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Philip N Cohen

@philipncohen.com

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Sociologist and demographer, University of Maryland; director of SocArXiv. New book out! Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists https://cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen-scholar/9780231555418
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Philip N. Cohen is an American sociologist. He is a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and director of SocArXiv, an open archive of the social sciences. .. more

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Nov 14

Hello new followers! I waste a lot of time on here, but when I'm not doing that I sometimes write books. My new one is called Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (out in January, orderable now), and it has all you need to prevent ... oh no
cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 13h

You're too kind
familyinequality.wordpress.com/2021/03/28/t...

The American Sociological Association is collapsing and its organization is a perpetual stagnation machine

I was elected to improve ASA and I failed.

familyinequality.wordpress.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15h

Here is the updated trend with most of the controls. In JSE I could say: although the absolute size of the gender gap in opposition to pornography has not grown, as both lines are trending toward zero the ratio of women's to men's opposition *is* increasing, so our theory is still correct. JSE!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15h

JSE is a face-saving mechanism for reporting that things have turned out differently, as it gives you a chance to explain what happened while maintaining buzz and channeling new citations to the more recent paper.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15h

Funny thing happened after 2012 (see figure). This is why wee need the Journal of Subsequent Events. The paper is still puttering along at half a dozen citations per year, and apparently no one noticed the trend changed. Why should I bother to tell you this, if it will only hurt me? JSE!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15h

We said opposition to porn declining faster for men was "consistent with the increasingly normative nature of pornography consumption for men, increases over time in men’s actual consumption of pornography, and its increasingly degrading depiction of women." Seemed reasonable. Open version:
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15h

In 2015, Lucia Lykke and I published an analysis of GSS (through 2012) that showed US women were more likely than men to favor banning pornography, and the gap was widening. In our model, with control variables, the linear slope for men was steeper than for women. Here's the unadjusted trend:
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 15h

Using GSS or ACS or CPS or NLSY to analyze a trend, and then years later ... it changes. Huh! Maybe we should have a Journal of Subsequent Events, to incentivize the original authors to report these developments. They are most likely to notice, and may as well get some credit for showing it.
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 22h

By my reckoning no modern authoritarian leader has been as unpopular in his capital city as Trump

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 23h

Yes that's right

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

A few of Copenhagen's dramatic statues

A Moment of Peril (Thomas Brock replica)

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Heritage: burning in Hell to own the libs

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Is there enough digital ink in the world to devote this many words to each Gazan who will never be returned to their family.

Hamas Hands Over Body of Israeli Soldier Held Since 2014

www.nytimes.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

In word counts, US media does their part to honor the 1000-to-1 Israeli to Palestinian life value rule in reporting on the return of remains to their families.

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Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social · 1d

Haha that's pretty awesome. Nice one, Herbert Blumer.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

"Diversity" was always already a defensive fallback. Then it became too much, so they reduced it to, "broaden the perspectives represented." Then they killed it.

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program

Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

www.insidehighered.com

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Today in Copenhagen: "People are disappearing. Fear and unrest are permeating the streets."

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Waiting for the followup

Why are so many liberal feminists women?

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

Ya, no good way to answer those.

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