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Joel Best, "Just the Facts: Untangling Contradictory Claims" (U California Press, 2025)

New Books in Sociology

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Denial, Identity, and Language of Social Problems

Best on denial and disbelief as identity‑forming social practices, the primacy of evidence for resolving disputes, and his new project examining words used to frame social problems.

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