Social scientist | Author of #SomeoneToTalkTo, #PersonalNetworks, and #QualitativeLiteracy | Networks. Inequality. Methods | PTY native | Tweets occasionally.
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Mario L. Small retweeted
James Robinson and I have edited a two part series Whither Meritocracy? for the American Academy of Political and Social Science. I am delighted that Part Two: Meritocracy Around the World is now available.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ANN…
Here is the Table of Contents for Part Two.
Meritocracy in America
Meritocracy and Higher Education in the United States
Harry Brighouse @HarryBrighouse1 and Ariel H. Collins, “Meritocracy and Higher Education in the United States”
Rebecca Zwick, “Measuring Merit in College Admissions”
Samuel Maves and Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall, “Power and Organizational Opacity in College Admissions”
Jake Rosenfeld @JakeRosenfeld1 and Letao Wang, “Meritocratic Pay Beliefs in the Contemporary United States”
Mary Blair-Loy @MaryBlairLoy and Erin A. Cech @CechErin “Inhabited Professions: How Cultural Norms of Excellence Anchor Inequality in Professions”
Lauren A. Rivera @Laurenaudrie, “Stratification by Design: Meritocracy and the Reproduction of Inequality”
Meritocracy Across the Globe
Bishnupriya Gupta, Kaivan Munshi, and Swapnil Singh @econswapnil, “Caste and Meritocracy in India”
Ying Bai and Ruixue Jia, “Meritocracy and the Networks It Forged: China’s Imperial Examination”
Pierre Nguimkeu and James A. Robinson, “The Siamese Crocodiles: Meritocratic Equilibria in African Perspective”
Juan Camilo Cárdenas @jccardenas1965 and Leopoldo Fergusson @LeopoldoTweets, “Latin America’s Persistent Disorder: Meritocracy Without Mobility”
Agnès van Zanten, “From State-Sponsored to Market-Driven Meritocracy? Changes in the French Education System and Higher Education Admissions”
Lena Edlund, “The State and Gender Equaliyt: Sweden-Model or Aberration?”
Meritocracy is a major theme of the UChicago Stone Center. Here are five podcasts
stonecenter.uchicago.edu/wha…
which focus on meritocracy
Episode #22: Lauren Rivera @Laurenaudrie
on Meritocracy and Its Failings
Episode #54: Leslie McCall @LeslieMcCallgc
on Intersectional Inequality, AI, and Meritocracy Episode
#58: Thomas Mulligan on Acting Meritocratically
#59: Jahel Queralt @jahelqueralt on the Costs of Moralizing Success and Failure
Episode #63: Daniel Markovits @DSMarkovits on ‘The Meritocracy Trap. This is a live recording and may be viewed here
youtube.com/watch?v=rVjRxpEm…
Mario L. Small retweeted
Delighted that this conversation with Mario Small @MarioLuisSmall is now public. Mario's ideas are indispensable to any social scientist concerned with social determinants on inequality and disadvantage. As will be evident in the podcast, these ideas have implications for the way one should model neighborhood effects, to given one example.
Let me use this occasion to recommend this wonderful book with Jessica McCrory Calarco
Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research
which reflects Mario's extraordinary ability to bridge quantitative and qualitative sources of evidence.
It’s not just about who you know; it’s the networks you belong to. @MarioLuisSmall is pushing us to broaden our focus from individuals to the structures that connect them.
Listen to this week's episode of The Inequality Podcast with host @sndurlauf → bit.ly/3PWzw5d
Mario L. Small retweeted
It’s not just about who you know; it’s the networks you belong to. @MarioLuisSmall is pushing us to broaden our focus from individuals to the structures that connect them.
Listen to this week's episode of The Inequality Podcast with host @sndurlauf → bit.ly/3PWzw5d
Mario L. Small retweeted
New research suggests that "third places" -- social spaces in between home and work -- are crucial to revitalizing neighborhoods. @MarioLuisSmall and @JorgeGuzmanCBS explain: vitalcitynyc.org/articles/ho…
Mario L. Small retweeted
Can a coffee shop stimulate economic development? @MarioLuisSmall & @JorgeGuzmanCBS suggest that social spaces can spark local entrepreneurship. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/ho…
Mario L. Small retweeted
We think of the people we are closest to as the ones we talk to about sensitive or personal issues. But just as often, we avoid talking to them about those things. Fascinating research by @MarioLuisSmall, Kristina Brant, & Maleah Fekete. 1/
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Mario L. Small retweeted
Congratulations to sociologist Orlando Patterson @Harvard, recipient of the 2024 Hegel Award from the City of Stuttgart and Museum Hegel-Haus for his groundbreaking and influential work on the sociology of slavery, freedom, and social justice.
Great podcast with @EricKlinenberg and Kellie Carter Jackson on the importance of physical spaces for community theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc…
Our recent paper, in ASR: While many sociologists assume that people turn to their “strong ties” when they need a confidant, people are actually as likely to avoid as to talk to their closest friends and family.
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Who they avoid depends on which topic they are worried about. One bottom line: Close relationships are not, “We are close, therefore I trust you” but “We are close, therefore it’s complicated.”
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Mario L. Small retweeted
Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with @pescosol. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. doi.org/10.1177/000312242412…
Mario L. Small retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
#NobelPrize
Mario L. Small retweeted
In @ASR_Journal, @MarioLuisSmall @kristinapbrant & Fekete found in a representative survey that adult Americans were as likely to avoid as to talk to friends & family about difficult personal issues, suggesting a need to rethink theories of “strong ties.”
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Mario L. Small retweeted
From Department Chair @MarioLuisSmall,
Applications for Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank)
The Department of Sociology at Columbia University invites applications for an open rank position to begin July 1, 2025. Apply here: academic.careers.columbia.ed…
Mario L. Small retweeted
cool new paper in @ASR_Journal by @MarioLuisSmall+colleagues on the avoidance of strong ties.
Upshot: avoidance is a constitutive element of how people relate to close friends and family (i.e., more the rule than exception), common across demo groups and income levels.
Mario L. Small retweeted
Research from @marioluissmall shows avoidance happens almost as often as open communication in our closest relationships. Discover how and why we avoid certain topics—and what we can do about it. 🗣️💭 societytoday.org/when-talkin… #Communication #MentalHealth #Relationships
Mario L. Small retweeted
Introducing a @Starbucks in a neighborhood without prior cafés increases “the number of startups of 5.0% to 11.8% (or 1.1 to 3.5 firms) per year, over the subsequent 7 years.” nber.org/papers/w32604 (@JorgeGuzmanCBS/@MarioLuisSmall/@nberpubs).
