About 50 years ago I submitted the dissertation which became the book Power and Powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley. I am delighted that Gabe Schwartzman, PhD and I have just submitted a new manuscript which picks up on where the previous book left off! @illionispress

Out and Open Access - Cambridge Elements in Public Policy "Symbolic Policy" by Laurie Boussaguet and Florence Faucher buff.ly/3VQvpaT

Don’t miss your chance to read new Cambridge Element Topics in Public Administration by Richard M. Walker, Jiasheng Zhang and Yanto Chandra Free access available until 31 December. cup.org/4fWnh0E #cambridgeelements #management

R for Economic Research is a mandatory reading for those who have some knowledge of R programming but still lack the necessary tools to carry out professional economic analysis. pyoflife.com/r-for-economic… #DataScience #rstats #DataScientists #statistics #economic #econtwitter

This book guides data scientists from the Python and R communities along the path to becoming bilingual. pyoflife.com/python-and-r-f… #DataScience #rstats #DataScientists #statistics #pythonprogramming #DataAnalytics #datavisualizations #machinelearning #ArtificialIntelligence

Research suggests a committed minority can overturn an established norm with a critical mass of ~25% of the population (> the 10% other studies have argued), showing good agreement between experimental and theoretical predictions for the tipping point: buff.ly/47zz7Jw

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Theoretical Approaches to the State I am thinking about the different perspectives that have been used in the study of the state in Latin America and I find this chapter by Von Hau, with its distinction of four approaches, to be useful. Free download: ww4.ticaret.edu.tr/siy/wp-content…

𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘀 In this book, the sociologist Elias covers the history of Europe from 800 AD to 1900. The first part is about the history of customs; the second on the formation of the state and on civilization. Free download: mega.nz/file/doAjSQ4K#…

The thing that has struck me most in around 15 years of academia is that good citizenship and solidarity are looked down upon Sycophancy, obedience to hierarchy, classism and ruthless individualism are far more valued (which is unsurprising given how conservative a milieu it is)

Sociological Theorists: W.E.B Du Bois grahamscambler.com/sociological-t…

🚨 "AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data" was among the most influential AI papers of 2024 - don't miss it! Bookmark & download it below. Interesting quotes: "The development of LLMs is very involved and requires large quantities of training data. Yet,

.Legambiente, bilancio 2024: Italia sotto scacco della crisi climatica. Sono 351 gli eventi meteo estremi registrati nel corso dell’anno, +485% rispetto al 2015. Danni maggiori al Sud. “Italia impreparata” redattoresociale.it/article/notizi…

"#Demografia e #ForzaLavoro":il rapporto Consiglio Nazionale dell'Economia e del Lavoro curato da Alessandro Rosina. Valorizzare il #CapitaleUmano,puntare su qualità di #formazione e #lavoro,efficacia dei servizi di incrocio domanda/offerta di lavoro (e non solo) in risposta ai fenomeni demografici cnel.it/Comunicazione-…

The WWII began with Germany’s attack on Poland at Polish military base at Westerplatte on September 1, 1939 and it’s therefore, appropriate that the remarkable WWII Museum (Muzeum II Wojny Światowej), opened in March 2017, should have been built in Gdańsk. A conflict that claimed

Important paper by Elinor Ostrom. documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/398…

This is happening in a couple of weeks - very happy to talk about the stratified experiences of precarity of platform workers at this session for ASA Sociology #VirtualASA2025 ⬇️

MethodsNET Summer School ipsa.org/na/event/metho…

President Trump’s all-out assault on the public administration of the United States makes the analysis in this book very relevant. In particular, Moynihan’s chapter on Trump’s first term is worth a read. To read Moynihan’s chapter: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…