Reader's Adversary #2
Assorted Links
Compiled by Craig Gibson/Professor & Professional Development Coordinator/Ohio State University Libraries & Drake Institute Faculty Fellow for Mentoring
Here are more links to sources I’ve been saving dealing with scholarship and activism, and political and cultural polarization. I’ve also included some brief “explainers” on decision-making and sorting out controversial issues in the interest of making viewpoint diversity possible.
Here’s a good example of an evidence-based approach to activism and how it might influence scholarship:
Here’s an article from The American Sociologist examining the issue of activism in social sciences and distrust among conservatives:
More in Common is a research organization that conducts studies of polarization in the U.S., the U.K., France, and Germany in order to better understand the sources of division, and how citizens might solve big problems facing them. Numerous publications are free downloads.
Publications (moreincommon.com)
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist who writes and speaks on decision-making and work environments--there are implications here for viewpoint diversity in the workplace. His “Meta
Bulletin” blog is free to subscribers.
How to Be Less Wrong | Meta Bulletin
New Substack newsletter: “What the Other Side is Saying”, brings together (very concisely) opposing viewpoints on the most controversial topics of the moment, for example, Critical Race Theory, Gender Ideology, and the Disinformation/Misinformation debate.