monday sociologist: Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich is my favorite public sociologist, hands down, no competition. My dream college course to teach would be called “sociology according to Barbara Ehrenreich” and we would read either her own writings all semester, or writings that she references or suggests. That means that the course would include at least a peppering of Katha [...]

"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!” [...]