{"id":404,"date":"2017-10-02T00:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/?p=404"},"modified":"2017-10-02T00:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T04:09:39","slug":"dying-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/third-blog-the-science-of-political-science\/dying-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The conclusion to Gessen\u2019s article leaves me unsatisfied. To me, the idea that hopelessness is the cause for so much death, seems incomplete and untestable. The unavoidable flaw to the study lays in the fact that the subjects are all dead. Nonetheless, the piece highlights the importance of both qualitative and quantitative research to dig deep into the problem in Russia. Cultural research, institutional research, and historical context all play a critical role in untangling the anthropological question at hand\u2014yet the final conclusion still feels shaky. The article reveals that in social science there is no ultimate truth; we can only approach truth and come short. There will always be alternative arguments, and we need multiple view points to help piece together a whole. So yes, there is a \u201ctruth\u201d that lies beyond the grasp of social science. We should absolutely <i>not<\/i> stop striving for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conclusion to Gessen\u2019s article leaves me unsatisfied. To me, the idea that hopelessness is the cause for so much death, seems incomplete and untestable. The unavoidable flaw to the study lays in the fact that the subjects are all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/third-blog-the-science-of-political-science\/dying-russians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1746,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-blog-the-science-of-political-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1746"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18f-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}