{"id":69559,"date":"2016-11-25T09:24:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=69559"},"modified":"2016-11-19T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:09:49","slug":"sociological-images-on-the-election-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2016\/11\/25\/sociological-images-on-the-election-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images on the Election and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear readers, I shut down SocImages after the election. It didn’t feel\u00a0like a time for business as usual. Sociology is not a partisan enterprise, but\u00a0sociologists understand themselves to be scientists\u00a0and we share\u00a0a body of literature from which we derive things we\u00a0believe to be more fact than fiction, at least until we have better data. Donald Trump’s candidacy made a mockery of facts<\/a>, while his and Pence’s policy recommendations on everything from torture<\/a> to climate change<\/a> to stop<\/a>-and-frisk<\/a> to\u00a0excluding Muslims from the US<\/a> to\u00a0“reformability” of sexual minorities<\/a>\u00a0to The Wall<\/a> fly in the face of available data.<\/p>\n

I expressed my personal feelings about Trump’s election here<\/a>, arguing that we need to shift our focus away from the voting patterns of our fellow Americans and toward the institutions that suppress, exclude, and differently weigh our votes. It’s a sociological argument, but also a partisan one, so I won’t reproduce it.\u00a0What I will do is go forward with Sociological Images, bringing it back to keep spreading the science of sociology, putting empirical research before presumptions as best as I can, as\u00a0I and so many guest posters\u00a0did during the campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See you on Monday.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear readers, I shut down SocImages after the election. It didn’t feel\u00a0like a time for business as usual. Sociology is not a partisan enterprise, but\u00a0sociologists understand themselves to be scientists\u00a0and we share\u00a0a body of literature from which we derive things we\u00a0believe to be more fact than fiction, at least until we have better data. Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":69560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208,20068],"class_list":["post-69559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates","tag-politics-election-2016"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2016\/11\/avatar.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69559"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69564,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69559\/revisions\/69564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}