Prof @AUG_SocSci. Director of @AUG_CSSR. Opinions are my own, are subject to correction, may not reflect past or future beliefs , and do not reflect my employer
Augusta, GA
Joined October 2013
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Check out my new paper in @CivicSociology! I use egalitarian political philosophy to evaluate the concept of economic rent. Broader argument is that sociologists should incorporate normative criteria in assessing sociological concepts and theory. OA here: online.ucpress.edu/cs/articl…
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In an opinion piece in Tampa Bay Times @TB_Times, ASA leaders Joya Misra, Prudence Carter @prudencelcarter, & Adia Harvey Wingfield @AdiaHWingfield explain how removing sociology as a Florida course option demonstrates the danger of politicizing education. bit.ly/3OrORqZ
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The AAUP joins w/@AFTunion, @nea, @aacu, & the @Network4pubEd in launching our #FreedomtoLearn pledge to call out laws & rhetoric in multiple states aimed at banning books/curriculums, attacking teachers, & shaming LGBTQIA+ students, while pushing to gut public education.
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Submit to the Critical Sociology minicon, “Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crisis” at McGill University, Aug 9 2024. Plenary panelists include: @KeeangaYamahtta, @oikeios, Dylan Riley, Greta Krippner, @Prof_deLeon, Gretchen Purser, @CihanTugal. Contact @its_mccarthy for qs.
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New article forthcoming in Sociological Methods and Research!
Provides a comprehensive overview of the variety of ways word embeddings can be used to derive relations in text data and complement dictionary methods.
Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/9b…
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ALT Article title: "A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis" Forthcoming in Sociological Methods and Research Abstract: Distances derived from word embeddings can measure a range of gradational relations—similarity, hierarchy, entailment, and stereotype—and can be used at the documentand author-level in ways that overcome some of the limitations of weighted dictionary methods. We provide a comprehensive introduction to using word embeddings for relation induction, and demonstrate how such techniques can complement dictionary methods as unsupervised, deductive methods.
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Our book has a cover! Check it out below. Left side is the back cover, middle is the spine, and right side is the front cover.
And remember: The book is available for pre-order and will ship 1/30/24!!! Pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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ALT Our book cover. The left side is the back cover, the middle is the spine, and the right is the front cover.
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We would particularly welcome proposals to our Special Issue Competition that address topics which are of particular importance for the journal.
See our website for further details
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In my new paper, I introduce a new economics of the common good, one where ‘how’ we achieve collective goals matters as much as the destination itself.
Read ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-pu…
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New paper!📊
You’ve heard of the (debated) summer learning gap. We look at the summer parental investment gap. @joelabriola and I find larger SES gaps during the summer, and larger gaps for younger school-age children than older children.
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Well what do we have here? That’s right, it’s my new book “Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do To Fix It!” @HarperCollins
Drops Oct 17; available for preorder harpercollins.com/products/g… if you don’t want to wait. (Cause why would you?)
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Working Ideas Brown Bag Series featuring Dr. Gregg Murray on "In Cyber We Trust. Understanding Election Legitimacy in the Age of Electronic Election Systems” is today!
Join us @ Allgood Hall N126 @ 1:00pm
Come learn the latest social science research.
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Biggest congratulations to Dawn T. Robinson, who received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Emotions Section! This distinguished career award is given every other year to someone with a body of scholarly work of
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Q for #soctwitter: If I were to compile a complete bibliography of all published class mobility tables, where would I start looking?
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The print edition of our special issue A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology By, For, and About First- generation and Working-class People has arrived! Did you get yours?
Consider adding ‘read a few pieces’ to your end of summer reading list!
@fgwc_sociology #HigherEducation
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Sometimes I think about how if we had implemented a wealth tax a decade ago maybe Elon wouldn’t have had the assets to buy my favorite website and run it into the ground
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Biden Boom
MORGAN STANLEY: “.. We are making a sizable upward revision to #GDP this year (+0.7pp to 1.3% 4Q/4Q) with the largest contribution coming from .. stronger than expected .. public investment .. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act .. is driving a boom ..” [Zentner]
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The idea that men hunt while women stay at home is at the root of many gendered assumptions about the way societies operate, but a review of the data shows this is wrong. newscientist.com/article/238…
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By the way, Cogs and Monsters is now out in paperback! press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
