Andrew Perrin

@AndrewJPerrin

Sociology chair @JHUArtsSciences; Study democracy @SNFAgoraJHU. Before: @UNCSociology @IAH_UNC. @SwatAlum and @UCBerkeley alum. Opinions my own. #GoHeels

Baltimore, Maryland, USA sites.krieger.jhu.edu/perrin/ Joined May 2012

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Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin 6d

A few sociological thoughts on the election: culture can trump structure; party coalitions make for overdetermined outcomes; routinizing charisma is hard. My latest for Scatterplot: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/11/05/tho…

scatter.wordpress.com thoughts on the 2026 us election I’m teaching my “Power to the People?: Popular Sovereignty in the US” class in collaboration with Nicole Mellow, which we do many election fall semesters. Today’s class was …

Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin Oct 9

One of the studies often used to claim increasing left-wing bias in sociology doesn't really show that at all. My latest on Scatterplot: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/llm…

scatter.wordpress.com llms of abstracts: on one of the studies cited on sociology’s leftward turn In a Twitter exchange on Ashley Rubin’s report on political distortions in sociology, Jesse Smith praises the report for (among other things) “LLM analysis of the political valence of a…

Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin Sep 18

Sociology @JHUArtsSciences is continuing our growth with two open positions this year! These positions are at the Associate Professor level. Please apply! apply.interfolio.com/193532

Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin Jul 28

This is far worse news for empirical sociology than all the “war in sociology” media accounts

Stephen L. Morgan @SLMsociology Jul 28

@familyunequal @ASAnews And, based on what we are told, there will be no 2028 GSS … (but we are in the field and will complete the 2026 GSS, nonetheless).
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Andrew Perrin @AndrewJPerrin Jul 22

This objection is why viewpoint diversity is the wrong way to think about the problem: a visual metaphor that undermines the core intellectual virtue of revisability. The problem (roughly) is the space of ideas considered not the viewpoint of the profs. bostonglobe.com/2023/03/29/opi…

www.bostonglobe.com People deserve safety on college campuses. Ideas don’t. - The Boston Globe The best way to break the campus echo chamber is to open up campuses to better argumentative practices.

chad wellmon @cwellmon Jul 22

So where do you find these ‘viewpoints,’ so clear, unchanging, and fixed? Like, if I wanted one, how would I get it? And once I got it, could I loose it? Could it change? Could I change? Who manages & polices them all, testing & certifying their legibility?
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