#Conference
ℹ️ ISA RC30 Online Seminar Series
A series of 4 online seminars organized by ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Work (RC30) between March and May. Free inscription.
🗓️ March 13, March 27, April 24, May 22, 2026 at 2:30-4:30pm CET
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It's always a blast doing events for my book. Here I am presenting at the Labor Studies and Employment Relations department at Rutgers. Next stop, ESS in DC. If you're attending the conference this weekend, stop by and say hello, and/or come see my book’s AMC session this Sunday at 9:30.
Join the #ProblemSolvingSociology virtual talk, "Problem Solving and Global Development: Fads, Fashions, Fantasies, Futility and Fixes?" with Sanjay Reddy (New School).
🗓️ Friday, March 6, 11 AM ET.
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Join us next Friday!!!
AI 🤖 is becoming increasingly common in qualitative research, but many remain unsure about its use. On Feb 17 at 15:00 CET, join an open conversation to discuss questions, doubts, concerns, and experiences with #AI in #qualitative #research 🌹
Join us!
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Come work here! (This is a *great* postdoc-rolling-to-TT job.)
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Final reminder! 📢 Feb 6 at 11 AM ET.
Let's talk about teaching sociology with a problem-solving lens. You won't want to miss this lineup! 🎓💻
#ProblemSolvingSociology
Thank you! I hope to share more refined, published articles in the near future. :) But let me know if you happen to need a quick reference. I will send the full file.
Thank you so much, Michelle! I put a short note of gratitude to you in the acknowledgements section :)
Thank you so much Pepe!! :)
Thank you again!!
Thank you!
Not the best timing for a celebration, but I've defended my dissertation on origins of egalitarian education reforms. Deeply grateful to my committee: Angie, Aaron, Peter, and @epopppp.bsky.social. Thanks to other mentors including @mivich.bsky.social for her @asa-ipm.bsky.social mentorship.
This is unfortunately, unsurprising. From my perspective, the best advances in education technology are those that broaden access to traditional learning (e.g., an online course that can best replicate an in-person course). There's just no substitute for traditional old-school learning.
SOUTH KOREAN COURT SENTENCES EX-PRIME MINISTER HAN DUCK-SOO TO 23 YEARS IN PRISON IN CASE RELATED TO MARTIAL LAW
I will be part of this panel on teaching with a problem-solving lens in early February, with the #ProblemSolvingSociology group! Looking forward!
How can we bring sociological research to bear on real-world problems? Join our panel on "Teaching with a Problem-Solving Lens" with Erin McDonnell, Tyler Bateman, Subadevan, and Filippo Barbera.
🗓️ Friday, Feb 6, 11 AM ET. #ProblemSolvingSociology
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Fantastic piece from Youbin Kang in Lux Magazine exploring the intersecting solidarities of labour, queer, and feminist activists (bound together by K-Pop) that brought down the Yoon Suk-Yeol government last year 🫰✊🏳️🌈
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We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.
I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here:
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Part I: "Foundations"
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In which I argue for the foundational place of inductive research in computational social science, rooted in interpretation, transparency, and validation.
Thanks @tahayasseri.bsky.social for shepherding this handbook through
New podcast on my "Gender Uptake" article in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social! Very excited to have this opportunity to talk about the conceptual development and theoretical/methodological intervention of this paper 🤩
#theory #sociology #genderstudies
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The ad is up for UBC. Canada Research Chairs are a sweet gig if you can get one. So apply, I guess? Vancouver is an awesome place to live.
EOI due January 15, 2026
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New article based on my dissertation, which shows how economic experts have historically conceptualized and measured “quality” through a comparison of education and healthcare journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
Sociological Theory - Original Article Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender Yuchen Yang Abstract “Doing Gender” is often read as a theory of how people signify femininity/masculinity via expressive “performances.” This prevailing interpretation falls short of what the theory calls for—an ethnomethodologically informed analysis of gender’s emergent “naturalness.” To further this agenda, I theorize the audience’s “gender uptake” as a central component of doing gender by elaborating ethnomethodology’s attention to interpretive acts. Integrating Dorothy Smith’s intellectual legacy for feminist interpretive sociology, ethnomethodology’s neglected insight on categorization, and cultural sociology’s recent rediscovery of Peircean semiotics, I argue the facticity of gender’s “naturalness” remains underdetermined until the audience makes a series of ideological moves that cannot be predetermined by the performer. With case studies of how feminist parents account for their children’s gender-stereotypical interests, I illustrate how this audience-centered approach helps us unpack the interactional production/naturalization of categorical differences processually as open-ended negotiation of sign relations, where meaning emerges from selective attention. Keywords accounts, categorization, childhood, doing gender, ethnomethodology, pragmatist semiotics
After 3 years, 14 drafts, and 3 paper awards, I finally published this paper on the semiotics of (un)doing gender in my favorite journal—Sociological Theory! @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social
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My draft syllabus on the politics of public policy now includes in class activities, as well as assignments focused on implementation and political analysis. I’ll keep refining it as the semester approaches in January.
All questions, comments, or feedback are welcome.
I'm seeing a trend in our students at UBC as well. STEM students, but particularly CS students, looking to the humanities to provide more depth and meaning to their studies. Lean in and stay strong, humanities. Your time is here!
University of California, Riverside is hiring:
Assistant Professor of Teaching in Sociology
Seeing your actual article in print never gets old. I’m excited that after almost eight years, my paper with Emanuel Guay, “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Political Mobilization and Policy Reform in Québec,” is now out in Volume 96 of Labour/Le Travail. 🧵 1/
