@dr-yang
Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Happening soon!!! #sociology #culture #diversity
I'm especially excited to see my 2025 article on the semiotics of (un)doing gender got onto the list and superseded my 2020 article on hegemonic masculinity, even though it had only been published for three months
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thrilled to see both of my ST articles are among the Top-10 Most Downloaded Articles in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🤩
www.asanet.org/top-download...
When you feel useless and are overwhelmed by self-doubt, come to Birmingham New Street. There is a "needless alley" and I didn't even know it's there for the past year and half 🤡
Join us next Friday!!!
Really looking forward to reading this!!!
Eating rice cake (not dumplings!) on New Year's Eve is certainly a form of subaltern resistance against northern hegemony!
credit: @jiarui-sun.bsky.social
Drinks that do things.
A performative drink! #JLAustin #SpeechAct
Here's the link to the article--a must read for anyone who cares about social media, platform, digital nationalism, or China! anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This year, the week on "The Self Online" is entirely #LinguisticAnthropology! I swapped the Abidin & Gwynne reading with @jiarui-sun.bsky.social 's 2025 #JLA article, "Patriotic Youth or Toxic Men", which won the 2023 John Gumperz Prize from the Society for Linguistic Anthropology!
Today marks one year since the tragic loss of Michael Burawoy, ISA President (2010-2014).
In his memory, we have compiled an e-book based on the commemorative online session held last February, preserving the messages, stories, and photos contributed by participants.
We kicked off our first session today with a chapter from John Lie's 2018 book, The Dream of East Asia. And we had such a very lively discussion about why it's problematic to use the so-called "Confucian tradition" to explain contemporary phenomena in China (and East Asia more broadly)!
10 years ago, I, along with my friends at the Datong Society of China Studies at Berkeley, designed & taught a student-led DECal course on Chinese society as undergrads. This semester, I'm starting a Sociology of China Reading Group for my students at @birminghamschool.bsky.social. How time flies!
Went to the cafe and hotel that appeared in K-On! The Movie! (2011) while I was in London for my birthday 😊 #KOn #animepilgrimage
Abductive logic (as opposed to inductive or deductive) is the truly human mode of discovering and making meaning from qualitative data.
New podcast on my "Gender Uptake" article in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social! Very excited to have this opportunity to talk about the conceptual development and theoretical/methodological intervention of this paper 🤩
#theory #sociology #genderstudies
sagesociology.libsyn.com/sociological...
If you care about your students, ban digital devices in your classroom. Contrary to what some might think, it's easier now than ever. Students call time on screens "Rotting."
#CulturalTailWinds #EvenStudentsWantThis #Attentionism
#Ai #screens #digitaldevices #pedagogy #highered
I guess it's worth redesigning this module from scratch even though I did not get the proper workload allocation 🥺
Lecture notes for Sociology of Everyday Life
Photo of a PC monitor in a lecture hall displaying the final week's lecture slides
After 3 semesters, I finally taught a module that I'm satisfied with! In redesigning this module, I made a deliberate effort to cultivate core academic skills, and now many of my 1st-year students in the module are doing WAY BETTER than our current 3rd years!
Today we published a report on public understanding & attitudes to #irregularmigration in the UK.
this is my a one-line summary:
strong opinions, wrong facts.
But there is so much more to it. Ultimately the picture is much more nuanced and complex...
i-claim.eu/project/publ...
Iconicity!!! #Cat #Peirce #Semiotics
New paper out in The British Journal of Sociology!🎉 @lsesociology.bsky.social
Based on my doctoral research on young carers in China, we explore children’s emotional labour and the moral tensions that shape their everyday caregiving experiences.
🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
But on a side note, the Smith/Hoang pairing comes from my answer to my Theory Prelim Exam 7 years ago, for which we were asked to pair a theorist we learned in our History of Social Theory class and put it into dialogue with a UChicago faculty whose work we also read in that class!
It's probably not a coincident that all of the core readings are connected to Berkeley in some way . . .
In Week 10, we will wrap up the module by considering methods that help us attend to the connection between the "micro" and the "macro." We will compare Burawoy's Extended Case Method with Smith's Institutional Ethnography, and then zoom into Hoang's ethnography of global sex work as an example.
Society as Sy-meow-ic Interaction 🐱 #SymbolicInteraction #Sociology #AcademicSky #Cat
So interesting!!!