Sociologist with interests in religion, social theory, culture, and ethnography. Enthusiastic about beer, bikes, and books.
A list of my knowledge widgets, courtesy of Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/yjxtzarj
Daniel Winchester
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Breaking News: Everyone can be a billionaire, according to propaganda rag for billionaires.
Thought (and feeling?) provoking piece by @sethabrutyn.bsky.social on the significance of affect in social life. #feelingsociological
Aw dang.
All is not well in the Church of MAGA...
Wow. A very long and genuinely insightful thread about democracy, information environment, and institutional trust.
Good stuff...but also too functionalist in perspective. I don't think everything can be reduced to political economy, but contemporary capitalism plays a helluva role in this story.
RELIGION UNBUNDLED
Excited that this paper proposing a new paradigm for the sociology of US religion @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social, @jlkucinskas.bsky.social, @bsteens.bsky.social and I have been working on has been accepted for publication in the American Sociological Review.
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Conceived and designed by my 8-yr old *chef's kiss*
These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge
Check out this article from @landonschnabel.bsky.social, Ilana Horowitz & @contexts.org on DIY Faith, especially among young & LGBTQ+ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Great w/our forthcoming article @ Am Soc Rev on the Unbundling of Religion: osf.io/preprints/so... @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social
My Tax Dollars author @ruthbraunstein.bsky.social speaks with @nytimes.com. Check out @tarasiegelbernard.bsky.social's full piece on tax resistance here:
The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now
Jaime Lee Kucinskas
Coser Salon #sociology essay was published this morning in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social! Check it out. It is a call for an affective turn in the discipline.
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Tax resistance has long been woven into America’s fabric. Some filers have refused to pay over the decades — or at least are inquiring about their options today — as they struggle to pay their federal income taxes in good conscience.
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?