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Daniel Laurison

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Author of Producing Politics, Beacon Press also: Sociologist. Carnegie Fellow. Trans, parent.

Swarthmore college & Philly

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Daniel Laurison

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2 years

If you want to understand what's going on in US politics, you need to understand the campaign professionals who advise the politicians, make the ads & decide who to contact and how. That's what Producing Politics is about.

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Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for...

The first book to uncover the hidden and powerful role campaign professionals play in shaping American democracy by delving into the exclusive world of politicos through off-the-record interviews We...

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Today I told my class that working class/poor students are less likely to know rules can be bent, and less likely to ask to bend them, or for other kinds of help, and I got an email from a sophomore saying that helped her make sense of why her first year was so hard.

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Dear US academics, if you're writing about something in the US context, please say that explicitly in your key sentences. How things work in US society is not necessarily universal, in fact it's frequently pretty weird compared to big swathes of the rest of the world.

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I told them explicitly that they can ask for extensions on their papers, and how to do it, and that they can come to talk to me about their papers. Same student admitted they'd been overwhelmed about the paper, asked for an extension, and set up an office hours appointment. Win!

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Did everyone catch this story? Cops in my neighborhood stopped a family in their car, dragged the parents out of the car & beat them in front on their toddler, picked up the kid & snapped a picture, then posted the picture with an entirely false story about it.

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. @GLFOP has now deleted their propaganda posts on Facebook and Twitter, but offered a tremendously valuable lesson in why you always need to treat initial police narratives with intense skepticism.

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Here's why I don't like MANDATORY pronoun go-rounds: 1. I would have hated having to decide/out myself every time I went anywhere when I was deciding whether to transition or not. 2. reinforces the notion that gender is the most important feature of our selves.

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Hello students on the job market: many of your advisors don't think liberal arts colleges are good jobs for people who care about research. I'm here to tell you they can be GREAT for research, plus they also reward you for caring about teaching and your students.

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OK, I'm tenured!

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Hi Twitter, happy National Coming Out day. I'm a trans man! I would like for like for all queer and trans people to have at least as much support as I did from my family. And I really want all the politicians promoting transphobia to lose their elections.

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@jestom This is possibly the most Twitter tweet I've ever read.

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Hello #soctwitter & etc, if you're planning a first-day-of-class (or etc) introductions, and you want to be inclusive of trans/non-binary folks, can I suggest (as a trans professor with a lot of trans & non-binary students) including pronouns as *optional* rather than required? +

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In many contexts, they matter far more. Black & Brown people too often don't get the benefit of the doubt, are made to adhere to rules not often enforced against white people. Women of all races too often are held to standards not applied to men. Etc etc.

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(I also mentioned that not all professors are as free with extensions as I am.) (Also this was Forms of Capital day so it was perfect timing.)

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Periodic reminder that the VAST majority of people who've been to college - something like 85% - do NOT attend the kinds of places that are frequently discussed in the NYTimes. They mostly go to regional commuter colleges, community colleges, etc, w/ acceptance rates >= 75%.

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Worth noting here, as I've said in a couple side threads, that who can bend rules & get away with it, and what they have to perform for that to work, isn't only about class or knowing that some rules can bend. Outside my classroom, race & gender matter at least as much as class.

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If you're only using US data, you're not studying, say, racism & online dating *in general* you're studying racism & online dating IN THE US. That is a fine and good thing to do, but won't necessarily tell us much at all about racism & online dating in the UK, or Brazil, or etc.

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@polumechanos Him: no no, I wouldn't be where I am today but I worked very hard. No one helped me. Anyone who's smart can succeed if they work hard. Also him: works in the practice OWNED BY HIS FATHER. (he's no longer my dentist.)

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If anyone wants to read MORE about how class origins matter even after people have gained entry to various elite positions, um, check out my book with @SamFriedmanSoc coming January '19: (US) (UK)

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Is this normal? I'm doing a recommendation for a student for a scholarship and I'm asked to select who they will most resemble in 20 years from a grid of 33 pictures of famous people like Albert Einstein & Oprah & Stephen Hawking & Dolores Huerta & Martin Luther King.

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Hello Twitter GUESS WHAT? I won a Carnegie Fellowship!! I'll be continuing to work on inequalities in political participation. I am really proud and excited and a bit intimidated to join the 2021 #CarnegieFellows with a lot of really amazing scholars.

