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Official Bluesky account of the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. sociology.stanford.edu

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Congratulations to our 2026 Urban Studies BA and our 2026 Sociology BA, MA, and PhD graduates!

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Following the Association of Sociology Graduate Students' recent town hall, graduate students and faculty received our department's new Stanford Sociology sweatshirts!

ASGS co-chair Emily Johnson holding up a sweatshirt and smiling. Sweatshirts in the background on a table.

PhD candidate Caylin Moore smiling while wearing his new sweatshirt. A "Welcome to Sociology" banner is in the background.

Five PhD students smiling in their new sweatshirts.

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

New in @pnas.org, Prof. @asadasad.bsky.social and colls. @immigrationlab.bsky.social find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” local-federal collaborations in immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal activation www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Qualitative studies on local police collaborations with federal immigration enforcement authorities reveal risks to the well-being of noncitizens, particularly the undocumented, and their families and communities. Yet statistical evidence of these policies’ effects is mixed. We propose that quantitative studies may misidentify the timing of when these policies begin disrupting immigrant communities by relying on a policy’s formal enactment date to indicate its activation. We test this proposal in the context of Secure Communities, a federal program with a staggered rollout that asked local police to detain noncitizens they arrested for possible transfer into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody and deportation. Individual states signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the federal government as a framework for their county-by-county activation of Secure Communities. Counties were not required to activate immediately; their formal enactment frequently occurred later when prompted by ICE. We find that the date when a state signed an MOA consistently predicts a county’s increased probability of receiving ICE requests to hold noncitizens in detention, transferring detained noncitizens into ICE custody, and removing noncitizens from the country. This relationship operates most strongly in counties with preexisting enforcement infrastructure between local police and federal immigration authorities. By contrast, while we find that enactment dates are associated with increases in each outcome, pretreatment trends render these relationships statistically indeterminate. Our results highlight how multilayered relationships between local and federal authorities allow for policing to be used as a tool for facilitating the preemptive implementation of immigration enforcement across the country at the expense of noncitizens and their families and communities.

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We were especially thrilled to toast to two books published last year--Prof. @mivich.bsky.social's The Division of Rationalized Labor and Prof. Gi-Wook Shin's The Four Talents. Congratulations, Michelle and Gi-Wook!

Prof. Michelle Jackson speaking about her new book The Division of Rationalized Labor. A copy of her book is in the foreground on the podium.

Prof. Gi-Wook Shin speaking about his book The Four Talents. A copy of his book is in the foreground on the podium.

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

At this week's community lunch, we celebrated faculty books published in the last 5 years, covering a range of social issues from immigration and criminal justice to the division of labor in society and economic development in the Asia-Pacific region.

About 30 or so Stanford students and faculty eating lunch. A slideshow of books published in the Stanford Sociology Department are displayed on a screen in the background

Prof. Michelle Jackson and Prof. Gi-Wook Shin hold up cupcakes with images of their book covers on top of the icing. Physical copies of their books are in the foreground. A slideshow of other recently published books in the Stanford Sociology Department are in the background

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Prof. @mathuclair.bsky.social and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt's recent article on moral reconciling in the legal profession is featured in the latest issue of @contexts.org. The feature was written by @elenavanstee.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....

A screenshot of a brief article in Contexts Magazine summarizing the research of Prof. Matt Clair and PhD candidate Sophia Hunt on morals in the legal profession. The title of the summary is "good lawyer, bad lawyer" and contains an image of a law school graduate with a sign that reads "NOW WHAT?" The brief article was written by Elena G. van Stee.

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This afternoon, @stanfordsoc.bsky.social and friends from around the world celebrated Prof. Mark Granovetter on the occasion of his retirement. We are proud to call him our colleague and wish him the best in this new chapter!

A group of colleagues seated, listening to Prof. David Grusky at a podium speaking about Prof. Mark Granovetter. A slide of Mark Granovetter and people attending on Zoom are projected behind the podium.

A group of colleagues seated, with glasses of champagne raised in honor of Prof. Mark Granovetter. Prof. David Grusky is at the podium, with a slide comparing the annual citation counts of Marx, Weber, and Granovetter since 1950 projected behind him. In recent years, Granovetter has been accumulating more citations per year than Weber but fewer than Marx.

Prof. Mark Granovetter, seated, with champagne and brownies, speaking to a few colleagues standing next to him.

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

New in Sociological Methods & Research: Soc PhD candidate @davidbroska.bsky.social, @austin-van-loon.bsky.social, & Michael Howes show how combining human subjects and large language models can yield precise estimates at low cost, with implications for scientific productivity doi.org/10.1177/0049...

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Stanford Sociology @stanfordsoc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Last weekend, we celebrated our 2025 @stanfordsoc.bsky.social BA, MA, and PhD graduates. Congratulations, everyone!

A graduate giving a speech from the stage facing the audience and away from the camera

Faculty director of the BA program smiling with a graduate

A group of coterminal MA graduates smiling for a photo with the faculty director of the MA program

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