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Inspiring sociological imaginations everywhere! Member of The Society Pages. Posts & Editing by Evan Stewart (@evanstewart.bsky.social). Founded by Lisa Wade & Gwen Sharp. thesocietypages.org/socimages

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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
New Guest Post! "Sociology gives us a framework to see that this is not just bad housing structure. It is a structural problem. When the employer controls housing, every complaint becomes a risk." thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
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Conflict Theory and the Design of Migrant Housing - Sociological Images
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I’m always looking for good explainers I could show students, and this report is great and the viz work makes me miss when websites had graphic design
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Elena G. van Stee @elenavanstee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Where did the wealth go? Shay O'Brien (@shayobrien.bsky.social) can tell you! Find Shay's essay & data viz on the @contexts.org blog ▶️ contexts.org/blog/the-gen... @harvardkennedy.bsky.social @harvard.edu @sasemeeting.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 03/01/2025
"Zombie's tattoos were a way for him to tell off the world. But the world didn't get the message ...[and] his perception of himself changed." @socimages.bsky.social's founders @lisawade.bsky.social and Gwen Sharp, 2010, in "Skull Face and the Self-Fulfilling Stereotype." tinyurl.com/SI-SkullFace
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Cinzia D. Solari (she/her) @cinziasolari.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Quoted on NPR! Our book #GenderOrderOfNeoliberalism explains the embrace and disavowal of #tradwife #girlboss and lean-in feminism! @politybooks.bsky.social oks.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social www.npr.org/2024/12/17/n...
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Tradwife life isn't as good as it looks on TikTok – just ask former tradwives
Tradwives make it look glamorous to quit the workforce to stay home with the kids. But women who have tried the lifestyle themselves say there's a lot you're not seeing on TikTok.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20/12/2024
We tend to think of anti-vaxxers as affluent, White, crunchy granola-type moms. But that stereotype ignores how precarity creates vulnerability to anti-vaxx messaging. Take Tara, whose daughter had a sudden shift in temperament not long after a routine vaccine. 🧵1/ open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
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The Lie That Won't Die
Why We're Still Talking About Autism and Vaccines
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Adam Perzynski @atperzynski.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
@socimages.bsky.social our team has been creating some of these biscale maps. Here we looked at blood pressure inequalities by neighborhood in Cleveland. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.29764
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
This is legendary from @sarahjeong.bsky.social. I appreciate her drunkenly walking the world through a coup attempt and then writing it up. www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...
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6 hours under martial law in Seoul
On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building
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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"We might assume that tradwives hearken back to an earlier 'backward' mode of femininity and marriage. But this way of being in the world is unmistakably modern because it involves 'choice' and entrepreneurship." thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
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The Surprising Convergence of Girlbosses and Tradwives - Sociological Images
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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Mahesh Somashekhar @msoma.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
What happens to White people displaced from gentrified neighborhoods? My newly published article shows they are demographically similar to non-White displacees but end up in better-off neighborhoods. academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...
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Race, Class, and the Displacement of White Residents from Gentrifying U.S. Neighborhoods
Abstract. Are the adverse consequences of gentrification distributed more along racial or class lines? To answer this question, scholars must consider when
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Evan Stewart @evanstewart.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
TSP is here! Glad to see this important network up and running on Bluesky - with partners like @firstpublics.bsky.social, @socimages.bsky.social, & much more content of their own, definitely worth a follow. #socsky
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Besides eat, what do Americans expect to do on Thanksgiving this year? www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Chart showing the percentage of U.S. adults who say it's extremely or very likely that they will do various things on Thanksgiving this year. 35% of Americans expect to watch sports, while the same share (35%) expect to talk about work or family. Going to a bar is at the bottom of the list: Only 2% expect to do so.
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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Class activity/academic procrastination: Find other references to colors and gender in the HathiTrust archive. Here's the oldest "pink for boys" (1890).
"SELECTIONS OF COLORS AND STUFFS.
Pure white is used for all babies—blue for girls and pink for boys, when a color is wished. English nainsook is heavier and stiffer than the French, and is, therefore, preferable for skirts. The barrow coats are bound with white ribbon, or simply have featherstitched hems. Tuck the cambric skirts, but
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Elena G. van Stee @elenavanstee.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This week on the @contextsmag.bsky.social blog, Roman Williams discusses how he’s combining sociology + photography to bridge religious divides. 📷 Find our conversation about Roman’s new book, #SacredSnaps, and his commitment to doing sociology *with* the public ➡️ contexts.org/blog/roman-w...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My TED Talk on Saving Ourselves is OUT! Tune in to learn why we ALL need to be apocalyptic optimists: Prepared for the climate shocks that are coming and ready to rally as activists, disruptors, and bridge-builders to save ourselves from the climate crisis. go.ted.com/danarfisher
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Here's the longer-term trend that draws out your point
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Contexts Magazine @contexts.org · 23/11/2024
Pinball wizards and wannabes, this photoessay is for you! New from Ryan Banfi (NYU Tisch School): journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I haven't drilled down on the details of this survey. But even as anecdotal evidence of economic assumptions, it is clear that "relative deprivation" theory needs to be understood alongside a new "bubble" of economic expectations that will never be reached by most of us. www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/s...
A graph showing the salary level at which members of certain generations would feel successful 

