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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦
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Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
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#nokings in Durham. The energy here was so positive!
People marching in No Kings march in Durham Handmaid's Tale themed protest in Durham No Kings protest in downtown Durham
June 14, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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April 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Symbolic violence
The words "I assume y'all would also" where y'all is underlined in red, to indicate a spelling error.
January 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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First 60 seconds are HERE
September 16, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Less concerned about AI than I was a few minutes ago
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March 6, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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Meme: Her: I bet he's thinking about other women Him: Does Sobel's diagonal reference model really identify mobility effects?
October 2, 2023 at 10:20 PM
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This Davis (1994) paper has an oversample of bangers
Quote: What do poverty, homelessness, racial inequality, man/woman conflicts, the fall of communism, aging, and third world development have in common? Answers: (1) They are all hot topics in contemporary sociology. (2) They are about the only topics where research money is available. (3) They are intractable, massive, convoluted social problems where it is extremely unlikely that any progress can be made through policies and programs. What do preferences for various candy bars,15 short-range demographic predictions, development of attitude scales, and election polling, have in common? Answers: (1) They are all low status topics in contemporary sociology. (2) Billions of dollars are spent on such research but we don't get any of it. (3) They are tractable problems where social research really works. Painting with a rather broad brush one might argue that the two major impacts of sociology/social psychology on modern society are (1) the survey method and (2) a doctrinaire denial of any
September 26, 2023 at 4:43 PM
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A 🔥🔥🔥 hot take on the relationship between economics and sociology

SOURCE: James A. Davis "What's Wrong With Sociology"? (1994)
Quoted text: Economists are competitive, individualistic, conservative in their politics, smart, and arrogant. Sociologists are cooperative, group-minded, leftish in politics, sincere, and docile. Except as master and dog, these two psyches are not a promising combination
September 26, 2023 at 4:16 PM