Associate Professor of Sociology at William Penn University | Host
at 🎤 https://tinyurl.com/2s45jnpn | 🕮 https://tinyurl.com/fadpfv5j | 📄 http://tinyurl.com/y3vw4q2m
Michael O. Johnston
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Cities don't own urbanity. Smalltown Urban (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social, 2026) explores how festivals and public gatherings transform rural towns into temporary urban experiences. Interested in speaking opportunities. Msg me. #SmalltownUrban #Sociology #RuralAmerica
Social Theory on Film is a project that provides accessible and entertaining short films about Sociology.
In the current media and political climate, public, accessible Sociology is needed more than ever.
It also serves as a resource for students and their teachers.
youtube.com/@socialtheor...
Excited to share that my 📄, “Old Stomping Grounds, New Haunts: How Campus Hangouts Prepare Students for Life After College,” is featured in the latest SSSI Notes from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
Read here → symbolicinteraction.org/page-18076
(Click “Current Issue – 2026 May”)
Updating my CV, teaching philosophy, and research statement to reflect on the past academic year—and to think about where I’m headed next as an intellectual.
profjohnston.weebly.com/application-material.html
#Sociology #HigherEd #AcademicLife
We need a presenter for @sssp1org.bsky.social 2026 Annual Meeting (Aug. 6-9):
“All the Feels: Emotions as Acts of Resistance.”
👀 for 📰 on #emotions, #sport, #leisure, #embodiment, #play, #performance, #humor, #identity, #solidarity, #resistance, or public #culture.
📨 me!
#Sociology
Cities don't own urbanity. Smalltown Urban explores how festivals and public gatherings transform rural towns into temporary urban experiences. Interested in speaking opportunities. #SmalltownUrban #Sociology #RuralAmerica
What challenges emerge when conducting #ethnography in #spaces like the stands & pits at a drag racing strip, where conversations are shaped by #noise, #movement, #trust, & #fleetinginteraction? How does a #researcher build meaningful dialogue in a #scene built around #speed & #spectacle?
My #teaching philosophy, #SociologyThroughaLens, encourages students to see #sociology in everyday life (e.g., 🖼️. 🎵, 🎂, 🏢, & 📺). Sociology is not just #theory; it is a way of understanding #identity, #inequality, #culture, and #society.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/4xhme92j
Manuscript update.
Smalltown Urban: Performing the City in Rural America is now under review with @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social.
Urban life is not just in cities. It is something people create together.
Festivals. Crowds. Shared moments.
#Sociology #Ethnography #UrbanStudies #Rural
New project: Drag racing as a social world of luck vs skill.
Outcomes are not just mechanical. They are interpreted.
“Good runs.” “Bad breaks.” Reputation on the line.
Luck is social. Status is earned.
Michael O. Johnston
Social Theory on Film
Michael O. Johnston
Michael O. Johnston
This channel covers all things Sociology. I make 'films' that should be interesting to sociologists, sociology students, and anyone who is interested in social interaction and the structure of society...
