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Category Archives: Sociology
Seeing multiple perspectives
I am always looking for ways to help my students see the complexity in most situations — that the things that “everybody knows” may be only part of the truth — or not true at all — and that knowing … Continue reading
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Tagged Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sociological Imagination, Story
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Academics keeping time
I am at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion. It's the third academic conference I've attended this year. I have seen the same thing at all of them: speakers who drone on beyond their time. … Continue reading
Falling median
There’s a doubly good discussion of the graph of falling incomes at Numbers Rule Your World. First: that tracking the median income only of full-time workers masks the impact of changed work patterns. The proportion of people who can find … Continue reading