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Bad example sentence: "this study will explore how people respond to instances of racism in their experiences with online dating." Very easy fix: "this study will explore how people respond to instances of racism in their experiences with online dating IN THE US."

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You guys all know that like 95% of the current anti-trans rhetoric/attacks is nearly indistinguishable from homophobia circa 1995, right? From "kids are too young to make that kind of decision" to "we just want to protect kids" to "predatory adults are behind it all."

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Note 1: I have been guilty of this myself, especially before I lived in the UK for three years. It's very easy for US academics write as if we're the universal case since so much of the scholarship we read does it, but it's sloppy & provincial & arrogant.

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Today is my ... 17 year wedding anniversary with Hannah. Still among the best things I've ever done. On this date in 2006, we didn't actually accomplish anything in the eyes of the state. I wasn't legally a man yet, and gay marriage wasn't legal yet.

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Submit your research notes to @BJSociology ! As acting Editor in Chief of @BJSociology , I would like to see more research notes (<2500 words). The idea is you've found something worth sharing, but don't want or need to do a ton of theory & lit review.

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@UjuAnya IMO though young men who aren't sure people like them >>> young men convinced everyone must be into them.

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If I put this reply here, do more people see it? I think this part is in some ways more important than the main thread:

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Worth noting here, as I've said in a couple side threads, that who can bend rules & get away with it, and what they have to perform for that to work, isn't only about class or knowing that some rules can bend. Outside my classroom, race & gender matter at least as much as class.

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Someone just stopped me on the street and said, I kid you not, "Are you Daniel Laurison? I read your book, the Class Ceiling." That will probably never happen again. (They were a student in Annette Lareau's class at Penn.)

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Here is a common kind of trouble students (and others, including still me, sometimes) have: getting behind on a thing->feeling bad that you're behind->avoiding the thing & the people involved in the thing->getting even more behind on the thing-> feeling bad etc.

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I talk about that in my classes too.

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It's a pandemic and cops are killing people and there's a character from the Handmaid's Tale on the Supreme Court and an election and a bunch of us are being teachers/tutors/school support for our kids AND doing our regular jobs and we're all doing our best and it's too much.

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@polumechanos Somehow my dentist got on a rant about how if people just work hard, whatever job they have, they can get rich. Me, a sociologist of class and mobility: er, there's pretty good evidence that's not really how it works. (1/2)

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@zenxv Congratulations, you've found the dorms & frats of Drexel University, which was all-remote this fall.

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OK, it's #TransDayOfVisibility again , I assume that everyone who follows me knows I'm trans but maybe not. So - I'm a trans man! I came out as a lesbian/dyke in ... 1992, when I was 15, so hey I've now been out as queer for 30 years = 2/3rds of my life.

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@RocCityBuilt I'm not talking about twitter, I'm talking about formal writing. Which maybe is not super clear above, though "key sentences" doesn't really make sense for tweets.

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And I added a note "[Student] is great. I had no idea how to answer your question about who she'll be most like in 20 years as most people, however great they are, don't turn out to be world-famous leaders or media magnates."

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Note 2: yes, I was just reading something that annoyed me and prompted this rant, but it wasn't about racism & online dating, and if you think it was you please do better but there's a very low chance that it was actually you and I won't give you a bad review just for that.

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@ekharrison @summerbrennan I think the point is that lots of headlines & thinkpieces seem implicitly premised on millennials still being mostly/modally 23. So "millennials" also means something different than it did ten years ago - the same people, but a different age.

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@fb2ts I try to vary the language I use because no one phrase or term works for everyone who is part of each group. A lot of African American, Latinx, and Indigenous people whose politics I respect use "Black & Brown." I try to follow the lead of POC in my usage of all these terms.

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@DrJenGunter this is the basic principle of all food "substitutions." [Carob/oat milk/cottage cheese] may be yummy on their own terms, but if you tell people it's as good as [chocolate/actual dairy/any other dairy product], they're just going to be disappointed or mad.

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It is trans day of visibility and I make it a practice to come out as trans whenever it's appropriate/called for. So hi.

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Hey #SocTwitter and related: 1. My book is with me in the real physical world (in my campus office)! 2. Beyond tweeting a lot, do you good people have other book-promotion suggestions? We wrote a pretty good book, I want to make sure people read it!

