How do race, gender, political memory, and media context intersect in evaluations of science?
A closer account of the question, evidence, and how to interpret this work.
If institutional trust is shaped partly by political experience, people who are the same age may still have encountered very different institutions. Race, gender, and other social positions can change encounters with public authority, representation, and scientific systems. An intersectional approach asks whether broad cohort averages conceal those different histories.
A comparison would need to distinguish the historical events shared by a cohort from the institutions and experiences that were not shared. Differences by race or gender should not automatically be attributed to memory: socioeconomic position, religious context, party identity, media environment, and direct institutional treatment could also matter.
This is a developing agenda rather than a completed empirical test. The relevant contribution is the question it adds to existing science-trust research: whose memories are included when an explanation appeals to what a political generation experienced? The website should describe the proposed inquiry without inventing survey interactions or estimated subgroup effects.
Source: Developing Intersectional Memory and Epistemic Trust research direction.
The site presently documents the agenda, not a tested set of findings or an established data collection. This page is a project prospectus rather than a result summary.
Research direction · In development · Laura D. Young · Developing research direction.