Julian Go

Julian Go

@juliango.bsky.social

Professor of Sociology & Faculty Affiliate, Committee on International Relations & Center for the Study of Race, Politics & Culture, University of Chicago https://voices.uchicago.edu/juliango/

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Philip N Cohen
@philipncohen.com

"The goal – as he elaborated at a Heritage Foundation conference – is “stigmatizing” sociology – using it to turn public opinion against the existing public higher education system, enabling its “destruction” and replacement with a system that will “reproduce our civilizational heritage.”"

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com

Heritage is explicitly saying they aim to “stigmatize” sociology academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/sociology-...

academicfreedomontheline.substack.comSociology Is Being Used as a Wedge to Destroy the Research UniversitySolidarity across disciplines is a must.
Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

scatter.wordpress.comguest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociologyThe following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…
Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

My colleague JL Martin’s (my Chicago colleague and editor of AJS) assessment of Rubin’s Vandy report on sociology is now released. Mine is forthcoming; so is Geoff Wodtke’s. But you won‘t need to read ours. JLM‘s 40-page assessment is sufficient. It’s both devastating and hilarIous. 1/3

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Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

The Vandy-Wash report on sociology should not be dismissed bc of its political implications. It should be dismissed bc it has little to no data, mischaracterizes the data it does have & is filled w/logical fallacies, misattributions & contradictions. More on this from my UChicago colleagues & I soon

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

Everyone assumes “sociology” (as if it is homogenous) is more ’politicized’ than economics. But is that so? Or is it that economists’ politics go unrecognized because they are built into the very assumptions of the entire discipline & and its formal models? 1/3

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

3/3 I think that what makes sociology vulnerable to such misunderstandings is that sociologists are reflexive about their politics, while other disciplines seen as non-political aren’t, & fail to realize the politics embedded in their mode of analysis and founding theories

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

In my dept there is a sociologist who has spent her career showing that divorce is bad & marriage is good; & another who conducted studies showing that more cops reduces crime, etc. the work is sound & I ain’t complainIng. But this whining about lack of ‘normie beliefs’ is total made up BS

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Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

I’d add not just bad faith actors who spurn the field, but grifters who willfully misrepresent the field (or they don’t read) to get attention; or for spite bc they feel entitled to all the wine and they aren’t getting it bc they do unrigorous research. 1/5

Lisa Wade@lisawade.bsky.social

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

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Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

& T&S? Haha. It claims to bring in rigor then publishes articles by Gad Saad & Rubin and pass them off as social theory. Or empirical articles that do nothing but show correlation and claim causation, by the same clowns who complain that somehow sociologists don’t do causal inference well 4/5

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

Oddly, their claims towards ’rigor’ and non-politicization sound as if they are operating in the autonomous sector of the Bourdieusian field but in actuality they are simply appealing to the heteronomous pole 5/5

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

I’d add not just bad faith actors who spurn the field, but grifters who willfully misrepresent the field (or they don’t read) to get attention; or for spite bc they feel entitled to all the wine and they aren’t getting it bc they do unrigorous research. 1/5

Lisa Wade@lisawade.bsky.social

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

What is most ridiculous is when the grifters claim that so-called politicized sociologists’ aren’t rigorous in their analyses yet themselves happily make unfounded claims like “sociology’s standing in the public is due to politicization” or ”everything in sociology is activist” 2/5

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

They complain about what they call ‘relativism’ without knowing the difference between situated knowledge & relativism while implicitly themselves relying upon a situated knowledge position as they claim that sociologists have created their own knowledge bubble 3/5

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Lisa Wade
@lisawade.bsky.social

Sociology is amazing. Our biggest problem is bad-faith actors who maliciously spurn the field because we teach people how societies work and they'd rather we all stay in the dark. Not today, Satan!

Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social

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wsj.comEssay | Is It Time to ‘Liquidate’ the Study of Sociology?Sociology has long been tasked with investigating society’s most pressing challenges. But these days, sociologists’ greatest obstacle may be themselves.
Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

How Frantz Fanon's work might nourish the sociological imagination. A podcast from the thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

thesociologicalreview.orgUncommon Sense: Fanon, with Julian GoFrantz Fanon, the radical psychiatrist and anti-colonial philosopher, was not a sociologist but has shaped so much sociological thought. Julian Go reflects on his life, work and significance - includi...
The Sociological Review Foundation@thesociologicalreview.org

Anticolonial psychiatrist and theorist Frantz #Fanon is oft-cited by sociologists. Here, @juliango.bsky.social describes what it was like to seek out Fanon’s work in #gradschool and to sit with the author’s #writing and rage… buff.ly/d0azKVa

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CRASSH
@crasshlive.bsky.social

Join the Catalysts for Decolonisation Research Lab for their upcoming events The annual lecture on 1 June will be given by Julian Go (Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago) Find out more and register at https://bit.ly/4tKDHPJ

Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

Looking forward to speaking in London next week on why liberal democracies create militarized police readied for authoritarian rule (spoiler alert: the answer is not about whether you have liberal or right wing leaders but rather is about histories of colonialism).

LSE Sociology@lsesociology.bsky.social

💡 How do imperial tactics return home to reshape policing, citizenship and democracy? Join us for 'From citizen to subject', a free public event at LSE with @juliango.bsky.social and @aaronreeves.bsky.social. #LSEEvents #LSESociology

buff.lyProfessor Julian Go | Is liberal militarisation possible?6.30pm Wed 27 May | Professor Julian Go, Dr Mahvish Ahmad, Professor Aaron Reeves | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

If the American Sociological Association wants to stay out of politics and only stand up for university research, then perhaps it should at least be bothered that all 19 universities in Gaza have been decimated. Universities. Bombed. All of them.

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Sociologists for Palestine
@soc4pal.bsky.social

Mary Romero, President of the ASA for its 110th session in 2019, when her theme was “Engaging Social Justice for a Better World” has announced she is boycotting this year's meeting in reaction to ASA leadership's decision. With her permission we share the full text of her letter here.

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Brittany Wong
@brittanywong.bsky.social

I spoke to @juliango.bsky.social about the imperial boomerang and how US war tactics abroad are being employed at home by ICE "America’s cities are treated as colonial zones of conquest and imperial borderlands because that’s all ICE knows. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

huffpost.comThe 'Imperial Boomerang' Explains Why We've Seen What ICE Is Doing BeforeThe boomerang is already in flight in the U.S., a sociologist says.
Julian Go
@juliango.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to returning to Glasgow to deliver the 2nd Annual Racial Justice Lecture following Patricia Hill Collins inaugural lecture last year. It’s great that @glasgow.ac.uk is open to discussions of racial justice when in the US it has become a taboo topic.