The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • A Sociologist's Take on a Middle School Dance

    I had the opportunity to attend a middle school dance last week.  I didn’t volunteer.  Apparently I missed a meeting! I didn’t dance.  I’m not much of a dancer. But I am pretty good at watching crowds and identifying patterns. I didn’t expect to see anything different from this particular dance than any other dance Read more

  • Curing Homosexuality? Why?

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Above is a classic interview conducted by Rachel Maddow with Richard Cohen. Cohen believes that homosexuality can be “cured” if you follow his methods. Rachel does a fantastic job of destroying his logic. My only criticism is that I wish Rachel had Read more

  • A Consensus on Global Warming vs. Climategate

    It must be remembered that regardless of how we feel about the flogged and lamented Climategate scandal the scientific consensus on global warming is almost universal. The American Geophysical Union conducted a poll of those in the geoscience community.  Of this community 90% agreed that global temperatures have risen and over 80% agree that human Read more

  • Social Closure and the Conservative Mindset

    Perhaps we should feel sorry for the conservatives in the ninth year of the new millennium.  Thirty years of conservative ideology has produced great wealth for the highest tiers of society, but stagnation at best for the rest off us.  Then, in 2008, with the possibility of continuing dominance of the conservative presence in American Read more

  • Some important videos on body image:

    Our kids need to know that even the most beautiful of celebrities don’t look like their pictures in the magazines or on the screen. The reason they believe they can never be as beautiful as their most admired celebrities is that no one, even the celebrities themselves, can look that good in real life. For Read more

  • A time saver for defending the Obama Administration from idiocy

    I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m spending way too much time defending President Obama and his Administration from just plain idiotic assertions. On online debates…some with family members…I’m rehashing arguments that, quite frankly, I shouldn’t have to make. What’s really getting to me on this is that it is keeping me from making very Read more

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