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Repository for Adam Bonica's presentation at the CSS Workshop (1/24/2019)
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Politics, Meet Sociology: Joining Hands in Abstract Worlds #1

Open policyglot opened 5 years ago

policyglot commented 5 years ago

Thank you for your highly readable explanation of what could have been an overwhelming concept.

A large part of your discussion hinges on the identification of appropriate abstract and high-dimension 'spaces' representing ideologies and actions. Towards the end of your paper, you referred to ideologies as 'self-organizing system of preferences that evolves over time and adapts to different institutions and political behaviors.' In this vein, I'd like to point you to another paper that looks into abstract spaces- this time for cultural associations with terms including 'race' and 'gender' (by our own UChicago Knowledge Lab!) They use an unsupervised algorithm on text data, unlike your supervised one. https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1803/1803.09288.pdf Given the salience of these two terms (race and gender) in political ideology in recent times, how can sociologists and political scientists best collaborate and juxtapose their methods? The aim would be to mathematically model and understand the relationship between ideology and culture among Congress members, populations of voters (and of course, potential donors to campaigns).

w4rner commented 5 years ago

Bhish: can we get an easily understandable elevator pitch for the Evans et al. paper? Don't understand the take home.

bhargavvader commented 5 years ago

I particularly like that paper, so looking forward to @policyglot 's elevator pitch!