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Jeff Guhin

@jeffguhin.bsky.social
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Pronounced Gyoo-in, Assoc Prof @SociologyUCLA. Religion/Schools/Theory, he/él/هو, Dad to 2, Book 2: Against Achievement: What Meritocracy (and Social Science) Misses About Schools

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Whatever you think about New Jersey, it is undefeated and undefeatable on carbs
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Really proud of this article with Sean Drake!“The Achievement Narrative and Alienation in School: A Typology of Academic Disconnection” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Oh thank you!!!
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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
🎙️ ON AIR: We're speaking with Father Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, sociology professor Jeffrey Guhin, and @pontifactspod.bsky.social host Bry Jensen about the conclave process and who might succeed Pope Francis. ❓ What are your hopes for the next pope? 📻 Listen: buff.ly/nPcD1lK
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What Are Your Hopes for the Next Pope? | KQED
We’ll look at the conclave process and examine who might succeed Pope Francis — and whether he’ll continue Francis’s legacy of environmentalism, openness and compassion.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
That was fun! Thanks for including me!
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Ruth Braunstein @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
📢 Calling all religion scholars! 📢Please consider this my personal invitation to submit a paper or organize a session at the upcoming @sssreligion.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Minneapolis this October! Reach out to me or @evanstewart.bsky.social with questions or ideas!
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Re: Vance’s ordering of obligations, this is not quite the same as subsidiarity, but it’s similar. I wrote about this four years ago and it still applies. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Joe Biden Is a Different Kind of Catholic
To understand his position on workers’ rights, and even his centrism, look to his religion.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The best encapsulation of an academic’s many small failures is the shocking amount of things we plan to get done in the airport and then, of course, on the plane. So much will be done! And then we land, having opened one PowerPoint file, watched a movie, and fixed the internet connection 27 times.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
A must read story that offers a terrifying window into the world of contemporary far right and pro-MAGA paramilitaries. The friendly ties between these aspiring terrorists and law enforcement is especially concerning. Not surprising to folks familiar with the history of the far right, but still bad.
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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Great thread alert! 👇 Why have glittery tech promises fooled every generation of school reformers for 200 years? B/c we Americans are addicted to the idea that poverty is just a glitch, not a feature of the American dream. Here's the 1824 version: adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/t....
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
 ​You know the micro concussions football players get every play? I get a micro aneurism every time an economist “discovers” a 100 year old sociological concept.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Basically, I’m looking for something that in a relatively systematic way, talk to teachers and students just about what they’re thinking, what it means, what’s happening, vs. the much more common “here’s what we did at my school and it kinda worked!” That’s great but I’m looking for the research.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Education friends: any good work on how teachers are handling Chat GPT/AI for writing assignments in high school and colleges? I found best practices and think pieces, but what about actual scholarship on what teachers are doing, how students narrate choices, how much cheating is alleged/found, etc?
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Yuval M, researcher and teacher @yuvalmillo.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
We assume that highly paid professionals consistently beat the market. Yet research shows that active funds often underperform passive funds, and analysts’ recommendations can be unreliable. Why does this system persist? Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h
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Inertia | Columbia University Press
Financial professionals are paid as if they were capable of “beating the market” on a regular basis. In fact, active fund managers routinely underperform... | CUP
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 23/12/2024
"Of course I can’t say it officially," Shane Lamond wrote to the head of the Proud Boys after Jan. 6, “but personally I support you all and don’t want to see your group’s name or reputation dragged through the mud." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Former D.C. police intel chief found guilty of tipping off Proud Boys leader ahead of Jan. 6 attack
Shane Lamond was charged for tipping then-Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio off about the warrant out for his arrest in the leadup to the Capitol attack.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Friends who know marriage the history and social science of marriage, how is Stephanie Koontz’s *Marriage, A History* regarded as a general introduction?
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
libro.fm - libro.fm/audiobooks/9... audible - www.amazon.com/Oathbreakers... I guess. I feel like I need to keep marketing sorry.
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Oathbreakers Audiobook on Libro.fm
""This is a serious, meticulous history that will also appeal to Game of Thrones fans, who will discover intriguing parallels between history and fiction.” — Booklist""An enlightening portrait of the ...
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It is wild how contemporary these 1890s academic freedom cases seem.
An 1897 political cartoon titled How to Build Up a University, which shows Brown University seeking a "young man of submissive disposition as president. A reasonable amount of scholarship will not be a disqualification but the chief requisite will be an obsequious and ingratiating behavior toward millionaires and the ability to RAKE IN THE DOLLARS."
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
ASA sections on Bluesky. Hopefully we can get more to set up accounts here. Theory Section - @asatheory.bsky.social Section on Labor & Labor Movements - @asalabor.bsky.social SKAT - @asaskat.bsky.social Section on Political Sociology - @asapolisoc.bsky.social
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Putin has RT to talk to the world, so naturally Trump wants the same...
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RNS @rns.org · 12/12/2024
OPINION: “Moana 2” tracks what I have called “The Disney Gospel,” in which good is always rewarded, evil is always punished, and, with belief in some higher power — magic, a star, a fairy godmother — a happy ending is guaranteed. religionnews.com/2024/12/02/moana-2……
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'Moana 2': Disney’s holiday gift from the gods
(RNS) — 'Moana 2,' which set a new record for Thanksgiving weekend box office receipts, is another step for Disney in broadening its faith palette.
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Brexit was the biggest own goal in history, from the nation that invented “own goal.”
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 12/12/2024
