For everyone, but especially the grad student readers of this blog, Jeremy’s post on a well-known ethnography developed into what I think is an important and fascinating debate on research ethics and legal responsibilities. I won’t say more here because I completely clogged the comment section over there and should politely shut up now (there [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Interesting Discussion…
Posted in research on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ahh, google…
Posted in adventures with child on January 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My blog stats indicate that most people are finding my site as a result of a “child-friendly restaurants” search. Nice — I’m now recommending Hooters to parents and impressionable daughters the world over. The more that come, the higher it gets on google. My penchant for sarcasm strikes again.
Whatever happened to average?
Posted in adventures with child on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I concede that Newsweek is almost People magazine for politicians these days, there was a good piece on all the expectations we put on kids to be successful IN ALL AREAS today.
Like most professors, I did pretty well in school. There were a lot of As and my mother always got those creepy letters sent [...]
Week 4 Product Report… Crash and Burn
Posted in on the tenure track, research, writing on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, it’s safe to say I crashed and burned on week 4 of trying to write a little every day. I couldn’t even get up the motivation to write a short blog post detailing my disinterest in writing, so this gives you some sense of how last week went. In keeping with my rock star [...]
I’m down off my high-horse now…
Posted in teaching on January 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I just finished writing a lecture on public reactions to unusual events and the influence this has on public policy, using crime as an example. I decided to do the lecture almost entirely through the use of images. This was a bad idea. Having now spent the last three hours* pulling together pictures of Dru [...]
Dr.? Who me?
Posted in on the tenure track, work/family on January 26, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’ve mentioned before how uncomfortable I am with being called Dr… I’ve been known to ‘profess’ on occasion but people who went to medical school are doctors.* Especially with respect to graduate students, I’ve always been a little bothered by places that insist that students refer to the faculty as Dr. or Professor. I hope [...]
Oh, what have I done?
Posted in blogging on January 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve decided I really like blogging — it oddly makes me more productive because it gets me in the mood for writing and it’s a nice way to process the first-year on the tenure track without burdening your colleagues, friends, and family with your worries. The main problem has been WordPress’ blog stats. You can [...]
Academic Knowledge for Public Consumption
Posted in research, work/family on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been thinking lately about why I do what I do and what drives my interest in sociology. What I came up with is that I’m most interested in work that easily applies outside of narrow sociological interests or sub-disciplines. I like taking social facts in my area of expertise and trying to creatively make [...]
Vista
Posted in research, teaching, writing on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Speaking of things that suck away your time (see here and here and here), why can’t Microsoft just improve an operating system? Why must they change EVERYTHING, all at once? I was really tempted to buy a Mac when I first started my job but lacked courage. I did, however, insist on not having a Dell and [...]
For the Love of Johnny Cash
Posted in music, pop culture on January 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
NOTE: I am trying to confine my posts to all things academic (as I think that going outside of that gets people into trouble of the “too much information” variety — before tenure, I’m trying to avoid this). If I am to keep blogging, however, I will quickly run out of things to say. If this post seems goofy [...]
