tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52272662011-10-01T17:37:37.478-04:00Corey illustrates his confusionCoreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00119612449610307692noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227266.post-81936572048480424982008-07-03T14:29:00.002-04:002008-07-03T15:19:26.477-04:00

Before I get into this let me state, unequivocally, that I support the 2nd amendment. I believe I should have the right to own, possess, and carry a firearm. [For the record, I don't and I can see no good reason to do so; I'm not a hunter and am not skilled in discharging firearms...If I did try to defend myself in the extremely unlikely scenario that my life should be threatened, I'm likely to

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I was advised by my dean of the pending lawsuit at Georgia State, concerning digital distribution of copyrighted materials for instructional purposes (see the New York Times, and Inside Higher Ed coverage for more details).I'm mortified... my alternatives appear to be:Rely on overpriced, dumbed down, glossy, pre-packaged, drek, sold by the major, for profit, publishing houses, which are funneled

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So claims Marleigh Meisner, spokesperson for the the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services regarding the placement of more than 400 children into emergency state custody after removing them from a polygamous colony in Southwest Texas. On Friday, after a long and chaotic two days of hearings, the Judge presiding over the case signed an order validating this move. Now the State of

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I'm evaluating West Virginia's benchmark performance on the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (or ICPC). This compact establishes agreements between States so that one may place a child into foster or kinship care in another. It's necessary, because there are many steps that are required before a child can be placed (background checks, home studies, etc)... Intrastate placement is

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Via Meagan McArdle, I read this short article about some psychological research coming out of Cornell. The gist... most incompetent people have no grasp on the bounds of their incompetence. Well, I knew this, for I once worked at... (those who know, know... those who don't can rather quickly discover this with an innovative google search). But the more disconcerting finding:On the contrary.

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I'm doing a medium scale study of Child Welfare in West Virginia. My original protocol called for a mail survey of Child Protective Workers, Attorneys, and assorted support staff. Since the majority of these people now have access to the Internet at work, we decided to change the protocol to a web-survey. This morning a link to the survey was sent out to all Child Protective Services personnel

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Eszter at Crooked Timber posted an interesting exercise. The task: Grab the nearest book that is at least 123 pages long, open the book to page 123, find the 5th sentence on the page, type the following three sentences, then tag five people. I'm not going to tag anyone, but welcome the three of you who read this blog on occasion to do the same exercise. I looked above my monitors and the

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So I'm reading an opinion issued by the West Virginia Supreme court of Appeals. This case involves a young woman who voluntarily relinquished her parental rights to her newborn son (who was born with Cocaine and Marijuana in his bloodstream; the mother's parental rights to three older children had been involuntarily revoked by the Court. It's standard policy here for the State to petition a

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It's that time of year when undergraduate students are busily preparing dossiers for graduate school admissions. I was asked by one of our best students to write a letter of recommendation for her. This, being one of the things I'm paid to do, I happily obliged. But then, I started looking at all these forms. It used to be that one could substitute a letter for the official form supplied by

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I just finished watching Nimrod Nation, an 8-part documentary series on the Sundance Channel. The series follows a group of people from Watersmeet Township Michigan, a rural community in the western U.P. of Michigan. The primary story arc follows the boy's basketball team as they make a run at the state playoffs. But secondary storylines focus on the stark economic realities of rural America;

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The newspaper from the hometown of my youth has a story today about the conviction of a 21 year-old man who forcibly raped a young woman in the center of town. Thanks to the greater equalizer of the inter-tubes any and all may publicly comment on the story. Apparently someone is discusted.discusted wrote on Jan 25, 2008 6:15 AM:" Why only 13 years? He gets off easy. The victim will suffer for

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I'm reading through my RSS feeds this morning before heading off to the State capitol for a fun filled day of meetings. The first paragraph of this Inside Higher Ed article caught my eye.A law student received a 1.948 grade point average her first year, just below the 1.95 GPA students need to guarantee their spot at Southern Illinois University’s School of Law for a third semester. The student,

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Well, if you are a consumer of U.S. Healthcare and "lucky" enough to be "covered" by a PPO/POS Medical plan, I doubt I will need to convince you of the veracity of my title line. If you're not insured and have recently experienced the underbelly of our health-care billing system, you are right.. I am in no position to bitch. Still, given my pathological low tolerance for frustration, I proffer

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I don't know the guy but I've been reading his blog for some time now. This is advice I need to take to heart.If you insist on being actively involved every single time someone else in your institution is doing something objectionable, you will almost certainly devolve into being a crank and an asshole.Then again, I may be doomed.

