I RTed this thread yesterday, but this particular tweet really is an important one. I think it's relevant not only to teaching, but also to political communication. (1/n)
https://twitter.com/krishashok/status/1434507883954147328
Those of us who are high in political engagement spend a lot of time talking to (or at) each other, and we lose all sense of what outliers were are in terms of how much more time we spend thinking about politics and how much more central politics is to our identities. (2/n)
We habitually use concepts & terminology to make sense of social and political issues that are abstract. specialized, & intellectually subcultural. We are not simply Converse's ideologues/near-ideologues, but the folks in the upper tail of the distribution in that group. (3/n)
I am as guilty as anyone else of this, as a social scientist! (4/n)
But it's a conundrum that folks need to be aware of: if you are highly engaged, you may be more likely to have specialized insights or knowledge that others might not have -- not because you're incredibly smart, but just due to investment of effort. (5/n)
At the same time, you've probably also been socialized into a subculture that speaks of this knowledge in unfamiliar or unrelatable terms. Translation is essential. (6/6)
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