Mario L. Small
@MarioLuisSmall
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Social scientist | Author of #SomeoneToTalkTo, #PersonalNetworks, and #QualitativeLiteracy | Networks. Inequality. Methods | PTY native | Tweets occasionally.
New York, NY
Joined January 2017
RT @VitalCityNYC: New research suggests that "third places" -- social spaces in between home and work -- are crucial to revitalizing neighb….
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Social spaces — and face-to-face connections — are crucial to economic development.
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RT @VitalCityNYC: Can a coffee shop stimulate economic development? @MarioLuisSmall & @JorgeGuzmanCBS suggest that social spaces can spar….
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Social spaces — and face-to-face connections — are crucial to economic development.
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RT @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….
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What might be gained by concealing from others?
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Great podcast with @EricKlinenberg and Kellie Carter Jackson on the importance of physical spaces for community
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Physical spaces can either encourage or discourage relationships. But people also have to be willing to slow down and connect.
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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. 4/4.
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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.”.3/.
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In a national survey of U.S. adults, avoidance is so common it is actually fundamental, not incidental, to strong ties. The topic matters---e.g., people avoid sex more than any other topic---but people avoid loved ones for most topics they worry about. 2/.
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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. 1/.
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Theorists have proposed that a value of close friends and family—strong ties—is the ability to confide in them when facing difficult issues. But close relations...
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RT @bklee009: Excited to share my paper on unemployment and suicide with @pescosol. Using big administrative data on suicide, we show that….
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Despite long-standing evidence linking higher unemployment rates to increased suicide rates, a puzzling trend emerged in the United States after the Great Reces...
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Scien….
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RT @NSmolenski: At the #MarketsandSociety #MAS2024 Conference at @GeorgeMasonU where Sociologist @MarioLuisSmall is presenting research on….
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RT @ssrc_org: In @ASR_Journal, @MarioLuisSmall @kristinapbrant & Fekete found in a representative survey that adult Americans were as likel….
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RT @ColumbiaSoc: From Department Chair @MarioLuisSmall, . Applications for Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor (Open Rank). T….
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RT @daniel_lobo_phd: cool new paper in @ASR_Journal by @MarioLuisSmall+colleagues on the avoidance of strong ties. Upshot: avoidance is a….
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RT @rlynnphd: Research from @marioluissmall shows avoidance happens almost as often as open communication in our closest relationships. Dis….
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RT @ProfSchrepel: Introducing a @Starbucks in a neighborhood without prior cafés increases “the number of startups of 5.0% to 11.8% (or 1.1….
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More from the NYT:.Who Can Achieve the American Dream? Race Matters Less Than It Used To.
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New research shows that the Black-white opportunity gap closed by about 30 percent for people born poor. It's also harder for poor white people to climb into the middle class.
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New work showing what the great sociologist William Julius Wilson argued several decades ago: children suffer when work disappears for the adults in their neighborhoods:
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New landmark research reveals a necessary ingredient in upward mobility that makes a big difference in the fortunes of America’s poorest children.
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