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Spontaneous Splenic Artery Rupture in a Young Adult Without Aneurysmal Disease or Known Risk Factors
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What are Public Ideas?
An existential question for those of us who conduct social science research is, “Does our work make a difference?” In our reflective moments, it is easy to wonder if anyone outside of academia pays attention to what we discover about the social world. Finding better ways to communicate our ideas to the general public is a crucial issue—in order to make a difference, social scientists must first be heard. Nevertheless, the gulf between social scientists and the public can be hard to bridge.
A Sociology of Luck
Abend, Gabriel, Petre, Caitlin, Sauder, Michael. 2013. “Styles of Causal Thought: An Empirical Investigation.” American Journal of Sociology 119(3):602–54. Google Scholar | Crossref | Medline Aubert, Vilhelm . [1965] 1982. The Hidden Society. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers. Google Scholar Bandura, Albert . 1982. “The Psychology of Chance Encounters and Life Paths.” American Psychologist 37(7):747–55. Google Scholar | Crossref Bearman, Peter . 2005. Doormen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Self-Control Won’t Save You
Believing that self-control is a virtue—and, indeed, that self-control is even possible—is nothing new. To be in command of one’s actions and responsible for their consequences has long been a requirement of full selfhood. But our modern, meritocratic, neoliberal era has taken this belief to new extremes. Self-control now entails being responsible for almost everything that might have an impact on our life and its trajectory.
The Worst of All Possible Worlds?
Sci-fi veteran William Gibson’s latest novel, Agency, presents two timelines, one in a postapocalyptic 2136 and the other in our own present. Or almost. In the latter timeline, Clinton beat Trump and Brexit was quashed, a veritable utopia by 2020’s standards. If you judge a world on how highly it values democracy, justice, or the health of the planet, ours does not come off well. What if, Agency suggests, ours is actually the worst of all possible worlds?
Public Ideas: Their Varieties and Careers
Anderson, Elijah . 1999. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Google Scholar Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2011. Performance and Power. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Google Scholar Askin, Noah, Mauskapf, Michael. 2017. “What Makes Popular Culture Popular? Product Features and Optimal Differentiation in Music.” American Sociological Review 82(5):910–44. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals Badgett, M. V. Lee . 2016.
“The role as a champion is to not only monitor but to speak out and to educate”: the contradictory roles of hand hygiene champions
Research Open Access Open Peer Review Published: 23 December 2019 Cassie Cunningham Goedken ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-17991, Daniel J. Livorsi1,2, Michael Sauder3, Mark W. Vander Weg1,2,4, Emily E.
Public Ideas: Their Varieties and Careers
Anderson, Elijah . 1999. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Google Scholar Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2011. Performance and Power. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Google Scholar Askin, Noah, Mauskapf, Michael. 2017. “What Makes Popular Culture Popular? Product Features and Optimal Differentiation in Music.” American Sociological Review 82(5):910–44. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals Badgett, M. V. Lee . 2016.
The Sociology of Inequality
Your ground-breaking research into the structural sources of inequality recently won the Erasmus Prize. Please explain the nature of your work. How does sociology excavate the roots of inequality? Sociological work is an important complement to economic approaches to inequality, which focus on the distribution of resources. Multidimensional analysis of inequality takes into consideration disparities in worth and cultural membership among classes.
Styles of Causal Thought: An Empirical Investigation1
While most work on causation in ethnography addresses the normative question of what ethnographers should do, this article addresses the empirical question of what ethnographers actually do. Specifically, it investigates whether ethnographic articles make causal arguments and how these arguments are made.
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