The Pressure to Go Partisan

May 09, 2019 00:14:10
The Pressure to Go Partisan
Annex Sociology Podcast
The Pressure to Go Partisan

May 09 2019 | 00:14:10

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Show Notes

We discuss a recent article in Cognition, linking partisan affiliation and public trust. We ask whether its findings help cast light on the pressure to go partisan when doing public sociology.

Michelle Silver is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Health and Society. She recently published Retirement and Discontents: Why We Won't Stop Working, Even If We Can (Columbia University).

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