Hacker News with Generative AI: Sociology

How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Lynn's National IQ Estimates (astralcodexten.com)
Richard Lynn was a scientist who infamously tried to estimate the average IQ of every country. Typical of his results is this paper, which ranged from 60 (Malawi) to 108 (Singapore).
Intelligence, Psychology, Sociology, Research, Criticism
9 points by tontonius 2 days ago | 2 comments
Flynn Effect (wikipedia.org)
The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world over the 20th century, named after researcher James Flynn (1934–2020). [1][2]
Intelligence, Psychology, Research, History, Sociology
14 points by yamrzou 6 days ago | 9 comments
The relationship recession is going global (ft.com)
The relationship recession is going global
Relationships, Global Trends, Sociology
34 points by hunglee2 7 days ago | 88 comments
The Anti-Social Century (theatlantic.com)
Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.
Social Trends, Sociology, Loneliness, American Culture, Politics
148 points by coloneltcb 7 days ago | 158 comments
Myth of Meritocracy (wikipedia.org)
Myth of meritocracy is a phrase arguing that meritocracy, or achieving upward social mobility through one's own merits regardless of one's social position, is not widely attainable in capitalist societies because of inherent contradictions.
Social Inequality, Capitalism, Sociology
12 points by DiscourseFan 12 days ago | 5 comments
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration (amazon.com)
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Politics, Sociology, Social Commentary, History
5 points by vogu66 13 days ago | 0 comments
Should more of us be moving to live near friends? (architecturaldigest.com)
25 years ago, Toby Rush and his friend group at Kansas State University received some valuable advice from elder mentors that would shape their entire adult lives.
Friendship, Lifestyle, Housing, Sociology, Community
621 points by Geekette 23 days ago | 487 comments
Zero-Sum Thinking and the Roots of U.S. Political DivideS [pdf] (scholar.harvard.edu)
Politics, Sociology, United States, Research
5 points by therabbithole 35 days ago | 0 comments
The "Elite Overproduction" Problem (arnoldkling.substack.com)
Yascha Mounk scrutinizes Peter Turchin’s idea “overproduction of elites.”
Politics, Sociology, Academia, History
6 points by paulpauper 38 days ago | 0 comments
Japan: Early career setbacks reduce marriage and birth rates (population.fyi)
A CSRDA Discussion Paper (Long-term Consequences of Early Career Disadvantages on Fertility: Evidence from Japan by Manting Chen) finds that men in Japan who start their careers in non-standard employment, such as temporary or contract work, face a major disadvantage when it comes to getting married and having children later in life compared to those who land stable jobs right out of school.
Japan, Economics, Sociology, Marriage, Demographics
6 points by amichail 44 days ago | 0 comments
Human Interaction Is Now a Luxury Good (nytimes.com)
In part of her new book, “The Last Human Job,” the sociologist Allison Pugh shadowed an apprentice hospital chaplain, Erin Nash, as she went through her day.
Sociology, Human Behavior, Luxury Goods, Books
8 points by mooreds 44 days ago | 2 comments
A federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert (theatlantic.com)
The concept of the food desert has been around long enough that it feels almost like a fact of nature. Tens of millions of Americans live in low-income communities with no easy access to fresh groceries, and the general consensus is that these places just don’t have what it takes to attract and sustain a supermarket. They’re either too poor or too sparsely populated to generate sufficient spending on groceries, or they can’t overcome a racist pattern of corporate redlining.
Food Deserts, Poverty, Policy, Sociology, Urban Planning
94 points by zdw 46 days ago | 116 comments
Probable Predictors of Involuntary Singlehood (sciencedirect.com)
People living in contemporary post-industrial societies frequently find themselves being single without wanting so, and the current research aimed to understand the reasons why.
Social Sciences, Sociology, Relationships, Singles, Demographics
25 points by domofutu 50 days ago | 2 comments
Why unexpected visitors are in danger of extinction (elpais.com)
The ring of the doorbell when you’re not expecting anyone is, at the least, odd. Above all in big cities, where distances between homes can be long and the act of going to see someone implies a certain amount of preparation to traverse the town.
Social Commentary, Urban Life, Sociology
11 points by PaulHoule 50 days ago | 0 comments
The myth of the loneliness epidemic (asteriskmag.com)
Are we really living through a uniquely lonely moment in American history? When it comes to friendship, this isn’t the first time that authorities have cried wolf.
