Joel Best, University of Delaware
Recent name-calling features angry disputes about what is factual and what is fake. Making sense of these claims and counterclaims requires us to think about the social processes by which truth and fakery are determined. Joel Best is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. He is a former editor of the journal Social Problems and a past-president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. He has published more than 25 books and received the American Sociological Association’s Public Understanding of Sociology Award in 2016
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