The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • 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

  • A Classic Sociological Question: Are Humans, by nature, Warlike?

    Every semester I face the same challenges from students who are steeped in the the cultural awareness that much of human behavior is biologically and even genetically determined. Oftentimes in my discussions about social problems or the foibles of society I hear the comment, “it’s just human nature.” That sparks a response and a challenge… Read more

  • Secrecy is about power, not protection

    Have you ever been a part of a group in which secrets were being shared? Where were you in relation to those secrets? Were you the person sharing the secrets? The person learning the secrets? Or were you out of  the secrets loop? Perhaps you were the subject of the secrets.  Regardless, where you are… Read more

  • How Late Term Abortion Saved My Life

    This is a very important and divisive issue.  It is crucial that we hear stories of all involved.  Unfortunately it seems that those who have abortions remain silent about their experiences and motivations.  This is a very deliberate process of stigmatizing and shaming women into not sharing their experiences and thereby limiting the discourse. Read… Read more

  • Mark Fiore is Awesome!

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