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A Sociology of Happiness?
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Yesterday I attended a provocative conference entitled "Manufacturing Happiness: Investigating Subjectivity, Transformation, and Cultural Capital." Some of the research included: How medical practices mitigate the unhappiness associated with languishing in waiting rooms using TVs and handheld computers, while simultaneously shaping patients to serve the practices' own interests. How a large technological corporation ...
Carlin and Marx
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Teaching a class on Marx tomorrow, wishing I could show this video (skip ahead to about 1:20). A great Marxist rant, from class struggles all the way to false consciousness. Too bad that typical Carlin profanity and patriotic irreverence makes it inappropriate for classroom use... [Edit: I showed it to them ...
xkcd Redux
Friday, July 18th, 2008So apparently, xkcd doesn’t consider sociology to be the bottom of the barrel. That spot is reserved for literary criticism. I’m not entirely sure how the sociologically uninitiated might be able to last four minutes without his or her lack of training exposed. I can think of a number of slips ...
Rancher = Sociologist?
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Heh. From Slashdot: Geohashing, an obscure xkcd pastime which involves going to random coordinates generated by md5 hashing, the date, and the opening status of the stock market, appears to have just gotten far more interesting. The official wiki reports a warning for other geohashers intending to go to the spot ...
Rebuttal
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008I love xkcd, but today’s cartoon is misleading and incomplete. Obviously, this rubric ignores sociology’s standing a priori as the superior academic discipline. But the beginning of a corrective argument is contained in the mouseover: On the other hand, physicists like to say physics is to math as sex is to masturbation. This ...
