guest post: in the interest of clarity: are you boycotting? are you aware you...
This is a guest post by Mariano Sana, Associate Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Is this you? You got a paper accepted for presentation or you are an organizer of a session at the 2026...
View Articlerobin wagner-pacifici
I became a sociology major – and, in large part, a sociologist – because of Robin Wagner-Pacifici. In the days since her death, I’ve heard several other of my fellow Swarthmore-alumni sociologists say...
View Articleasa should not vote on the boycott proposal
This text is posted on behalf of the sociologists listed at the end of the text. Others are welcome to sign via comment or by contacting one of the original signers. We are sociologists (and many of...
View Articlewhat do americans think of higher ed anyway?
Two recent surveys give strikingly different answers. Pew’s American Trends Survey finds that 70% of Americans think “the higher education system in the U.S. is generally going in the wrong...
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still bad science, still not about…
Believe it or not, there’s more on that old Regnerus “study” (see https://scatter.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/bad-science-not-about-same-sex-parenting/ for the early rebuttal, more than 13 years ago!)....
View Articlethose theses on viewpoint diversity
My colleague Lisa Siranagian’s piece, “Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity,” has been getting attention including positively in the Chronicle Review and negatively in Minding the Campus. When I...
View Articleideological diversity on syllabi
A colleague called my attention to this interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal by Jon Shields and Yuval Avnur: “Evidence Backs Trump on Higher Ed’s Bias.” A few thoughts below the fold. I am...
View Articlequalitative standards, heated arguments
Late last week, sociologist Justin Pickett opened a debate on X: “We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research.” The reason: his critique of a Social Problems article by...
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college and underemployment
The Strada Education Foundation released last week a major report, “Talent Disrupted,” on college graduates and underemployment. Trumpeted by the Wall Street Journal as demonstrating the importance of...
View Articleasa panel – the future of democracy
ASA 2023 has been a good meeting (thus far at least)! A well-attended session on the future of democracy featured Melissa Murray and Louise Seamster (ably moderated by Scatterplot’s own Dan...
View Articleguest post: why you should attend asa (yes, you)
The following was written by my colleague Ryan Calder to our JHU graduate students; I offered to post it as a guest post because I think the ideas are helpful to students elsewhere too, though some...
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defending democracy: institutions and principles
In the leadup to the anniversary of last year’s January 6 insurrection, a couple of Tweets combine into some interesting questions about the relationship between support for democracy in theory;...
View Articleon leaving unc
Last week was my last week at UNC. I never thought I would leave; I’ve loved my 20 years on the UNC faculty. I was hugely fortunate to be hired at UNC directly out of graduate school, and I’ve stayed...
View Articlewhich lessons learned?
As I’m sure everyone knows, after an ambitious plan to open the campus for in-person instruction one week earlier than normal, we at UNC-Chapel Hill had to reverse course only a little more than week...
View Articleon decolonizing sociological theory – a reply to perrin
This is a guest post by Jose Itzigsohn, written in response to my prior post . Erin McDonnell organized a wonderful panel on Rethinking Sociological Theory and Andrew Perrin published in Scatterplot a...
View Articledecolonizing classical theory: some appreciatively skeptical thoughts
Yesterday’s panel on teaching classical social theory was fantastic. Erin McDonnell did a great job organizing and facilitating, and the four panelists — Greta Krippner, Jose Itzigsohn, Zine Magubane,...
View Articlegalloway and the perpetually-to-come disruption
What is transmitted in higher learning?… Limiting ourselves to a narrowly functionalist point of view, an organized stock of established knowledge is the essential thing that is transmitted. The...
View Articledon’t sacrifice college to the pandemic
I wrote a letter to the NY Times in response to Richard Arum and Mitchell Stevens’ “What is a College Education in the Time of Coronavirus?“. Unsurprisingly, the letter was not published, so I offer it...
View Articlewhat i’ve learned: three years on asa council
From 2016-2019 I had two positions that have taught me a lot about academic leadership and organizations. I led the process of redeveloping UNC’s General Education curriculum, “IDEAs in Action,” which...
View Articlewhat I’ve learned: chairing unc’s general education curriculum redesign
From 2016-2019 I had two positions that have taught me a lot about academic leadership and organizations. I led the process of redeveloping UNC’s General Education curriculum, “IDEAs in Action,” which...
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