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Eternalism and choosing the futures
Free will exists even in an eternal universe in which all the possible time-space realities “already” “exist.” The question is which futures will we join.
2022 Books in Review
The list of books we read is more personally revealing than a scattering of curated comments and status updates.
US name androgyny at record high
Androgyny is still climbing rapidly and I thought you needed to know that right away.
A short paper on the decline of all things marriage in the U.S.
A higher status marriage system is a smaller, slower, and more stable marriage system.
Who wants to be Adele, filling the void with an endless emptiness unchained?
The Adele in the video has no relationships other than her "team" at work and her financial advisor. She fills the void with the endless emptiness of a self unchained.
Inequality work product: Visualizing unequal
I'm working on the fourth edition of The Family, and since it's an "accessible, data-driven introduction to contemporary sociological thinking on families," I figured I'd share a few figures I worked on for the chapter on social class and poverty. 1. Parents' education and educational attainment. The General Social Survey asks people what their parents'…
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These are the datasets of our lives (43 of them, anyway)
43 current or ongoing surveys, with microdata from individual/household/family units of analysis, with US samples, publicly available data (some with permission required). More or less.
Review: Divorce, American Style: Fighting for Women’s Economic Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era
Suzanne Kahn offers a fascinating, thorough, and highly readable study of divorce in the history of 20th Century U.S. feminism.
Demographic facts for students: 2022
Updating a series I started in 2013. Despite what people in my generation were told, it's not true that, "facts are useless in an emergency." Knowing basic facts is the key to detecting bullshit, which thrives in conditions of basic ignorance. In this post I suggest you and your students memorize a small number of…
Family Inequality 