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how i learned to stop worrying and love to blog
I have never been as hyped as many Communications scholars or bloggers about the democratic possibilities of The Internet. Like Cass Sunstein, I tend to think that The Internet encourages segmentation...
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the pedagogy of whiteness
Yesterday, a friend sent me a link to a very funny blog called Stuff White People Like. Then, this morning, on under the apt title, “whiteness studies,” Jeremy Freese of scatterplot linked to soaring...
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a plaintive comment
After staring at Stata’s horrifically ugly user interface for hours, I often develop an overwhelming sense of anomic meaninglessness. After all, no matter how advanced our methods are, no matter how...
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the worst case for sociology
Sudhir Venkatesh (Gang Leader for a Day) was on The Colbert Report last night. And, man, did he make sociology look bad. SV: Poor people wouldn’t answer my questions. SC: Poor people wouldn’t answer...
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ethnography at subway
I’ve always been uncomfortable being served by others. I simply can’t stand putting another person into a position of servitude. So, even when I’m standing at the Subway counter, I feel like saying,...
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culture as an independent variable and fandom
I have to say, I’ve always been somewhat skeptical about the notion of culture as an independent variable. Like many sociologists, I tend to think primarily in terms of the structural forces that shape...
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what is sociology?
Over the past several months, I have heard (both directly and indirectly) several stories of manuscripts coming back from journals with the judgment that they are methodological sound and very...
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