Omar Lizardo
A political junkie retweets and snark combo. For soc go to olizardo.bol.ucla.edu or @culturecog. Tweets are personal and unofficial. RT = I love you. He/Him.
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Talking Your Self into It: How and When Accounts Shape Motivation for Action - Daniel Winchester, Kyle D. Green, 2019
Following Mills, several prominent sociologists have encouraged researchers to analyze actors’ motive talk not as data on the subjective desires that move them ...
Price outlines five values on integrity at Academic Council meeting
In order to avoid any more research misconduct, Duke has taken several steps, like forming a new Office of Research. Another step? Having values.
Weekend reads: Retract papers, win major awards; “citation doping;” authorship abuse
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Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
Call for nominations: Section Awards 2020 The Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Section Awards recognize outstanding scholarship in the sociology of consumption, broadly defined. This includes…
Student Paper Award
Call for nominations: Section Awards 2020 The Sociology of Consumers and Consumption Section Awards recognize outstanding scholarship in the sociology of consumption, broadly defined. This includes…
Generic language in scientific communication
There is increasing recognition that research samples in psychology are limited in size, diversity, and generalizability. However, because scientists are encouraged to reach broad audiences, we hypothesized that scientific writing may sacrifice...
Cross-national evidence of a negativity bias in psychophysiological reactions to news
News coverage of current affairs is predominantly negative. American accounts of this tendency tend to focus on journalistic practices, but this cannot easily account for negative news content around the world. It is more likely that negativity in...
DEVELOPMENT IN DIALOGUE
The conference theme will be “ Development in Dialogue: Engaging Practitioners and Across Disciplines” drawing attention to some of the exciting ways that sociological research can contribute...
Another Justin Trudeau Blackface Video Reported After Apology For Brownface Photo
The Canadian prime minister, currently running for re-election, has apologized for a similar image that surfaced.
Anti-vaccine protesters are likening themselves to civil rights activists
The approach reflected the level of desperation among families staunchly opposed to vaccinating their children.
Military has spent nearly $200,000 at Trump’s Scottish resort since 2017
The spending paid for the equivalent of hundreds of nights of rooms over approximately three dozen separate stays, the committee said.
Meaning and Modularity: The Multivalence of “Mechanism” in Sociological Explanation - Carly R. Knight, Isaac Ariail Reed, 2019
Mechanisms are ubiquitous in sociological explanation. Recent theoretical work has sought to extend mechanistic explanation further still: into cultural and int...
Former UVa President Teresa Sullivan named interim provost at Michigan State
Former UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan previously advised the Michigan State Board of Trustees in its presidential search that led to MSU President Samuel Stanley’s hiring.
Ordinal Citizenship
The British Journal of Sociology Lecture at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
“They Played It Up Pretty Big”: Kavanaugh Turmoil Engulfs the New York Times
Sources say Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly initially pitched their reporting to the news side, but top editors ultimately felt that there wasn’t enough juice to warrant a story there—punting the scoop to the Sunday Review section.
Mechanistic basis of neonatal heart regeneration revealed by transcriptome and histone modification profiling
Heart regeneration is restricted to the first week after birth in mice, and the underlying molecular mechanisms remain poorly understood. We compared the transcriptomes and epigenomes of the regenerative and nonregenerative mouse hearts over a 7-d...