It feels weird to talk about normal work these days, but I also firmly believe we need more sociologists in the world, so I'm sharing this piece we published in @teachingsociology.bsky.social arguing for ways to integrate career readiness into our programs journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

NEW: Ying Zhong, Valentin Thouzeau, Nicolas Baumard, "Literary Fiction Indicates Early Modernization in China Prior to Western Influence." sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

It’s Publication Day!

It honestly feels a bit silly to post about research right now. But I refuse to accept the premise that the precious, dreadful, complex stories with which I was entrusted should not be heard. My latest from @sfjournal.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Many students hesitate to come to office hours because they don't know what to say. I've started explicitly asking all students to attend at least once and providing sentence starters—it's made a big difference in increasing participation.

Just saw this amazing new JMF article by my colleague Amy Hanser and grad student Yijia Zhang. Their research shows how grandmother participation influences women's motherhood experience. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Please join us for the next WFRN.bsky.social event "Going Back? Gender, Work, and Family in 2025."

Can't wait to hear from our four amazing panelists pgonalon.bsky.social gaylekaufman.bsky.social philipncohen.com and jessicacalarco.bsky.social! Moderated by WFRN Early Career Fellow LaToya Council

New blog post about the emergence of racial wealth disparities in young adulthood is up on @ccfamilies.bsky.social! Very happy to be able to share the findings from this paper with @socinequality.bsky.social without all the tables and figures 😅

thesocietypages.org/ccf/2024/12/...

📣 New publication alert!

URSA researchers Sandy Levitsky, Jesse Yeh, and Elizabeth Armstrong are excited to announce the publication of their paper, "Litigation Politics: Social Movement Activity in Campus Sexual Assault Litigation" in the Law & Society Review. Check out the paper below!

New paper from Jay Colond and Irenee Beattie in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, examining Filipino college students' experiences of racialization:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Correct link here: doi.org/10.1177/0003...

Feel so encouraged! So many friends, colleagues, and mentors have helped and supported me throughout this process—my gratitude is beyond words.
(Embarrassingly, the typesetting of öber-ün durabar is still wrong after I corrected it three times on the proof -- it was correct on my proof lol

On Dec 4 at 8 PM (ET), THiS Workshop of Chinese Societies will host a session featuring @drjcw.bsky.social’s project titled “Chinese American or American Chinese?: WeChat and the Hybrid Identity of Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.” Join us on Zoom: concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/8951907632...

Subjective assessments of culture or 'fit' often have an enormous class bias.

New paper showing how personal interviews often allow employers to discriminate against minorities.

soumitrashukla.github.io/research.html