Gabriel Pereira

[Ricardo Costa de Oliveira @Ricardo_Cd_Oliv]

Importante matéria: "Metade dos brasileiros das classes D e E não conviveu com pai, diz pesquisa", como a carência, vulnerabilidade e pobreza passam pela lacuna paterna. Contrasta o privilégio, vantagem. riqueza de ter pais presentes/atuantes e genealogias https://t.co/sFb6O9vPLl

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“Few people want to be saints nowadays, but everybody is trying to lose weight.”

— René Girard

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

No que crê a "sociologia científica" americana:

“In reality, people get along across difference in America better than any other country on the planet”.

Só um sociólogo sem vergonha do seu etnocentrismo diria que um país que elegeu Trump é o melhor lugar do Mundo.

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

Steven Pinker .@sapinker abuses his status as a visible public intellectual with this endorsement of grossly exaggerated criticisms of sociology. When he has reviewed the last decade of

American Sociological Review
American Journal of Sociology
Demography
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Sociological Methodology
Sociological Methods & Research
Sociological Science

(the sociology journals I follow)

and has read these 2026 books by sociologists

1. Ronald Burt and Sonja Opper, Strong Bridges: Trust Beyond Structure

2. Benjamin Cornwell, Cristobal Young, Barum Park, and Nan Feng, Friends and Fortunes: Social Capital Inequality in America

3. Robert Sampson, Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans

4. Geoffrey Wodtke and Xiang Zhou, Causal Mediation Analysis

it will be appropriate to make pronouncements on sociology.

To be clear, Pinker is hardly alone; my feed is filled with non-sociologists (too often economists or political scientists) who make similar pronouncements.

I am sympathetic to concerns about politicization and relativism in sociology, which is why I felt the Vanderbilt-Washington St. Louis report was justified in raising them. However, these issues do not translate to sorts of insulting, damning judgments that uninformed academics seem to enjoy making. Put differently, various pronouncements of doom equate the the weakest, most tendentious work in the field with the state of the discipline and as result is profoundly unserious.

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

@psicotriste Vc num sabe que a esquerda vive de atacar gente bonita que faz e acontece

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

"Dediquem 33% do seu tempo pra aprender Estatística, 33% para Teoria e 33% para programação. O 1% que sobrar você vive".
"Mirem alto, o não vocês já têm".

Fechando meu sábado com
@DalsonFigueired

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

State of Sociology

This article is being lauded by the usual suspects. IMO it is a failure because it fails to recognize that sociology is producing much great research. Here are four examples of great books by sociologists published in 2025/2026 that rival those of any social scientists.

For inequality, here are two books which I rank among the most important I have read in the last several years. Neither, IMO could have been written by an economist. The natural kinds undergirding their logic, the ways that evidence is evaluated, are essential complements to the ways that economists, including me, normally think.

1. Aaron Reeves @aaronsreeves and Sam Friedman @SamFriedmanSoc , Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

is a tour de force in analyzing the ways that British elites have reproduced themselves since the 1890s, finding relatively little changes in the rates of elite reproduction during this period. The book characterizes the ways that elites have evolved in the ways that they conceptualize themselves and present themselves to others. As such, Reeves and Friedman provide deep insights into the nature of intergenerational mobility and of meritocracy for Great Britain, past and present. All of this is done using an amazing array of qualitative and quantitative information that the authors constructed.

2. Michelle Jackson @mivich, The Division of Rationalized Labor

is a remarkable analysis of the nature of modern jobs. The book argues that contrary to the classical idea that increasing division of labor would leads to job simplification, the modern economy has produced jobs of increasing complexity as a given position involves more complex and heterogeneous objectives. Teachers are one example that is discussed in detail. Michelle argues that rationalization of the economy facilitated by increased capacity to understand and measure how productivity of individuals and organizations is determined, underlies this evolution. This vision contains deep implications for labor market and intergenerational inequality.

