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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/09/2026

"A Reader’s Guide To The Rubin Report." John Levi Martin on @ashleytrubin.bsky.social's disciplinary report on sociology: "focused on whether she actually marshaled evidence to support her arguments, and whether she correctly represents her sources." osf.io/preprints/so... @socarxiv.bsky.social

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Martin Lukk @martinlukk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Is AI biased against some demographic groups? 🤔 Recent LLM audits disagree, finding both ➕ and ➖ discrimination, even for the same models. In a new paper, accepted at #EMNLP2026 Findings, I show that this disagreement can arise from differences in audit format! 🧵 (1/7)

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a new paper forthcoming in Social Forces! focusing on the killing of George Floyd & the BLM, I study the formation of generations, proposing that formative events can create within-cohort differentiation as much as between-cohort differentiation. read here: tkeskinturk.github.io/imprinting.pdf

Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Contemporary narratives of generational politics propose that formative experiences produce shared political opinions across an age cohort. In this article, I advance a theory of cohortization to challenge that view, arguing that large-scale political events produce differentiation within cohorts as much as differentiation between them. I investigate the implications of this framework through the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, analyzing attitudes toward law enforcement among non-Hispanic White Americans from 2016 to 2024. Using survey data from Cooperative Congressional Election Study, American National Election Study, and the Nationscape, I show that younger and older cohorts diverged after the event, but this differentiation was driven exclusively by young Democrats and Independents. The end result was not a unified generation, but one internally divided along party lines. This finding qualifies theories of generational politics, emphasizing that formative experiences may intensify existing political divisions within cohorts.

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby
My, my, my, my generation
— The Who, “My Generation” (1965)

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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

a new job market paper! using surveys from 10.4 million college students over 40 years, I study the role of ideology in career aspirations. I show that ideology structures what careers people want, a pattern much stronger among high-income students. see here: tkeskinturk.github.io/aspirations.pdf

Ideology as a Luxury Good in Occupational Choice
Turgut Keskintürk
Duke University

Abstract
Career aspirations are formed long before people enter the labor market, but whether and how political ideology is part of that formative process remains poorly understood. Using yearly surveys of 10.4 million college freshmen entering U.S. institutions between 1976 and 2015, I show that ideology systematically structures occupational aspirations. This pattern is two to three times larger among students from the highest socioeconomic backgrounds than among those from the lowest. To explain this difference, I propose a luxury-good interpretation: political congruence, the match between one's politics and an occupation's perceived ideological orientation, constitutes an occupational amenity whose importance increases with material security. This, I theorize, makes ideology an expressive resource for life choices, though one that is unequally distributed.

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What are Americans’ perceptions of immigrants’ politics? How do beliefs about whether newcomers are future allies or adversaries shape immigration attitudes? A new #AJS article shows that perceived partisan (mis)alignment powerfully informs US public opinion on immigration.

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Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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Keitaro Okura @keitarookura.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Great to see my paper, "Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion," is now available! Link below. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Ian Van Haren @ianvh.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

In Quebec, the government is putting the brakes on family reunification. I find the policy unfair, and I published an article in La Presse describing the problem. To read an English version, click here: open.substack.com/pub/migratio...

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Why wait four years to live with the one you love?

New op-ed in La Presse.

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Keitaro Okura @keitarookura.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

How do ordinary Americans define the boundaries of U.S. national membership? In this working paper (w/ @sakeefkarim.bsky.social), we combine conjoint data with latent class regressions to examine how Americans intuitively judge who is truly American. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Chih-lan Winnie Yang @winnieyang.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Kicking off 2025 with this piece that’s been years in the making 🙏 Studying individuals in same-sex couples using longitudinal administrative data from Canadian tax records: Opportunities and challenges.

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Ian Van Haren @ianvh.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Voici ma réaction aux récents changements du programme de parrainage des personnes réfugiées au Québec: Here are my thoughts on the recent changes to refugee sponsorship in Quebec: www.linkedin.com/posts/ian-va...

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Ian Van Haren on LinkedIn: Parrainage de réfugiés | Québec suspend un autre programme d’immigration

(English follows) D'après La Presse, le gouvernement du Québec ne va pas accepter de nouvelles demandes de parrainage pour les personnes réfugiées au début de…

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