Social Science

Last Call for Proposals! Tomorrow March 15th is the final day to submit a proposal for the 50th SSHA Conference in Chicago, Nov 20-23 2025 at the Palmer House Hotel. Please consider submitting a paper or panel at ssha2025.ssha.org.Questions to [email protected].@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #globalhealth #socialscience

'Rise of the south: How Arab-led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE' by Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin & Kaixiang Peng argues that Arab & Persian Muslim traders account for an all-important southward shift in China's economy, Lead paper in v65 of the Asia-Pacific Economic Hist Review! OAdoi.org/10.1111/aehr.70000@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #China

Do we overestimate the decline in global inequality because autocracies exaggerate their economic growth? A recent study by R.K. Pandian uses an interesting approach to verify official GDP growth figures:

"Declines in Hispanic adolescent childbearing over the last decades have occurred in spite of substantial shifts in the composition of the Hispanic population, not because of them."pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/385204

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on the 21st of March in Copenhagen, Lærke Høgenhaven defends her PhD-thesis, "The Dual Structure of Volunteering during Crises", in which she takes a pragmatic approach to volunteering supplementing the dominant neo-tocquevillian paradigm in the field of voluntary and non-for-profit sector studies.

!!! Still a few days to apply for a post-doc in the ERC-funded project on network-scientific approach to social cohesion at Coalesce Lab at UAB. Spread the word, share, apply! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319 @sna @sociology

🌹A new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Paupolina Gundarin, very positive with some examples from the everyday life of the author of this book review. For this time in Russian 👉🏽 syg.ma/@paupolina/sovetskoe-v-

A reverse salient!During WWI Japan's economic sanctions on enemy business, eg German merchants, were less strict than those of European & US allies until late in the war, according to Chenxiao Li in a new paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.

A reverse salient!During WWI Japan's economic sanctions on enemy business, eg German merchants, were less strict than those of European & US allies until late in the war, according to Chenxiao Li in a new paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12309

Ian, Blair & I are excited to share “Institutional formalism & criminal sentencing on the frontier" arguing that sentences became longer & more predictable as institutional formalism & judicial oversight increased in colonial British Columbia 1864–1913

@dpaldrich reviews "Connecting After Chaos: Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster" by Stephen F Ostertag which argues 'that during these most desperate of times, our shared concerns, values, and moral judgment come to light through cultural work' and may help build 'a systematic understanding of how people emotionally process and engage with the shocks to come.'

YOU'RE INVITED: Fertility Goals: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Impact for Science and PolicyThe Ohio Population Consortium is hosting two webinars on fertility desires, intentions, expectations, and measurement.

Administrative healthcare databases, such as Medicare, are increasingly used to identify groups at risk of a motor vehicle crash.

It’s Sunday & 3 new posts were added to this searchable & translatable collection of links to free access #edu content.saraslistofedresources.wordpre

In der "Zeitschrift für Soziologie" @Zeitschrift_fuer_Soziologie gibt es einen ganz neuen Beitrag zum Thema männliche Geflüchtete, der sich direkt gegen den Merzschen Populismus richtet: "Die übersehene Verletzbarkeit? Erfahrungen geflüchteter Männer zwischen Verletzung, Solidarität und Gewalt". Gerne lesen und verbreiten: degruyter.com/document/doi/10.#merz #flucht #Migration #BTW25 #solidarität #soziologie @sociology @soziologie

You're invited:Big Business in Health Care: Policy Challenges in the Age of Corporatized MedicineVirtual event is free and open to the public:ldi.upenn.edu/events/big-busin

At Coalesce Lab at UAB we look for a post-doc in the ERC-funded project on network-scientific approach to social cohesion. Spread the word, share, apply! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/319 @sna @sociology

#conference #webinaire

#CFP panel session: The Mobility and Circulation of Ancient Coins and People -2026 AIA Annual Meeting

As for keeping #semitism and #sionism apart … understanding the difference. Memory is incredibly short.

CSDE Seminar: Aging and the Social Brain: The Role of Social Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease – Dr. Brea PerryWhen: Friday, Feb 21, 2025 (12:30-1:30PM)Register now: washington.zoom.us/webinar/reg

Looks can open doors, but only if they match qualifications. A recent study shows how perceived status inconsistency affects hiring decisions.

