To all of you and to public sociology and a more informed world for everyone!<\/p>\n
Back to work!<\/p>\n
Here are our most appreciated posts this month:<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks everybody!<\/span><\/p>\n Top funny:<\/strong><\/p>\n Social Media Milestones:<\/strong><\/p>\n Our Pinterest<\/strong> page reached 15,000 followers<\/a> this month! If you haven’t visited, it’s a fun ride and great for planning classes. We have 30 boards, ranging from central\u00a0sociological concepts to creative collections. You have to sign up to browse them, but it’s worth it!<\/p>\n And, amazingly, our Facebook<\/strong> page reached 75,000 followers<\/a>. At Facebook we post all our material plus other sociologically interesting stuff\u00a0from 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.<\/p>\n You can follow us on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0too! And I\u00a0miiiiiiight be experimenting with Instagram<\/a>, but it’s still a secret.<\/p>\n Finally…<\/strong><\/p>\n After a busy and exciting ASA, it was nice to be home, even if Oliver doesn’t care that I’m a sociologist.<\/p>\n SocImages News: It was an incredible honor this month to attend the American Sociological Association meetings and accept the\u00a0Distinguished 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":67779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-65598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/08\/August.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67819,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65598\/revisions\/67819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"