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r/AskSocialScience
184k members
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# Welcome to r/AskSocialScience!
**The goal of AskSocialScience is to provide great answers to social science questions, based on solid theory, practice, and research.**
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Prior to posting, **please review the [AskSocialScience Rules](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskSocialScience/wiki/rules)** or this summary:
**1.** All claims in top level comments **must be supported by citations** to relevant social science sources. No lay speculation.
**2.** Questions should be **novel and specific and
Popular Themes in r/AskSocialScience
#1
Advice Requests
: "Hello, are there any academic works (I want to avoid pop-sociology) that are beginner friendly enough to be easily followed as an audiobook?"
4 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "qualitative data analysis software advice"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/AskSocialScience
#1
Gender
: "Why do we talk so little about the fact that Gender is a social construct?"
11 posts
#2
Society
: "Why is it acceptable for Society if a woman wears mens clothes but isn't acceptable if a man wears womens clothes?"
11 posts
#3
Culture
: "Do you know of any studies/articles discussing the effect of popular Culture (television, music, etc.) on representations of society ?"
11 posts
#4
History
: "What is the History of astroturfing, and who first caught on to it?"
9 posts
#5
Education
: "130 IQ kid born in an average income household vs. 100 IQ kid born in a top 10% income household - all else equal, who would likely come out on top in terms of academic success?"
6 posts
#6
Politics
: "Why do conservative candidates do better than liberal candidates when running on the culture war?"
6 posts
#7
Race
: "Why is there more academic research on white anti-semitism and islamophobia vs. any other Race?"
6 posts
#8
Research
: "Is there a term for/Research on a "white flight" type of phenomenon, of people trying to separate themselves from LGBT people?"
5 posts
#9
Social Sciences
: "What kind of professions have the majority of social science grads ended up in the last 20 years or so?"
4 posts
#10
Religion
3 posts
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+34k members(23.0%)
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