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SocImages News:

Apparently this was the month of finding out that SocImages is quoted in awesome places! Thanks to a friend, I learned that a post is quoted in the current edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. Um, amazing!

And I also stumbled across a generous endorsement of the site in Kate Harding’s fantastic new book Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture — and What We Can Do About It.

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• Fetal alcohol syndrome and the social control of mothers (4,000+ likes, 10,000+ views)
• Media spin on violence against police (1,400+ likes, 3,700+ views)
• Netflix responds to criticism, changes its sexist definition of Pocahontas (600+ likes, 3,800+ views)
• Michael Kimmel on why everyone needs feminism (500+ likes, 1,300+ views)
• Does the Broken Windows Theory justify heavy policing of minor crimes (300+ likes, 1,600+ views)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• What is creepiness?

Top post on Tumblr this month:

• “Tourist, shame on you!”: Disaster tourism after Hurricane Katrina (8,400+ notes)

Upcoming Lectures and Appearances:

I’m excited to have a number of talks scheduled for this year. If you’re in Baton Rouge, LA; Huntington, WV; Portsmouth, OH; Witchita, KS; or Omaha, NE, please feel free to come by and say “hi”!

• Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge (Oct 8): Featured Guest and Panelist for a screening of The Hunting Ground
• Marshall University (Oct 26): “Sex, Rapture, and Resistance on College Campuses”
• Shawnee State University (Oct 27): “Sex, Rapture, and Resistance on College Campuses”
• University of Nebraska, Omaha Undergraduate Sociological Symposium – Keynote speaker (Nov 13): “The Power of Public Sociology”
• Wichita State University Sociology Club and Sociology Department Gender & Sexuality Conference – Keynote speaker (Mar 4): “Online Feminist Pedagogy: Talking about Gender and Sexuality with the World”

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

SocImages is on twitter, facebook, tumblr, and pinterest.  Follow us! I’m on facebook, twitter, and have recently started playing around on instagram. Also on twitter, regular contributors @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Finally…

Please make me less lonely on instagram! I mostly post pictures of Louisiana, cocktails, and cats, but here’s one of a baby in a band:

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.

SocImages News:

It was an incredible honor this month to attend the American Sociological Association meetings and accept the Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award on behalf of myself and Gwen Sharp and our work on this site. We are so thrilled to know that instructors find the site useful and invigorating and, as I said at the ceremony, if what we do is make instructors’ lives a little less hectic and their time in the classroom a little more productive and fun, then we’re just ecstatic about taking the award home.

We couldn’t do it without the incredible support of Chris Uggen and Doug Hartmann, the visionaries behind The Society Pages; Jon Smadja, whose skills are the invisible forces behind a seamless website; our regular contributors — Jay Livingston, Philip Cohen, and Martin Hart-Landsberg — and all of the guest bloggers who donate their time and brilliant ideas; my institution, Occidental College, which has always been warmly appreciative of the site and its role in making sociology public; and, of course, the readers who make all this worthwhile.

To all of you and to public sociology and a more informed world for everyone!

Back to work!

Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• Who really runs the AirBnBs? (1,700+ likes, 8,600+ views)
• The NYC subway to a person using a wheelchair (1,700+ likes, 7,700+ views)
• A short history of trophy hunting in America (750+ likes, 1,400+ views)
• Kitchen counters and the pedophilic fantasy (500+ likes, 4,300+ views)
• The geography of sh!t and d@mn (350+ likes, 2,200+ views)
• Trainwreck and “taboo” (300+ likes, 3,000+ views)
• Are bikini baristas sex workers? Are you? (300+ likes, 2,900+ views)
• What’s, if anything, is wrong with drag? (150+ likes, 2,600+ views)

Thanks everybody!

Top funny:

• The commodification of rebellion (900+ likes, 5,100+ views)

Social Media Milestones:

Our Pinterest page reached 15,000 followers this month! If you haven’t visited, it’s a fun ride and great for planning classes. We have 30 boards, ranging from central sociological concepts to creative collections. You have to sign up to browse them, but it’s worth it!