Here’s the average salary older adults said would make them feel successful:

    Gen Z: $587, 800
Millennials (ages 28 to 43): $180,865
    Gen X (ages 44 to 59): $212,321
    Baby boomers (ages 60 to 78): $99,874
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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"As policymakers face an increasing need for adequate cooling to address public health issues, they will need to account for the fact that the public may still be thinking of air conditioning as a luxury or comfort good.” thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
A vintage air conditioning advertisement. One poor soul sweats outside, while his counterparts are nice and cool inside (even wearing full suits!)
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Here is Gessen in the Times in 2016, noting that authoritarians need to tamp down on sociologists because we tend to expose their nonsense.
Totalitarian regimes have a conflicted relationship with sociology. On the one hand, they have no elections or free media from which to learn about the public mood, so they need sociologists even more than democratic governments do. On the other hand, their fear of information is directly proportional to their need for it. They fear that sociologists, if allowed to work freely, will obtain knowledge about the vulnerabilities of the regime. An ideal totalitarian regime would find a way to obtain sociological data without the sociologists.
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Corey Moss-Pech @cmpech.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
What a great bit of data visualization. The chart is striking!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/11/2024
"Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women." Four years ago, that quote of mine went massively viral, maybe because it captured the crushing weight of what so many women had long been holding, plus the impossibility of holding even more without support as the pandemic dragged on. 1/
Tweet from Hillary Clinton, with a quote and a link to a New York Times article in which I'm quoted saying "Other countries have social safety nets; the US has women." The quote is originally from an interview I did with Anne Helen Peterson for her Culture Study newsletter.
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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
Your friends, on average, have more friends than you do—that’s the friendship paradox. But your enemies have more enemies than you do too, research by Amir Ghasemian & @nachristakis.bsky.social suggests, which is called… (you guessed it) the enmity paradox: buff.ly/3SzQx3E
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Is this little book on social class the best gift I ever received?! Possible
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The Annex Sociology Podcast @socannex.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The Annex is back! Lauren Olsen (Temple University) is our guest. Olsen goes inside medical schools to show us the messy, conflictual process of building a four-year curriculum that both includes, and sidelines, the social sciences and humanities. socannex.commons.gc.cuny.edu/podcast/laur...
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The Annex Sociology Podcast The Annex Sociology Podcast is a podcast that features and speaks to academic sociologists. Our e
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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hello new followers & old friends! We’re very happy to be active on Bluesky. Want to join us? 1. Share a sociological image (video, pic, chart & more with alt text) - what can we learn from it? 2. Tag us so we can pass it on! Self-promote your work! Have fun!
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
In March 2023, five months after Musk acquired Twitter, we asked Twitter users if they would use the site in 2024. A quarter said it was unlikely. Republican men were most confident they'd still use the site. Democratic women were most confident they wouldn't. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
The survey also asked current and recent Twitter users how likely they are to use the platform a year from now. A plurality (40%) say they are extremely or very likely to use the site in a year, and 35% say they are somewhat likely to use it. But a quarter say they are not very or not at all likely to be on Twitter a year from now.

Among current or recent Twitter users, a larger share of women than men say it is unlikely they will be on the platform in a year (30% vs. 20%). Conversely, current or recent Twitter users who are men are more likely than women to say they likely will use the platform a year from now (47% vs. 31%).

