Tressie Mcmillan Cottom
Biographic Data
| ID | 237168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tressie Mcmillan Cottom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tressie Mcmillan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cottom |
| SIGNATURE | COTTOM T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Fractured Coalition
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. the answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza. Others said things like, “You are focused on the real issues people care about”; “Trump and you care for the working class”; “I feel like Trump and you are both real”; “Voted Trump but I like you and Bernie.” What do we…
The ties that corporatize
Herein, we demonstrate how social network analysis can model potential pathways for corporatization in US higher education by tracing the career histories of presidents (n = 215) from a heterogeneous sample of US colleges and universities. We examine the connections among sectors of higher education in this sample and external organizations like corporations and government agencies in order to describe larger network patterns created by president…
Disaster Capitalism Feeds Where Care Abandons
Disaster Capitalism Feeds Where Care Abandons:A Provocation on the Case of U.S. Higher Education after COVID Tressie McMillan Cottom (bio) The original intent for this provocation was to distill the forces of capitalism's interconnected pandemonia into a descriptive analysis of its fundamental crisis. That is, that our social institutions never intended to reckon with the profound cost of care, and we find ourselves with few mechanisms left to ou…
Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon
Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet
The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics of the political economy. The author puts forth racial capitalism as a coherent framework for this research agenda. The argument for racial capitalism draws on two examples of its engagement with two characteristics of the digital society: obfuscation as privatization and exclusion by incl…
The Credential Society
The Credential Society by Randall Collins is a classic on higher education and its role in American society. Forty years later, its controversial claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient.
Growing sense of social status threat and concomitant deaths of despair among whites
Rising white mortality in the United States is not explained by traditional social and economic population health indicators, but instead by a perceived decline in relative group status on the part of whites - despite no actual loss in relative group position
A Vision Among Challenges
According to data from an American Sociological Association survey, just half of all degree-granting sociology departments in the academic year 2012-2013 offered at least one “distance learning course in sociology” (Spalter-Roth, Van Vooren & Kisielewski, 2013). Two years after this report was released, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Sociology (VCU SOCY) launched the first online master’s of science degree in digital sociology i…
Lower Ed
Having It All Is Not a Feminist Theory of Change Unfinished Business
Digital Sociologies
Providing a much needed overview of the growing field of digital sociology, this handbook connects digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, class and gender. Rooted in a critical understanding of inequality as foundational to digital sociology and is edited by leaders in the field. It includes topics ranging from web analytics, wearable technologies, social media analysis an…
Rationalization of Higher Education
Since roughly 1980, the rationalization of higher education has been escalating. That is, means‐end schema and bureaucratic organization have become ever more dominant as the authority over academic matters has been shifting from the professoriate to managers who in the mid‐twentieth century had been mainly responsible for economic affairs and “making things run.” At many research universities today, the administrative sector has grown so large t…
Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet
The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics of the political economy. The author puts forth racial capitalism as a coherent framework for this research agenda. The argument for racial capitalism draws on two examples of its engagement with two characteristics of the digital society: obfuscation as privatization and exclusion by incl…
A Fractured Coalition
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. the answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza. Others said things like, “You are focused on the real issues people care about”; “Trump and you care for the working class”; “I feel like Trump and you are both real”; “Voted Trump but I like you and Bernie.” What do we…
Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon
Having It All Is Not a Feminist Theory of Change Unfinished Business
Rationalization of Higher Education
Since roughly 1980, the rationalization of higher education has been escalating. That is, means‐end schema and bureaucratic organization have become ever more dominant as the authority over academic matters has been shifting from the professoriate to managers who in the mid‐twentieth century had been mainly responsible for economic affairs and “making things run.” At many research universities today, the administrative sector has grown so large t…
Digital Sociologies
Providing a much needed overview of the growing field of digital sociology, this handbook connects digital media technologies to the traditional sociological areas of study, like labour, culture, education, race, class and gender. Rooted in a critical understanding of inequality as foundational to digital sociology and is edited by leaders in the field. It includes topics ranging from web analytics, wearable technologies, social media analysis an…
Lower Ed
Having It All Is Not a Feminist Theory of Change Unfinished Business
A Vision Among Challenges
According to data from an American Sociological Association survey, just half of all degree-granting sociology departments in the academic year 2012-2013 offered at least one “distance learning course in sociology” (Spalter-Roth, Van Vooren & Kisielewski, 2013). Two years after this report was released, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Department of Sociology (VCU SOCY) launched the first online master’s of science degree in digital sociology i…
The Credential Society
The Credential Society by Randall Collins is a classic on higher education and its role in American society. Forty years later, its controversial claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient.
Growing sense of social status threat and concomitant deaths of despair among whites
Rising white mortality in the United States is not explained by traditional social and economic population health indicators, but instead by a perceived decline in relative group status on the part of whites - despite no actual loss in relative group position
Where Platform Capitalism and Racial Capitalism Meet
The study of race and racism in the digital society must produce theoretically distinct and robust formulations of Internet technologies as key characteristics of the political economy. The author puts forth racial capitalism as a coherent framework for this research agenda. The argument for racial capitalism draws on two examples of its engagement with two characteristics of the digital society: obfuscation as privatization and exclusion by incl…
Interview with Tressie McMillan Cottom and Kiese Laymon
Disaster Capitalism Feeds Where Care Abandons
Disaster Capitalism Feeds Where Care Abandons:A Provocation on the Case of U.S. Higher Education after COVID Tressie McMillan Cottom (bio) The original intent for this provocation was to distill the forces of capitalism's interconnected pandemonia into a descriptive analysis of its fundamental crisis. That is, that our social institutions never intended to reckon with the profound cost of care, and we find ourselves with few mechanisms left to ou…
A Fractured Coalition
Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. the answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza. Others said things like, “You are focused on the real issues people care about”; “Trump and you care for the working class”; “I feel like Trump and you are both real”; “Voted Trump but I like you and Bernie.” What do we…
The ties that corporatize
Herein, we demonstrate how social network analysis can model potential pathways for corporatization in US higher education by tracing the career histories of presidents (n = 215) from a heterogeneous sample of US colleges and universities. We examine the connections among sectors of higher education in this sample and external organizations like corporations and government agencies in order to describe larger network patterns created by president…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Capitalism (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works)