And, amazingly, our Facebook page reached 75,000 followers. At Facebook we post all our material plus other sociologically interesting stuff from around the web. I’ve recently started tagging posts with hashtags, so hopefully it’ll become increasingly easy to collate exactly the material you’re looking for.

You can follow us on Twitter and Tumblr, too! And I miiiiiiight be experimenting with Instagram, but it’s still a secret.

Finally…

After a busy and exciting ASA, it was nice to be home, even if Oliver doesn’t care that I’m a sociologist.

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.

SocImages News:

• Happy birthday, little blog!  You’re 8!

• A huge thanks to Jon Smadja for freshening up the site and made it mobile friendly!

• Dr. Nicole Boucher Spottke put together a set of discussion questions and activities to go along with some SocImages advice to new students. A great exercise in analyzing writing!

• Our coverage of the intersection of sexism and racism experienced by female scientists was covered at the Smithsonian.

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• Mass shootings in the U.S. are on the rise (2,400+ likes)
• White American male with a weapon white American male with a weapon white American male with a… (2,200+ likes)
• Americans own 42% of all the guns on the planet (2,200+ likes)
• The corrupt economics behind Greece’s troubles (1,700+ likes)
• Less than 1% of women regret their decision to have an abortion (1,700+ likes)
• Nearly half of black and Latina female scientists mistaken for janitors or assistants (1,400+ likes)
• Why do people hate the word “moist”? (1,000+ likes)
• Are drag queens doing “girlface”? (1,000+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• Trigger warnings, the big picture: Changing our culture of social control
• Slave families’ desperate efforts to reunite during Reconstruction

Top comic:

• Why people become sociologists, by Charles Schultz

Top post on Tumblr this month:

• Millennials are no less racist than Generation X and hardly less racist than Boomers (5,300+ notes)

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

This is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Finally…

It’s been a hard summer so far, but let’s not let July 2015 go without one more time reveling in the joy of discovery:

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.

Hoooo-ray! This (newly described by science) spider has 8 legs and it’s doing cartwheels to celebrate SocImages’ 8th birthday!

This is our 5,530th post and still going strong. Thanks to all of you who discovered SocImages this year and those of you who’ve been hanging on since the beginning!

Here are some highlights from the last year. Quite a trip down memory lane!

• Sociological Images was awarded this year’s American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. We would love to think that the blog eases class prep a little and helps people get the best out of their students. If that’s what this award means, we’re over the moon.

• I was honored to be invited to talk about SocImages in a plenary speech at the Midwest Sociological Society. Of course, there were lots of pictures. You’re welcome to view the slideshow here.

• W.W. Norton released my sociology of gender textbook, with Myra Marx Ferree, and I worked up ALL the social media (twitter, facebook, pinterest).

• Three new SocImages Collections. Two of them are darkly and persistently timely: police, black Americans, and U.S. society and white men’s violence. The third is now part of history: fight for same-sex marriage. See them all on our Instructors Page.

• Rush Limbaugh covered a post about the relationship between studying economics and being antisocial and it sheds a scary light into the inner workings of his mind. (And I got called a “professorette” so… like I said, all high kicks all the time.)

• We got tumbld by Wil Wheaton!

• Two new Pinterest pages: pinkwashing and sexy what!?, a collection of totally random stuff being advertised as weirdly and unnecessarily sexual.

• Our social media accounts continue to grow like weeds: thanks to the 74,000 of you on facebook,  23,000 on tumblr, 22,000 on twitter, and 14,000 on pinterest.  We do have fun and learn stuff, too!

Here’s to another year! (Sorry about the spider.)

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.

SocImages News:

Phew. What a month.

• Thanks to The Conversation for asking me to expand a post I wrote about the sexism and xenophobia behind Dylann Roof’s murders. Their version was picked up by the Washington Post, where it was re-posted, attracting over 500 comments.
• June’s roller coaster of events inspired two new SocImages Collections on the fight for same-sex marriage and white men’s violence. See them all on our Instructors Page.
• We got to put up this beautiful map.