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In news unrelated to my usual Twitter content I would like you all to know that I have chickens, five of them, and today was the first day since winter that each one laid an egg and they are very pretty.

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@Catherineoscopy we have that same deal - there are 4 depts on my campus who get X% more than the rest of us (10%? 15%? I'm not sure) because their fields have the most non-academic jobs (econ, engineering, computer science, statistics).

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Just got my copy of Qualitative Literacy - pre-oredered in May - by @MarioLuisSmall & @JessicaCalarco . Excited to read it and to teach it next time I'm teaching intro methods.

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I'm sure there's a Twitter debate coming about whether putting celebrations of queerness in the proudboys hashtag is somehow playing on homophobia & I just want to say I'm in favor of celebrating queerness anytime & if that happens to bother the "proud boys" that's great too.

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Hello: - I'm trans - I think everyone ought to get to live in whatever gender feels right for them - I'm incredibly lucky and privileged to have had as easy a time of it as I have - the current attacks on trans people are absolutely connected to rising racism, anti-democracy, etc

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Hello twitter if anyone would like to wish me happy birthday I will take it. I'm 44. So far I've received: breakfast made for me (I make breakfast all the other days of the year except father's day) and my kid who is not that into affection lately promised me 1 snuggle (a year).

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You guys my actual real hardback book is here! In my house! Here's a video of me opening it.

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Pronouns in go-rounds & on name-tags & etc are great in many ways, bc they signal "we don't assume anyone's gender identity/pronouns here" and also "we're trying to be inclusive of trans & non-binary people." BUT they're also deeply uncomfortable for anyone not ready to share.

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Some of my wonderful students at @swarthmore are holding a sit-in in one of our two fraternities, calling for -the termination of frats' leases (they have houses on campus) -the space reallocated to students who have been historically marginalized -both current frats banned

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Galleys of my book came! It's a real physical book (if not the very final version)! (See pinned tweet for ordering links.)

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If I have to be more explicit about why I don't like mandatory pronoun sharing, it's bc A) it reifies the idea that the most important thing to know about someone is their gender and B) collapses their gender down to just do they use the pronoun you expect/think matches them.

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This is so well stated and covers one of the key points sociologists are always making: if you ignore class (and other aspects of inequality), you miss a really really important part of almost every story about differences in almost every kind of outcome.

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Exactly 30 years ago today, when I was just barely 16 and had been out as a dyke for a year, I was at the 1993 March on Washington. This is a t-shirt I got there which has now been worn to literal shreds, 1st by me then by my kid. I am going to tell you what it was like.

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It looks like I'm going to have at least 20 people working with me in my research lab this summer, talking to poor/low-income/working class/"regular" people (in all racial groups) about their experiences with and feelings about electoral politics, campaigns, and politicians.

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Holy crap this is surprising/amazing/not what I would have expected: only 19% of Americans polled oppose Floyd protests. The modal response is *strong* support & the total who support is 62%!!!

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@MorningConsult That shift comes as support for the Floyd protests -- and the protesters involved -- ticks up by nearly double digits.

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@JGrimesPhd yes. who she's ACTUALLY going to be, most likely, is a really great therapist working with immigrant and Latinx people and no one besides her clients & colleagues will have heard of her and that is an EXCELLENT use of a scholarship for social work school.

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Have you ever suspected that you earn less in your fancy job because you're from a working-class family? The Class Ceiling showed how that worked in the UK; new article out today @SF_Journal with @SamFriedmanSoc shows there's ALSO a big class pay gap in the US. About $23k!

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why why why do I have to have a separate login and account on every single Manuscript Central/Scholar One journal site?

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Dear all my students in the US - it's irrational, but the punctuation goes INSIDE the quotation marks. I'm sorry.

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I just tweeted some domestic accomplishments but here's some big professional news: my book on campaign professionals, The Room Where it Happens, will be published with @BeaconPressBks .

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not yelling at the tweeter, but at the concept: BEHIND WHAT!? BEHIND WHOM?! The whole world's in a pandemic. Kids' and their families physical and mental health should WAY take priority over "catching up" to arbitrary standards of how much kids should have learned by what date.

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New report: School closures/virtual learning left students 5 months behind in mathematics, 4 months behind in reading by the end of the school year. via @McKinsey

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@ekharrison @summerbrennan This is all obvious if you're used to thinking about age/cohort/period issues but clearly not sufficiently obvious to the headline writers obsessed with millennials.

