erikajordan
Have you heard? Stop letting your feed program your thoughts. #psychology #sociology #events #reality #truth
https://www.threads.com/@erikajordan/post/DK26GeHBE6f?xmt=AQF0eavu0K0Ull_EMp8uJjbBa-uJRRCJUBJW80IAAa3YSQ
“Despite consistently enthusiastic reviewer comments, no editors have yet accepted our work for publication—it seems to be the type of paper that editors are nervous to touch. Currently, the work is under review for a fourth time, for possible inclusion in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), in a paper titled “Oh F**k! How Do People Feel About Robots That Leverage Profanity?”
#stronglanguage #robotics #sociology
https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/114675943485797239
[P] I'm just going to come right out and say it: The BDS boycott situation—where people refuse to give up optional leisure items even if it helps to stop a genocide—is factual proof that neurotypicals only have performative empathy for anyone outside of their hiverarchy ("Anyone who isn't Us can get hyperfucked! But I'll sure PRETEND to care.") Only moral neurodivergents give any shits.
Are universities exclusionary ivory towers, limiting access to PhD degrees to children of the elites? In Finland: no [1], but what about other countries? @helinjouni, Terhi Nokkala, Eija Räikkönen and I use data on over 200000 individuals to rank 26 European countries from best to worst [cf. 2]. (1/3)
'Port Infrastructural Investments and Maritime Industry Performance : Evidence From Nigeria' - a new article in the Ibadan Journal of #Sociology by Pluto Journals on #ScienceOpen:
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/ijs.16.1.001
Best brief summary of the situation in Los Angeles, so far, by Bernie Sanders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al7wpZL-QCI&ab_channel=SenatorBernieSanders #demography #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
From Code to Culture: Why Technical Tools Alone Won’t Save Cybersecurity | An Infosecurity Europe 2025 Conversation with Rob Black 
Sean Martin, CISSP and I are back from London — and here’s another powerful conversation recorded On Location at Infosecurity Europe 2025.
Cybersecurity leader Rob Black challenges the industry’s tech-first mindset by spotlighting the critical role of human behavior, soft skills, and psychological strategy in modern defense.
From deception tactics to geopolitical intent, this conversation reimagines cybersecurity as a human-driven battleground — where #creativity may be the ultimate security tool.
Watch: https://youtu.be/GQOG-3bsjiM?feature=shared
Listen: https://eventcoveragepodcast.com/episodes/from-code-to-culture-why-technical-tools-alone-wont-save-cybersecurity-an-infosecurity-europe-2025-conversation-with-rob-black-on-location-coverage-with-sean-martin-and-marco-ciappelli-Dx4DG29f
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Tomorrow at 14:00 CET my former research group organizes a free online seminar with Sari Hanafi, former president of the International Sociological Association. He will talk about recent changes in the Arab social sciences.
I'll be there and I think the talk will be very interesting! If you decide to come as well, here is the registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/BWPFVSpQTKOwSk5euWbm5w#/registration
A new blogpost on how to use line and graphic drawing in ethnography and more broadly in social research 
#ethnography #drawing #sociology #anthropology #geography #creativemethods #research
Good Stuff ->
Critical Marxist Theory: Political Autonomy and the Radicalising Project of Modernity
Lukas Meisner
(Springer Nature, 08/06/2025 - 409 páginas)
"This book argues why Critical Theory – as first developed in the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung – must be updated to help us tackling today’s capitalist polycrisis, from economic via political to ecological crises. Yet, following the dissolution of the Institute for Social Research in New York, and the latest with the death of Adorno in 1969 and the death of Marcuse almost exactly ten years later, there has been a ‘domestication’ of the main strands of the Frankfurt School. To understand and overcome this domestication, the book traces, with the means of philosophy and sociology, its two affirmative steps in a liberal and in a postmodern turn. As an alternative to both, it defends Habermas’ project of modernity, yet only by disentangling it – in Marxian fashion – from the capitalist process of modernisation. This disentanglement is at the same time a political radicalisation. It is necessary because the cultural-political ideal(s) of the project of modernity – from human autonomy via rational society to qualitative individuality – can only be realised beyond the framework of capitalism. As their conceptual concentrate, the book proposes political autonomy as a key concept confined neither by Kantian or liberal approaches nor by autonomist or operaist traditions. Rather, it draws on thinkers like Herbert Marcuse, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and Martin Hägglund to rephrase Marxist concepts such as social freedom, democratic socialism, and the end of prehistory. In this way, political autonomy is developed both as a legit criterion for justified critique and as the philosophical foundation and emancipatory goal of a pluralist yet transcapitalist Critical Marxist Theory."
