Sociologist @JHU.edu School of Government and Policy | gun violence, deviance, and gangs | megankang.com
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Important & urgent: "concerns about reproducibility should not trump concerns about confidentiality or harm...particularly when efforts to ensure reproducibility have the potential to place inequitable burdens on qualitative researchers and to further erode...willingness to participate in research"
1/3 Excited to share a paper 5 years in the making, now out in @pnas.org. We asked how does past exposure to violence shape the way people think in social situations, and how does that thinking drive future involvement in violence? w/ @sendhil.bsky.social
Excited to share that I'll be joining Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy as an Assistant Professor this summer! Looking forward to moving to DC and the work ahead. Thankful to my amazing partner, friends, family, and mentors who have helped me get here.
2/3 Drawing from 99 interviews with violence-involved men, we found that past exposure reshapes social cognition through schemas (how you interpret what's happening) and scripts (what you do next). These cognitive structures may lead to violence as a default response to ambiguity.
Itβs been an incredible ride
@princeton.edu @patricksharkey.bsky.social
Deep breath.
I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins.
I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy.
We're building something unique & important, even historic.
3/3 Understanding these cognitive pathways matters because they show us how/why interventions like READI Chicago work to reduce violence, from participants' own words. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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:
Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your studentsβ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday
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@jessicacalarco.com hit the nail on the head in her @pnas.org editorial about why the trend towards data transparency can be complicated for qualitative research--a dilemma that came to head in our recent PNAS paper on violence. I recommend giving it a read.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
