Just the social facts, ma'am

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Just remembered

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I had a post earlier this month on a question about whether people can get ahead by hard work.  What I originally intended to write about ...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Work vs. family

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A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released a survey that found only about 16% thought that being married was essential in order for ...
Friday, November 15, 2019

Hard work

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In 1992, a survey asked people to choose which statement came closer to the way they felt:  "A--Most people who want to get ahead can m...
Thursday, November 7, 2019

Liking what they saw

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I was looking for polls on Trump's popularity early in his campaign, and found several by the Monmouth Poll that reported the figures fo...
Friday, November 1, 2019

Trump and tolerance

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Since the 1930s, the Gallup poll has asked people if they would vote for certain kinds of people for president:  specifically, "If your...
Friday, October 25, 2019

What's wrong with them?

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A few weeks ago, the Pew Research Center released a survey about views of the parties and partisanship (I got the reference from a piece b...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

How many Democrats?

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A Fox News poll last week found that 51% of the respondents said that Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office and another 4...
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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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