{"id":63444,"date":"2014-07-24T16:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=63444"},"modified":"2017-09-17T16:49:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T21:49:42","slug":"happy-birthday-sociological-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/07\/24\/happy-birthday-sociological-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Sociological Images!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re 7 years old today! \u00a0To celebrate, check out this picture of <a href=\"http:\/\/animalembassy.com\/photo\/capybara-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seven capybaras<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Thanks to everyone who has visited over the last seven\u00a0years! \u00a0This is our 5,226th post and I can hardly believe it. \u00a0Ready to charge on for another!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #444444;\">Here are some highlights from the\u00a0last year. The blog never ceases to surprise!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Volunteers put together two new Course Guides:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/course-guide-sociology-of-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sociology of Work and Occupations<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/course-guide-for-family-and-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family and Society<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We put together three new Pinterest pages:\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/socimages\/racist-antics-at-colleges-and-high-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Racist Antics at Colleges and High Schools<\/a>, \u00a0the<span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/socimages\/the-mean-girls-meme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mean Girls Meme<\/a>,<span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0<\/span>and <a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/socimages\/marketing-feminism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marketing Feminism<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity tweets! Musician <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_36.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">Amanda Palmer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/Piper-Kerman-tweets-SI.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\">Piper Kerman<\/a>, of <em>Orange is the New Black<\/em> fame, tweeted about us!<\/li>\n<li>We received an award from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merlot.org\/merlot\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MERLO<\/a>T for being an &#8220;outstanding&#8221; sociology resource.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Charlotte\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #990000;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SocImages\/status\/428264365943316480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter to Lego<\/a><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0went viral.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Our contributor, sociologist Philip Cohen,\u00a0had a new textbook come out, titled: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/books.wwnorton.com\/books\/detail.aspx?ID=4294986077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>We\u00a0began seeing SocImages material re-posted at\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Insider<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Our most liked post of the year: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/09\/17\/from-the-mouths-of-rapists-the-lyrics-of-robin-thickes-blurred-lines-and-real-life-rape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the Mouths of Rapists: The Lyrics of Robin Thicke&#8217;s <em>Blurred Lines<\/em><\/a>, by Sezin Koehler, received 186,000 likes and counting.<\/li>\n<li>My Salon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/12\/08\/american_mens_hidden_crisis_they_need_more_friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> on men&#8217;s difficulty forming friendships with other men hit a nerve.<\/li>\n<li>The Society Pages podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2013\/10\/14\/lisa-wade-on-sociological-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interviewed<\/a>\u00a0me about what it&#8217;s like nurturing this site to life every day.<\/li>\n<li>Our 8-month-old\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #990000;\" href=\"http:\/\/socimages.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tumblr <\/a>reached 17,000+ followers and we can now boast 57,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/socimages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, 20,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, and 12,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pinterest<\/a> followers. \u00a0Y&#8217;all are the best!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re 7 years old today! \u00a0To celebrate, check out this picture of seven capybaras. Thanks to everyone who has visited over the last seven\u00a0years! \u00a0This is our 5,226th post and I can hardly believe it. \u00a0Ready to charge on for another! Here are some highlights from the\u00a0last year. The blog never ceases to surprise! 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