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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Reasons and results

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In my last post, I showed trends in answers to four questions in the General Social Survey proposing possible explanations for why blacks ha...
Friday, April 21, 2017

The decline of reasons

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The General Social Survey has a series of four questions introduced by the statement, "On the average [Negroes/Blacks/African-Americans...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Where the working class are

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For several years, I have been saying that journalists write as if the "white working class" is found somewhere out in the Midwest...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

The best of times, the worst of times

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In January 1983, the Roper Organization asked "In America, each generation has tried to have a better life than their parents, with a b...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

A return to facts

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This is a question that the Gallup poll asked three times: "Do you think people who are successful get ahead largely because of their ...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

The beginning of ideology

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I have had several posts ( this is the latest ) trying to explain why American conservatism became ideological, but wasn't satisfied wit...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Don't let go

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I did some further investigation into the relationship between interest in politics and happines s and found that the GSS included another q...
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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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