Spring 2008
Volume: 7 | Number: 2
In this issue authors also explore the effect of the Pentagon’s embedded media program on coverage of the Iraq War, whether parenthood really does make you happier, and the first generation to attend college while using (and abusing) Ritalin.
Enlightened Teenage Masculinity
While Superbad continues the crude and sophomoric story of nerdy, horny, and virginal teenage boys desperately eager to have sex with girls, it also presents … Read More
Edible Sociology
Thomas McNamee’s Alice Waters and Chez Panisse and Peter Kaminsky’s Pig Perfect haven’t received quite as much coverage as other recent food books. Read More
Writing To Be Read
Sociology has long been notorious for its use of jargon and impenetrable prose. Sociologists writing badly inspired the editor of Fowler’s Modern English Usage to … Read More
Trespassing in Someone Else's Utopia
Fan Fair-the Country Music Association (CMA) Music Festival-is an annual migration for tens of thousands of fans. Nashville’s storied Lower Broad district is glutted with … Read More
The Big Business of Haut Chocolat
Chocolate, in case you haven’t noticed, is big business. Visits to the 13th annual Salon du Chocolat in Paris and the 10th annual … Read More
Good Sociology Makes Lousy TV
There are very few films and virtually no television or literary characters that speak to sociology. And what is out there depicts sociologists as idealistic … Read More
Peeing in Public
The inequities of class, gender, and physical capacity gain their expression in moments of anxiety over how to eliminate one’s waste. This is one truth … Read More
A Sociologist Dreams of a New America
The non-profit Center for a New American Dream encourages Americans to consume more responsibly. Its mission is grounded in a sociological perspective that Juliet Schor … Read More
Union Motherhood and Mortal Rockstars
we (women) make america work Mothers and unions are rarely associated, but Cynthia J. Cranford (Qualitative Sociology, December 2007) found that women leaders … Read More
Taking Contexts Online
The Contexts vision is—as it has been since the beginning in 2001—to translate great sociology into an accessible format for both academic and public audiences. Read More