This analysis also finds partisan differences in users’ plans to remain on the site, aligning with previous Center research that highlights how Republican and Democratic Twitter users have differing views of the platform. Greater shares of current or recent Twitter users who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning say it is unlikely they will be on Twitter in a year compared with their GOP counterparts (29% vs. 20%). Current or recent users who are Republican or Republican-leaning, in turn, are more likely than Democrats to say it is likely they will use the site a year from now (45% vs. 36%). Republicans are also more likely than Democrats to say they are extremely likely to be on the site at that time (25% vs. 17%).
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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"We might assume that tradwives hearken back to an earlier 'backward' mode of femininity and marriage. But this way of being in the world is unmistakably modern because it involves 'choice' and entrepreneurship." thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
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The Surprising Convergence of Girlbosses and Tradwives - Sociological Images
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This skeet is for the Sociology folks! Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This can't be good papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
"Work makes way for family, for everyone." What Sweden gets so right - and America get so, so wrong - when it comes to supporting and empowering working parents. Sociologist and author Caitlyn Collins talks to Ezra Klein about the deep conflict between our work and parenting ideals. bit.ly/4928xJr
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Opinion | The Deep Conflict Between Our Work and Parenting Ideals
The sociologist Caitlyn Collins discusses why parenting feels so difficult in America.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 26/03/2024
NEW #dataviz! In Socius, Joanna Pepin and I find growing uncertainty in marriage expectations among U.S. youth. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #sociology
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Have you ever suspected that you earn less in your fancy job because you're from a working-class family? Our new article out last week in Social Forces with shows there's big class-origin pay gap in the US. About $23k! Free link - academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
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Boston University Center for Innovation in Social Science @buciss.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
In "The Friends Who Are Caring for Each Other in Older Age," Deborah Carr (Boston University College of Arts & Sciences & Boston University Sociology Department ) explains why some older adults are turning to friends rather than family as their caregivers - www.theatlantic.com/...
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The Friends Who Are Caring for Each Other in Older Age - The Atlantic
Too often, being cared for can mean feeling like a burden. But friends who care for one another flip that dynamic.
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First Publics @firstpublics.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Struggling with Friday attendance in Intro to Sociology classes? In our latest class note, Anna Rogers details her experience with “Pop Culture Fridays” that boosts attendance and promotes sociological analysis. Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/firstpublics...
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Pop Culture Fridays - First Publics
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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Elsie LR @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Excited that my LEGO data visualization won the U-M round and is now onto the next round in the B1G data viz competition!!! 🎉 Check out all of the other viz here: btaa.org/research/lov... and if you are at a big ten university, please vote for me! 📊
A data visualization made out of LEGO pieces showing the popularity (height of LEGO stack) of LEGO themes (by color and y-position) over time (x-axis), where themes used to be more generic and are now franchises. Example LEGO pieces are next to the theme labels.
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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
We feature essays from undergraduate sociologists! One Soc Student Spotlight: Sharif Nelson on How Systemic Racism Shaped Basketball Culture in NYC thesocietypages.org/socimages/20... Submitted from @jlkucinskas.bsky.social's course. You can work with your students to submit their blogs, too!
A collage of historic photographs of Black basketball players
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
@philipncohen.bsky.social with a rousing defense of how academics can take vocal political positions while remaining deeply grounded in evidence and open to debate www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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Opinion | How Sociology Can Save Itself
The recent political attacks in Florida represent a threat to the discipline — but also an opportunity.
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Yourqueerprof @drcompton.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
I can feel it, coming in the air today...
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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Grin and Wear It? Guest author Rachel Bickelman on gender, status, and swollen heels in the modeling industry: thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
A line drawing of a pair of slingback heels sitting on a runway
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 07/02/2024
People in Denmark, Spain, Italy, Greece, and France spend twice as much time eating as Americans. (Ht Philipp Heimberger). Funny, the clip art is two obviously European people seated at a table eating together. LOL we eat alone while driving, walking, or working at our desks.
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Alicia M Walker🌊🏳️‍🌈 @aliciamwalker1.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Relationship expert Alicia M. Walker weighs in on the good and bad of digital dating in this week's episode of Missouri State Journal. www.ksmu.org/show/missour...
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Has online dating changed the way we fall in love?
Relationship expert Dr. Alicia Walker weighs in on the good and bad of digital dating.
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Jeff Guhin @jeffguhin.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
It’s just amazing to me how talented @eveewing.bsky.social is. This poem is stunningly beautiful and it breaks my brain a little bit how good she is at sociology and a thousand other things too. I was so excited to get this in poem-a-day today. poets.org/poem/eschato...
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i’m confident that the absolute dregs
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 02/02/2024
This chart shows population patterns with profound consequences. The bigger the green circle, the more a working-age population is expected to grow by 2050 (big gains in India, Pakistan & Nigeria). Orange circles represent decline (huge drop in China). www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/w... (gift link)
Map shows that by 2050, the number of working-age people is expected to increase in many countries in Africa, south Asia, and to a lesser extent, the Americas. The count is expected to decline across much of Europe and Asia, including declines of 216 million in China, 19 million in Japan and 16 million in Russia.
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SocImages @socimages.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
Will a robot take your god? New research on the surprising relationship between work automation, learning about AI, and declines in religion: thesocietypages.org/socimages/20...
An AI illustration: “draw an illustration of a church slowly dissolving into a series of zeros and ones, like computer code in The Matrix”Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2023) demonstrating nations with a higher stock of industrial robots also express lower rates of religiosity, on average. You can read the full notes at the open-access article.
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