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thank you, orgtheory Starting on January 1, 20201, Katherine Chen and I will be at “Markets, Power, & Culture.” This post is a good bye and thank you. I want to say “thank you” to Brayden King and Teppo Felin, who started this blog in 2006. Back then, I was an anxious junior professor and desperately in need of discussion about organization theory. I found a blog called “orgtheory” and started le…

open the schools: liberal democrat edition The consensus against school openings is starting to crack. First, Biden’s selection for Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, is openly for restarting school. From a report by the Las Vegas Review Journal: Mr. Cardona has expressed support for opening classrooms to ensure that students who can least afford it don’t fall further behind thanks to the in…

cfp for a new SASE sub-track “Emergent Organizations: Creating More Participatory, Inclusive, and Caring Civil Societies and Social Economies” in network A’s Communitarian Ideals and Civil Society – deadline extended to Feb. 10, 2021 Want to connect with other researchers studying transformative organizations? Consider submitting to a new sub-track “Emergent Organizations: Creating More Participa…

open borders: reply to seth stodder In early December, I had a very engaging discussion with Seth Stodder, who served as Undersecretary of Obama’s Department of Homeland Security, and currently works as an attorney and professor of law. The debate was about open borders and it was host by the Pacific Council on International Policy at the University of Southern California. Here’s I’d like to delv…

it’s probably ok to open schools: i was right edition Global Epidemics, a public health website operated by Brown University’s School of Public Health, has an article that makes the sensible case that we can definitely have schools be open during the COVID epidemic as long as we follow some very reasonable health measures. This is a reversal of their prior position: We recommended that schools be…

the sociology of the dr. jill biden brouhaha The Jill Biden doctorate controversy is one the lamest public events in a long time, rivalling the tan suit debacle, the “binders full of women” blow up and the endless mockery of presidents who play golf. And for the record, I definitely side with Jill Biden’s defenders. A doctorate simply means scholar or teacher, a doctorate of education is a real a…

contexts fall 2020: the pandemic issue

book spotlight: creating the creation museum, how fundamentalist beliefs come to life by kathleen c. oberlin

george coleman –> blue train ++++++ 50+ chapters of grad skool advice goodness: Grad Skool Rulz ($4.44 – cheap!!!!) Intro to sociology for just $1 per chapter – INSANE BARGAIN!!!!! A theory book you can understand!!! Theory for the Working Sociologist (discount code: ROJAS – 30% off!!) The rise of Black Studies: From Black Power to Black Studies Did Obama tank the antiwar movement? Party in the S…

the post-racist society: a hypothesis vindicated A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called “post-racist, not racial.” This post made people incredibly angry. Most of the anger was misguided because people simply didn’t read the post. For example, many people thought I said that race had ended or that there was no more racism. This is actually what I said: “The term ‘post-racial’ implies that w…

yes, it’s probably ok to keep schools open: more evidence on transmission within college campuses One of my pandemic policy positions is that it’s probably ok for schools and colleges to open. The reasoning is fairly straightforward: young people are at low risk for harm a COVID infection, losing out on school can have serious long term consequences, sustained closures of schools can financially …

the worst jazz solo of all time ++++++ 50+ chapters of grad skool advice goodness: Grad Skool Rulz ($4.44 – cheap!!!!) Intro to sociology for just $1 per chapter – INSANE BARGAIN!!!!! A theory book you can understand!!! Theory for the Working Sociologist (discount code: ROJAS – 30% off!!) The rise of Black Studies: From Black Power to Black Studies Did Obama tank the antiwar movement? Party in th…

open borders at the university of southern california

russ roberts vs. expected utility If you listen to recent Econ Talk episodes, you will notice that the host, economist Russ Roberts, will express dismay at some standard tools of economic modelling. Specifically, he really finds it troubling that a lot of economic analysis models behavior using expected utility – you assign a number to an outcome, guess at the probability it will happen and then …

rational choice vampires The philosopher Laurie Paul has a book called “Transformative Experiences.” It grapples with a very important philosophical problem: there are experiences that transform who you are and it is difficult to reconcile the person before and after the experience. For example, before you have children, you vow that children are too annoying. After you have children, you can’t i…

hidden externalities: when failed states prioritize business over education Much has been discussed in the media about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; for example, to compensate for the absence of coordinated support, working mothers are carrying more caregiving responsibilities. However, the full range of externalities resulting from governmental and organizational decisions (or in the case…

book auction open until 9pm tonight!!! Brief note: the book and art auction is now open. We will take bids up until 9pm. Go to this link: https://www.instagram.com/openbordersconference/ Each book or artwork gets its own blog post and drop bids in the comments. We will also livestream via instagram from 8pm to 9pm. So go to the instagram and click on the round icon for the account to access the l…

book auction for open borders back on schedule – check it out The Open Borders Conference is having a fundraiser. From now until Thursday at 9pm, we will be auctioning books via the Open Borders Instagram page. Here’s how it works: - For the next few days, we will post pictures of the books on the Open Borders Instagram page. - Until 9PM on Thursday, you can bid on books – just write the price (e…