“plant languishing plant purchases” hits home 💀🪴

Always show this to my intro soc students as an example of urban soc, symbolic interaction, observation as opposed to participant observation, etc.

Antonucci and Zhirnov find that "more than a third of the effect of insecurity on populist outlook is through social status." Cultural backlash "contributes in part to the devpt of populist attitudes but not the only (or most determinant) factor."

Lorenza and @elenaah.bsky.social are coediting a BJS special issue on "The Precarity of Work and Life," focusing on people's experiences with socioeconomic insecurity, deadline coming soon! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Lorenza Antonucci @unibirmingham.bsky.social ‬presents her and Andrei Zhirnov's @exeter.ac.uk SEM work on the intertwined effects of insecurity and social status on populist attitudes in Europe.

Fascinating work in the WWI era on the weaponization of this new nonpartisanship. Nonpartisanship is a "capacious category and can be exploited by different actors."

@uwsoc.bsky.social team @bwitkovsky.bsky.social and Carter Burg present on the production of nonpartisanship in Prog Era Wisc. Benny's dissertation sheds even more light on how "nonpartisan local governance was always the product of political parties, partisan conflict, and partisan institutions."

The Bruxelles and Rouen team ask "God or Cash?" in the paper and find "God is more powerful than cash." Evangelicalism was a significant predictor of support for Bolsonaro.