CLIMATE JUSTICE: An analogy
Many people and students are unfamiliar with the context that has generated calls from nations and social movements for “climate … Read More
IF I WERE GIVING THE COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS: Three things to balance in order to be happy in life
As you graduate college, either begrudgingly or with enthusiasm, you will inevitably hear about or face the challenges of a … Read More
A PATH TO MOBILITY? How universities maintain the class structure
Going to college is sold as the primary pathway to upward economic mobility, but is that true? In today’s world, … Read More
THE SUPER BOWL: A sociological view
Updated February 3, 2022 Break out the guacamole, it is time for Super Bowl sociology! What does … Read More
CULTURAL SYMBOLS: Teaching the Confederate flag
Updated September 20, 2018 Cultural symbols and the meanings applied to them are not fixed in time. Within sociology, there … Read More
PATTERNS OF POLICE SHOOTINGS: One year after Ferguson
It has been a year since white, male, then-police-officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed eighteen-year-old black male … Read More
IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS: where do we learn whom we should perceive negatively?
Updated January 9th, 2017 The problem with overt racism (other than its bigoted, undemocratic, violent and discriminatory nature) is that … Read More
RACE OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS: Should they be similar to the community?
Since a police force is designed to protect and serve a community, should the race of the police departments align … Read More
AN OPEN MEMO TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS: Police kill unarmed black male
A couple of months ago I wrote about the police killing of Walter Scott, an unarmed black male … Read More
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY: The nipple
Updated March 2, 2018 Examples of the social construction of the body are prevalent in the media’s objectification of the female … Read More