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Why So Stupid?
We’d like to think this is Dick Vitale asking if UNC’s community relations team is a bunch of “victim-blaming diaper dandies.” “I have what I think is a sociology question for you,” a friend of mine in...
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Worst Spring Break Ever
The weather sucked (and not just in Minnesota). Once again, our university spring break didn’t line up with the kids’, so my family didn’t get to go anywhere. And my big, make-the-best-of-it plans to...
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Scalia Takes it from “Bad” to “Really Bad”
Remember how I said it was the worst spring break ever? Well, I’m usually not one to dwell on the dismal, but sometimes circumstances dictate the mood. I’m speaking, of course, of Justice Antonin...
View ArticleScalia Vindicated?
Addendum to my post last week criticizing Scalia’s characterization of the state of sociological research on the question of the impact of gay and lesbian parents on child development: Phil Cohen (and...
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They Like Us! They Really Like Us!
The Society Pages scored a nice little win in Las Vegas last week—not at the slots or the craps tables, but at the 6th Annual Meetings of the Sloan Consortium for Emerging Technologies for On-Line...
View ArticleGoing Big with On-Line Teaching and Learning
In the wake of our award from the Merlot group for outstanding multi-media educational resource, we have been thinking a lot about on-line teaching and learning here at TSP. Can everyone now say...
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One More Shout-Out for Ethnography Article
Field research photo by Nicolas Nova via flickr.Just Just one more, late addition to last week’s round-up: the TSP Media Award for an article in The Atlantic earlier in the spring. The piece described...
View ArticleFriday Roundup: May 17, 2013
Finishing Strong Here in Minnesota it appears (knock on wood) that the terrible long winter is behind us–which means that finals are upon us, commencement is coming, and grades will soon be due. And...
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Race: 50 Years Ago, Today
Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy, Jr. in 1963. In this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer, sociologist Chip Gallagher reminds us that two formative events in the history of American race relations...
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Social Facts and Conspiracy Theories
Cover image via 911truth.org. Social facts have been the focus of several conversations around TSP “world headquarters” recently as we’ve begun to formulate our plan for next year. It is our continuing...
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The Home Stretch (Or: Introducing Our Third Book)
The latest mock-up of the cover for our third TSP volume. If you are a parent with kids in summer sports, like myself, you may recognize the feeling: the last regular season games are wrapping up, the...
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Got Data?
Under the title “Know Thyself, America,” Washington Post columnist George Will wrote a piece a little over a week ago that advocated for the continued support of the American Community Survey (ACS), an...
View ArticleThe Quarterback Sociologist
Since sociology and sports are two of my greatest passions, it should come as no surprise that an article in the current issue of Time magazine that had the words “quarterback sociology” in the title...
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Friday Roundup: Aug. 16, 2013
Home Again, Home Again So, we are back from that extravaganza of society’s science, the annual American Sociology Association meetings. Among all the usual parties, plenaries, and pleasantries, the...
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Sex Sells Sociology
In the wake of the annual American Sociological Association meetings, it is always interesting to see what (if any) new research and ideas from the field capture media attention. One topic is fairly...
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Energy and a New Academic Year
The U of Michigan drum major trailed by children across the quad. Photo from TIME LIFE, 1950. Click through for original. Why is it that some people seem so much more energetic and productive than...
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Sketch #1: “Just Don’t Call It That”
Photo courtesy Letta Page New years bring new goals and often bigger ambitions. One of our TSP goals, over the next year or two, is to better represent the field of sociology as a whole. Don’t get us...
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Sketch #2: Ears to the Ground
This photo does not depict either Doug Hartmann or Chris Uggen (nor any of the reporters they work with), but does come courtesy of Tommy Japan via flickr.com. When scholars think about doing...
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Sketch #3: Dare to Engage in Dialogue
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what sociologists have to gain from doing “public sociology,” from engaging broader, non-ivory tower audiences more self-consciously and systematically. In my...
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Sketch #5: Of Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Spiders
A few months ago, one of our bloggers, the “backstage sociologist” Monte Bute offered up a post that referenced political theorist Isaiah Berlin’s famous distinction between foxes and hedgehogs. In...
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