Dustin Avent-Holt

Check out my new paper in @CivicSociology! I use egalitarian political philosophy to evaluate the concept of economic rent. Broader argument is that sociologists should incorporate normative criteria in assessing sociological concepts and theory. OA here: online.ucpress.edu/cs/article/3/1…

In an opinion piece in Tampa Bay Times @TB_Times, ASA leaders Joya Misra, Prudence Carter @prudencelcarter, & Adia Harvey Wingfield @AdiaHWingfield explain how removing sociology as a Florida course option demonstrates the danger of politicizing education. bit.ly/3OrORqZ

The AAUP joins w/@AFTunion, @nea, @aacu, & the @Network4pubEd in launching our #FreedomtoLearn pledge to call out laws & rhetoric in multiple states aimed at banning books/curriculums, attacking teachers, & shaming LGBTQIA+ students, while pushing to gut public education. 1/

Submit to the Critical Sociology minicon, “Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crisis” at McGill University, Aug 9 2024. Plenary panelists include: @KeeangaYamahtta, @oikeios, Dylan Riley, Greta Krippner, @Prof_deLeon, Gretchen Purser, @CihanTugal. Contact @its_mccarthy for qs.

New article forthcoming in Sociological Methods and Research! Provides a comprehensive overview of the variety of ways word embeddings can be used to derive relations in text data and complement dictionary methods. Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/soca… #soctwitter

Our book has a cover! Check it out below. Left side is the back cover, middle is the spine, and right side is the front cover. And remember: The book is available for pre-order and will ship 1/30/24!!! Pre-order here: global.oup.com/academic/produ… #soctwitter @OUPAcademic

We would particularly welcome proposals to our Special Issue Competition that address topics which are of particular importance for the journal. See our website for further details tandfonline.com/journals/reso20

In my new paper, I introduce a new economics of the common good, one where ‘how’ we achieve collective goals matters as much as the destination itself. Read ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

New paper!📊 You’ve heard of the (debated) summer learning gap. We look at the summer parental investment gap. @joelabriola and I find larger SES gaps during the summer, and larger gaps for younger school-age children than older children. 1/9 authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvO1%7EuWq%…

Well what do we have here? That’s right, it’s my new book “Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do To Fix It!” @HarperCollins Drops Oct 17; available for preorder harpercollins.com/products/gray-… if you don’t want to wait. ⁦⁩(Cause why would you?)

@doc_thoughts @Insurgent_Prof I didn't catch this piece of news either.

@Insurgent_Prof News out of BU?

Autoworkers during the 1936–37 Sit-Down Strike that birthed the UAW. (Library of Congress)

Working Ideas Brown Bag Series featuring Dr. Gregg Murray on "In Cyber We Trust. Understanding Election Legitimacy in the Age of Electronic Election Systems” is today! Join us @ Allgood Hall N126 @ 1:00pm Come learn the latest social science research.

@enzoreds What an odd take now that I've read the piece. @MattPolProf core point seems to be that too much liberal philosophy fails to take power seriously enough.

No. The materialist left should leave moralising to the liberals. And btw the impact of Rawlsianism and the wider radlib capture of the putative left has been huge: we now spend way too much time debating our moral intuitions & other wittle feelings instead of talking about power

Biggest congratulations to Dawn T. Robinson, who received the 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Emotions Section! This distinguished career award is given every other year to someone with a body of scholarly work of

@its_mccarthy Thanks for sharing Mike. I also teach a class I've titled Capitalism and Its Alternatives. You should check out @ksobering new book on workplace cooperatives, The People's Hotel: dukeupress.edu/the-peoples-ho…

@its_mccarthy My son did this when he was 5 or 6 and it freaked me out.

Q for #soctwitter: If I were to compile a complete bibliography of all published class mobility tables, where would I start looking?

The print edition of our special issue A Class of Our Own: Teaching Sociology By, For, and About First- generation and Working-class People has arrived! Did you get yours? Consider adding ‘read a few pieces’ to your end of summer reading list! @fgwc_sociology #HigherEducation