Just the social facts, ma'am

Saturday, October 31, 2020

Ya Gotta Believe

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 I saw a reference to a Marquette Law School poll of Wisconsin which found that 80% of Trump supporters expected Trump to win and 80% of B...
Thursday, October 29, 2020

The rest of us?

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I've had a number of posts (starting with this one ) suggesting that the people who are angry about perceived contempt from "elites...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Isn't it pretty to think so?

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 David Brooks says that Americans have moved to the left on issues involving the welfare state , and that it's not just a short-term rea...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The story of the decade, part 4a

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 In writing my last post, I recalled a couple of posts I wrote about the question "In America, each generation has tried to have a be...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

The story of the decade, part 4

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 I'm returning to the question I started on last month--why has there been a growth of polarization in the United States in recent years...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Infected by reality

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 In July, a researcher at the Brookings institution reported that plans for remote vs. in-person school reopening were unrelated to the Co...
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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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