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As climate change and its impacts worsen, how does this impact different groups of people? That's what Tyler McDaniel @disastertyler.bsky.social @stanfordsoc wants to know. Check out his work on segregation, climate events, and schools! Recent article here: buff.ly/49z8Ewa #ThesisThursday

🚨🚨Do Americans accurately perceive union benefits? 🚨🚨 Our new paper (led by Jonne Kamphorst) out this week PNASNews finds: Americans significantly and systematically underestimate material benefits associated with union benefits. 🧵👇

See Florencia Torche video explaining her article w Jenna Nobles, “Vaccination, immunity, and the changing impact of COVID-19 on infant health”, that won the PNAS Cozzarelli Prize: pnas.org/post/update/20…

In "Not a Victim, Not a Survivor," Meghan Warner (Stanford Sociology) writes how young people who have experienced sexual violence feel stuck between stereotypes of "broken" victims and "healed" survivors. Free to read, download, and share at: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

New Annual Reviews article: “Early Life Exposures and Social Stratification” w Jenna Nobles. We examine adverse prenatal exposures (war & violence, natural disasters, pollution, etc.), their impact on health and wellbeing, and implications for inequality annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Congratulations to Stanford Sociology Prof. Asad L. Asad!

We are pleased to announce that Shelley J. Correll Stanford Sociology Stanford University has been elected the 2025-2026 ASA President, and Victor E. Ray @victorerikray University of Iowa has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: bit.ly/3mFBhFz.

Congratulations to our own Prof. Shelley Correll (Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab)! And to Prof. @victorerikray as well!

New 📺 from contextmag! Check out my conversation with Meghan Warner (Stanford Sociology) about how young people who have experienced sexual violence experience the stereotypes of "broken" victims and "healed" survivors. ➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=1nmyqZ…

Congratulations to Asad L. Asad, whose book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life has won the Robert J. Bursik Junior Scholar Award, Amer Soc of Crim. Learn more about this important book: hubs.ly/Q02z3RMl0

Congrats to Stanford Sociology Prof. Barbara Kiviat for winning the ASA Altruism Morality & Social Solidarity Section Best Article Award!

Decisions in speed dates happen quickly, with nearly 20% of participants deciding at first sight. How do language and voice reveal our (dis)interest, and how do partners persuade us to pursue relations? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to Stanford Sociology PhD candidates David Broska and Jan Voelkel, who both received a Centennial Teaching Assistant Award from Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning! This award recognizes their outstanding contributions to teaching in the School of Humanities and Sciences. Great work!

🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨 Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇

Congratulations to Stanford Sociology Prof. Asad L. Asad! His Princeton University Press book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life is the winner of this year's The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award. sociology.stanford.edu/news/asad-l-as…

In Sociological Methods & Research, Stanford Sociology PhD candidates Erin Macke, Claire Daviss, and Emma Williams-Baron show how researchers can collect digital trace data to measure survey participants’ behaviors in theoretically and empirically meaningful ways. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP Science Magazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), PNASNews (2x), Nature Human Behaviour (2x).

Jackelyn Hwang & Iris Zhang (Stanford Sociology) write about Proposition 33 which would repeal CostaHawkins, a law limiting local rent control laws. They explain how "rent control is not a silver bullet for California’s housing crisis, nor is prohibiting it." ⬇️ scholars.org/contribution/r…

If you had to pick *1* measure of racial attitudes to predict white Americans' Trump support, we find opposition to anti-racism (agreement w/ statements like "People these days can’t speak their minds without someone accusing them of racism") is most correlated