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If any sociologists, especially at public and/or underfunded universities, would like me to plan to zoom into one of your classes this semester & talk about my research so you can have less (or at least different) planning to do that day, let me know. No need to honorarium me.

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Anyway to be clear the right solution for profs & other group leaders/facilitators definitely is NOT "ignore the whole thing & don't mention pronouns." IMO best general strategy is invite but don't require them as part of intros.

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also how should I answer? It's "tick all the apply" and this student is GREAT but I don't know anyone who's probably going to be Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking or Oprah in 20 years, because how would I know? and that kind of prominence is at least in part luck/random.

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I've been out as queer now for nearly ... 28 years? I came out as a trans man 15 years ago. I was visibly gender non-conforming-ly queer as a butch/gender queer dyke for 13 years, now I always try to post on #NationalComingOutDay since not everyone reads me as/knows I'm trans.

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I SENT IN MY BOOK MANUSCRIPT!! BEFORE THE DEADLINE!!! IN TIME TO GO ON A SMALL VACATION WITH @HannahLaurison ! (AND I think it's pretty good, too, though I can still see lots of places it could be better, of course.) (I get it back in 10 days, then have 10 days to do last edits)

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Ooh the actual physical paperbacks of my book Producing Politics just arrived! So pretty. I don't think I'll ever really get over being a published author of actual real books.

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So I got an R&R on a paper (yay!) and the reviewers said "look at more years in your dataset" and I did and it raised some questions. So I looked in another dataset and... I'm not at all sure our central finding holds up. Which is good to know, but not good.

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I would have hated hated hated them when I was a not-yet-out-as-trans college student, and when I've made pronoun-sharing optional & explained why, I've gotten a lot of appreciation from my trans & NB students. I also dislike them now, though I appreciate the intent a lot.

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@Lisa_L_Reynolds @billpeduto @PhillyMayor plummeting sales = OK with me, layoffs, no. But both are mostly decisions multi-billion dollar soda corporations are making.

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something was wrong on the internet, so @asociologist and I corrected it (on that WaPo pie chart going around)

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I just got elected VP of the Eastern Sociological Society @essnet . It's a great group of people and this is a very impressive team I'll get to work with.

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Hello #soctwitter WE HAVE A JOB. 3-year Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology & Black Studies, @swarthmorecollege . I know the job market is awful and I don't really have to convince anyone to apply, but Swarthmore is genuinely a great place to work:

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Around this time 9 yrs ago I had reached the conclusion that I would probably never get an academic job. It was the fall of my 9th year of grad school, I'd sent out what felt like hundreds (probably 40-50?) of applications to tenure track jobs and post-docs, and had nothing. 🧵

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Suburban, rural, working class, middle class, upper middle class, professionals.

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Also, there are SO MANY difficult questions reporters/news outlets could ask, but they keep asking the SAME ONE over and over, which is basically "should we really let (young) trans people be?"

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Hey everybody: the survey finding 34% of white ppl lie about their race (half of whom say they're Native American) in college applications is very BS. See this thread but simple math says that would mean at least 17% of apps claiming to be NA, and that's not at all the case.

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Thread: I suppose you've seen this. I've noticed a lot of people talking about it.

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The headline: "For a longer life, afternoon exercise may be best, a large study shows" But IMO the more likely explanation is that people who can regularly exercise between 11a and 5p don't have to work or are in flexible, high-autonomy high-paid jobs.

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For a longer life, afternoon exercise may be best, a large study shows

A new study collected from more than 90,000 people found afternoon exercisers lived longer, but other research suggests morning exercise might burn more body fat.

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3 years

Here's @swarthmore 's story on me & the @CarnegieFdn #CarnegieFellows award

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Sociologist Daniel Laurison ’99 Named 2021-22 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

Assistant Professor of Sociology Daniel Laurison ’99 is among the 26 humanities and social science scholars awarded the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to study the most enduring issues in American

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As of tomorrow, June 3rd, @HannahLaurison and I will have been married 15 years. I am entirely the luckiest ever.

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3 years

Other options: just don't use 3rd person gender-specific pronouns out loud in class. I almost never need to refer to anyone in the 3rd person in a classroom; I can just say "as Suzy was saying" or use "they" for everyone in a pinch.

