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David Monaghan
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Sociologist & education researcher @ Shippensburg University. Higher ed, Ed policy, culture, institutionalism, epistemology & methods, social inequality, too many other interests.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · 13d
It seems like how we are supposed to find papers for systematic reviews is designed to maximize sensitivity but minimize specificity. I suspect there is a better way. Anyone know of methodological developments in that direction?
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Sep 30
Progressives are going to need to rethink their concerns if they care about survival. The 2020 left is massively complicit in the election of Trump.
Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.
www.nytimes.com
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Aug 6
TRUTH
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Jun 24
Does ASHE actually accept papers?
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Jun 22
The Bush administration also made its case publicly for an extended period before attacking. Sure, they brazenly lied. But the lack of public deliberation here is striking. Although other US military ops (e.g. Panama 1989) were sprung on everyone with little warning as well.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Jun 6
Contemporary social justice advocates differ from earlier counterparts in making civil society their primary focus, rather than the state or large corporations. Even when focusing on organizations, they sought to change their internal civil societies. Ultimately this meant a focus on individuals.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Jun 4
Or perhaps it is the perennial assaults of Trump 2 that has shut down such debate. But unraveling what “we” did wrong, to contribute to making Trump seem like possibly a better option to many, many people, is at least one-half of the mystery we need to unravel if we are to escape this nightmare.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Jun 4
I think it is entirely evident that the left made catastrophic mistakes over the 2020-2024 period. And yet I see, on this platform, very little seeming awareness of this reality. Perhaps it is the social media effect of only wanting to say popular things.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · May 23
To be clear, this is mostly a question. I know this sounds paranoid. But part of my brain also thinks it might be true, at least among the tech accelerationists.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · May 23
Clearly there is also the “war on woke” that is driving this as well, and I think that is forefront for most of the administration. But the tech world clearly has a lot to gain here as well by destroying HE as it exists.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · May 23
There is a fair amount of animosity against HE in the tech world for this reason. The notion that colleges are illegitimately occupying market space that should be open for digital badging and the like.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · May 23
Carey’s so-called “university of everywhere” (really a University of Big Tech) hasn’t manifested as quickly as foretold. HE is potentially a big profit source, but you have to get the established institutions out of the way.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · May 23
I just finished Kevin Carey’s The End of College (always trying to
keep current!), and the juxtaposition with current events is jarring. This is probably paranoid, but do folks think the current assault on HE is partly Silicon Valley trying to strip it for parts?
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Apr 11
New paper on #EdWorkingPapers! A fantastic undergraduate and I provide the most detailed empirical examination to date of the makeup of local "Promise"/"Free college" programs in the USA. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1169
What are Promises Made of? The Design of Local College Affordability Programs
U.S. postsecondary education is populated by hundreds of state and local affordability initiatives sometimes referred to as “Promise programs”, many of which claim to make college free or tuition-free...
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Apr 4
I would love to watch Trump try to windsurf. I’m not even sure he can swim.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 24
Best way to boost educational attainment and reduce disparities in same: free college, or universal Pre-K?
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 21
I think the failing is that is keeps trying to return to the realist model that dominates sociology as a whole. The “hard world” of structure and interest and power and “action”. But the central insights about human intersubjectivity are inconsistent with this model, so they end up being ditched.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 21
My experience reading sociology’s contributions to culture is simply that it is less valuable, nearly uniformly, than these other fields. It makes advances mostly when it imports insights - from anthropology, semiotics, cognitive science. It mulches these for a time and then spins its wheels.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 21
The study of “culture” is, I think, the most difficult area of social research conceptually. It is also the most central. So many fields contribute - linguistics, anthro, biology, psych, philosophy. It is hard to get a handle on all. I have sympathy.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 21
Reading McDonnell’s 2023 ARS article on cultural materiality. The lack of reference to Geertz, and the absence of engagement with anthropology in general, is deafening.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 21
The most serious conceptual failing of cultural sociology is insisting that “action” and “meaning” are distinct.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 19
Is there a good reason not to move to using the 12th grade NAEP as a college entrance exam?
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 16
a) because Musk’s target audience won’t see the fact checks, just the lies. We aren’t the target.
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 16
This would be funny if it wasn’t true. Or maybe it is still funny?
filipecampante.bsky.social Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · Feb 16
I swear to God I told my daughter this very week that this was coming: some GOP politician was going to propose that. There’s a race to the bottom in showing fealty — and there is no bottom.
mcpli.bsky.social Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · Feb 16
We have reached North Korean levels of sycophantry.

From NY-24’s Claudia Tenney 👇

tenney.house.gov/media/press-...
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David Monaghan @dmonaghan.bsky.social · Feb 16
I am taking a risk by saying this. But this whole thing was foreseeable, and the Left broadly failed to counter it. You can argue about what the mistake was, but it was ours. Not theirs. They don’t care if they are right. We do care if we are dead. And being right don’t matter if you’re dead.