Mustafa Emirbayer on symbolic violence and self-negation:

link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Beautiful new paper by UW-Madison Sociology grad student Walker Kahn in American Sociological Review, showing in painful detail the consequences of financialization for housing precariousness.

Well it rained all day but all of a sudden things have brightened up considerably. You can learn more about the book, read the first 20 pages or so, and preorder a copy at theordinalsociety.com

A new paper using SNAAP data in the American Sociological Review ASA Sociology by Léonie Hénaut, Jennifer C. Lena Jennifer Lena is @ a plce with no clouds & Fabien Accominotti Fabien Accominotti about arts workers’ simultaneous identification with multiple occupations, or 'polyoccupationalism' shorturl.at/wyDF5

Latest SNAAP DataBrief from a larger paper using SNAAP data in the American Sociological Review ASA Sociology by Léonie Hénaut, Jennifer C. Lena Jennifer Lena is @ a plce with no clouds & Fabien Accominotti Fabien Accominotti: Polyoccupationalism: Multiple Occupational Identification in the Arts bit.ly/3TAjEDM

This is a project we've been dying to share. Using a novel dataset of all metro systems globally, Jungmyung Kim and I find that contrary to popular assumptions, the adoption of automation technology is primarily driven by global city status aspirations academic.oup.com/ser/article-ab…

Check out this Special Issue: Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 129, No 3 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… with: Raewyn Connell Raka Ray Dr. Rhacel Parrenas Maria Hwang Adia H Wingfield Celeste Watkins-Hayes Celene Reynolds Kathleen Gerson

Thanks to the great Cris Trejos Taborda and Taha Nazari for making this happen!

New and open access in American Sociological Review: we highlight the complexity of occupational identity in a postindustrial economy and show how this complexity takes different forms at the top and bottom of the occupational hierarchy

New article in AJS: '(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion.' A 🧵 on the paper's main arguments and contributions journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

If you've ever hesitated when having to answer the question: 'What is your job?', this is the paper for you.

So happy this piece with the great Léonie Hénaut and Jennifer Lena is @ a plce with no clouds is out in American Sociological Review!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Making my very first Twitter thread in honor of my very first article! Just published at Socio-Economic Review: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-ar…

I feel so honored to receive this award, which I get to share with an amazing team of coauthors. Congrats Kate Summers, Tania Burchardt, Katharina Hecht, Liz Mann, and Jonathan Mijs!

Featured together with so many great colleagues!
Link to the interview: tinyurl.com/y4zy3hwa
And to the article: rsfjournal.org/content/rsfjss…

Excited to share this new work with Rebecca Johnson in American Sociological Review! We examine how local organizations sort people to ration scarce social benefits. We analyze the case of prioritization in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program (1/12)

doi.org/10.1177/000312…

One more month to submit to this year's ASA! I organize an Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (ASA Section) section session on new directions in the study of culture and inequality. Please send in your work, I want to cast a wide net!

New, open-access article in Russell Sage Foundation Journal: with Freda Lynn and Mike Sauder, we show that status hierarchies' properties of clarity, verticality, and rigidity are key in shaping the amount of inequality in a social system.
rsfjournal.org/content/8/6/87

UW–Madison Sociology is hiring! We’re looking for an assistant professor (possibly advanced assistant), with open specialization. Link to job ad below. Deadline September 2. Come work with us!

jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/5146…