What Is Elizabeth Hoover Apologizing For?
So long as Hoover’s scholarship has met the standards expected of her, it is not clear that she’s done anything wrong.
Ilana Redstone
Ilana Redstone is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Director of the Mill Institute at UATX.
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Why ‘Just Follow the Science’ Won’t Solve All Our Problems
The upshot is this: When a topic has moral or ideological implications, people typically have an a priori point of view that they then use as an end point, at least on a subconscious level.
The Dangers of Defining Deviancy Up
The idea of defining deviancy down has attracted renewed attention from commentators in the Trump era.
Kimmel and Conflict Theory — Sociology Turns Its Lens onto One of Its Own
Recent case of Michael Kimmel can be understood as a real-life manifestation of the ham-handed, universal application of a conflict theory perspective.