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I don't have time to be doing this, but I don't want to do what I need to be doing at the moment, so I will write a short post. One of my on going writing projects has a working title, Criminology and the Culture War. Labeling conduct as criminal (or not criminal as the case may be) is inherently both value-laden & political. The politics often seem to trump any reasonable discussion about the

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As I posted a few days back, the stories about Larry Craig have revived interest in Laud Humphreys' controversial book, The Tea Room Trade.Scott McLemee at Inside Higher Education (and Crooked Timber) offered a detailed book review of a recent Humphreys biography. Based on this review, I grabbed our library's copy of the book and read it Friday morning (minus the appendices, the book is about

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Ann Althouse offers her two pence on the Craig affair. She criticizes a post by Arianna Huffington which stakes out a position somewhat similar to mine (Huffington, overplays the rhetorical terrorism card, in my humble opinion). Althouse makes several fair points in her criticism (though also uses a strawperson argument) and ends her post with an interesting rational-choice economic argument

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Well Senator Larry Craig has resigned from the Senate. An opinion column in yesterday's New York Times by Laura MacDonald argues that Senator Craig was entrapped.MacDonald's interesting piece draws attention to a Sociological classic written by Laud Humphreys in the late 1960s. Every undergraduate sociology student who takes a research methods course will be exposed to Humphrey's book, The

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One of the things I appreciate most about Radley Balko's writing is his libertarian consistency. Principles rather than political positioning guide his analysis. In a recent post Balko asks what conduct is Senator Craig actually guilty of committing? This is a great question.For those not following the news, Senator Craig was arrested in a mens room at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International

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Young lady standing in line behind me yapping conversing on her cell phone:Like... it was ridiculous. I mean, like, I couldn't even take notes, y'know. My teacher said um, like 364 times during her lecture. No... like, I counted them because she's like soooo obnoxious. I mean, like oh my gawd, how are you even a teacher? Sheesh, you should, like, think about what you're going to say and then

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A commitment made on the basis of an unexamined ideology may allow us to feel a manly righteousness, but it leaves us blind. - Alvin W. Gouldner (1968) "The Sociologist as Partisan: Sociology and the Welfare State." The American Sociologist. 3:103-116. Pg 105.This essay also has one of the strongest lead-in sentences that I've encountered in a sociologist's writing:Sociology begins by

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I spent the better part of this evening filling out forms for my daughter as she begins a new school year in a new State. Having been an absentee father for the past two years, I missed out on the administrative joys of getting a child off to school in our modern world. There are the multiple forms requiring duplicate entry of information; sternly worded dress code notices; explanations on the

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Via Chris Uggen (via Eszter) gmaps pedometer allows you to get precise distance measurements for your walks and runs. I used the tool to map my old football training route. What I had believed was a six mile run was actually closer to 8.Then I mapped my daily walking commute. 1 mile, door-to-door almost exactly (and and elevation change of about 250 feet. That may not sound like a lot, but I

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Well it's the beginning of a new semester and I'm frantically trying to get my syllabi done before the start of classes next week. This semester I'd like to have my Criminal Justice classes read some West Virginia Caselaw. It used to be easy to search for cases restricted to a particular state. However, it looks like Lexis Nexis decided to streamline their searching tools, thereby breaking my

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The new version of Microsoft Office ships with goofy default fonts and line spacing in the normal.dot template. After using the default out of the box for the better part of a month, I've decided they must be changed. First, I changed the default font back to 12-point Times New Roman. But then I came across this font advisory for NSF applicants. It specifies four appropriate fonts of size 10

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As I've cryptically mentioned on this blog from time to time, I interviewed for a job at Gallaudet University. At the time, I really wanted that job. (Of course, as a freshly minted PhD, stuck in a joyless (some would say "soulless") work environment, really I wanted any job). But, I really felt like I hammered the interview at Gallaudet and that I would fit there.I learned several weeks

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Though I don't pretend to understand social networking and I'm certainly not proficient at it, I've been goofing around with facebook today.One of the WVU groups is called:I've got 99 problems and 82 of them are the stairs by the Life Science Building. I might have to join that group; those stairs are in fact... a bitch.

Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00119612449610307692noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227266.post-43607586763985252772007-06-20T15:05:00.001-04:002007-06-22T19:55:53.865-04:00

Thanks to my miserly ways and a reverting pool of startup funds, I splurged on a new document scanner. This thing is amazing. I had a meeting with a graduate student this afternoon, where I took notes on a legal pad. When the meeting was over it took all of 3 seconds to scan my notes to a pdf file and store it in my student's directory.Thanks to Jeremy for his inspiration to start my own war

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I'm deep in the historical databases, looking for material about W.I. and Dorothy Swaine Thomas. One of W.I.'s early arguments concerned the social and biological bases for the inferiority of women. As I understand the story, he changed his tune in the early 1920s. [Though I could be wrong, I haven't done a lot of biographical research yet]. In anycase, I came across the attached headline

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After class this morning, I walked by the library on my way to buy a cup of coffee. A car parked in the library lot has the following slogan affixed to its rear bumper:Yes I'm a librarian and I will shush your ass.

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My institution puts out a daily email news brief listing developments of note around the campus. This came through today:RESEARCH: WVU economic study: Expenses for women can be higher in Morgantown According to the latest edition of the Morgantown MSA Economic Monitor, published by WVU's College of Business and Economics, the purchasing decisions that women make may lead to more expense than for

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Radley Balko provides a link to a Texas newscast covering a "to catch a predator" sting that went horribly wrong. I make a point of ridiculing To Catch a Predator in my Criminal Justice course. Programs like this paint an inaccurate picture picture of sex offenders. If you consume a steady diet of television programming like this, you might be inclined to believe that there are perverts

Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00119612449610307692noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227266.post-87017767413194982812007-05-30T15:30:00.001-04:002007-05-30T15:44:34.544-04:00

So the Prez at U of Colorado Boulder is initiating the process to terminate poor Ward Churchill. Some of my friends on the right who are outside of academe asked me my opinion about old Ward. Then, as now, I had no opinion. If calling the victims of the World Trade Center destruction little Eichmann's is the worst thing he's done, I wouldn't get too excited. Though that certainly wasn't a

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I got some new software this week. The new version of Microsoft Office has a redesigned user interface which I'm having to adjust to. But, my version includes Microsoft Onenote, which is a phenomenal tool. It's designed to operate like a virtual notebook, by intuitively creating moveable boxes for content insertion. I've only used it a couple of days, but I think it may be time to retire zoot

Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00119612449610307692noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227266.post-42343762946211521662007-05-25T08:15:00.000-04:002007-05-25T08:24:35.421-04:00

What exactly is the point to "checking in"? One would think that by having passengers "check in", the airline will know how many people are going to be on the plane. Fine. But now, airlines let you "check in" from your home or office computer. A lot can happen between the time I click "check in" and the time I arrive at the airport.I just bought a ticket on Southwest to fly from Pittsburgh to

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I love West Virginia. I am happy to call the State home, despite some odd idiosyncrasies. But this... well this is just weird. (Warning, there is some profanity in the lyrics).

Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00119612449610307692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227266.post-1531494463448259442007-05-19T11:58:00.000-04:002007-05-19T18:47:55.990-04:00

This post is for my friends at ICPSR (i think there's one or two of you there who will still admit to knowing me).I came across some notes that I had made in the twilight of my career as a data processor. For those of you who do not know what ICPSR does, it is (or claims to be, anyway) the world's largest archive of quantitative social science data. Investigators send their materials to Ann

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From Rex at Savage Minds I learned that Mary Douglas passed away. Every sociologist who wishes to study the dynamics of institutions should read How Institutions Think. Professor Douglas will be missed.

