Dr Yuchen Yang

@dr-yang

Assistant Professor in Sociology at University of Birmingham | UChicago PhD '24 | UC Berkeley BA '17 | interactionist scholar of gender, sexualities, culture, semiotics, and childhood | friend of EMCA who stumbled into linguistic anthropology

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Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· 2d

The most confusing sign at #asa2026

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· 3d

It's such an honor to be the Keynote Speaker for the Junior Theorist Symposium yesterday!

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· 3d

I wonder if I'm the pinkest keynote speaker in the history of the Junior Theorist Symposium 😂

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· 7d

Good news: #AerLingus didn't leave my suitcase in Dublin this year 🥳 Bad news: Thanks to #AerLingus, the exact same suitcase now only has 3 wheels 🙄

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· 18d

Yuri forums even made it to his dissertation acknowledgement #girlslove #yuri #anime

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· 29d

After so many years, I finally said to a China Studies audience that China is not a "method." It is indeed a "case." And of course, I was advocating for the Extended Case Method 😉 #ChinaStudies #Sociology #ExtendedCaseMethod

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Jul 12

Somehow I managed to survive UChicago without serving as a discussant for any workshop. Ironically, serving as a discussant for this panel means the word "sinophone" will now be on my CV even though I'm not even a literary scholar 😂

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Jun 21

Is not having Air Conditioning the main reason why UK universities rank so much higher than US universities in terms of sustainability? I'm seriously wondering 🥵🥵🥵

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Jun 18

According to Clarivate's latest Journal Citation Report, the Journal of Chinese Sociology has superceded Social Forces in its impact factor 😯 #Sociology

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Jun 16

My article "Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender" received the Outstanding Article Award from the SSSP Gender, Sexual Behavior, Politics, and Communities Division AND an Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award from the ASA Ethnomethodology & Conversation Analysis Section! 🥳

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· May 26

I'm very honored and excited to have been elected to serve as Council Member for the ASA Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Section! 🤩 Really looking forward to supporting and advocating for interactionist scholars in sociology in this new role! 😊

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· May 19

Now that my pink hair is gone, I really need to learn how to do makeup 👿 (Is there a hybrid masculinity overcompensation thesis?)

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· May 6

Dressed extra colorful for departmental meeting 🤪

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Apr 29

We had such a wonderful panel discussion on childhood and the politics of gender and sexuality yesterday!!! It's such a privilege to get four of my favorite sociologists on the same panel and I learned so much from the conversation!!!

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Apr 17

Well, after more than 2 years of waiting (?), I'm thrilled to receive a rejection from the University of Memphis for a job I applied back in 2023 🤪 I guess this tells us something about how early career scholars are being treated in the current job market? #JobMarket #AcademicSky

Thank you for considering the University of Memphis as your employer of choice. Our records indicate that you applied for the following position:

Assistant Professor of Sociology

Please be advised that this position has been filled.

We encourage you to continue to visit our website at workforum.memphis.edu for employment opportunities that may be of interest to you.

We wish you success in your future career endeavors.

University of Memphis

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Apr 11

It was such a pleasure discussing the continuing importance of Stuart Hall's work and the Birmingham School for sociology at the current conjuncture with Ben Carrington, Gregor McLennan, and my colleagues Frankie Rogan and Nick Beech at the @britsoci.bsky.social conference yesterday! #britsoc26

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Apr 6

Join us on April 28!!! The best thing about being part of the CCL committee is that you get to invite four of your favorite sociologists onto the same panel 😝

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Mar 20

Miyu 🐱: Yeah, sure, but have you considered Gramsci's relevance for the study of feline and cats? #AntonioGramsci #StuartHall #Cats

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Feb 27

Happening soon!!! #sociology #culture #diversity

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Feb 26

Thrilled to see both of my ST articles are among the Top-10 Most Downloaded Articles in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social in 2025!!! 🤩 www.asanet.org/top-download...

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Feb 23

When you feel useless and are overwhelmed by self-doubt, come to Birmingham New Street. There is a "needless alley" and I didn't even know it's there for the past year and half 🤡

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Feb 16

Eating rice cake (not dumplings!) on New Year's Eve is certainly a form of subaltern resistance against northern hegemony!

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Feb 14

A performative drink! #JLAustin #SpeechAct

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Jan 22

10 years ago, I, along with my friends at the Datong Society of China Studies at Berkeley, designed & taught a student-led DECal course on Chinese society as undergrads. This semester, I'm starting a Sociology of China Reading Group for my students at @birminghamschool.bsky.social. How time flies!

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Dec 28

Went to the cafe and hotel that appeared in K-On! The Movie! (2011) while I was in London for my birthday 😊 #KOn #animepilgrimage

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Dec 12

After 3 semesters, I finally taught a module that I'm satisfied with! In redesigning this module, I made a deliberate effort to cultivate core academic skills, and now many of my 1st-year students in the module are doing WAY BETTER than our current 3rd years!

Lecture notes for Sociology of Everyday Life

Photo of a PC monitor in a lecture hall displaying the final week's lecture slides

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Dec 6

Iconicity!!! #Cat #Peirce #Semiotics

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Nov 29

In Week 10, we will wrap up the module by considering methods that help us attend to the connection between the "micro" and the "macro." We will compare Burawoy's Extended Case Method with Smith's Institutional Ethnography, and then zoom into Hoang's ethnography of global sex work as an example.

Week 10: From “Small” Routine to “Big” Transformation
Burawoy, Michael. 1991. “Introduction” and “The Extended Case Method.” Pp. 1–7 and Pp. 271–287 in Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis, edited by M. Burawoy et al. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Smith, Dorothy E. 2005. “What is Institutional Ethnography? Some Contrasts.” Pp. 29–38 in Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People. Lanham: AltaMira Press.
Smith, Dorothy E. and Alison I. Griffith. 2022. “Introduction.” Pp 3–12 in Simply Institutional Ethnography: Creating a Sociology for People. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2014. “Competing Technologies of Embodiment: Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Dependency in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry.” Gender & Society 28(4):513–536.
Recommended:
Burawoy, Michael. 1998. “The Extended Case Method.” Sociological Theory 16(1):4–33.
Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2014. “Flirting with Capital: Negotiating Perceptions of Pan-Asian Ascendency and Western Decline in Global Sex Work.” Social Problems 61(4):507–29.
Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2020. “Engendering Global Capital: How Homoerotic Triangles Facilitate Foreign Investments into Risky Markets.” Gender & Society 34(4):547–572.
Gibson, David R. 2011. “Avoiding Catastrophe: The Interactional Production of Possibility during the Cuban Missile Crisis.” American Journal of Sociology 117(2):361–419.
Lempert, Michael. 2024. From Small Talk to Micro-Aggression: A History of Scale. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, Randall. 1981. “On the Microfoundations of Macrosociology.” American Journal of Sociology 86(5):984–1014.

Dr Yuchen Yang@dr-yang· Nov 28

Society as Sy-meow-ic Interaction 🐱 #SymbolicInteraction #Sociology #AcademicSky #Cat