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December 2013

December 23, 2013
This blog is the first in a 4-part series based on my latest book entitled...
December 11, 2013
Positive sociology has been inspiring Kentucky residents through the efforts of Beau Weston, the Van...
December 03, 2013
Black Friday seems to now be the first day in a series of spending-oriented days:...

November 2013

November 27, 2013
A few weeks ago Martin Bashir made an apology. He needed to make an apology....
November 16, 2013
Did you know that the last time I saw a Muslim fundamentalist that he was...
November 13, 2013
How can Yalies get more flow? Last night at the fourth meeting of the Calhoun...
November 03, 2013
When I discuss the reality that conservative Christians have certain disadvantages in our society I...

October 2013

October 19, 2013
When I heard about what happen to Adrian Peterson’s child I felt sick. How does...
October 10, 2013
How can Yale undergraduates learn and apply principles from positive psychology and positive sociology? More...
October 05, 2013
A couple of weeks ago a facebook friend showed me this link discussing Christian Privilege....

September 2013

September 24, 2013
There have been a number of tragedies recently in our world.  In Nairobi, Kenya recent...
September 22, 2013
You never know when an article will catch your attention. I ran across this article...
September 09, 2013
This past summer I continued my readings in social scientific and popular readings of ethnicity,...
September 01, 2013
The NSA spying story highlights an interesting changing aspect of our society. Right now I...

August 2013

August 28, 2013
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington from which we gain many...
August 26, 2013
Online dating is here to stay. That much is clear. But is meeting someone online...
August 20, 2013
When people find out my husband and I have three girls, they offer a variety...
August 17, 2013
One of the big stories over the last few weeks has been a video of...
August 07, 2013
Robert Bellah, the famous sociologist of religion who passed away last week, received a thoughtful obituary...
August 06, 2013
I recently returned from a two-week seminar in Brazil with the Nagel Institute and Calvin...
August 03, 2013
One of the big issues in the past few weeks has been the criminal trial...
August 03, 2013
This is a guest blog written by Jeff Guhin, a sociologist doing a post-doc at...
August 01, 2013
Originally posted in the Huffington Post: 7/29/13 By: Julie J. Park The New York Times...

July 2013

July 31, 2013
Robert Bellah once wrote: "Because good social science is always morally serious, we can transpose Weber's...
July 20, 2013
Right now Eliot Spitzer, Anthony Weiner and Mark Sanford are trying to become Bill Clinton....
July 17, 2013
This summer, thousands of high school and college students across the country will go on...
July 16, 2013
In the wake of the weekend verdict over George Zimmerman’s shooting and killing of Trayvon...
July 10, 2013
Laying on her bathroom floor sobbing, my former student cried out, "I have low-well being...My...
July 06, 2013
Early next year I am going to attend a symposium on Neil Gross’s book Why...
July 03, 2013
Did you know that “gumbo” is “okra” in the Bantu dialect of the peoples in...
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