Social Trends, Sociology, History, American Culture
48 points by Luc 53 days ago | 56 comments
Crime in Antarctica (wikipedia.org)
While crime in Antarctica is relatively rare,[1] isolation and boredom affect certain people there negatively and may lead to crime.[2]
Crime, Antarctica, Sociology
4 points by popcalc 60 days ago | 0 comments
Raising children still takes a village – But the village is changing (studyfinds.org)
NEW YORK — There’s an old saying that it takes a village to raise a child. A new poll finds today’s parents are reinventing what it means to rely on their “village” when it comes to raising their kids.
Parenting, Sociology, Family, Community
16 points by Brajeshwar 63 days ago | 2 comments
Elite Overproduction (wikipedia.org)
Elite overproduction is a concept developed by Peter Turchin that describes the condition of a society that is producing too many potential elite members relative to its ability to absorb them into the power structure.
Sociology, Political Science, History
54 points by lantry 65 days ago | 14 comments
Social Determinants of Health (wikipedia.org)
The social determinants of health (SDOH) are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status.
Health, Social Sciences, Sociology
5 points by sandwichsphinx 72 days ago | 0 comments
Politicians are Jungian symbols, policies are facades (ofthetwodreams.substack.com)
We think of power as something solid - bills signed into law, executive orders stamped with authority, concrete barriers erected at borders. We imagine change happens in marbled halls and wood-paneled rooms, through the shuffling of papers and the banging of gavels. But this is actually just theatre; a shadow play on the cave wall.
Politics, Philosophy, Sociology
17 points by SherryFraser 72 days ago | 4 comments
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (2021) (city-journal.org)
A new book explores the religious origins of the West’s divergent political, technological, and cultural development.
History, Culture, Religion, Sociology, Economics
6 points by walterbell 75 days ago | 0 comments
Japan's Eightfold Fence (2017) (americanaffairsjournal.org)
For Westerners sympathetically acculturated to accepting radical multiculturalism, Japan offers an almost shocking vision of an alternate reality.
Japan, Culture, Multiculturalism, Sociology
11 points by ciconia 77 days ago | 0 comments
Lead–Crime Hypothesis (wikipedia.org)
After decades of increasing crime across the industrialised world, crime rates started to decline sharply in the 1990s, a trend that continued into the new millennium.
Crime, Sociology, Social Trends, Demographics
8 points by segasaturn 78 days ago | 0 comments
Research shows dating apps, sites are leading to more diverse couples (phys.org)
The so-called "traditional" way of dating has changed drastically over time, especially in the last decade. While most couples used to meet through families and friends or local organizations like church, according to University of New Mexico Sociology Professor Reuben Thomas, many American couples now meet online.
Dating Apps, Sociology, Relationships, Online Dating
6 points by PaulHoule 81 days ago | 0 comments
Dynamic Models of Gentrification (arxiv.org)
This study presents an agent-based model that simulates urban gentrification through the relocation of three income groups -- low, middle, and high -- driven by living costs.
Urban Planning, Agent-Based Modeling, Gentrification, Sociology, Economics
43 points by Anon84 85 days ago | 32 comments
How do you evaluate the recent situation of university students? (ycombinator.com)
I have always been curious about education-related issues. What is the current situation of university students? Can I request a sociological and psychological evaluation? I would be happy to receive comments from university professors or parents.
Education, Sociology, Psychology
5 points by ismailsevik 90 days ago | 9 comments
List of multiple discoveries (i.e., simultaneous independent inventions) (wikipedia.org)
Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery".
Science, History, Sociology, Multiple Discoveries, Independent Invention
3 points by churchill 92 days ago | 1 comments
Understanding how bureaucracy develops (dhruvmethi.substack.com)
Bureaucracy, Social Sciences, Politics, Sociology
196 points by dhruvmethi 93 days ago | 97 comments
Nobel Economics 2024: why some countries are rich and others poor (nobelprize.org)
This year’s laureates have provided new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations. One important explanation is persistent differences in societal institutions. By examining the various political and economic systems introduced by European colonisers, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson have been able to demonstrate a relationship between institutions and prosperity. They have also developed theoretical tools that can explain why differences in institutions persist and how institutions can change.
Economics, Sociology, History, Development
15 points by hhs 96 days ago | 1 comments
The illusion of moral decline (2023) (nature.com)
Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining1,2.
Morality, Social Science, Psychology, Sociology
14 points by therabbithole 98 days ago | 10 comments