Here’s a great piece of everyday life sociology I found at blackprof.com several days ago. It’s called Race, Class, and Church Parking. Blackprof.com speaks for itself, so check out the post. In the meantime, also read the dcist article on the topic. According to the Washington Post, Mayor Anthony Williams has postponed the ticketing of [...]
If every person in the world today consumed the resources of one average American, we would require six (6) Earths, or an ecological footprint of 24 acres of land per person. Can you believe it? This of course is for the average car driving, meat eating, McMansion building red blooded American, and for many of [...]
The recent New York Times essay, Scan This Book, combined with Morgan Spurlock’s recent gig, got me to thinking about how much money the world has been making ever since Abby Hoffman popularized This Book as a concept for a title. The irony of course is that Abby’s book is titled Steal This Book and [...]
Check out this great “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks! “Blog” reminds me of the acknowledgments to sociologist Arlie Russel Hochschild’s book, The Commercialization of Intimate Life. In it, she thanks her husband/editor, Adam Hochschild:To impress on me the dangers of using too many quotation marks, he commented in the margin of one early darft, “Oy!” [...]
Here’s a story from today’s New York Times. The Nukak-Maku are a nomadic people of the Amazon jungle in Colombia. The Times reports that they have recently emerged from the jungle, in a single collective decision, and proclaimed that from now on they choose to live life in agrarian society. Of course they have to [...]
Since we’re on the topic of fast food, here’s a safe look at the realities of feedlot beef in America. “The Meatrix” has been around online for a couple of years; last month “The Meatrix 2″ made it’s debut. Moofius takes us on the true journey of cows and pigs before they become meat; these [...]
So the most interesting news yesterday was that Disney broke their contract with McDonald’s to sell happy meal toy characters of their movies. Newspapers report that this was due to a rise in child obesity; McDonald’s has released a statement refuting this. However NPR’s Marketplace played a one-year old clip yesterday of Steve Jobs (CEO [...]
Dorothy Smith is the first sociologist of the week. And appropriately so, given the title of this blog: The first book I read by Smith is titled The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. I was going to find an image cover of her book to place here, but then I thought the following: [...]
Well here it is. I never thought that I would enter the blogosphere and now I have. Bear with me as I attempt to figure out the technology of it all. My first order of business is to direct you all to my friend’s blog. It’s Duke of Straw’s The Late Greats ~ Please visit, [...]
