February 13, 2009
Sociologists' Use of Genetic Data
To the Editor:
About "The Nature-Nurture Debate, Redux" (The Chronicle Review, January 9): I would contest the essay's central thesis that sociologists who use genetic data are renegades or at least press up against resistance from their discipline.
As one such sociologist (I was a contributor to the special issue of the American Journal of Sociology cited in the article and also quoted in the article), I have never encountered anything beyond polite inquiries from colleagues,
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