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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is disastrous. There has to be a better option.

Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I think about Heidi Hartmann’s work on the intricate relationship between patriarchy, racism, and capitalism multiple times a day at this point. Others theorize this, too. Hartmann was just my first really clear dive into how these structures hold each other up.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

They must assign this snippet day 1 of “dehumanization 101.” Pulling in the gendered aspect is just icing on the cake.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I would much rather someone tell me that a book didn’t work for them and why they think that was. We may be looking for something different! Low-star reviews for books I really liked can be illuminating.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The book The Mountain in the Sea plays around with this idea! It is not pretty.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is a great post about some of the cultural resources (shorthand/shared meaning) we are seeing in Republican claimsmaking. #socialproblems #teachingsoc

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This is a really interesting series of posts about empirical evidence of political shifts over the recent past. #teachingsoc

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

"I left to rehabilitate myself for 16 years while the world got worse. People are more angry, bitter, and judgmental about people and things they have no vested interest or even having the right information."

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I Left Prison a Better Person, But I Returned to a Worse World

I went to a transitional house and entered back out into society. In prison, we watch the news to see what the world is. But to experience...

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Terry @tenntuxx.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A small example of what America is becoming

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Democracy is important so that we can have as many perspectives represented as possible. Democracies fund social science research because they care about how people really make sense of their lives and elect representatives to go fix what they see as the cause of their biggest social problem (🍳)

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

These two “grounds” - which have embedded warrants - see different solutions to keeping societies stable and we are seeing them (the people who believe in/use these two ideologies) fight over what the government enforces as normal and good right now.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Neither belief is morally “good” or “bad,” but they represent very different philosophies about what society should place the highest value on. There is no reason why the political parties can’t work for both macro stability AND facilitating living a meaningful life at the meso and micro levels.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Is this post a really good juxtaposition between the #structural-functionalist and #conflict perspectives? #teachingsociology #teachingtheory Asking because I think it is and would love to chat about it!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A few days ago, I overheard a man in his late teens/early 20s encourage his dad to try sardines because “they really boost your testosterone.” I found the interaction interesting in several ways. And, he called the man “dad,” so I’m not just assuming their relationship - If that matters to you!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I was just thinking about this in while reading r/millennial. I like this experience of having so many people who grew up in the same context share how they are experiencing aging - in all that means - from joint pain to seeing an Eminem vinyl in the “classics” section for the first time 🙃

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I’m reading a bunch of new stuff this summer to figure out what I want to assign in my social inequality class in the fall. I would love to run some ideas by you if you are open to that!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I am trying to picture any other white collar worker framing their job this way. Outside of religious officials.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

This sounds like an excellent talk!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Quotas rarely end well. This is just greater rationalization of the dehumanization of immigrants that is already happening. When the goal is a number, you really strip all nuance from the equation. You encourage the gamification of meeting or beating the number at all costs.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I’m reading Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter right now and this story makes me extra happy about this new baby! If you think you might be at all interested in the book, go for it. It lives up to the hype!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This is what I tell students about trying to write discussion posts with AI. It’s no longer a discussion between people - you’ve removed the human element by yet another degree by using AI to “polish” your contribution.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This would be one of those introvert perks for times like lockdown and super miserable weather days.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I’m not sure it works this way for extroverts. I really do need to interact with other people to feel “not lonely.”

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Maybe they are warnings about the dangers of not moving on.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Trying one more new thing! My department lets me teach our graduate “teaching sociology” class. I’m going to start leaving the course number in hashtags to help them build their Bluesky teaching community - if they want one. I’m making myself a structural hole! #PurdueSOC609

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

@easysociology.bsky.social - I was getting ready to paste my comment, “this would be great to include in your introduction to sociology class” on most of your posts. I decided posting with a #teachingsociology flag would be far more efficient and help more people find all of your great ideas!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This would be excellent for an Introduction to Sociology class! #teachingsociology

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Check this out if you want a greater social scientific understanding of the intended and unintended consequences of governing institutions. This could also be a fantastic resource to help you prep for yours! #teachingsociology

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

I’ve been teaching classes in a terminal masters AI program. I’ve become more used to thinking about things in terms of policy than I realized! Those students are awesome and I can’t wait to see what they do next!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

My social science was showing!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

If we are going to use logic and rationality. Pay people for their labor! Let people make a living off of making really cool stuff (art) that makes all of our lives better!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Let’s keep it that way! It was so irresponsible to give this stereotype buzz with this much legitimacy.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is such a painful possibility. Their expertise, character, and review system cannot have gotten this bad - right? Enough to publish this?

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Racism to justify exploitation. Just like the “good old days?”

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I’ve started seeing these kinds of experiences as cultural knowledge I should/can teach my son to help him understand the labor that goes into each of these things. Some of this is stuff I only learned at my first teenage job. Knowledge is wisdom.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Empirical science is about trying to understand the lived reality of- physical and social - of as many humans as possible. It is about figuring out how to make life better for the most people. This is why people want to control what we use science to discover.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/05/2025

Even apart from the racism and misogyny, this is the same kind of people-as-cogs economic logic that justifies the use of child labor.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

honestly don’t understand how “[demographic category] has [normative descriptor] [physical characteristic]” makes it past an editor in 2025 ffs wtf is going on over there

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I will better collect these thoughts on how I am trying to engage in more public sociology teaching in a full blog post. If you are really interested in more on this, you can find it at the blog in my bio soon. In the meantime, I hope the initial post was helpful at all! #teachingsoc

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I think most of us are doing what I am explaining here! I just also want to make this work more visible to those who are not teachers.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I’m telling you about the #intellectualdiversity part of this example in case you are looking for ways to/things to document that you already do for any of your materials!

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I believe our job is to present students with interesting, relevant, but fairly theoretically neutral sources to analyze using the sociological tools we are trying to help them develop. This is how I strive to achieve #intellectualdiversity in my classes.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

But this thread is already skewed towards a conflict interpretation of the situation. Just because I (personally) think the evidence best fits what we would expect under conflict theory, I don’t want to give my students materials that suggest this is the only “right” way to think sociologically.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I “share” this post as a person who is also a sociologist - in my status as a public sociologist - because I feel comfortable enough to call attention to this post to people who might see it on this form. I think they would find it as interesting as I did to read.

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I don’t think that all posts and discussions on the internet are good to use for class activities. I’m curious what people think about using this thread to kickstart a discussion on gender inequality or role strain & conflict? #teachingsoc

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Lindsay Hamm @lgmhamm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This post and a selection of the responses would be an excellent discussion starter/reflection prompt for a section on welfare policies. #teachingsoc

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