Thomas Linneman wrote an article appearing earlier this year in Teaching Sociology that documents a continual upgrading in the statistical methods used in sociology articles. He asks the reader to ponder whether or not sociological statistics courses are preparing undergraduate students to read most published sociological quantitative investigations (they are not) and for statistics instructors … Continue reading
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Twin Designs and Cultural Capital
I am late to this party, but in 2017 sociologists Mads Meier Jæger and Stine Møllegaard published a study using a monozygotic twin design to study the effects of cultural capital, a concept in education research capturing familiarity with the dominant culture. Other sociologists [1,2] have made convincing claims that cultural capital matters for academic … Continue reading →