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).
We discuss a recent paper from Samuel Jellison and colleagues in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, "Evaluation of Spin in Abstracts of Papers in Psychiatry and...
We discuss “generations theories”, which postulate that massive cohorts of 10 – 20 years have relevant, predictive shared traits.
National Geographic has a special issue on race that’s getting a lot of groans.