We're delighted to welcome a new Co-Editor to JFR! 🎉Dr. Caroline Berghammer from VID, Austria, (@demographyvienna.bsky.social) joined our team on October 1st, 2026, and we are very happy to have her on board. We very much look forward to everything we'll accomplish together.🌱 #sociology #demography

FYI - This Friday!
Josh Seim: The Welfare Assembly Line: Public Servants in the Suffering City
Friday, October 2, 2:00 PM–3:30 PM
Sociology Lounge, Room 6112
Please RSVP by Oct. 1 to help with food planning:
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#CUNY #GRADCENTER #SOCIOLOGY #SOCIALWELFARE

John Fox (McMaster University) was honored posthumously with the 2026 Distinguished Career Award for the Practice of Sociology during the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting. 

#ASA #sociology #ASA2026

In a culture obsessed with staying young, we ignore the many benefits of ageing
theconversation.com/in-a-culture...

#gerontology #geriatrics #sociology

AI is only capable of producing the statistical averages of its training data and therefore AI is a societally stagnating force.
#liberal #genz #tech #ai #sociology
youtube.com/shorts/h-rdN...

Does religious non-affiliation carry the same meaning across racial groups? 👇

New research in SI examines life-course trajectories of non-affiliation among Black & white Americans & finds important differences across racial contexts.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/soin...

#sociology #religion

Stigma operationalised…

New Red Umbrella Research Brief:
Pheterson (1993) Dishonour and Unworthiness
Watch here: youtu.be/I5UPqpBK3TE
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#stigma #feministtheory #criminology #sociology #genderstudies #labourrights #socialpolicy #sxwork #RedUmbrellaResearch

"Using QAnon ... invite a sociological approach to conspiracism: first, the epistemic communities of the unreal... and second, grassroots conspiracism, which denotes ... these bottom-up, horizontal, and collective meaning-making practices and knowledge-production processes" #sociology

"And to top it all, in the papers and in the news bulletins, the normalisation of the claim that this is the technology that ends us.... frames how the technology is perceived.
That shape has a history. A sociologist drew the map half a century ago..." #Sociology

💙📚 This Palgrave book explores Turkish and Kurdish settlement in Italy, showing how precarity, aspiration and belonging are shaped by migration regimes, legal status and transnational lives. bit.ly/4AH7UUm #Sociology

Chapter 4 and the states of consciousness with my 3
M/W GenPsych crews and chapter 4 socialization and the life course with my M/W SoshCrew. #psychology #sociology

#Philosophy #Reproduction #FertilityTreatment #IVF #Ethnography #Borders #Palestine #Israel #Colonialism #Medicine #Sociology

@galarexer.bsky.social @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social

Have a look at Gala Rexer's book, "Demographic Anxieties," and we'll see you on Monday! www.ucpress.edu/books/demogr...

Now speaking: Malte Doehne (Zurich) on Network Ecology. Unprecedented granularity shifts micro-level from actors to their actions, events and behavior.

3/3

#DSG2026 #Sociology #CSS

Ad hoc group 11 asks what happens to sociological theory and methodology when AI models relations, LLMs simulate respondents, and predictive success passes for understanding.

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#DSG2026 #Sociology #CSS

Day 3 of #DSG2026: Computational Social Science promises pattern recognition and prediction. But who does the explaining?

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#Sociology #CSS

Our ELSA Webinar Series Research Ethics continues on 7 Oct at 16:00 h with a talk on “#Sociology and #Ethics of Quantification”.

➡️ Info and Zoom Link: www.nfdi.de/section-elsa...
➡️ YouTube: youtube.com/live/8UW7Vvi...

#nfdi #rdm #fdm #forschungsdaten

Time to reveal our Sociology Seminar Series Michaelmas 2026 Term card! 🎉

📍Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane, CB2 3RQ.

💻Full abstracts here: www.sociology.cam.ac.uk/sociology-se...

#sociology #seminar #speaker #student #cambridge #cambridgeuniversity

#OpenAccess! Foreigners in Their Own Country: Identity and Rejection in France by Lawrence M. Martin is now available in paperback!

Read more here: bit.ly/4x9OpAT

Review from @choicereviews.bsky.social

#PoliticalAnthropology #Anthropology #RefugeeStudies #MigrationStudies #Sociology