"The crisis, therefore, was not (merely) the result of individuals making bad decisions. Yes, they did, but people make mistakes all the time; blaming the crisis on mistakes is like blaming a plane crash on gravity. Instead, it was the product of fundamental forces within capitalism."
Chris Dillow: https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2023/03/against-schoolteacher-politics.html @academicchatter
I am looking for fellow social science scholars on wind power.
I am preparing an article about public participation in environmental assessment in Flanders and the Netherlands.
The dataset of publicly available comments is rich enough for additional publications, though that requires teamwork.
LA. This is what rubber bullet injury looks like. #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
Said Robert Proctor: “If you don’t like the science that’s out there, create some of your own. And then claim ‘we need more research.’ And then label your opposition as a bunch of close-minded fanatics.”
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/industry-weaponizing-science-agenda/
I don't know what to even post, supposedly people usually post stuff they're into on social media, so I guess I'll give you this incredibly niche and alienating essay on Baudrillard.
#criticaltheory #baudrillard #sociology
https://divinecuration.github.io/2022/01/03/baudrillard-subject.html
There's a concept in #sociology called "Self-fulfilling Prophecy", which is when a belief, causes actions that eventually make it become true regardless of whether this belief was true in the firstplace. It's a sharp nudge to the ribs of overthinkers like myself, who spend a good deal of our time mulling over something, coming to all kinds of conclusions for it and then choosing the most negative ones and make a very vivid picture of how everything will be coming together to lead to that conclusion. And in my personal experience, sometimes, though in reality it seemed unlikely, what I was predicting became true; No, it wasn't because I was making the right prediction, it was because what I believed wrongly, caused me to do things in the exact way that would lead to that negative result (for example stressing out myself over my own assumptions so much so that even though if I would be able to do something perfectly well in normal circumstances, I'd mess it up instead and in the worst way possible - just as I wrongly predicted I would).
Letters to Leftists: The #UN mechanisms: the elephant in the room
https://letterstoleftists.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-un-mechanisms-elephant-in-room.html
In my blog, I use my readings in #Sociology (especially of Social Movements) to offer an analysis to the commonly known institutions and movements and their dynamics and behaviors #Politics
New study 
In "Payment problems through a social class lens" Ida Drange and Nan Zou Bakkeli take a Bourdieusian approach to studying the risks associated with debt. Leveraging longitudinal register data they show that payment problems are more common among those in the lower classes and in the economic middle classes.
Open access 
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993241309762
#sociology #debt #class
@sociology @academicchatter @socialwork
Last was "Change" by Damon Centola. This book reviews a lot of the fundamental research in networks, diffusion, and adoption, then gets about the business of systematically debunking the idea of "influencers" as a big driver of adoption of anything beyond simple ideas/products. Instead, Damon demonstrates how complex contagion is best served by cohesive networks, with a number of takeaways for practitioners. Highly recommend
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7646230/s/an-excellent-review-of-social-network-diffusion-research#anchor-7646230 (3/3) #sociology
Whilst IMO none of this is surprising at all, it is nonetheless just so very sad.
Ofc, most peeps, & certainly no pollies nor oligarchs, will admit it, but we humans did this to ourselves, as a consequence of Gaia fighting back against our endless assaults on her via our demented fetish for the lie of "endless growth".
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