Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota and Co-Editor of The Society Pages At The Society Pages, our readers and writers (as well as our friends and partners) have been asking what the election of Donald Trump and Republican legislative majorities might mean for social science and social scientists. The sky is (probably) not falling and new…
Continue reading →Arlie Russell Hochschild recently commented “Whether Donald Trump rises or falls, we need sociology to take up the task of analyzing the rise of the right. And we need our government and society at large to address all the ways millions of Americans have been—in real life—left behind.” As the 2016 elections come to a…
Continue reading →This is a guest post by Ray Sin, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, is an Associate Behavioral Researcher at Morningstar Inc. What is Morningstar? What exactly do you do at Morningstar? What has sociology got to do with finance? These are some of the most common reactions when I tell folks,…
Continue reading →As part of Peer Review Week (September 19-25), Rory McVeigh, co-editor of the American Sociological Review, has written the following blog post. Thank you to our reviewers at all of our journals–your work is essential to the scholarly publishing process! Frustration with the peer review process among both authors and reviewers has led some sociologists…
Continue reading →Yesterday the American Statistical Association (that’s right, a different ASA) released a “Statement on Statistical Significance and P-values.” It’s a thoughtful consideration of the issue, and it even includes 21 commentaries right off the bat, sort of a prepackaged colloquium to nerd out over. FiveThirtyEight did a nice little article on the statement, and I…
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