We’re 7 years old today! To celebrate, check out this picture of seven capybaras.
Thanks to everyone who has visited over the last seven years! This is our 5,226th post and I can hardly believe it. Ready to charge on for another!
Here are some highlights from the last year. The blog never ceases to surprise!
- Volunteers put together two new Course Guides: Sociology of Work and Occupations and Family and Society.
- We put together three new Pinterest pages: Racist Antics at Colleges and High Schools, the Mean Girls Meme, and Marketing Feminism.
- Celebrity tweets! Musician Amanda Palmer and Piper Kerman, of Orange is the New Black fame, tweeted about us!
- We received an award from MERLOT for being an “outstanding” sociology resource.
- Charlotte’s letter to Lego went viral.
- Our contributor, sociologist Philip Cohen, had a new textbook come out, titled: The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change.
- We began seeing SocImages material re-posted at Business Insider.
- Our most liked post of the year: From the Mouths of Rapists: The Lyrics of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, by Sezin Koehler, received 186,000 likes and counting.
- My Salon article on men’s difficulty forming friendships with other men hit a nerve.
- The Society Pages podcast interviewed me about what it’s like nurturing this site to life every day.
- Our 8-month-old Tumblr reached 17,000+ followers and we can now boast 57,000 Facebook, 20,000 Twitter, and 12,000 Pinterest followers. Y’all are the best!
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.