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Your buddies drunk dial you at midnight from Montreal.

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I cried while reading this. The Phil Nugent Experience is now daily reading.Thanks to Scott McLemee at Crooked Timber for linking to this wonderful writer.

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Is John Campbell, Republican from California. The millionaire automobile salesman from Orange County California started reading titles of recent NSF (National Science Foundation) grants to social scientsts and questioned the wisdom spending taxpayer funds on these projects. He singled out Accuracy in the cross-cultural understanding of others' emotions by U.C. Berkeley psychologist Hillary

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So I, along with nearly everyone else I know, flipped through smorgasboard of cable news pontification last night concerning yesterday's mass shooting at Virginia Tech University. I stopped at CNN which was broadcasting a press conference with Tech's Chief of Police and President. The Chief (admirably in my humble opinion) tried to retain his composure as he answered a barrage of vague and

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Kurt Vonnegut, may you and Billy Pilgrim rest in peace.

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In a 13 day span the following things happened:My car broke down on my way to an important meeting concerning a grant proposal to my State.My grant proposal to the State was well off the mark of what the funders were/are looking for, so I need to redo it.It cost me $500 to get my car repaired (an electronic control module) [the car was worth about $1500.]After paying $500 to get my car repaired,

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The New Yorker sent me a link to an important survey being conducted by some market research firm. Since I'm generally interested in how different outfits word survey questions, I figured I'd give them 10 minutes of my time and respond. I quit by the 10th item. The survey asked me how familiar I am with a range of department stores, collecting an ordinal measurement never heard ofheard of, but

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I sat at a table in the corner of the Philadelphia Center City Sheraton on Saturday working on my presentation for the Eastern Sociological Society. While working there Mitch Duneier sat down at the table next to me. He played with his blackberry for a few minutes, got up and left. Five minutes later, Eric Klinenberg sat down at the same table to eat a sandwich. What's ironic about this?Well

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Jim Nolan's mad photography strikes again. He snuck into my Qualitative Methods Seminar this morning to see my maniacal pedagogy in action. I love flip charts.

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Morgantown is pretty in the snow. My colleague Jim Nolan snapped the above photo from his office window yesterday afternoon. My view is similar. The little yellow buggy-car on the raised track is the PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) which, somewhat ironically, is neither personal, nor rapid.

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It's over. This morning we finally closed on the Money Pitt that has been our house for the past 4 years. I had to bring money to the table, but somehow I was able to pull everything together. They say that we learn from our mistakes. If that's true, I'm well on my way to be a real estate genius.

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I downloaded a new music jukebox and mp3 tagging program called Media Monkey the other day. Though I don't consider myself to be an audiophile or a music junkie, I have an impressive collection of mp3, wma, and aac files on my various computers. I downloaded Media Monkey as a tool for cleaning up the id3 tags (artist, album title, track #, etc) and organizing the physical files on my hard disk.

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I offered most of the following as a comment to Brad Wright's thoughts on the negative stereotypes of evangelicals. I'm posting it here too expand a bit and solicit opinions. I still toy with the idea of resurrecting my research program on understanding the evangelical identity movement.Brad came across a video titled "why evangelicals are scary," that portrays all evangelicals as narrow

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I just got my transcription of the open-ended student evaluations. Generally they are flattering. But I'm not sure what to make of the following:Can’t say anything bad about Colyer. Anyone who fails this class is ignorant.Hmmmm. Given that one of my anonymous raters on ratemyprofessor.com opined "His objective is not to fail anyone..." I wonder if its time to ratchet up the intensityOf course

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Jim Nolan continues to play with his camera... To the left, Brian Gerber. In the middle, Melissa Latimer. And our hero, yours truly is on the right.

