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This volume is intentionally published to coincide with the 2024 presidential election. For past and current members of the Justice 21 Committee, the vision was to provide policymakers and the public with evidence-based solutions to contemporary problems. It is an effort to engage in public sociology that departs from the discipline’s traditional structure of creating and diffusing information. At the same time, while each chapter in the volume addresses a range of issues using scientific knowledge and tools, they are all cultural products. They are the outcome of not just human effort but a multitude of people collectively engaged in the activity of explaining troubling conditions with scientific evidence. These chapters aim to persuade audiences that social scientific solutions can effectively mitigate or manage these problematic conditions. They slightly differ from how social scientists traditionally attempt to distribute their ideas to audiences. The volume resides among the thousands of other efforts to persuade people that they ought to engage in action to do something about a troubling condition. While the contributors are primarily social scientists and activists, their explanations of troubling conditions must resonate with audiences. Not all audiences will likely be receptive to the definitions, research evidence, and solutions presented to these problems. They may prefer others who use different forms of persuasion and systems of distribution. The production, distribution, consumption, discussion, memory, and preservation of claims are affected by various institutions and organizations that constrain and facilitate this general process.
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