There’s that old saying about capital punishment: “Whoever doesn’t have the capital gets the punishment.”There are no wealthy folks on death row. When it comes to the death penalty, we are not killing the “worst of the worst” but the poorest of the poor. What determines who gets

Happy to share my first co-authored publication! The Gendered Effect of Parenthood on Voting Behaviour in the 2021 German Federal Election tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Nice to see research that was recently published in GP getting a public airing in Tagesspiegel. tagesspiegel.de/wissen/fu-stud…. Full open access article on the gendered effect of parenthood on voting (by @CelineTeney, Stephan Dochow-Sondershaus and Forrest Lovette) here. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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I don’t know who this man is but protect him at all costs!! He finally broke it down. So much she had no come back! See the God yall worshipping is yourself and your opinions!! I love how he use the word, the one she claims to know in his argument! Sadly they still won’t get it.

I’m attending Americans United for Separation of Church and State’s event, “"God & Country" Exclusive Webinar Discussion” – sign up now to join me! #americansunited mobilize.us/au/event/59980…

A new study from Pew Research finds that the religiously unaffiliated is now the largest cohort in the U.S. They're more prevalent among American adults than Catholics (23%) or evangelical Protestants (24%). npr.org/2024/01/24/122…

Some Quick Super Bowl LVIII Sociology dlvr.it/T2MdLy

This week of sociology in the news includes Eric Klinenberg in Chicago magazine on NYC & COVID-19, Jonathan Wynn in The Conversation U.S. on medical coverage in urban areas, & Lindsey Cameron & Curtis Chan in Harvard Business Review on gig workers, and more. >bit.ly/49uA8n6<

How to make sense of complex academic concepts through the lens of history? Here's a Terminology Cheat Sheet. Repost & reply 🎓 I'll DM you this handy guide in Google Sheets to explain scientific terminology (must be following).

Recently, the state of Florida ruled to halt the requirement for sociology in higher ed. Nonetheless, it remains a primary well that society draws from to make sense of our world and produces invaluable scholarship. Read more about it in our latest TROT at The Society Pages

If you haven't already, read our new 'There's Research on That' by Forrest Lovette and John Purnell, covering some of the research on the value and role of sociology in society. >bit.ly/3xkvVVr<

Volunteering or Vacationing? Our new Discovery by Forrest Lovette on research by Netta Kahana from Hebrew University in Social Problems, focuses on interviews with 48 volunteer-tourists about how they justified their participation against societal scrutiny. bit.ly/3QO4pGF

New SOC 101 podcast episode coming soon! Forrest Lovette & daniel cueto-villalobos talk with @profsamperry on his new co-authored book, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy. Stay tuned!

The latest episode of TSP's SOC 101 podcast is now live! Join Forrest Lovette and daniel cueto-villalobos as they interview @profsamperry about his new book, "The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy." Tune in here: bit.ly/3VFxeGZ

📢TODAY at #ASA2024: UMN Sociology PhD Student Forrest Lovette!

For Labor Day, I wrote about mass incarceration, workers, and movements for economic justice with the wonderful @bsonenstein (Side note: Prison Policy Initiative is absolutely incredible at what they do.)