Justin Huft

Part time researcher and lecturer in sociology & psychology. Full time lover of The Muppets.
PhD candidate @UCRiverside. Race, gender, religion, social psych.

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

@SPQuarterly Ultimately, I show how behavioral religiosity meanings are negatively related to fear of death, while attitudinal religiosity meaning are positively related to fear of death.

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

Does religiosity increase fear of death? Decrease it?

Turns out it's a little of both!

Grounded in identity theory, I introduce a framework to categorize underlying identity meanings to explain this.

https://t.co/3vwmNAVV4j

#sociology
@SPQuarterly

[Theory and Society (Springer Nature) @Theory_Society]

Cool new articles just published!

First, from social psychologist Jan Stets, comes the largest extension of identity theory thus far, covering a multidimensional view of the life course.

https://t.co/B3FqizMxRz

And, second, a really creative new direction for systems theory, from @zevitorbarros.

Open access!:
https://t.co/4m94Gn1pRz

[ASA Sociology @ASAnews]

ASA welcomes you to Chicago for #ASA2025, Aug. 8-12, with ASA President Adia M. Harvey Wingfield’s theme “Reimagining the Future of Work.” @AdiaHWingfield

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

@SocJillian Awesome! Congrats!

[Jillian Sunderland @SocJillian]

Hi all! I have a new article out! I introduce privilege diffusion—a rhetorical strategy that disperses blame on to vague forces like “culture” or “masculinity,” that appear critical but ultimately obscure responsibility for those with privilege.

https://t.co/XQgrVD7LHz

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

I'm officially ABD. I can now do some much needed spring cleaning (closing tabs).

#sociology

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

@jcoleysociology Thanks!

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

This fun little article about Affect Control Theory and The Troubles got an honorable mention for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section.
Currently celebrating with ice cream.
#sociology

https://t.co/eKxLYgWTxG

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

White racial identity indirectly decreased support for and adherence to all COVID-19 mitigation outcomes by enhancing levels of conservatism. In addition, racial identity verification enhanced the negative effects of conservatism with most of the COVID-19 mitigation outcomes.

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

New publication!
We explore opposition to COVID mitigation strategies and mandates. We use social identity theory and identity theory.

White Identity, Conservatism, and Resistance to COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies https://t.co/Mauu5uuNyk #mdpiyouth via @Youth_MDPI
#sociology

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

In reaction to these threats, white people with a strong racial identity are adopting political beliefs, and, in particular, conservative beliefs, that help restore positive distinctness to their white identity.

[Societies @Societies_MDPI]

🌈Call for Reading🌈: "Contextual Factors in Ethnic-Racial Socialization in White Families in the United States" @ProfHuft @Societies_MDPI #OpenAccess
👉Read this paper via link: https://t.co/w02j09fMUA
#Ethnic-Racial Socialization #geographic region #region of residence

[Mike McCarthy @its_mccarthy]

The journal that I help edit, @CritSoc, has made all of the articles Michael Burawoy wrote for us over the past 20 years open access. Thank you for all you did for Critical Sociology, Michael — may we carry your torch!

https://t.co/79UcUFoTUP

[Sociological Science @SociologicalSci]

NEW: Trenton D. Mize, Bing Han, "Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables." https://t.co/ZHHsXImiSU

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

To everyone planning on attending the @ASAnews conference in Chicago:

I'll be arriving a day early, and there will not be any more hot dogs or pizza left in the city when you get there.

Really sorry you had to find out like this.

#ASA2025
#sociology

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

@SocJillian Thank you!

[Justin Huft @ProfHuft]

Very happy to have published this, and grateful for two excellent co-authors.

I think we found some interesting stuff!

#Sociology

[The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly]

OPEN ACCESS

In this new TSQ article, Justin Huft (@ProfHuft) and colleagues examine the role of ethnic-racial socialization in white young adults' support for far-right groups.

Read more at https://t.co/p38Tv3hytb