Methodology. These two books stand on par with the best econometrics texts.

3. Cristobal Young and Erin Cumberworth, Multiverse Analysis: Computational Methods for Robust Results

defines an important frontier in the analysis of the effects of model assumptions on empirical claims, by constructing ways to communicate information about objects of interest across model spaces, which define different portfolios of assumptions. This vision of empirics is the next generation after model averaging, which has been important in the economic growth literature.

4. Geoffrey Wodtke and Xiang Zhou, Causal Mediation Analysis

is a masterful synthesis and will become a standard citation and the essential reference for students and researchers.

To be clear, my objection to the WSJ article and the way it is being is fully consistent with my endorsement of the Vanderbilt-Washington report. The fact that I know world class sociologists who have dropped their memberships in the American Sociological Association over its politicization (while many others have expressed misgivings to me) speaks volumes. But the idea that the field is a systematic failure is nonsense.

[PsikoBilim @Psikobilim_]

Tolstoy yine haklı çıktı:
Zenginlerin mutluluğu birbirine çok benzerken, yoksulların mutsuzluk dağılımı çok farklı.
Çünkü para, mutsuzluğun binbir türlü sebebini silerek zengin insanları "benzer ve istikrarlı bir huzur seviyesinde" eşit hale getirir.

[Nicolas G. Varela @niklasgv]

Hegel decía que el Terror jacobino era Kant puesto en práctica.

[Ryan Haecker @RyanHaecker]

“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
– Ezra Pound

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

https://t.co/ceTNpY9tS0

Relato de um caso de violência policial na cidade de João Pessoa

Um adolescente negro foi baleado na porta de sua escola por um policial de folga. Até agora a Polícia Militar da Paraíba não fez nenhuma declaração sobre o ocorrido.

[Vincent Descombes @VincentDescomb1]

« Le signe qui distingue le savant de l’ignorant est la capacité à enseigner. »

Aristote

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

@projeto_enders Resto de idolatria na ciência. Como falta a ideia de distribuição em suas mentes, eles não sabem como pôr em perspectiva as tendências globais e as histórias de vida que as materializam sempre parcialmente.
"É mais fácil pensar o social como coisa do que como processo" (Bourdieu)

[Ricardo Costa de Oliveira @Ricardo_Cd_Oliv]

Sociologia. Famílias de classes mais elevadas "sempre viveram" sua realidade social e não percebem diferenças da desigualdade social, ainda mais nas décadas anteriores, quem tinha propriedades, bens, carros ou não, fotos de antepassados, túmulos em cemitérios, Igreja da família+

[Nicolas G. Varela @niklasgv]

No hay que esperar -decía Kant- "ni que los reyes se hagan filósofos ni que los filósofos sean reyes. Tampoco hay que desearlo; la posesión de la fuerza perjudica inevitablemente al libre ejercicio de la Razón."

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”

Gustav Mahler, born 7th July 1860

[William Magdalene @WilliamAJM]

“Neither intellect nor will pertain to the nature of God.”

Spinoza, E1p17s

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

Iniciei a leitura de Vers une science sociale du vivant (Por uma ciência social do vivente), de @BernardLahire
Leitura essencial para aqueles que se incomodam com as contradições advindas da crença coletiva em uma diferença total entre Ciências da Natureza e Ciências Humanas.

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

Pior desgraça que tem é ficar ouvindo playboy de classe média intelectual falando de futebol. Valha

[E. Cavendish @ducavendish]

Luxemburgo falou o óbvio. 👊🇧🇷

[Gabriel Pereira @GabriellCapoei1]

@venanciovinii Pior que quem usa "estrutural" como desculpa é nesse nível mesmo. Mas essa é uma velha estratégia. O pedido de desculpa sobre o erro ("o racismo estrutural que me formou") vira capital simbólico ("eu sou humilde ao ponto de me desculpar e dizer o que me fez errar"). É bem sofista