Thomas Soehl

And I was just starting to develop a new syllabus for teaching introduction to Sociology next semester here at McGill.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.

Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

I guess ours is the average of the family members on the account. Pretty accurate.

Why childhood is better than adulthood according to my 11 year old.

My review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World” by Daniel Drewski and Jürgen Gerhards

Updated link to the review:
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

Link to the book:
tinyurl.com/3mw3kzxp

We need more comparative work like this.

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments helped transform debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.

Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives.

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

Is it good enough? Depends on the research and alternatives. Collecting this kind of global data normally almost impossible or prohibitively costly...

In our case for (em)igrants, who among Nigerians are often well educated, reasonably well. Though significant biases remain even when using PS weights. For example missing those who migrated longer ago. Within Nigeria: very problematic.

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Before the year is up Another one from 2024. From our project on the Nigerian Diaspora. We evaluate how well collecting surveys of migrant populations using targeted advertising on Facebook works. Comparing our data to best reference we could find....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Here a recent paper on citizenship acquisition. Written with Alicia Poole. Social Networks matter for immigrants decisions to naturalize (or not). But how? We show that migrants make explicit comparisons to others in their social circle that naturalize.

doi.org/10.1177/0197...

1/ Business lobbyist Virginia Lamp once said anti-immigration attitudes are “based on a type of selfish nationalism.”

Today she's better known as Ginni Thomas: wife of Clarence Thomas, and an "America-first" election denier.

What’s changed — for her and the U.S.?

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When one of my daughters who plays hockey in a mixed (mostly boys) team won the best defense player (défenseuse!) award at a tournament she was given this plaque. Really? Ironically in the area named after the awesome Caroline Ouellette.

Time to start posting here. It'll probably be a mix of research on International Migration and Women's Hockey. And a bit of research on Women's Hockey...

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