Who/se ethnic?

29Nov09

With the help of my trusty, stalwart RAs, I’m doing some initial data collection from newspapers and news magazines. In a first coding run, I ran into an article from the The New York Times (July 22, 1984, “A Noted ‘Hispanic’ Novelist Proves to be Someone Else” by Edwin McDowell). It relates the non-appearance of [...]

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Sociology of Culture

22Nov09

If you’re interested, here’s the current (11.22.09) draft of my Spring 2010 syllabus for a graduate course on the sociology of culture. I welcome feedback. (I’m cutting out the prefatory matter on assignments, etc.) As you will see, I’m shopping around for a final topic…
Preliminaries: Orientation
January 14
Swidler, Ann. 1986. “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies.” [...]

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Serge-ing

17Nov09

Since I am already in the mode of admitting to aspirational tastes, I cop to my affection for Serge Gainsbourg. Although I do not think his is a “heroic life” as the subtitle suggests, I’m interested, nevertheless:

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Echo effect

15Nov09

I admit to a very undignified love of Umberto Eco. My shame is a result of my love’s pedestrian origin: a confrontation with Foucault’s Pendulum in my mid-20s. I’ll likely never read the book again for fear of discovering how aspirational my tastes were at that age.
In any event, this friendliness lead me to a [...]

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This is a metaphor

09Nov09

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Leonard

07Nov09

I wish I could take the emotional energy (and time) to tell you about the Leonard Cohen show. Maybe soon. For now, just a picture.

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Making the meme

04Nov09

Big tipping in Peter’s direction, who broke this, but you have to see it, hook or crook:

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Today in numbers

04Nov09

I know you’re expecting I’ll write about voting returns in New York, but this is about InStyle Magazine. I looked up the information the magazine provides to potential advertisers, and here’s what I saw:

See anything fishy?
Both gender and age have per category values in the final column (“% composition”). However, the household income lists the [...]

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Shameless self promotion

03Nov09

Here’s a nice piece in the current Vanderbilt View on our Creative Campus program. A forthcoming publication by yours truly is mentioned near the top. Bravo Steven, Elizabeth, and Bill!

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