The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • From The Mouths of Teens…

    Thirteen year old Declan Galbraith’s outstanding video.  He’s “asking why.” If a thirteen year old boy, whose voice hasn’t even dropped yet, can ask these questions, then why can’t we adults? More importantly, why can’t we, as adults, provide good answers? Read more

  • Lessons learned from the Beer Summit

      The so called Beer Summit was a learning experience for us. At least it should have been. We shall see. Of course we learned that the issue of race is alive and well in the United States, regardless of having elected a black president. Though the arrest itself might not have been motivated by Read more

  • Gates/Crowley and the Sociology of Deference

    It’s hard to know just exactly what role race played in the well publicized arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.  Race is one of those variables that so imbues life in the United States that rare is the sociological research that does not have to control for race.  We are socialized to see Read more

  • Air Polution and IQ

    For a few years now I’ve suggested changing track when it comes to the hydrocarbon debates.  It’s not that I’ve changed my mind about Global Warming. Global Warming is very much a reality and may be happening even faster than experts have predicted. When it comes to the discourse, however, the lines are pretty well Read more

  • On Baseball and Teaching

                    I love baseball.  I really do. I grew up with the game as a kid, whether I was playing in my neighborhood street with a waffle bat and ball of tape, or a sandlot, or playing for the world’s worst little league team (we were 0-9. We would have been 0-10 but for one Read more

  • I can't tell you how glad I am that the bankers are making money again.

    Really, I can’t.  It does not come as a surprise to me that vast resources were put into play to maintain the integrity of the economic elite by the power elite.  In less than a year, those who actually created the economic crisis appear to be back on their feet.  According to Nobel Laureate, Paul Read more

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