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Category Archives: Sociology
CIS: Jason Richwine
Here’s a nice 16 min panel discussion at The Center for Immigration Studies, featuring Jason Richwine, the persona non grata fired from the Heritage Foundation due to political correctness. The talk focuses on low-skill Americans dropping out of the labor … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Sociology
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Gallup: Trust in Media at All-Time Low
More good news for Trump: Trust in the media has reached another all-time low, according to a Gallup study. “Americans’ trust and confidence in the mass media ‘to report the news fully, accurately and fairly’ has dropped to its lowest … Continue reading
White Death: Politico
If you want to marvel at liberals’ penchant for cocktail party insularity from Flyover America, check out “What’s Going on With America’s White People?”: Trump’s rise put a sudden spotlight on the troubles of white working-class Americans. A conversation with … Continue reading
Posted in Sociology, White Identity
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Bernard Lewis at 100
To mark the occasion of his 100th birthday, NR has a multi-author homage to Bernard Lewis, the great Princeton scholar of Islam. Victor Davis Hanson, one of the contributors, distills the essence of Lewis’ scholarly lens: From the 1990s onward, … Continue reading
Diversity & Societal Distrust
Amidst their vast forest of stories about Hamilton, Trump, and transgendered bathrooms, the NYT has an op-ed by two sociologists titled “Don’t Blame Diversity for Distrust”. The authors, Maria Abascal & Delia Baldassarri, take issue with conventional interpretations of the … Continue reading
Bowling Alone with Donald Trump
In 2007, liberal scholar Robert Putnam stumbled upon a sociological discovery that he sat on for years. Why? His research showed that where there is more Diversity™, there is higher distrust among the citenzry, and this distrust crosses racial lines. … Continue reading
Posted in Alt-Right, Republican Party, Sociology
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Social Media as a Model for the Collapse of Liberal Democracy
Brett Stevens has a very intriguing and thought provoking post titled “Social media as a model for the collapse of liberal democracy“. We are now familiar with the social media cycle: 1)New site appears and the movers and shakers — … Continue reading
Posted in Death of the West, Political Theory, Sociology
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Study: More Diversity = Less Happiness
Breitbart has news on another study that echoes Robert Putnam’s infamous conclusions on the unintended consequences of diversity: A study has found that an increase in “diversity” makes existing residents of a area feel unhappier and more socially isolated, while … Continue reading
Turkle: Put the Phone Down; Let’s Talk
MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who had a prescient 2011 book titled Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, has a very good, new op-ed titled “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.” Studies of conversation both in the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Sociology, Technology
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2015 World Happiness Report
A huge study of happiness (aka senses of subjective well-being) has evaluated all the countries in the world: The 2015 World Happiness Report is the third of its kind and is edited by a team of renowned academics and analysts … Continue reading
Posted in International, Sociology
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