the sociology of Memorial Day camping

My partner and I are fresh back from a long camping weekend at Big Foot Beach State Park in Lake Geneva. Wisconsin is beautiful, by the way, and BFSPinLG is highly recommended!Big Foot “Beach”For those traveling for the sand and surf rather than the camping or the town, then please know that the real title [...]

"everyday life" in quotes

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!” [...]