George Carlin should be the perfect comedian for sociologists. He was left- leaning, political, and not especially funny. In fact, his earnest concern for social justice and animus against hypocrisy are probably what kept him from being funny.
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James M. Jasper is at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Getting Your Way: Strategic Dilemmas in the Real World. He is a former editor of Contexts.
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It is a publication of the American Sociological Association, edited by Jodi O’Brien (Seattle University) and Arlene Stein (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).
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