Commentator Chris Matthews contrasts sociologists with Americans
Check out this fascinating blog post from Jeff Weintraub about MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews’ comments about contrasting sociologists with Americans. Weintraub writes, “Tonight, Matthews suddenly...
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sociologist weighs in on the latest round of marijuana debates
The Boston Globe reports on how the increasing potency of marijuana fuels the fires of partisan marijuana debates. “…The polarized debate about [marijuana's] safety has been rekindled by two reports...
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‘rich man’s burden’
NYU sociologist Dalton Conley published an op-ed piece entitled ‘Rich Man’s Burden,’ in honor of Labor Day. This did not go over well with Slate.com writer Timothy Noah, who wrote a response entitled...
View Articlethe american family
The Washington Post recently posted comments from sociologist Andrew Cherlin on the state of the American family. The online forum was developed to address vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s...
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‘overfeeding on information’
This Sunday’s New York Times ran a piece titled ‘Overfeeding on Information’ about our obsession with the news, especially during such a closely contested presidential election and in the midst of an...
View Article‘meet the bloggers’ features sociological commentary
The latest installment from the video podcast ‘Meet the Bloggers‘ (from Friday, October 24th), examines the role of race in the presidential election and features commentary from sociologist Adia...
View Articleif the news had a sociological slant
True/Slant recently parodied how reporting on the oil spill might look quite different “if sociologists wrote the news instead”: Absent from the dialogue surrounding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill,...
View ArticleAsk a Social Scientist!
The Occupy Wall Street protests are in full swing across the nation, and reporters are doing their best to navigate and explain the growing, and sometimes ambiguous, movement. Not surprisingly,...
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Bystander Journalism?
The controversial New York Post cover, cropped so as not to show the victim, nor the word DOOMED (all caps in the original). Image via nypost.com. On a busy bridge in Detroit during a traffic jam,...
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March 2013 TSP Media Award for Measured Social Science
Just gotta find the gold one… Photo by takingthemoney via flickr.com It’s been decided! The winner of the March 2013 TSP Media Award for Measured Social Science goes to: “Anthropology Inc.,” Graeme...
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