Checking Out

I have a novel idea for an intro to soc class – one that has been inside my head long enough that it is threatening to become brain crack.
I don’t really like the standard intro format.  I certainly understand it; when you cram a whole bunch of highly-specialized people into a department and then develop [...]

Fucking Sociologists! (A rant)

Stories like this one from the NYT (“Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness”) and articles like this one from Teaching Sociology (sorry, non-university peoples) often get me thinking about what precisely the point of social science is. Or should be.
I really enjoyed the NYT one: here were two generations of researchers bringing evidence to bear [...]