SocImages in the News:
- I’m now officially a “professorette” (thanks Rush Limbaugh!), so I’d appreciate it if we did high kicks together whenever we cross paths.
- There’s Research on That! does an anatomy of Limbaugh’s comment, discussing research showing that women are more likely than men to face challenges to their legitimacy.
- New York Magazine covered Gwen Sharp’s discussion of the origins of the shopping cart.
- And Autostraddle picked up on our coverage of Amin Ghaziani’s research on residential segregation and sexual orientation.
You like! Here are our most appreciated posts this month:
- More time with mom has little to no effect on children’s well-being (3,400+ likes)
- How manufacturers make you think you’re saving money when you’re spending it (1,700+ likes)
- Culture and privacy: A sociology of the shotgun house (750+ likes)
- Wall Street bonuses add up to twice the income of all minimum wage workers combined (700+ likes)
- The quinoa economy (500+ likes)
Thanks everybody!
Editor’s picks:
- Why rich people think they’re middle class
- Only 6% of college presidents think that sexual crime is prevalent on their campus
Top post on Tumblr this month:
- What a bold lingerie ad looks like (almost 100,000 notes!)
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Finally…
To all the students, faculty, and staff out there, I found this mossy, wooden-eyed, 100-year-old teddy bear inside the walls of my (shotgun) house. It wishes you good luck for the end of the semester. Tell it “thank you”… OR ELSE.
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