Mario L. Small

New research suggests that "third places" -- social spaces in between home and work -- are crucial to revitalizing neighborhoods. @MarioLuisSmall and @JorgeGuzmanCBS explain: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-s…

Can a coffee shop stimulate economic development? @MarioLuisSmall & @JorgeGuzmanCBS suggest that social spaces can spark local entrepreneurship. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/how-s…

We think of the people we are closest to as the ones we talk to about sensitive or personal issues. But just as often, we avoid talking to them about those things. Fascinating research by @MarioLuisSmall, Kristina Brant, & Maleah Fekete. 1/ psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living…

Congratulations to sociologist Orlando Patterson @Harvard, recipient of the 2024 Hegel Award from the City of Stuttgart and Museum Hegel-Haus for his groundbreaking and influential work on the sociology of slavery, freedom, and social justice.

Great podcast with @EricKlinenberg and Kellie Carter Jackson on the importance of physical spaces for community theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

@saraismagdeline I have the same question. I would guess increase, because people have many more alternative now online to vent and brainstorm. But that's just conjecture

@MarioLuisSmall Excellent paper - very interesting in the context of increasing loneliness. I wonder if there’s reason to believe this has changed over time and that this is a more recent phenomenon.

Our recent paper, in ASR: While many sociologists assume that people turn to their “strong ties” when they need a confidant, people are actually as likely to avoid as to talk to their closest friends and family. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/

@timgill924 Exactly! Strangers on a train

Another: The most he most wretched social isolate is probably not the one with no person to talk to, but the one forced to avoid everyone they are close to. 4/4

Who they avoid depends on which topic they are worried about. One bottom line: Close relationships are not, “We are close, therefore I trust you” but “We are close, therefore it’s complicated.” 3/

Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with @pescosol. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. doi.org/10.1177/000312…

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” #NobelPrize

Bayes’ theorem, clearly explained:

@aiste_klima @JustinTPickett @JessicaCalarco For example journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

@aiste_klima @JustinTPickett I haven't read the original paper, and @JessicaCalarco and I were the subject, not the authors, of the review paper. But yes, sampling matters, and also, yes, many survey sampling techniques would either not help or undermine the aims of many field studies. Depends on the study

(1/2) We need more attention to selection bias in qualitative research. A new study in a top sociology journal examines "how young people experience policing," but it draws only on interviews of youth in an organization devoted to abolishing the police, one that bombards...

In @ASR_Journal, @MarioLuisSmall @kristinapbrant & Fekete found in a representative survey that adult Americans were as likely to avoid as to talk to friends & family about difficult personal issues, suggesting a need to rethink theories of “strong ties.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

@povertyscholar @CharleyWillison Wonderful. And no surprise at all!

Receiving an award is lovely, but awkward. Having someone talk about you in front of a room full of colleagues will never not be weird to me. Nevertheless, I am grateful that @CharleyWillison was the one to do it. I was honored by the genuinely kind words she shared tonight.

@c_brandtner @asanew @ComUrbASA Congratulations!