Tag: sociology
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Powerpoints
I’m not sure if anyone will be interested in these, but over the last couple of years I’ve put together a few powerpoint presentations that others may find useful. I’ve uploaded them all to a website that lets others view them online and download them. I’ve prepared presentations on each of the following books: Guns,…
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intriguing news items
I haven’t posted news articles in a while, but these two struck me as noteworthy. First, turns out the regulations of European countries during good economic times seem to have sheltered them from the current economic storm. Huh… I’m sure the greedy capitalist assholes who got us into this mess aren’t very happy about this…
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Debi returns; someone packages my work and sells a book with my name on it
Debi just returned to Florida from a weekend visit to Utah for a baby shower. She very much enjoyed the trip and the shower and loved seeing everyone. Lucky her, she returned when I was about half way through redoing our spare bathroom. We redid our master bathroom over our winter break. The spare bathroom…
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The Boston Globe calling…
I received an email from Michael Paulson, a religion reporter for The Boston Globe, yesterday asking me if I had time to talk about a new study coming out today. The study is the latest wave of the American Religious Identification Survey. Having worked with the principal investigators – Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar –…
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new publication – Fighting Over “Mormon”
An article I co-authored with Michael Nielsen just came out in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. It takes a look at some claims made by the LDS Church concerning the coverage of the FLDS raid in Texas last year. If you’re interested in more details, let me know.
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never underestimate the power of the human libido
As I was walking into my building today, a recurring thought hit me, one that was spurred by the opening scenes to the movie Amelie a few years back: Just how many people are having sex around the world at any given point in time? Yeah, so, I’m weird, big deal! This didn’t occur out…
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insurance discounts
Not sure if anyone will be interested in this, but I occasionally talk about this issue in my classes and finally found a document to illustrate my point. Our health care system in the US makes little to no sense, in large part due to health insurance companies. From what I understand, health insurance companies…
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I’m all the rage in South Dakota!
Okay, so I’m prone to hyperbole. Anyway, Debi found a blog by a Ken Blanchard, a commentator on politics in South Dakota, who mentioned Sociology’s distaste for all things genetic and biological. As a sociologist who embraces biological explanations for behaviors where appropriate and supports sociobiology, I had to comment. He liked my comment enough…
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everglades, Miami Beach, and someone famous!
Last year we snuck away during our winter break for a quick getaway to Myakka River State Park. This year we opted for a quick weekend getaway to the Everglades. We were waiting to arrange the trip based on the schedule of the contractors who are working on our house. As seems to often be…
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domestic partner benefits report
Here’s another report I ended up putting together recently because I was interested in domestic partner benefits: Summary Report on Domestic Partner Benefits (DPBs) Ryan T. Cragun Assistant Professor of Sociology Definition domestic partners are non-blood relatives who share the same residence, intend to do so indefinitely, are not currently married to someone else, who…