In "Rituals of resentment: How dark emotional energy fuels incel identity and solidarity" Patrik Kallio and Anton Törnberg propose the new concept of Dark Emotional Energy on basis of their fascinating netnography of the incel community.

Checking published news for Sweden in various media today … They are not optimal. On the contrary 🤬Climate change consequences, unemployment, welfare in general, economic growth, education at all levels and levels of knowledge, income gap, corruption, exclusion and security, taxation policies, etc, etc. All curves point downwards.

😃 Excited to be speaking tomorrow to the members of Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence!

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Hello dear academic community, I am looking for research, novels, non-fiction, media reports, etc. on "living underground", as in resistance, hiding in repressive regimes, etc. Any material and any region.

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The weekly blog from TS Balans today comes from @asaplsnr (Scroll down to find an easy translate button)tankesmedjanbalans.se/webversi

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Examining "the labor of distinction," Bryan Boyle and Dieter Vandebroeck show that an upper-class lifestyle depends on occupations which - unlike the jack-of-all-trades role of the butler - focus on specific functions:

Alex Persaud shows that a 1911 criminalization of select castes in Madras imposed new restrictions and reduced the share of indentured labourers returning home from Fiji at the end of their contracts.Open access in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Reviewdoi.org/10.1111/aehr.12306

BRAND NEW research from @wrigleyfield & colleagues at Univ of Minnesota shows that death rates for adults ages 25-44 rose sharply between 2019 & 2021 and **remain higher than expected** post-pandemic.

An interview with me about ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ in Italian by Mitja Stefancic. / Intervista con me sul libro mio per i miei amici e colleghi che parlano italiano.

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Dear academic and teaching community, how do you teach students how to read theory? Do you have any resources or things you do? I am sometimes at a loss to explain the relevance of theory, concepts, theoretical arguments, the way theory and empirical analysis is interwoven...my sense is that they just skip those sections. And I am utterly disappointed @academicchatter @teaching @histodons @highered @socialscience #socialscience #teachinghistory #highered #highereducation

Programme & logistics for the 14-16 March Canadian Network for Economic History conference in Montreal are posted at economichistory.ca. 17 papers, 16 young researcher presentations & keynote lectures by Michela Giorcelli & Price Fishback. Organized by Andriana Bellou & Joshua Lewis!

🚨 📃👀To answer "How exposure to natives in the workplace affects cultural assimilation among non-Western immigrants" Lanciné Eric Nestor Diop, Anna Diop-Christensen, and Troels Fage Hedegaard combine survey and register data to show that it depends on the degree of workplace exposure to natives. Furthermore, they find that the positive effect can be undermined by experiences of discrimination.

Reposting: Hannah Arendt Sought to Maintain Power-Shareholders

A hoard of British coins bearing the inscription of King Cunobelin and found in a Dutch field have been identified as very likely to be the spoils of war of a Roman soldier from the conquest of Britain.

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'It’s a sign of things to come': White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention website goes dark

YOU'RE INVITED: Fertility Goals: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Impact for Science and Policy

👉 New study out 👀 In "Social origin and educational choices: A comparative study of rural and urban students’ school track choices in Norway" Alexander Zahl-Thanem & Arild Blekesaune use population wide data to show that rural students still choose vocational tracks over academic compared to urban students. These differences are considerably more pronounced among students with less educated parents.

CSDE seminar: “When Geographies Collide: Hierarchical Regional Systems in China’s Great Leap Famine – Dr. Mark Henderson

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Increasing salinity in rivers is causing miscarriages among women fishers in Bangladesh. A reminder of how climate change and reproductive health are linked & often have the most devastating impact on economically deprived populations

Check out brilliant Lærke Høgenhaven's innovative article on "The Dual Structure of Volunteering During Crises: A Task-Driven Approach to Volunteering" diving into the little studied relationship between ordinary and crisis volunteering using unique panel data.

