From my Twitter feed: Sociology/Social issues/Higher Ed Can you imagine the outrage that would ensue if dozens of white teens died in the Chicago suburbs every year? Chicago public schools in 2007-08 academic year: 34 deaths and 290 shootings. Not enough ppl care, certainly not ones in power. Sad. http://bit.ly/tI4nF # Thomas LaVeist does work [...]
Also tagged music, politicsFor academics: outstanding post by @tenuredradical on departmental workload issues, w/ good advice on how to handle it. http://bit.ly/4j0ygd # Good news: Amy had a short story accepted by Third Coast, a great literary journal. You can read some of her work here: http://bit.ly/DJSxN # 67 excellent documentaries available through Netflix http://bit.ly/cjXRT # Excellent column [...]
Also tagged academics, documentaries, literature, music, workAkron/Cleveland bummer: Bang and the Clatter Theatre defaults on loan, closes up shop. cleveland.com http://bit.ly/XHs3J # I love this. GOP strategists worry about effect of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh on party’s future. Reap what you sow. HuffPo: http://bit.ly/91oYm # Interesting question of taste vs. perception: craft brewers moving from bottles to cans. Akron Beacon-Journal: http://bit.ly/ZraRu # [...]
Also tagged Akron arts, good beer, wingnutsCoffeeshops as proxy for gentrification: hoods with more coffeeshops see decreases in violent crime http://ow.ly/nzDv (via @praxishabitus) # Can’t make it, but – RT @HickoryinAkron Akron TWEET UP!! 7 p.m. Thursday 9.3.09 @ 746 Hickory – You are invited! Bring a friend or a group. # Taught my first Intro To #Sociology class ever this [...]
Also tagged Gentrification, taxationRT @eszter sociologists marginalize lots of work w/real-world apps RT @craigjcalhoun Why do sociologists marginalize communications research # Nate Silver @ FiveThirtyEight: “ample reason for Democrats to be worried — perhaps deeply so — about 2010.” http://bit.ly/10D8UK # Free e-book: GIS in the Social Sciences – http://bit.ly/2bmiYs (via @ssresearchnews @meoneogeo) #sociology # This seems to [...]
Also tagged Election 2010, GIS, Google, health care, twitterFor fans of The Wire – The Big Issue in Scotland – Features – Dominic West http://bit.ly/BqANh # RT @lukasneville: A (co)citation graph of the 50 most-cited papers in the past 10 years of AJS, ASR & SF: http://bit.ly/11sGXL #sociology # Krugman was right. Hopes of post-partisanship were foolish. Trying to work with conservatives is [...]
Also tagged Akron music, politics, The Wire, wingnuts* Very funny LeBron commercial. “Akron, Ohio, baby!” http://bit.ly/3x7EBB * WSJ: White House Czar Calls for End to War on Drugs. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124225891527617397.html * Malcolm Gladwell doesn’t know crap about hoops. He uses Pitino to make an argument, but ignores his Boston fail. http://tinyurl.com/dyzs2p * New live David Byrne EP to benefit Amnesty Int’l: http://tinyurl.com/p4o3l3 * [...]
Also tagged LeBron, music, social policy, twitterAccording to a new study released this morning by CareerCast and JobsRated.com, sociologist is the eighth-best job in the country. CareerCast’s research team rated 200 jobs on criteria in five categories: Environment, Income, Outlook, Stress, and Physical Demands. Some of the factors within Stress, for example, include: quotas, deadlines, advocacy, win or lose situations, working [...]
Also tagged jobs, rankings, workMonday morning’s reads: What men can learn from women – The Boston Globe – Good article on masculinity and health. David Williams, a titan of medical sociology (and my advisor’s advisor), is quoted. RISK Mismanagement – What Led to the Financial Meltdown – NYT Magazine – “Were the measures used to evaluate Wall Street trades [...]
Also tagged Cuyahoga River, economics, environment, health, masculinity, riskThe Daily Kent Stater, KSU’s student newspaper, ran a good story yesterday on the research of my friend and fellow second-year colleague, Joanna Dreby. Her research analyzes how families manage family transitions connected with immigration (e.g., one parent living in the US while the rest of the family remains in Mexico). It’s nice that the [...]
Also tagged families, immigration, Mexico