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Monday, December 30, 2019

Nationalism and internationalism

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In 1964, a special Gallup survey asked people for their reactions to the following statement:  "We shouldn't think so much in inter...
Friday, December 27, 2019

The New Age

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David Brooks made an interesting observation in his column:  "We’ve seen gigantic events like impeachment, the Kavanaugh hearings, the...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Old news

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Sometimes I start on a post but abandon it, usually because it no longer seems interesting or gets too complicated.  One of these times was ...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Over there

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I was looking at the final Ipsos/Mori poll before last week's British election, and saw a remarkable table.  The key figures: Age    ...
Thursday, December 5, 2019

Lying m************

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A week or two ago, an article accusing Pete Buttigieg of being "a lying motherf***** " went viral on  Twitter.  Buttigieg's of...
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 ...
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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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