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Family Inequality

by Philip N. Cohen

Talking about generations with Jean Twenge

January 13, 2022Categories Me @ work1 Comment on Talking about generations with Jean Twenge

A good conversation. With transcript and audio.

2021 content creation report

December 24, 2021December 29, 2021Categories Me @ work1 Comment on 2021 content creation report

One of us spent their time shredding up cardboard, eating green leaves, and pooping in a box -- and the other one just sat around. Somehow, content was created.

Inequality and social change, 2022 pontification edition

November 24, 2021Categories UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Inequality and social change, 2022 pontification edition

Perception, reality, trauma and response, inequality and social change. I talked for an hour.

Why I’m leaving the American Sociological Association

November 6, 2021November 8, 2021Categories Me @ work12 Comments on Why I’m leaving the American Sociological Association

Maybe people declining to fund ASA's dysfunction with their membership dues -- while taking our efforts to develop and promote sociology outside the association -- is the best we can do.

Inequality heatmaps: marriage and working from home

October 19, 2021Categories Me @ workLeave a Comment on Inequality heatmaps: marriage and working from home

Heatmaps showing different kinds of inequality, with code.

Sociologists: Don’t embargo your dissertation

October 5, 2021Categories Me @ workLeave a Comment on Sociologists: Don’t embargo your dissertation

Are you in this to advance knowledge? If so, don't embargo your dissertation.

Comment on pandemic family plans

September 18, 2021Categories Me @ work, Research reports1 Comment on Comment on pandemic family plans

In light of disparate impacts of COVID-19 itself and the social and economic fallout of the pandemic, research should concentrate on widening inequalities in fertility and family well-being, and their relationship to health disparities.

Genetics is the truther conspiracy of racial inequality

September 12, 2021September 12, 2021Categories In the news1 Comment on Genetics is the truther conspiracy of racial inequality

Genetic explanation for race differences is like a truther conspiracy theory for people like Sam Harris and Charles Murray.

Demographic facts all students should know right now

August 25, 2021Categories UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Demographic facts all students should know right now

If anyone tells you that "facts are useless in an emergency," give them a bad grade.

Alexa devaluation, cutting room floor edition

August 18, 2021Categories UncategorizedLeave a Comment on Alexa devaluation, cutting room floor edition

Not only named after a robot, but a subservient female one.

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Philip N. Cohen

I’m a sociologist at the University of Maryland, College Park. See my website at philipncohen.com for more information.

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