{"id":755,"date":"2012-02-14T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=755"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:02:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:02:48","slug":"dancing-with-ourselves-eric-klinenberg-in-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2012\/02\/14\/dancing-with-ourselves-eric-klinenberg-in-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing with Ourselves: Eric Klinenberg in Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sociologist Eric Klinenberg’s Going Solo<\/em><\/a> is garnering well-deserved attention in venues ranging from Fortune<\/em> to Slate <\/em>to This American Life<\/em>, but his Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em> article today is my favorite thus far.<\/p>\n

Eric has assembled a terrific playlist for his new book — everything from Billy Idol’s<\/a> Dancing with Myself<\/em> to Beyonce’s<\/a> Single Ladies<\/em>. And you know that a researcher like Professor Klinenberg wouldn’t limit himself to the obvious hits. He unearthed nuggets like Tom Waits<\/a>‘ “Better Off without a Wife” and Loudon (via Rufus) Wainwright’s<\/a> One Man Guy, Morrissey’s<\/a> “I’m OK by Myself” and Uggen’s<\/a> “One-Way Love Dirge.”<\/p>\n

OK, OK, I’m kidding about that last one. The spotify list makes for good fun and a great argument-starter (e.g., I’ve got a different take on “No Woman No Cry”), but the article and the book make a much bigger sociological argument. Eric is really telling a story of massive social change — the extraordinary rise of living\u00a0along\u00a0<\/del> alone:<\/p>\n

Until the middle of the 20th century, no society in human history had sustained large numbers of singletons. In 1950, for instance, only 4 million Americans lived alone, and they accounted for less than 10 percent of all households. Today, more than 32 million Americans are going solo. They represent 28 percent of all households at the national level; more than 40 percent in cities including San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Denver, and Minneapolis; and nearly 50 percent in Washington D.C. and Manhattan, the twin capitals of the solo nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the playlist<\/a> and stay tuned (so to speak) for an upcoming office hours<\/a> podcast with our own Arturo Baiocchi.<\/p>\n

*photo by Tor Kristensen<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sociologist Eric Klinenberg’s Going Solo is garnering well-deserved attention in venues ranging from Fortune to Slate to This American Life, but his Rolling Stone article today is my favorite thus far. Eric has assembled a terrific playlist for his new book — everything from Billy Idol’s Dancing with Myself to Beyonce’s Single Ladies. And you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/files\/2012\/02\/291402242_608acc3c7a1-e1329264195641.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}