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