USE OF POPULAR MEDIA SOURCES

I am purposefully linking to popular accounts of social science research and debates in addition to academic sources. These 1) help non–specialists understand difficult and obscure aspects of the social sciences 2) are easily accessible, even to visitors who do not have access to university library databases and 3) are often written by academics, but forces them to put their research and arguments in clear language, and thus are sometimes better sources on the social sciences than the original academic texts themselves.