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In light of yesterday's events at the U.S. Capitol, sociology & other other social science research provides critical insight.
Below, several recent ASR articles that people may find helpful in contextualizing yesterday:
Below, several recent ASR articles that people may find helpful in contextualizing yesterday:
. @OHahl, @MinjaeKim22 & @EWZucker explore the paradox of voters construing someone who knowingly lies & breaks norms as authentic.
They find sufficient conditions when "one side of a social divide regards the political system as flawed or illegitimate." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122417749632
They find sufficient conditions when "one side of a social divide regards the political system as flawed or illegitimate." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122417749632
DellaPosta (2020) evidences how "mass polarization has increased via a process of belief consolidation" & that "the increasing salience of political ideology & partisanship only partly explains this trend." The author explores "troubling implications" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122420922989
McVeigh, @DCunningham_STL & Farrell (2014) examine how radical social movements can act locally while aligning with political party agendas, and how movements can influence voting for decades if individuals become embedded in new, partisan-loyal networks. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0003122414555885
