Note: This is a post about why I am voting in favor of the ASA resolution sponsored by the Sociologists for Palestine. My son is a year and a half old. He started talking a little bit late – no...
Last year, I had the honor of chairing two article award committees for ASA: the Granovetter Award for the Economic Sociology Section and the Junior Theorist Award for the Theory Section. Both co...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/how-to-run-an-article-award-committee/
Christina Cross, an Assistant Professor of Sociology, was recently subject to bad faith accusations of plagiarism by Christopher “incite a moral panic over Critical Race Theory” Rufo. Rufo le...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/asa-defense-of-christina-cross/
The Strada Education Foundation released last week a major report, “Talent Disrupted,” on college graduates and underemployment. Trumpeted by the Wall Street Journal as demonstrating the impo...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/02/24/college-and-underemployment/
The ASA Theory Section Council just released two statements on the editorial changes at the journal Theory and Society. The first statement responds to the new editors’ statement of goals and a...
SUBMIT YOUR PRÉCIS HERE SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 22nd, 11:59pm Eastern Time The 18th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS) is now open to new submissions. The JTS is a conference featuring the wo...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/2024-junior-theorists-symposium-call-for-papers/
The following is a guest post by Musa al-Gharbi. In recent weeks, there has been significant turmoil around the journal Theory and Society. The previous editorial board has resigned en masse. A n...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/27/guest-post-some-reflections-on-theory-and-society/
The following is a press release from Springer, the publisher of Theory & Society. It was written for Retraction Watch (which is covering the story) and also shared with me. We thank all the prev...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/18/guest-post-springer-nature-response-on-ts/
The following is a guest post by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra. What do market incentives do to the structure and content of knowledge? Over the past few years, I have reflected on this question in var...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/they-work-hard-for-the-money/
Late last month, the senior editors of the journal Theory & Society announced their collective resignation. Springer, which owns the journal, had decided to replace the existing editor-in-chief a...
https://scatter.wordpress.com/2024/01/10/questions-for-the-new-theory-society-editorial-board/