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1/ Why is "framing" and lit review so contentious in sociology? A thread for #soctwitter and assorted bystanders.
2/ Last week, our department had a very nice panel where faculty answered questions publishing. Panel included current/former editors/deputy editors of ASR, AJS, Contexts, Soc of Ed, SPQ and more. (Yes, our dept is super professional and service oriented).
3/ Most advice was simple and intuitive: keep revising, show your work, read the journal you submit to, take rejection in stride, accept the randomness of reviews, etc. BUT the discussion of framing and lit review was long and complex.
1/ #Impeachment: a failed Constitutional design. Some basic data shows it doesn't do its job. (retweet w/edits)
2/ The US has had 46 presidents, 49 VPS, 115 Supreme court justices, hundreds of senators and cabinet members and federal judges, and thousands of Representatives. How many impeachments? Keep reading to find out!
Answer: The US House info website lists a paltry 21 impeachements, 8 convictions, and 3 resigned... over 245 years! Impeachment might as well not exist. history.house.gov/Institution/Im…
1/ #Impreachment: a failed Constitutional design. Some basic data shows it doesn't do its job.
2/ The US has had 46 presidents, 49 VPS, 115 Supreme court justices, hundreds of senators and cabinet members and federal judges, and thousands of Representatives. How many impeachments?
3/ Answer: The US House info website lists a paltry 21 impeachements, 8 convictions, and 3 resigned. history.house.gov/Institution/Im…
1/ Moderate Republicans are the most important people in the world right now. More comments on the #ElectoralCollegelRiot from a political sociologist.
2/ Right now, we have a severe problem: as long as you can gather up a critical number of primary voters, you can do some very horrible things, like incite a riot that gets 2 police officers killed.
3/ So what can be done? Part of the solution is relatively easy: criminal charges. We need a bright line. Free speech is ok, riots should be met with prison sentences every time.
1/ Something can be very bad but not a coup. More thoughts on the #ElectoralCollegeRiot from a professor who studies protest.
2/ Some folks are concerned that by calling this a riot, rather than coup, you are implictely dismissing what is happening. Not true. By using hyperbole, you are platforming people who should be marginalized and ignored.
3/ From a social science perspective, the #ElectoralCollegeRiot fits a long term pattern of political riots aimed at harming or intimidating others, such as anti-Black race riots and political urban riots of earlier American history.
1/ Comments on pro-Trump protest from a professor who studies protest. Step #1: These protests are more performance, less coup.
2/ Protests vary in their goals and tactics. While pro-Trump/MAGA protests may claim that a conspiracy altered the election, the truth is probably more mundane.
3/ The #ElectoralCollegeRiot likely represents the alt.right's attempt to grab the spotlight one last time before Dem's control the legislature and White House.