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My division had an all day retreat last Saturday to work through the undergraduate curriculum in Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology. My colleague Jim got a new digital camera for Christmas, so we have photos. In all, I work with a good bunch of folks.The day begins with a greasy breakfast at the Pokydot followed by several snack breaks. You will note from the photos that playdough and

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So as not to be shown up by other (higher profile and arguably smarter sociological bloggers), I took the online Ultimate Bible Quiz.You know the Bible 95%!  Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic! Ultimate Bible QuizCreate MySpace QuizzesI feel

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Well, I still have not sold my house in Michigan. It has been on the market for 1.5 years now and the price has been dropped several times. It's currently priced at a point that gives me next to no wiggle room.Since dropping to the current price X (which is about 5,000 below what we paid for the house a few years ago) we have received two offers. Both offers were substantially below the asking

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Brad Wright tagged me to give five odd facts about myself that most people would not know. 5) I got into my college by virtue of an athletic admission slot. My high school grades were not particularly good and my SAT scores were pathetic. But I was pretty good at running into other human beings as hard as I could (who said football has no academic value?).4) I was once an elementary education

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In the summer of 1983 I discovered the ibm personal computer. I had (well still have, actually) a friend whose father worked as an inventor for Corning Glass and was an early adopter of technology. The computer, with its dual disk drive and monochrome monitor sat on a large worktable in the den, a space that easily accommodated Brian (it was his house), Dave (another friend) and me. Brian

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Oh, the joy of teaching in a large State University! I teach in the fastest growing major in my college. Student demand for classes outstrips the supply by a relatively large multiple. Today I spent over an hour talking with two separate students who didn't register for courses when then should and consequently are finding themselves blocked from courses they need to graduate. Last night more

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HBO broadcast the season 4 finale of The Wire last night. You can't come away from watching this series without a profound appreciation for the power of institutions and institutionalization. Without going into too much detail (inorder to avoid spoilers), the Wire develops several intertwined plot-lines. Beginning with the West Baltimore Maryland drug trade, we meet several players (ranging

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3 years ago I eagerly waited by the phone to hear from potential employers. I had just returned from my 3rd campus interview and the working conditions at my current job were rapidly deteriorating. A good friend (who reads the blog) called me into her office one morning to tell me that I wouldn't be offered the job I was expecting. A friend of hers had already been hired. [This department

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On the first day of the semester, I notify students that I'm generally tolerant of classroom behavior. I don't take it personally when someone falls asleep (I teach at 8:30 a.m., and 4:00 p.m.; often in inadequately lit rooms), when someone needs to leave early, or even if they need to whisper to a neighbor to catch something they just missed. I will publicly embarrass students for two

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Yeah a naive question... but that's what I do.Brad Wright is writing a series of posts on statistics and Christianity. He's currently focusing on variation in divorce rates across types of religious adherents. In the first data post (linked above) he uses General Social Survey data to show that folks who are actively religious are less likely to have ever been divorced than those whom have

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This is my public apology for a momentary lapse of judgment leading to my unwitting support of an evil empire.All is back to normal now... as you were.that is all.

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The small sociological blogosophere has been stirred up lately over the Journal impact factors.1 [I can hear the collective yawn of those readers who are not sociologists; I'm afraid to say this will not get any more interesting to you]. Within Sociology, three journals have historically been considered the big three.The American Sociological Review.The American Journal of Sociology.Social

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I just returned from a 3 day visit to Los Angeles for the American Society of Criminology meeting. I enjoy the ASC (much more than the American Sociological Association meetings). The highlight of this year's meeting for me was listening to Jock Young deliver a stinging criticism of the discipline's abstracted empiricism (taken from C. Wright Mills, "where precision is mistaken for truth").

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I plan to work up a post on Jesus Camp as soon as the movie finds its way here to Morgantown. In the interim, for anyone interested, I suggest you check out Jon Trott's commentary.I consider Mr. Trot to be one of the few evangelicals visible in the public sphere who is still worthy of my trust. Jon was part of a team of journalists from JPUSA (Jesus People USA) a common-purse christian

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By now most people have seen the ugly incident between the University of Miami and Florida Atlantic's football squads. If you haven't seen it, the youtube stream is available below. (Warning it is violent).Others have already pontificated on the lack of an appropriate response by the NCAA, the Atlantic Coast Conference, or the respective (using that term loosely) universities. While the