The #Birkin, the #Wirkin and “symbolic interactionism.” A sociologist explores the meme-ification of class warfare: theconversation.com/birkin-han @sociology @psychology #walmart #consumption

🔥🔥🔥One more wonderful review of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia'! For this time, by Arpita Rachel Abraham published in Doing Sociology: 'the book opens up a different terrain of thinking about political action - one often overshadowed by elite politics.' Thank you! धन्यवाद

Hello #psycholinguists on Mastodon! I'm currently doing a review on idiosyncrasies in phoneme perception, where it comes from, how it develops through childhood, how we can study it... If you have references or any idea on the topic, I'm more than interested! @psycholinguistics #psycholinguistics #phoneme #perception

In a new special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Rev Claire E.F. Wright reflects on the movement to ‘re-engender’ business history & introduces five fascinating articles illustrating the importance of women's business for Australian & NZ history!doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12303@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #NZ #Auspol #gender #business

In the wake of Meta's announcement to scrap content moderation, the results of a study examining the spread of fake news on Facebook during the 2020 US election are instructive: Content moderation works, but peer-to-peer distribution still allows fake news to spread.

Phew, taking a break from creating my first GitLab site, writing Data management plan, log file and abstract for corpus linguistics conference (deadline January 17!). This project will be an interesting journey; I spent some time yesterday correcting a first version frequency list — the language we work on is not very standardised, to say the least.@corpuslinguistics @academicchatter #CL2025

⭐ Why "gay icon" 'YMCA' will be performed at a bigot's inauguration:

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 One more review of my book which came about organically. This one is more critical than the two previous reviews. I only didn’t get why the reviewer Viktoria Kobzeva ‘feels’ my theoretical contribution as to be limited. My book extends the critical theory of feelings. As an author, I want to believe that my theory of feelings has no limits. But many thanks for engaging with my book!

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Louise Prowse argues that earnings from a ‘side hustle’ have been important for Australian rural women & rural communities for much longer than has been appreciated. New article in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review! doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12301

An interview by Mitja Stefancic with me about ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ is out in Radical Ecological Democracy. It seems that my two topics of workers’ life and everyday ecologies conjoined. Read it here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 radicalecologicaldemocracy.org

Clare E.F. Wright reports women in the family firms common throughout the 20thC often inherited wealth but seldom invited into management or governance. New data demonstrate how business replicated the patriarchal structures of upper-class Australian families.doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12302@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon @archaeodons @sts @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #glamsdons #Australia #Auspol #gender

Unique oral history collection documents the important contribution of women to the great expansion of Australian wineries after 1960Professor Julie McInytre documents how women overcame sexism, balancing reproductive & domestic labour with agric businessdoi.org/10.1111/aehr.12298

One year since the release of 'The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia'. In the new blog, I provide my response to two positive reviews on the book, which raise important questions about my approach to class and struggle. alexandrinavanke.com/2025/01/0

Here’s a Serbian translation of a shorter version of an interview with me about ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ and class formation in Russian society. Eng and Ita versions will come later.

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After Positivism: New Approaches to Comparison in Historical Sociologycup.columbia.edu/book/after-po I was hoping for a standalone monograph rather than an edited volume. It looks interesting, though I already have some issues with the content summary 1/ @politicalscience @sociology

The Canadian Network for Economic History will organize sessions for the 2025 CEA meeting CEA in Montreal May 29-31. Anyone wishing to present a paper (English or French) on any topic related to economic history may submit an abstract by Feb 14. More detail available soon at economichistory.ca@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @inequalityecon @SocArXivBot #history #histodons #Canada #CFP #Montreal

🎲Publication alert🃏In "Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK", Neli Demireva and Sergio Lo Iacono show that gambling outlets are significantly and positively associated with different types of crime even when controlling for other businesses, the areas’ demographic and socio-economic characteristics

The death of a parent during childhood or adolescence (ages 0-17) or the transition to adulthood (ages 18-27) is associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk for Black Americans. And parental death following the transition to adulthood (ages 28+) undermines cardiovascular health for both Black Americans and White Americans.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/393677

In "right-to-work" states, unions and federations pivot to legal mobilization to protect workers. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/394940

Anonymous and impersonal transactions are ubiquitous, but they often don't receive the sociological attention they deserve. Eviatar Zerubavel's book offers a fresh look at the uses and discontents of impersonality.

Crowded Coasts Put 1 in 10 Americans at Risk for Floods, Other Hazards.Older adults, communities of color, and renters are especially vulnerable.prb.org/articles/crowded-coast

Preventing future SV in France:

📚 New research: Disconnection + Lack of Control connected to Conspiracy Beliefs

'Can consent be given by pressing a button? This Aussie reality show is now using one'

Circulate widely! CFA: University of Gothenburg has announced two 4-year PhD positions – fully funded & salaried – with a focus on democracy and human rights, in any social science or humanities discipline.

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