2021 content creation report

One of us spent their time shredding up cardboard, eating green leaves, and pooping in a box -- and the other one just sat around. Somehow, content was created.

Why I’m leaving the American Sociological Association

Maybe people declining to fund ASA's dysfunction with their membership dues -- while taking our efforts to develop and promote sociology outside the association -- is the best we can do.

Sociologists: Don’t embargo your dissertation

Are you in this to advance knowledge? If so, don't embargo your dissertation.

The American Sociological Association is collapsing and its organization is a perpetual stagnation machine

I was elected to improve ASA and I failed.

Policy implications are discussed (often to poor effect, in sociology journals)

What's wrong with the way sociology journals do "policy implications." With data, examples, and recommendations.

Don’t both-sides the war on truth

The know-nothing movement that Trump now leads obviously creates direct challenges that the forces of truth must rise to meet, but we're not responsible for the war on truth.

Data analysis shows Journal Impact Factors in sociology are pretty worthless

You absolutely should not just skim the CV and assume the AJS article is or will be more influential based on the journal title alone.

Sociologist, scientist? Toward transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture

Whether or not sociology is science, we should have transparency, accountability, and a sharing culture in our work. This makes our work better, and also maybe increases our legitimacy in public.

New COVID-19 and Health Disparities lecture

I recorded a new version of the lecture I created last spring: COVID-19 and Health Disparities. It defines health disparities, introduces the theory of fundamental causes, and then describes COVID-19 disparities by race/ethnicity and age with reference to education and occupational inequality. For intro sociology students. Using data from Bureau of Labor Statistics (inspired by…

The COVID-19 economic crisis is increasing every kind of inequality (video)

I recorded a 25-minute lecture on the COVID-19 economic crisis, with emphasis on increasing inequalities, for my Social Problems class. The slides are posted here, CC-BY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BRAV6Wl3RI