July 31, 2025 Often, instructors are tasked with career advising for our majors. Check out this review by Catherine Solomon ...

Often, instructors are tasked with career advising for our majors. Check out this review by Catherine Solomon in Teaching Sociology of The Employable Sociologist: A Guide for Undergraduates (Martinez ...

Deploying sociological theory is a core part of our teaching in cultural studies. Indeed, one of our most prominent theorists and co-founder of the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, the late ...

Listen to Jon Wynn discuss how he “tweaked the formula” for engaging different audiences by writing fiction inspired by and using sociology and social theory via this “Give Theory a Chance” podcast!

Daniel Chambliss joins us to discuss The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on the Stratification of Swimmers, ...

The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film ...

Flashback Friday. Reader Lindsey H. sent me a copy of a book called Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, apparently published in 1902 and revised in 1907 by Emily H. Vaught. Also available on Amazon.

The mysterious SocProf, who writes The Global Sociology Blog, offered a nice review of Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett‘s book, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better.

Warning: It’s a Hustler cover. May not be safe for your workplace (you see a woman’s legs sticking out of a meat grinder ...