jewish sociologists. We think that campus antisemitism is real, but refuse to be used as a cudgel by an authoritarian administration hellbent on retribution and destroying academia, indeed, America.
So we write about it:
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
So we write about it:
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
March 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
@drbjrisman.bsky.social and I are both Jewish sociologists. We think that campus antisemitism is real, but refuse to be used as a cudgel by an authoritarian administration hellbent on retribution and destroying academia, indeed, America.
So we write about it:
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
So we write about it:
www.chronicle.com/article/trum...
New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social!
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
March 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New paper from the computational culture lab, forthcoming @amjsoc.bsky.social!
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Building on (largely untested) sociological intuitions, we show how positions in the organizational network relate to identification with the organization, using a language model:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Reposted by Amir Goldberg
NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations www.platformer.news/stanford-int...
June 13, 2024 at 11:05 PM
NEWS: After sustained attacks from House Republicans, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled. A huge blow to academic freedom and our ability to understand platforms and influence operations www.platformer.news/stanford-int...
Reposted by Amir Goldberg
My friend @jeffkopstein.bsky.social , one of the most prominent researchers on contemporary antisemitism active today (and someone whose rigorous *empirical* work on the phenomenon is sorely needed), shared a photo of a "Wanted" poster targeting him on the UC-Irvine campus.
Despicable.
Despicable.
June 6, 2024 at 11:08 PM
My friend @jeffkopstein.bsky.social , one of the most prominent researchers on contemporary antisemitism active today (and someone whose rigorous *empirical* work on the phenomenon is sorely needed), shared a photo of a "Wanted" poster targeting him on the UC-Irvine campus.
Despicable.
Despicable.
What do we mean when we study “meaning”? In a 🚨new ARS article🚨, Madison Singell and I suggest thinking of meaning as an actor interpreting something. Integrating sociological literature, we propose the Categorization-Association Model of Interpretation. >>
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Sociology of Interpretation | Annual Reviews
Recent years have seen a growing sociological interest in meaning. In fact, some argue that sociology cannot confront its foundational questions without addressing meaning. Yet sociologists mean many ...
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May 29, 2024 at 1:52 AM
What do we mean when we study “meaning”? In a 🚨new ARS article🚨, Madison Singell and I suggest thinking of meaning as an actor interpreting something. Integrating sociological literature, we propose the Categorization-Association Model of Interpretation. >>
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Excited to share that the Organizational Behavior area at the Stanford GSB is inviting applications for a postdoc in Macro OB for AY 2024/5.
Sociologists, organizational, management & strategy scholars, and computational social scientists, please apply!
👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/postdoc...
Sociologists, organizational, management & strategy scholars, and computational social scientists, please apply!
👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/postdoc...
February 3, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Excited to share that the Organizational Behavior area at the Stanford GSB is inviting applications for a postdoc in Macro OB for AY 2024/5.
Sociologists, organizational, management & strategy scholars, and computational social scientists, please apply!
👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/postdoc...
Sociologists, organizational, management & strategy scholars, and computational social scientists, please apply!
👇
www.gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/postdoc...
Why is Macklemore often criticized for cultural appropriation, but Eminem mostly gets a pass? In a new paper, forthcoming
at ASR, we argue, and demonstrate, that people are allowed to borrow from other cultures if they incurred a cost. We call that “cultural tariffing.”
osf.io/preprints/so...
at ASR, we argue, and demonstrate, that people are allowed to borrow from other cultures if they incurred a cost. We call that “cultural tariffing.”
osf.io/preprints/so...
November 16, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Why is Macklemore often criticized for cultural appropriation, but Eminem mostly gets a pass? In a new paper, forthcoming
at ASR, we argue, and demonstrate, that people are allowed to borrow from other cultures if they incurred a cost. We call that “cultural tariffing.”
osf.io/preprints/so...
at ASR, we argue, and demonstrate, that people are allowed to borrow from other cultures if they incurred a cost. We call that “cultural tariffing.”
osf.io/preprints/so...