Os Guinness on how evangelicals view and use sociology
Os Guinness tries to explain how evangelicals view and use sociology: CP: How are we as Christians failing to live the Way of Jesus? Guinness: Sadly, when we look at many movements within...
View ArticleMeritocracy vs. structures illustrated by a British rapper who chose LSE over...
I have seen a number of stories in recent days about a 17 year old British rapper from a disadvantaged area, Franklyn Addo, who had a choice to study at five British universities, including Cambridge....
View ArticlePeter Berger on his career as an “accidental sociologist”
Sociologists don’t often produce memoirs. But Peter Berger has a new book that has some insights into his career: Since the 1970s, Berger admits to having felt increasingly removed from — or...
View ArticleTwo sociological studies on politicial self-selection in academia
The topic of political bias in academia comes up now and again – it was in the news earlier this year after when a social psychologist made a presentation at a professional meeting. In bringing up the...
View ArticleThe first Apple sociology app?
I didn’t see this coming: Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is launching its first mobile application in Sociology, accessible...
View ArticleMixing sociology and anthropology: naming Claude Levi-Strauss a “founder of...
While describing the theme of the Magnificat, a writer mixes sociology and anthropology: The triumph of the meek is a recurring narrative in all cultures both sacred and secular. One of the fathers of...
View ArticleAward-winning sociological rapping about Marxism and feminism
Teachers are often looking for new ways to present material so that students will learn the material better. How about this technique: sociology teachers rapping about Marxism and feminism: TWO...
View ArticleIt is the best of times for teaching sociology and the worst of times for...
A minister and adjunct instructor of sociology raises an intriguing question: when times are good for teaching sociology, it may be bad times for society. This is a great time for teaching sociology,...
View ArticleWaPo op-ed suggests sociology degree are the antithesis of Wall Street
An opinion piece a few days ago in the Washington Post contrasts those working on Wall Street and sociology majors: How nice it would be if the 99 percent had never heard of Wall Street – perhaps if it...
View ArticleThe role of sociology in Illinois learning standards for social science for...
Building on a post from yesterday about textbook errors in sociology textbooks for fifth-graders in Macedonia, I was interested in knowing more about Illinois learning standards for social science for...
View ArticleWhy cases of scientific fraud can affect everyone in sociology
The recent case of a Dutch social psychologist admitting to working with fraudulent data can lead some to paint social psychology or the broader discipline of sociology as problematic: At the Weekly...
View ArticleAdding sociology to the MCAT
I’ve wondered recently about sociology in grade schools and here is news that sociology has been added to the MCAT, the entrance exam for medical schools: The 2015 change marks the fifth major...
View ArticleDocumentary about sociologist Zygmunt Bauman
Based on a few stories in the last few days, I have again realized that sociology outside the United States may be quite different. While there is a dance performance in Quebec celebrating the life of...
View ArticleSociology: challenging common sense
One simple way to view sociology is that it often challenges common sense understandings of the world: We talk a lot about common sense; as if that’s a good thing. I remember my uncle describing a guy...
View ArticleIs Charles Murray really a sociologist?
I’ve seen a number of news stories about Charles Murray’s latest book and one thing caught my eye: the claim that Murray is a sociologist. (See examples from the Philadelphia Inquirer, BusinessWeek,...
View ArticleRemembering Pierre Bourdieu
A little more than ten years after his death, The Guardian takes a look at the influence Pierre Bourdieu has had on sociology and other academic fields: Ten years after the death of the French...
View ArticleThe sociology knowledge you need to take the MCAT
I noted last year that the MCAT, the exam for applicants to medical school, was changing to include knowledge about sociology. Since then, I have been curious about what exact sociological knowledge is...
View ArticleAn anthropology PhD student who got a sociology job argues for...
An anthropology PhD student at UCLA argues that he was able to expand his job choices by presenting himself as an interdisciplinary scholar: Some of my mentors, none of whom are in anthropology...
View ArticleLost Star Terk episode was to feature Milton Berle as a “messianic sociologist”
I’ve noted before that sociologists are rarely featured in television shows or in movies. Alas, it looks like CBS won’t allow the creation of a new online Star Trek episode based on a long-lost script...
View ArticleHistory – facts = sociology?
Lamenting how history is taught in today’s schools, one writer argues that history without facts is just sociology: My son’s teacher confirmed that this is broadly true. The teaching of history in...
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