Mario L. Small

Social scientist | Author of #SomeoneToTalkTo, #PersonalNetworks, and #QualitativeLiteracy | Networks. Inequality. Methods | PTY native | Tweets occasionally.

[Steven N. Durlauf @sndurlauf]

Delighted that this conversation with Mario Small @MarioLuisSmall is now public. Mario's ideas are indispensable to any social scientist concerned with social determinants on inequality and disadvantage. As will be evident in the podcast, these ideas have implications for the way one should model neighborhood effects, to given one example.

Let me use this occasion to recommend this wonderful book with Jessica McCrory Calarco

Qualitative Literacy: A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

which reflects Mario's extraordinary ability to bridge quantitative and qualitative sources of evidence.

[UChicago | Stone Center on Inequality & Mobility @UCStoneCenter]

It’s not just about who you know; it’s the networks you belong to. @MarioLuisSmall is pushing us to broaden our focus from individuals to the structures that connect them.

Listen to this week's episode of The Inequality Podcast with host @sndurlauf → https://t.co/DzsPtYoUPM

[Vital City @VitalCityNYC]

New research suggests that "third places" -- social spaces in between home and work -- are crucial to revitalizing neighborhoods. @MarioLuisSmall and @JorgeGuzmanCBS explain: https://t.co/j2hgbYqohv

[Vital City @VitalCityNYC]

Can a coffee shop stimulate economic development? @MarioLuisSmall & @JorgeGuzmanCBS suggest that social spaces can spark local entrepreneurship. https://t.co/j2hgbYqohv

[Bella DePaulo @belladepaulo]

We think of the people we are closest to as the ones we talk to about sensitive or personal issues. But just as often, we avoid talking to them about those things. Fascinating research by @MarioLuisSmall, Kristina Brant, & Maleah Fekete. 1/

https://t.co/hFOirgKPYb

[ASA Sociology @ASAnews]

Congratulations to sociologist Orlando Patterson @Harvard, recipient of the 2024 Hegel Award from the City of Stuttgart and Museum Hegel-Haus for his groundbreaking and influential work on the sociology of slavery, freedom, and social justice.

[Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall]

Great podcast with @EricKlinenberg and Kellie Carter Jackson on the importance of physical spaces for community https://t.co/J7o7uqDDSe

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@saraismagdeline I have the same question. I would guess increase, because people have many more alternative now online to vent and brainstorm. But that's just conjecture

[Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall]

Our recent paper, in ASR: While many sociologists assume that people turn to their “strong ties” when they need a confidant, people are actually as likely to avoid as to talk to their closest friends and family.
https://t.co/0WmIFVGFgL
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[Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall]

@timgill924 Exactly! Strangers on a train

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Another: The most he most wretched social isolate is probably not the one with no person to talk to, but the one forced to avoid everyone they are close to.
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[Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall]

Who they avoid depends on which topic they are worried about. One bottom line: Close relationships are not, “We are close, therefore I trust you” but “We are close, therefore it’s complicated.”
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[BK Lee @bklee009]

Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with @pescosol. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that unemployed people are more likely to die by suicide, but their suicide risk is lower when and where more people are unemployed. https://t.co/HJ0WoLmP18

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

#NobelPrize

[Akshay 🚀 @akshay_pachaar]

Bayes’ theorem, clearly explained:

[Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall]

@aiste_klima @JustinTPickett @JessicaCalarco For example
https://t.co/3OhudMYal2

[Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall]

@aiste_klima @JustinTPickett I haven't read the original paper, and @JessicaCalarco and I were the subject, not the authors, of the review paper. But yes, sampling matters, and also, yes, many survey sampling techniques would either not help or undermine the aims of many field studies. Depends on the study

[SSRC @ssrc_org]

In @ASR_Journal, @MarioLuisSmall @kristinapbrant & Fekete found in a representative survey that adult Americans were as likely to avoid as to talk to friends & family about difficult personal issues, suggesting a need to rethink theories of “strong ties.”

https://t.co/Xg5Xeume6Q

[Mario L. Small @MarioLuisSmall]

@povertyscholar @CharleyWillison Wonderful. And no surprise at all!