The Mad Sociologist Blog

  • A Bad Moon Rising: The Direction or Misdirection of Conservative Thought

    There’s a bad moon lurking over the horizon! I can see its bloody rays casting a sanguine pall over the future of our country. I can see its ill-boding omens in increasingly irrational speeches, websites and protest marches of a new movement. It’s reactionary, militant, institutionalized and armed; all of the qualities of a coming Read more

  • “Because they breed…” Social Darwinism in Contemporary Conservatism

    A couple of weeks ago I was teaching my students about the fundamental theories of sociology. Of course, no such lesson is complete without mentioning British biologist and social philosopher Herbert Spencer. Spencer was a founding father of the structural functionalist perspective in sociology. It was his belief that everything that happens in society happened Read more

  • The Train Keeps Moving: A Small Tribute to Howard Zinn

    I don’t remember exactly when I discovered Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. It must have been about 2000, after I’d stopped working in the wilderness program and after I received my degree in sociology. If I’d read Zinn’s seminal work before ’96 I almost certainly would have become a historian rather than Read more

  • A New Flag for the Corporate States of America!

    So I figured I would take it upon myself to redesign the American flag to bring it up to date on our new corporatocratic status.  Indeed, I think we might be on to something.  Instead of stars, the Flag has a corporate logo.  What we can do is charge corporations to have their logos included Read more

  • The New Pledge of Allegiance!

    Everyone repeat after me… Read more

  • The Rights of the Corporation

    Let’s face it. American democracy has been on life support for some time now. On January 21st, however, the five conservative members (or should we from now on refer to them as corporate conservatives) of the US Supreme court took it upon themselves to pull the plug. American democracy died that day with only a Read more

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