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Nicholas Pagnucco
@nicholaspagnucco.bsky.social
Sociologist at St Mary's University, Calgary
Specialties: Post Secondary Education, Culture, Organizations, Theory. He/Him cishet White settler. My posts are my own, reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
This seems.... not ideal?
kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/11/05/o...
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I am becoming a Canadian citizen today.

As I wait for the ceremony to start
They have a screen with rotating Canadian factoids.
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I really wish my university had a sociology of social movements course.
October 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
July 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Next up to read:
Very curious
#sociology #socialtheory
July 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Continuing to love the book.
Now on page 133-134
July 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Re-reading stuff, I always love this quote from Timmermans & Tavory (2022: 14)
July 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reading an interview with Hartmut Rosa.
I'm tempted to dump this quote on students and see who agrees, who disagrees, who qualifies, and who asks what resonance is.
May 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Got a some of my summer reading.
#sociology #socialtheory
April 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
One of my (many) academic-heretical opinions:
Service should explicitly count more for tenure & promotion.
March 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Canadian "Researchers working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies have been sent a lengthy questionnaire to determine how their work aligns with the Trump administration’s political agenda."

Awesome.
March 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
March 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This speaks to me.
January 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This amuses me
January 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I respect any conference held in Canada the last weekend of November that includes a hat & scarf as free swag.
November 29, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Finally finishing The Uncontrollability of the World, by Hartmut Rosa (yes, I know its short - don't judge).

I need to reflect about what I like and don't about this book, but there are quotes that I really like at the very least, including this one:

#sociology #SocialTheory
November 3, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Best I can think of is the pic from Hobbes' Leviathan:
October 24, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Even though they weren't aimed at me, and I wasn't in the room, this woman's reactions made me SQUIRM with discomfort.
October 17, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Haven’t read any Hartmunt Rosa before. I’m curious how this goes. #sociology #socialtheory
October 9, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I could also just offer up high quality Sociology propaganda, but that seems less useful ;)

Let me just drop off one of my fav handouts, though...
October 6, 2024 at 9:06 PM
October 6, 2024 at 12:03 AM
I'm kinda old, but not old enough to be _cool_ old.
September 18, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Showed up in my memories today. Still one of the better student evaluation comments I got, right up there with being "dorky but chill" and "you totally know he played D&D in highschool"
September 16, 2024 at 6:16 PM
From Don Schweitzer (Editor). 2012. A History of the United Church of Canada. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press. pages xxii-xxiii
September 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Oh come on.
#yyc
June 15, 2024 at 8:58 PM