Just the social facts, ma'am

Friday, May 30, 2014

Crime and perception

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Beginning in 1972, the Gallup Poll asked "is there more crime in this area than there was a year ago, or less?"  Around 1990, they...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Principle or prejudice?

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Many liberals argue that the Tea Party and related conservative movements are basically about race.  The idea is that latent racial fears an...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Capitalism, Socialism, and Education

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Continuing with the survey I discussed in my last post, positive views of big business and socialism declined with education:             ...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Capitalism, Socialism, and Age

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A while ago, I had a post about views of capitalism and socialism .  A Gallup News Service poll from November 2012 asked people if they had ...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

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Every once in a while I see a survey result that really surprises me.  I ran across this one recently, from a survey conducted by ICR in 199...
Sunday, May 4, 2014

Exceptionalism at the top

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Almost everyone who's been paying attention agrees that over the last 30-40 years, the share of total income going to people near the to...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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