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I watch a lot of college football (some might say too much). Typically, I tune out the banter of the commentators. While some of them draw my attention to interesting strategic aspects of the game (such as Bob Davie and Mike Gottfried) most just fill air with the obvious (Brent Musburger & John Maddden {in the NFL}) .But last night as I watched an obviously overmatched Penn State team struggle

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So its the new TV season. And though I shouldn't watch TV until I get tenure, thanks to TIVO I have hours of entertainment waiting for me when I return home each night. I started watching a new series on CBS called Jericho. The premise is engaging enough: how does a small town pull together in the face of nuclear fall out. The pilot episode, despite some crappy writing, held me with the plot

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I'm going to work up a substantive post about the new Documentary on Jesus Camp. However, I think this documentary and the discourse that's swirling around it is ultimately counter-productive. Yes, there is an evangelical subculture; but this jesus camp is not in any way, shape, or form, representative of it. The ABC News clip provided below references the massive "evangelical subculture" and

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This movie makes me cringe:updated: I changed the embedded film to a youtube stream, so it will stop running automatically.

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We share good taste in television entertainment. He likes the Wire.

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I just spent the last hour clicking through random blogrolls (I still don't know how to do that myself; if a visitor knows how to setup blogrolling please feel free to enlighten me via the comments, or an email: cjcolyer gmail com ). I started with a post at Althouse, which is yet another continuation of breast-gate. I started reading the comments and became increasingly disappointed in the

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Too much of my yesterday was devoted to reading the fascinating if goofy discourse around some feminist blogger, who posed for a picture in front of Bill Clinton, apparently so that we can see that she has *gasp* breasts (note, start with the link from Bitch PhD above and then follow the click-throughs).I won't comment on any of substance (not that there's much of that in any of these posts).

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This morning's Corning Leader, the paper's leadstory is concerned with a man-hunt for a prisoner who escaped from the Erie County Correctional Center several weeks ago. He is armed and extremely dangerous (having shot three State Troopers earlier in the week).The paper included the picture on the right. I'm not sure I would be smiling if the police were ransacking my trunk with a shotgun.

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I subscribe to the RSS feed for Inside Higher Ed (sort of a freebie Chronicle knockoff). This morning, they published an essay by Alaina G. Levine, a director of special projects of the University of Arizona's College of Science, concerning manners.She begins her tale by describing an anomaly...A gorgeous, well-dressed man had claimed the chair to my right at the table. There are plenty of

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Although I think all four people who read this blog also read Chris Uggen, I'm passing along a rather funny video link he provided today.

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I recieved an email this evening from United AirlinesWe'd like to remind you that time is running out on the invitation to join Ameniti®, United's exclusive travel club that was designed especially for you – the frequent traveler who expects world-class service and appreciates excellent value. It appears for the small sum of $300 a year, I can:Bring a companion for free (everytime I purchase an

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So says James Renfield in a short essay on the Discussion Class (hat tip to Rex at Savage Minds). Renfield writes that while he is in favor of discussion-oriented teaching methods, he finds himself using them less.one of my students said that he found the previous two classes very helpful. When he said, "You took control," I replied, "You mean I was lecturing." The student who happened to be

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I'm planning on traveling to Albany this fall for a symposium on the future of death penalty research. My friend Janet has graciously offered to let me crash at her house (big scarry dog not withstanding).According to Mapquest, the drive from Morgantown to Albany is roughly 8 hours. While not a horrible drive, that's more time than I want to spend in the car for a work-related thing. So, I

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I just discovered that the greatest rock-n-roll band in the world is making a movie.Hail the D.

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I was reading old newspapers yesterday in the Archives and came across the following announcement in the January 9, 1947 edition of the Logan (WV) Banner.The P.T.A. is screening an entertaining and informative film this Saturday: How to get the most out of your refridgerator. I wish that film were available in the archives.

