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My focus is on understanding and addressing the way certainty drives our tendency to judge harshly, demonize, and dismiss people who disagree. As well as understanding how we got to this point.
We often think of this as a problem of political polarization, a lack of civil discourse, or a lack of viewpoint diversity. Where those are actually the downstream effects of a fundamental problem in how we think.
My work includes:
Research Interests
Viewpoint diversity
Political polarization
Education
PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Teaching
SOC 230, Sociology of Political Polarization: Bigots and Snowflakes
SOC 163, Social Problems
SOC 280, Introduction to Social Statistics
Office Address
326 Lincoln Hall MC-454
702 South Wright Street
Office Phone
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Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education
Redstone, I. & Villasenor, J., 2020, Oxford University Press. 208 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Democracy and the problem of certainty
Redstone, I., Feb 2025, In: Theory and Society. 54, 1, p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Response to Commentaries
Redstone, I., Feb 2025, In: Theory and Society. 54, 1, p. 51-55 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More — and How We Can Judge Others Less
Redstone, I., Sep 2024, Pitchstone Publishing. 248 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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Duration of Residence Measurement
Akresh, I. R. & Massey, D. S., Jan 1 2023, Selected Topics in Migration Studies. Springer, p. 205-206 2 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Book: Healing America’s divisiveness requires changing how we think
8/26/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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How are social media changing higher education?
4/22/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment / Interview