A couple of years ago, when we didn’t yet know about the wonders of flickr (footnote: good article on flickr history), some friends of ours started a photo group on Webshots. The project was called “Winter Sanity” – something to get us through a long cold season – and the goal was to put up [...]
From the Chicago Tribune: TO OUR READERS Published January 1, 2007 Today we introduce three new comics to our daily comics lineup in Tempo: “Ink Pen,” “Lio” and “Raising Hector.” Please note that the creator of the cartoon “FoxTrot” has cut back his production schedule to Sundays only. In addition, we are discontinuing two strips, [...]
Introduction. I don’t know if you’ve seen The Cradle Will Rock, but – if so – my favorite line from the movie is “Mmmmm mm mm mm-mmm.” The line is supposed to be, “Now who’s the dummy?” and is said by an actual Dummy, as attempted by really bad ventriloquist students, one of whom I’m [...]
(Best of Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis, click on Rat to read) These days I don’t really blog instantly when I think of an idea. Instead I save up for when I have the time. I had been planning to address this issue of “Long Post, Short Post” by Carly Confused , you know, [...]
Since school is starting up next week, I thought I’d post a favorite classroom assignment of mine, especially in introductory classes. It’s a comparative community demographic assignment, good for thinking about your own location in the spectrum of social inequality. American FactFinder can be found at the U.S. Census website, and is used by many [...]
(Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis; click on Rat to make larger) Here are some links I’ve been poking around in the last week Waiting for GoffmanGreat sociological perspective on blogging by Rhymes With Scrabble, who is studying for her prelims. So am I, so I appreciate this! [footnote: actually I have to write an [...]
I realize that the police are here to keep the peace, but they also maintain social control in ways that privilege some and not others. For example, two instances: Skater. There’s this vacant lot on a city street corner down the way from my apartment. The lot is only recently vacant; it used to be [...]
Now that I blog, I understand cartoons about blogs. Also thought you’d like some of the posts I’ve been checking out lately [footnote: The cartoon is Pearls Before Swine, and no I can't make it bigger. You can, though, by clicking on Rat]: general sociologyIn honor of the stats course I’m taking next school year, [...]
Check it out: I found the original petition mentioned in N.O. Part I, signed by about 200 “nonpartisan, multi-disciplinary … social science researchers.” It’s called Moving to Opportunity in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Seriously, I know the work of several of the sociologist signatories, and greatly respect them too. But I still have to [...]
I read this piece on public housing in New Orleans at the Black Commentator a little while back, and was disturbed by extensive list of poverty sociologist-researchers who support what amounts to near exile of the majority of the city’s poor. Namely, mixed-income housing is the issue du jour in N.O. today. And the New [...]