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• I am a white woman. No more murder in my name (1,500+ likes)
• Millennials are no less racist than Generation X (and hardly less racist than Boomers) (1,200+ likes)
• Why it was easy for Rachel Dolezal to pass as black (1,000+ likes)
• Powerful people are sensitive to injustice, but mostly when they are its victims (700+ likes)
• Child pageants and the performance of gender (700+ likes)
• The iron cage in binary code: How Facebook shapes your life chances (650+ likes)
• Buy a Joe Strummer replica guitar with your Sex Pistols credit card because layers upon layers of irony (550+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• Animal cultures and new questions of conservation

Top post on Tumblr this month:

With over 15,000 likes and shares, I’m so happy to be helping bring awareness to this issue. At Tumblr, this month’s top post: Defensive architecture aimed at the homeless as a deliberate, considered kind of cruelty.

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Finally…

Bye-bye June 2015; we’ll remember you forever.

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.

SocImages News:

Thanks to everyone who put up with a light month at the blog. For the first time in more than five years, the blog went without a post for more than one day — and I’m still catching up on social media. That’s what finishing up a semester and moving across country will do, I suppose. I’m now gleefully living in the terrible and magnificent city of New Orleans. I am still a professor at Occidental College, but I’m on leave for two years to finish a book about hookup culture and get started on an Introduction to Sociology textbook.

I’d love to travel this year and share my research on hookup culture with college students across the country. I’ve booked a few talks already, but would love to do more!

But enough about me…

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• Men value independence in their daughters more than their wives (2,100+ likes)
• The unbearable daintiness of women who eat with men (750+ likes)
• The relative importance of poverty and sex to Catholicism (650+ likes)
• Whether you call it protest or rioting may depend on your race (600+ likes)
• Six decades of increasing partisanship in the U.S. House of Representatives (500+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s picks:

• Higher black mortality and the outcome of elections
• Does the finance industry benefit society? A new analysis says no
• Don Draper and the pursuit of loneliness
• The politics of facial hair

Top post on Tumblr this month!

• A deliberate, considered kind of cruelty: Defensive architecture aimed at the homeless (7,500+ likes and shares)

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

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.

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!)

Follow us!

• SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest.
• I’m on Facebook and and Twitter.
• More of the team! @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston

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.

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.

SocImages Update:

I am so excited to share the news that the American Sociological Association has granted Sociological Images this year’s Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. I am thrilled that sociologists find the site useful and I am so grateful for all of the sociologists out there who keep doing fantastic and amazing research that I have the opportunity to share. To us!!!

I would also like to say a HUGE thanks to the Midwest Sociological Society for offering me the opportunity to share some SocImages behind-the-scenes, and to its members for being so supportive and complimentary. It was a wonderful experience and I was so happy to meet you all!

In the News:

The New Zealand Herald picked up on our article about how unpopular fish that haven’t yet been over harvested get new names to make them seem more appetizing.

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

We had an especially fantastic month thanks in part to the fact that I appear to have developed the interests of a 12-year-old boy. Er, I mean my trying out some of the material I’m working up for The Society Pages’ next edited volume.

• Who farts? And who cares? (4,600+ likes)
• Why don’t men kick each other in the balls? (3,300+ likes)
• Children, chores, and the gender pay gap (1,700+ likes)
• Are economics majors anti-social? (1,600+ likes)
• Why lesbians and gay men don’t share space (1,300+ likes)
• Unkind architecture: Designing against the homeless (1,200+ likes)
• The most common job in every state, 1978-2014 (1,000+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Fav comic:

• Is truncating the Y-axis dishonest? (650+ likes)

Editor’s pick:

• Beliefs about brilliance and the demographics of academic fields

Top post on Tumblr this month:

• Where do negative stereotypes about feminists come from (21,500+ notes)

Follow us!

• SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest.
• I’m on Facebook and and Twitter.
• More of the team! @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston

Finally…

A huge thank you to Kara McGhee and the whole crew at University of Missouri, Columbia. I’m having an amazing visit and am excited to deliver my talk tonight. Hopefully there’ll be lots of #overheardatmizzou!

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.