{"id":2512,"date":"2011-10-26T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2011-12-29T21:35:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T02:35:23","slug":"ask-a-social-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2011\/10\/26\/ask-a-social-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask a Social Scientist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Occupy Wall Street protests are in full swing across the nation, and reporters are doing their best to navigate and explain the growing, and sometimes ambiguous, movement. Not surprisingly, sociologists are helping journalists make sense of the phenomenon for viewers and readers. To help shed light on the Occupy Boston protests, FOX 25 Boston turned to Tufts University sociology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/sociology\/facultySobieraj.asp\">Sarah Sobieraj<\/a>. In a relatively short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxboston.com\/dpp\/morning\/looking-forward-the-occupy-movement-20111021\">TV interview<\/a>, Sobieraj was asked to cover a lot of territory, including explaining reasons for the movement\u2019s popularity, addressing the breadth of its message, and identifying connections to other famous American protests.<\/p>\n<p>These are all topics Sobieraj should feel pretty comfortable speaking on\u2014after all, she wrote the book on media and protest (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Soundbitten-Perils-Media-Centered-Political-Activism\/dp\/product-description\/0814741363\"><em>Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism<\/em><\/a>). However, she isn\u2019t the only academic with something to say about the Occupy protests. For instance, CUNY professor <a href=\"http:\/\/web.gc.cuny.edu\/sociology\/Faculty%20Pages\/Cordero-Guzm%C3%A1n%20Page.html\">H\u00e9ctor Cordero-Guzm\u00e1n<\/a> was asked by OWS itself to analyze the characteristics of occupywallst.org visitors and saw his results picked up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/johncassidy\/2011\/10\/occupy-wall-street-who-are-we.html\"><em>The New Yorker\u2019s<\/em> Rational Irrationality<\/a> blog, while Columbia\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.columbia.edu\/profile\/38-todd-gitlin\/10\">Todd Gitlin<\/a> wrote about the difference between Tea Party and OWS protests in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/occupy-wall-street-and-the-tea-party.html?pagewanted=all\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> and discussed the movement with National Public Radio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/marketplace.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2011\/10\/19\/am-midday-extra-todd-gitlin-on-the-occupy-wall-street-protests\/\"><em>Marketplace<\/em><\/a>. These scholars are working as ambassadors for the discipline and proving to the broader public that sociological research can be timely and relevant for parsing current events. Let us know if you spot any particularly edifying articles in your daily news review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Occupy Wall Street protests are in full swing across the nation, and reporters are doing their best to navigate and explain the growing, and sometimes ambiguous, movement. Not surprisingly, sociologists are helping journalists make sense of the phenomenon for viewers and readers. 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