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I'm in a singer-songwriter groove right now. One of the best places to purchase this genre of music is Paste Music. Paste publishes a magazine that includes a free CD sampler in every issue. It was through that magazine that I discovered Ric Hordinski's amazing ambient guitar work. The Paste Music store makes available a handful of free Mp3s from its catalog. Over the weekend I discovered a

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Bill Mallonee sings:why is joy something i must stealstarving skeletons looking for a mealout in the graveyard the church bells pealearth has no sorrow heaven can't heal

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So says former Auburn University tailback and alleged sociology student Carnell Williams. Last week the New York Times published a story suggesting that professor Thomas Petee provided independent study instruction to 18 football players in the 2004-2005 academic year. Collectively, these athletes earned a 3.31 GPA in Petee's classes but only a 2.14 in their other classes.I first learned about

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Is it just me, or did ASA significantly raise their registration fees for the annual meeting? The last time I went to ASA (as a registrant) the fee's were less than $50 for students. This year, students pay $65 and "Regular" members pay $165. I hope we get a decent tote bag this year for 135 clams.

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Taylor University, my alma mater (class of 1994) is in the news. Five students were killed in an accident on April 6th. A tractor trailer crossed the median of I-69 just miles from the Upland, Indiana campus. Earlier this week, we learned that two of these students were misidentified. I can't begin to imagine how awful this must be for both families. In one case, a family's hopes have been

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I'm accompanying a collegue who teaches an inside out course at a State prison nearby. The course involves several inside students (who are incarcerated) and several outside students who are entrolled in this senior level seminar. I'll probably have more to post about this at a later date.On the first night of class, the outside students were taken on a tour of the facility. For many of us (

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My colleagues here often ask me why I don't like to use SPSS*. I have a hard time explaining to them why I use Stata**, a package not widely used at this institution and not supported by our statistical support people. Fortunately for me, sociologist and short-fiction blogger Jeremy Freese concisely articulates what I've been unable to explain:At first I worked with SPSS, which I found

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A student that I taught at my previous institution encouraged me to get a facebook account. To humor her I did. But after a colleague complained that her students were getting other students to sign them in* via facebook, I decided to troll through the WVU facebook stuff.I come away from this experience with one word of advice:If you seek a career in law enforcement, you probably should not

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Wild and wonderful Originally uploaded by samhdaman. In 1977, Kai Erikson published Everything in its path, a study of how a man made flood destroyed several communities along Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia. I am starting a small follow-up study and went to Logan County last weekend. I checked into my hotel on Thursday and found this towel waiting for me. There are some

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Several bloggers have been posting their Visited States maps. Here's mine:create your own visited states mapYou can also do a world map; but in my case it would just show North America, so why bother?

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I just returned from an enjoyable 3 days at the Eastern Sociological Society's annual meeting. One session, a conversation with Peter Berger, gave me a lot too chew on. Berger's style of sociology attracted me to the discipline. Two books in particular sparked my imagination in a way that nothing else did: Invitation to Sociology & The Sacred Canopy. Robert Wuthnow, another sociologist for

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... are miserable.There must be someone who is good at managing a 3-hour, one-shot class. If you (dear reader) know of strategies for making a 3-hour course work, feel free to let me know what it is.

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In an article titled Sex and the Single Scientist members of the U.S. House of Representatives pontificated on the difficulty of promoting science:Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, a Michigan Republican, noted that “pretty girls don’t date nerds.”I must be an outlier. I'm people tell me I'm a nerd and my wife (who is very pretty) dated me. *shrug*

Coreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00119612449610307692noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5227266.post-1138810427100001172006-02-01T11:02:00.000-05:002006-02-01T11:13:47.110-05:00

University of Minnesota Sociologist & Criminologist Christopher Uggen recently blogged about using short video clips to augment lectures. One resource mentioned in that post is Google Video. This is the new service offered by Google serving up video streams of varying lengths on all sorts of things.Since I'm teaching today about the foundations of positivist criminology and its linkages to

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I've been reading some of Ceasare Lombroso's translated writings in preparation for my Criminology course this semester. Lombroso is considered the founder of the Italian school of Criminal Anthropology, a program emphasizing crime's biological and hereditary sources. Though early in his career, he advanced a theory of atavism, he moderated on this view later in his life. In 1899, he published

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