Over the last decade, we have witnessed a crisis in science in which many admired research studies have been overturned or found non-replicable. Researchers increasingly recognize that publication itself does not imply that findings are robust, and the public has questioned the credibility of social...
Happy to share that "Guns Versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Effect of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions", is forthcoming at American Sociological Review! This was a huge collaborative effort. Shoutout to my coauthors: Clark, Kentor, Thombs, Huang, Givens, Auerbach, Tinay, & Mahutga!
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Joseph Workman, Paul T. von Hippel, Joseph Merry Sociological Science March 30, 2023 10.15195/v10.a8 Abstract It is widely believed that (1) children lose months of reading and math skills over summer vacation and that (2) inequality in skills grows much faster during summer than during school.
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi."
Historians study their motives, but there is a broad understanding: their motives don’t exonerate them.
Nice write-up here about the local church-state project I've been working on with @garyadlerjr @jonathancoley Rebecca Sager and Eric Plutzer!
https://news.colby.edu/story/damon-mayrl-looks-at-the-politics-of-church-and-state/
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