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2 years

General reminder = beware of class terms used without definition or qualification. Someone saying "working class" could mean any of: - the White people they think support trump - people who do manual/routine/service jobs - people w/out a BA - people who don't own companies

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2 years

Swarthmore did a story on me & Producing Politics - plus this means I finally have a professional photo of me in front of my bookshelves (plus with my bike in the background).

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A New Book by Daniel Laurison ’99 Explores How a “Privileged Few”

Daniel Laurison ’99’s research focuses on deep inequalities in political participation and engagement and inequalities in “who gets listened to by politicians and political parties.” “Figuring out

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3 years

I'm teaching my Class Class to mostly 1st-years & I already can't count how many students have told me in office hours (which I require them to come to [on zoom or in person]) how much talking explicitly about social class has helped them make sense of their entry to Swarthmore.

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My book, Producing Politics: Inside Inside The Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for All of Us is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! Some links: - - -

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Producing Politics: Inside the Exclusive Campaign World Where the Privileged Few Shape Politics for...

The first book to uncover the hidden and powerful role campaign professionals play in shaping American democracy by delving into the exclusive world of politicos through off-the-record interviews We...

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3 years

Tomorrow is my mom's birthday. She'll be 73 but she won't really notice because she has advanced Alzheimer's & mostly sleeps & doesn't seem to understand much. She was diagnosed when she was 64, though in retrospect we should have known earlier.

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It's a losing battle, but: "social mobility" does not mean "end up well-off/successful." If your parents were class privileged & you are too, you have NOT done "mobility." You have done "class reproduction."

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5 years

I don't know if it's poor form to offer to buy copies of your own book for people, but I'm offering: up to five US grad students, undergrads, or otherwise interested folks who don't have enough book-buying budget, I'll get you a copy.

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6 years

If anyone wants to read MORE about how class origins matter even after people have gained entry to various elite positions, um, check out my book with @SamFriedmanSoc coming January '19: (US) (UK)

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5 years

Because I always appreciate it when others post: just got an article rejected. I pretty much expected it; the reviews say plenty of nice things & (as far as I read them - I'll read more carefully later) their main critique is one I don't disagree with. And it still sucks.

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6 years

[then I said] In many contexts, they matter far more. Black & Brown people too often don't get the benefit of the doubt, are made to adhere to rules not often enforced against white people. Women of all races too often are held to standards not applied to men. Etc etc.

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4 years

My 80+ year-old-classic colorblind-racist-type white liberal father-in-law listened to Al Sharpton's eulogy last night & agreed with his daughter this morning that abolishing police "seems sensible" so um things really do seem to be shifting.

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1 year

I seem to have signed a contract to write my next book. It'll be with Polity Press (after a lengthy conversation about my concerns about some the books recently highlighted on their website), coming out in 2025-ish. On how we ought to understand class, race & politics in the US.

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5 years

Annette Lareau's Unequal Childhoods was a big part of how I knew that sociology was where I wanted to be ... And now she's saying very nice things about MY book. How cool is that?

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"This compelling book offers a fresh approach to understanding how #socialclass matters. Easy to read, Highly recommended!" Annette Lareau, @Penn @SamFriedmanSoc @Daniel_Laurison

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1 year

I come out as trans on the first day in every class I teach, and when we get to them introducing themselves I tell them that pronouns are optional because I would have hated to have to do it.

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4 years

New publication from me, @Dawn_M_Dow and @CarolynChernoff . A thread. First, an image that's in the supplemental material but not the main file - class origin, destination, and mobility for all adults in the US (only those ages 25-69, with a job or recently employed).

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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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NEW #openaccess data visualization, "Class Mobility and Reproduction for Black and White Adults in the United States: A Visualization" by @Daniel_Laurison , @Dawn_M_Dow , and @CarolynChernoff out now! #soctwitter #openscience #opensociology

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7 years

@Lisa_L_Reynolds @billpeduto @PhillyMayor It's fine with me, thanks for asking.

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1 year

Good morning. It's #TransDayOfVisibility so here's my periodic reminder that I'm trans. If you don't get it that's ok with me; you can learn a lot by following the hashtag. If you spend your time announcing that I am deluded and lying to people by living my life, f*** you.

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Wow I said a few things about the current "plagiarism" scandal - in a reply! - and have hundreds of notifications of people telling me I'm stupid and immoral and academia is BS and etc.

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