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@JoyVBehar “for the next 20 years, sociologists are going to be studying these 4yrs.”
They already are! A thread for people interested in understanding these times.
They already are! A thread for people interested in understanding these times.
@JonathanMetzl 's Dying of Whiteness
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/jonathan-m-metzl/dying-of-whiteness/9781541644960/
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences — even for the white voters they promise to help.
https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/jonathan-m-metzl/dying-of-whiteness/9781541644960/
A physician reveals how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences — even for the white voters they promise to help.
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild's book Strangers in their Own Land explains that while people might vote against their economic needs, they're actually voting to serve their emotional needs.
Katherine Cramer's The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker focuses on the way people in the U.S. make sense of politics and their place in it. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-s-victory-and-the-politics-of-resentment/
Michael Tesler's Post Racial or Most Racial? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26153487-post-racial-or-most-racial
Smith and Hanley’s INSIDE THE MINDS OF HARDCORE TRUMP SUPPORTERS shows Trump’s supporters voted for him mainly because they share his prejudices, not because they’re financially stressed. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0896920517740615
Research by Oliver Hahl, Minjae Kim, Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan first published In 2018 in the American Sociological Review explains why some people are so willing to support people who are obviously lying. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0003122417749632
Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington. https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/robert-wuthnow-on-the-left-behind
For teachers, see @bjrisman of @thisisUIC ‘s https://www.asanet.org/news-events/speak-sociology/how-do-sociology-trump-era published by @ASAnews
Sociologist Jennifer Silva’s We’re Still Here: Pain and Politics in the Heart of America
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/working-class-jennifer-silva-politics-trump-hillary-bernie.html
more than 100 in-depth interviews with working-class residents of a struggling coal town in PA.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/working-class-jennifer-silva-politics-trump-hillary-bernie.html
more than 100 in-depth interviews with working-class residents of a struggling coal town in PA.
@TheView thanks for covering hard topics - always can turn to sociology to help understand! @ASAnews @sunny @WhoopiGoldberg @sarahaines
Bálint Magyar, a Hungarian sociologist who set out to develop analytical tools for understanding the turn away from democracy in many Eastern and Central European countries. Explained in NYer. #teachsoc https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/by-declaring-victory-donald-trump-is-attempting-an-autocratic-breakthrough
