A recent NY Times opinion piece muses about the death of the Republican Party. Canada's conservative party died in the mid-1990s. What happened?
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We ask discuss recent psych findings that might suggest why there's a pressure to go partisan when doing public scholarship.
This week, The Annex sits down with Richard Carpiano of UC Riverside to discuss social conflict over vaccination. Richard recently published “Public Attitudes towards Child Undervaccination: A randomized experiment on evaluations, stigmatizing orientations, and support for policies” Social Science and Medicine. Howard Ramos joins as guest host. Also, the MAGA Hat […]
Joe, Leslie, Gabriel, and Jooyoung Lee (University of Toronto) discuss a recent study that finds the public places roughly equal amounts of trust in sociologists and economists, and why sociologists obsess over economists.
Streib Joe, Leslie and Gabriel interview Jessi Streib (Duke University) discuss a recent Gallup poll suggesting that public confidence in higher education is falling (article in Inside Higher Ed). Check out Jessi’s book on Amazon:
