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Featured Resource: Chronicle of Higher Education
- How Sociologists Can Battle Covid Denialism (Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 Sep 2021) The behaviors that usually get thrown into the black box of “irrationality” are sociology’s specialty. And that’s why it’s an especially useful discipline for dealing with the national public-health emergency we face. Insights from sociological theorists like Robert Merton and Erving Goffman can do more than explain the strange pandemic behavior we’ve seen in recent months: They can save lives.
Featured Research & Data: COVID-19
- The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change (SAGE) Based on an analysis of Twitter data, this article examines the appearance of generational ideas in the ways that people have defined the experience and significance of the coronavirus and climate change, as well as related them to each other. I characterize the narrative frame as one of intergenerational discounting: a description of breakdown in reciprocal obligations of care, giving rise to accusations of hypocrisy, expressions of resentment and rage, and the description of the virus as the ‘Boomer remover’.
- Examining spatial inequality in COVID-19 positivity rates across New York City ZIP codes. (ScienceDirect) We aim to understand the spatial inequality in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) positivity rates across New York City (NYC) ZIP codes.
- Exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in the United States: A nationwide cross-sectional study (Harvard University) United States government scientists estimate that COVID-19 may kill tens of thousands of Americans. Many of the pre-existing conditions that increase the risk of death in those with COVID-19 are the same diseases that are affected by long-term exposure to air pollution. We investigated whether long-term average exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is associated with an increased risk of COVID-19 death in the United States.
- Coronavirus Holds A Magnifying Glass To America’s Inequalities And The View Is Brutal (Huffpost) But the pandemic may give us the best opportunity to tackle these deep social fractures.
- Federal COVID Data 10: How to Find Data (The COVID Tracking Project) Here’s where and how you can find COVID-19 data now that The COVID Tracking Project has ended.
- The COVID Racial Data Tracker The COVID Racial Data Tracker was a collaboration between the COVID Tracking Project and the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. Together, they were gathering the most complete and up-to-date race and ethnicity data on COVID-19 in the United States. As of March 7, 2021 they are no longer collecting new data.
- Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) COVID-19 Survey Archive This searchable, open-access archive houses probability-based surveys on the COVID-19 pandemic conducted in the United States and internationally
