Category: sociology
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Hail the Conquering Hero
It’s the weekend before Christmas and I’m trying to get all of my grading done when Debi comes into the office and tells me that the clothes dryer is no longer working. It heats up, but it doesn’t turn. I was on track to have all of my grading done so I could relax a…
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England Trip – Day 7
We were surprised at how many things we had been able to fit in at this point. If you’ve been reading these posts chronologically, you’ll know that we skipped two attractions for various reasons. This was our make up day. We started out with a visit to Abbey Road, the recording studio made famous by…
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England Trip – Day 6
I drug Steve out to do a little more Sociology-related fieldwork during this day in London – we made the obligatory pilgrimage to the burial place of Karl Marx, Toren’s namesake, at Highgate Cemetery. Unknown to me before we arrived, there are a number of other famous people buried in the cemetery, including: Douglas Adams…
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England Trip – Day 3
This was the day of the conference. The conference was the inaugural conference of the Non-Religion and Secularity Research Network, an organization primarily made up of scholars interested in the non-religious. The organizers of the conference were kind enough to invite me to give one of three keynote presentations. The other two keynote speakers, David…
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England Trip – Day 1
While I wasn’t particularly excited to leave for the UK on my birthday, in a sense it was kind of a nice birthday present, so I didn’t really mind. I arrived at the airport a couple hours before my flight, checked in fine, and headed to the terminal from where my US Airways flight to…
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Toren rocks and…
…rolls! Okay, so he’s only done it three (3) times unassisted, but he has rolled over from his stomach to his back. He did it twice last Thursday while my Mom was watching him and one more time while I was watching. Now that I am trying to film him do it, he refuses, but…
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I made Glenn Beck mad!
He’s ranting about this report, of which I am a co-author. I consider this a shining achievement and derive almost as much satisfaction from watching Glenn Beck’s hysterics over our survey as I did when I learned I was going to publish my first article. My only regret: I didn’t make him cry!
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why no email campaign?
Sorry for another political post, but something just dawned on me. I was walking through the lobby of one of the main buildings on campus and there was a student group giving away donuts if you would call your Representative, Senator or the Whitehouse and urge them to take action on the genocide in Darfur. …
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do me a favor and maybe make money in the process
To my Tampa readers (or anyone not in Tampa who knows someone other than us in Tampa): I’m beginning a research project that includes surveying two samples of Hillsborough County residents. We’re using two surveying methodologies, one of which is an online survey. But unlike many online surveys, we are taking a different approach: We…
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read this, please!
An article on health care that everyone should read – Sick and Wrong. FYI, I’m no longer for health care reform. If it isn’t a single-payer system, it won’t do any of us any good. I figure I should come out on this now, so there’s evidence. When I tell people I was adamantly opposed…