How anxious international students are preparing for Trump to take office: "I personally felt an overwhelming sense of doom and uncertainty"
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How Anxious International Students Are Preparing for Trump to Take Office
Many schools have told students to return to the US before Trump’s inauguration.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I still have red-hot rage at the memory of the old guy doing painful chorionic villus sampling for my first pregnancy yelling at me not to 'sing' as I screamed in pain because he was doing it so incompetently.
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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A really good essay reminding us that grassroots networks, civil society, and journalism are still alive and well in Syria, and will matter as much as stateness and coercion in what comes next. www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...
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Hope and Fear in Syria | Journal of Democracy
The brutal regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell in a week. Syrians have been preparing for this moment for years.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Buying nice clothes when you have kids under five is basically the same as building a beautiful mandala only to destroy it except without any of the spiritual equanimity and a significantly higher proportion of wet wipes.
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Tim Mathews @timmathews.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Here are my book recommendations for the new year: Read the books you already bought.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
*Texas doctor & professor points out on tiktok that patients are not legally required to answer citizenship question in order to receive care *Abbott threatens funding of hospital and university *Video is removed These overt threats by politicians to stifle speech becoming all too common.
Abbott tweet: Hey, Texas Children's Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine this doctor is putting your Medicaid & Medicare funding at risk. You better think twice & have crystal clear records. There will be consequences for failing to follow the law in the order."
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Hyp: the relentless focus on STEM contributing to student mental health crisis in US unis. Some students have neither background nor interest to do what takes to excel in STEM classes. They constantly feel like failures but also bombarded w/ message that doing something they ARE good at is a waste.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
i guess it depends how you define sense.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I don't share Day's ontology or anthropology or ecclesiology. I don't believe in souls or that the works of mercy are required. But there's something about the personal in her personalism that's hard for me write off--even if I can't quite articulate why. www.commonwealmagazine.org/scandal-work....
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The Scandal of the Works of Mercy
To reach a man in the street you must go to the street, where Christianity itself may be a sign of contradiction
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
the temptation is to find some other mechanistic justification, that actually being in relationship will compel a deeper commitment and longer-term buy-in. Or whatever. But the point for Day was about ethics, not effectiveness. We should be in relationship because that's how people should be.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
And this gets back to the problem of efficiency, something but not quite the same as @epopppp.bsky.social's amazing stuff on how economics takes over the logic of everything. Sure, it's more maximally efficient for the banker just to bank for the unhoused rather than to actually know them. And--
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
So if Day-and to some degree Jane Addams-are right, then we don't just have positive obligations for our money or our time. We also have positive obligations for our physical presence. That will obviously land differently for different points of privilege. It's complicated. But it's also compelling.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In fact, at some CWs, they can't even run the damn soup kitchens. So there are obviously all sorts of problems of efficiency, expertise, and organization that make CW style personalism impossible. Yet even if I think Day is mostly wrong (I'm also not a pacifist), she's right enough to haunt me.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
It's hard for me to articulate why this feels wrong, and I'm sure it's mostly the effect that Dorothy Day continues to have on me. I'm no longer a religious believer but I'm still sort of a Catholic worker. Of course CW is ridiculous in many ways. You can't run a state like a soup kitchen.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I'm working on a few different papers about citizenship, and I keep coming back to an assumption I can't shake that if we're concerned about a group of people, we have to have real, ongoing human interactions with them. An effective altruist saving the world while sequestrated from it feels wrong.
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Luke Jerod Kummer @ljkummer.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Wrote the linked @newrepublic.com article in 2013, ~1 month after the U.S.-Russia deal to destroy Syria's chemical weapons. Today, with a decade gone by and countless dead, including in Douma, those same chemical weapons sites are being bombed. newrepublic.com/article/1153...
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The Secular Syrian Opposition May Be Imploding
More fallout from the U.S.-Russia deal
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Again, this is not to say vouchers have a good history or are in fact good! It’s only to say we need better arguments to oppose them than that people who like or use them (who might well be people of color) are racists or that the institution has a racist history.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Sure, but abortion and birth control have racist pasts as well. This is a bit of the genetic fallacy. I’m not a huge fan of vouchers but I also have the capital to choose my kids’ schools in ways others can’t. There are compelling, good faith arguments for vouchers that can’t be reduced to racism.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down


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Victoria J Barnett @vjbarnett.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
From Nikki Giovanni. Not a bad reminder for today.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Seth’s dives are always amazing. This guy is an amazing follow.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
What about backwards jeans, though? Both as fashion statement and as causal variable?
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Kinda love that along with bringing the fashions of the 90s back we are back to the moral panic discourse about how playing video games makes killers. like there isn’t a whole field of experts who spent decades studying this and the answer is no (to both that and low rise jeans)
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I contain multitudes, two thirds of whom are watching netflix right now.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Yeah totally I’m sure January Jeff and January Mirya will be super pleased with how it all worked out.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
My goals for winter break: 1. Finish every writing project. 2. Lose ten pounds. 3. Bake and eat all the pies. 4. Work out everyday. 5. Prep for each meeting of every class for next quarter. 6. Catch up on emails. 7. Just chill and relax ya know? This is not at all a recipe for disappointment.
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