The “sociology of” blog post of the week is not my own, but rather that of Nick and Ellen. N&E are former students of mine, this year abroad in Rome, who started a travel blog to document their trip. Soon after posting about their time in Assisi, Umbria, and sharing some pics of the Coliseum, [...]
(I’m colorblind, and have no idea what these numbers are.Thanks Duke, Heather, and Bruce!) 2006 has been quite a year in blogland. For starters, I joined the blogging community (footnote1: read highlights from the first week). I’m just in time, too, or I never would have been appointed person of the year by Time magazine [...]
Several bloggers are commenting on this article in the Times fashion series, and today is the obvious day to talk about it. The piece discusses sociologist Adie Nelson’s study, The Pink Dragon Is Female: Halloween Costumes and Gender Markers (read the abstract). Nelson finds in a content analysis of nearly 500 children’s costumes, that they [...]
Ok, so this isn’t really that sociological, even by this blog’s standards. I’d probably have to look at time-use surveys on DST weekends, analyzing them across categories of race, class, gender, and sexuality. That seems like a longshot, so I’ll stick with my one observation of the weekend. Every Hour is a Totally Free, Unaccounted [...]
I don’t know why the U.S. Army ever decided to lose it’s 20 year slogan of “Be All You Can Be.” But a few years back they did, in trade for the ultra confusing “Army of One.” Today, however, NPRs Marketplace reported that after a brief stint, the motto has retired. The Army rested partial [...]
We Fiesta’d (past tense of fiesta?), ate fries, saw the dolphin show , and created our own Mold-A-Rama red giraffe . These parts of Brookfield Zoo in Chicago are staples. They’ve been there for years, for at least as long as the zoo’s only dinosaur (and I don’t mean the black rhino, either). But more [...]
Check it out, the Winnetka Park District features trapeze lessons in the summer! Just when I thought I’d seen enough on Green Bay Road – we usually take this route to avoid the highway when driving back from Ravinia. Since the Chicago Botanic Garden is located about a mile from Ravinia, Sarah and I took [...]
Got back from visiting the in-laws this week. Sarah’s family, and a bunch of our friends, live in Bethlehem PA, requiring us to drive 90 from Chicago, 80/90 through Indiana and Ohio, and Route 80 through Pennsylvania. I took some notes during the trip, and now present the Sociology of Route 80/90. Getting started. First [...]
My first ever collaboration is on a music blog! I’m more of a sociology blogger, but I think that music and sociology can mix. You can check out my post with friend Duke of Straw in his series, “Songs that got me through high school.” Really, I should have done “Songs that got me through [...]
Welcome everybody! Seems only appropriate to do a “sociology of this blog” post for you. Might as well make it my welcome post. My sociological analysis of the blogosphere so far deduces that you, the blog visitor, are either (1) a regular visitor of this site, (2) someone who landed here via search engine, (3) [...]
