Sketch #6: Society’s Super Egos
Perhaps envisioning Chris Uggen as a Sociological Spiderman last week got me going, but over the past few days, I have found myself thinking about all kinds of super-hero analogies and metaphors for...
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Online and Doing Fine
Kids might do things differently today… Image via Tumblr “Docs to Parents: Limit Kids’ Texts, Tweets, Online.” So reads one version of today’s reports on a new study published in the American Academy...
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The Personal is Sociological
Bowl of Someone Else’s Memories by cogdogblog via flickr.com My colleague Teresa Swartz (full disclosure: I’m also married to her) has this writing exercise that she does with all of her Intro students...
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Tenure, Time Use, and a Quick Laugh
Comic © Jorge Cham via PhDComics. Click for original. The life and work of a sociology professor was a topic of conversation in my senior capstone course this week. It started when I asked students to...
View ArticleSociology in Retired Football Player’s Past
You may have heard the story about the NFL lineman, JohnMoffitt, who recently up and quit the game just months away from locking in the guaranteed pension and benefits that comes with being in the...
View ArticleGreat Books in Sociology
“Great Books in Sociology” is a new course I’ve proposed for our graduate curriculum here at Minnesota. I’m not sure I’ll get to teach it or not, but I’m having lots of fun thinking of the books I...
View ArticleWhat’s on Your List?
Happy New Year! The “great books in sociology” post I did a few days back got a nice little response (not all of it online) and generated a number of new ideas for the graduate seminar I’ve proposed...
View ArticleBute’s Big Ten
As a follow-up to my post about great books in sociology last week, I called for readers to send in their own Top 10 lists. It has been fun to see those starting to come in. Here’s one from TSP...
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Representing the Field: What—and Where—Is “Sociology”?
What’s different about our perspective? Photo by MAJ Aaron Haney via U.S. Army/familymwr, CC licensed. At the beginning of this academic year, Chris and I set a goal: we wanted The Society Pages to do...
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Bones and Stakes in the Sociological Imagination
Screenshot by See-ming Lee via Flickr CC. Click for original. “I’ve got a bone to pick with you!” Such was the rather awkward beginning of a recent conversation I had with a friend in the social...
View ArticleKristof Panel Podcast: Find it Here!
Nicholas Kristof’s recent critique of sociology, political science, and the humanities for effectively isolating themselves from larger and more public discussions of social issues has resulted in a...
View ArticleMarch Madness and Me, on TV
It’s that time of year. So when our university media relations folks called, I agreed to do a little segment for the local Fox News Station (channel 9, in the Twin Cities market) on the madness of the...
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Talking about Society with Society
Maybe a little less of this? Photo by Axel Hartmann (no relation), grenzquerer.com. Click for original. Spring break brings time for reflection. Last week during my days at home in Minnesota (where it...
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Tax Time Sociology
Kenworthy’s latest, with cool background via University of Arizona. Procrastination? No way. When it comes to economics, it’s just that I’ve spent my past few weeks thinking about the topic in...
View ArticleDonald Sterling Sociology
So a number of students, media members, and colleagues have been asking this afternoon what I think of NBA Commissioner Adam Silver’s lifetime ban of Clipper’s owner Donald Sterling following the...
View ArticleHistory, Race, and the NBA
Over the past week—when not sitting in meetings, prepping for tomorrow’s classes, or trying to squeeze in some research—I’ve been trying to think through the NBA “family’s” self-celebrated claims of...
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Trending in Research
Great graphic, and I love the title–though I’m not sure if why I like it so much (the title, I mean) is intentional or not. Click for the original.
View ArticleBeyond White Male Guilt
With Elliot Rodger in the news and the discussions around violence and misogyny, we’ve been getting questions–especially from genuinely concerted and disconcerted white men–about how to acknowledge...
View ArticleWord Choice and the World Cup
The World Cup was the subject of local media and culture reporter John Rash’s column this past weekend. He interviewed me for the piece and we had a wide-ranging conversation about a number of...
View ArticleThe Morning After
With Germany’s 1-0 victory over Argentina in a tense and tightly final game yesterday, the 2014 Brazil World Cup has drawn to a close. This edition of soccer’s global spectacle drew rave reviews for...
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