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FILTER RESULTS ►Honoring Parents
By Sally Raskoff How do you spend the two days of the year that we honor the challenging and important job that parents do? Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are celebrated in the U.S. in May and June, respectively. Both...
Thinking Critically About Statistics and Their Sources
By Sally Raskoff In the sciences, we use theory and methods to empirically assess “reality”. While we can often play with data to explore the relationships between our concepts(our variables), it is important to frame what we’re doing with good...
Data are Everywhere
By Sally Raskoff From day one in my statistics course, I tell my students that data are everywhere. Even though the word makes it sound like data is everywhere, the word data is plural thus they are everywhere. Facebook helped...
Who Makes America?
By Sally Raskoff Have you watched the recent television shows on the “making” of America? The first, The Men Who Built America, has been followed by a second, Makers: Women Who Make America. Sociologically, these shows are fascinating and highlight...
Revisiting Research
By Sally Raskoff The journal Social Forces has published many classic studies in sociology in its ninety year history. To celebrate,the publisher has offered free public access. Even better, each of these articles has updates or reflection articles from the...
Thinking Sociologically about Mass Shootings
By Sally Raskoff Much has been said about the Sandy Hook murders and other mass shootings in the United States. Some blame media or the accessibility of weapons, others cite gender, and others our medical infrastructure or even the killer’s...
Ecological Fallacies
By Sally Raskoff I’m one of those people who still reads the print newspaper. Actually, I read three of them, and am periodically aware of how they present the same news story in such different ways. Sometimes it takes looking...
A Tasty Correlation
By Sally Raskoff Did you see the news about the relationship between chocolate and Nobel Prizes? Dr. Franz Messerli reported in a New England Journal of Medicine article that a country’s chocolate consumption is positively and statistically significantly associated with...
Mobile Apps and Research Methods
By Sally Raskoff Every now and then new technology will change something that humans do in very radical ways. We’ve been collecting information from people scientifically with surveys, interviews, and observations by using paper and pen, then computers, and now,...
Anecdotes and Examples
By Sally Raskoff In class, you may notice that many professors tell anecdotes and give examples to illustrate the points they are making in their lectures. Some professors also invite students to come up with their own. An anecdote, or...
Gender and the Olympics
By Sally Raskoff Many people struggle with the idea that gender and sex could have more than two categories, while some cultures have many ways to define who we are. The 2012 Olympics gives us yet another example of the...
Preventing Sexual Assault
By Sally Raskoff What have you heard about preventing rape and sexual assault? Most of the time, we learn those rules of self-defense that are mostly taught to women, such as not walking alone or at night or not accepting...
Thinking Sociologically on Vacation
By Sally Raskoff Don’t forget to keep using your sociological imagination and skills when you are on vacation! When you travel, using a sociological perspective can help enrich the experience and deepen your understanding of the places in which you...
The Impact of Stereotyping
By Sally Raskoff After reading my previous blog on stereotyping, a student recently asked, “Aren’t there some things that are true about stereotypes?” Many would agree that each stereotype has some “truth” to it. The short sociological answer to this...
Harry's Law, The Girls, and the Media Marketplace
By Sally Raskoff How well does the entertainment media represent society? With the debut of a new show on HBO – Girls – and the cancellation of a popular show on NBC – Harry’s Law – there is a lot...
Understanding Generalizations and Stereotypes
By Sally Raskoff Max Weber wrote about the importance of verstehen, or understanding, for those investigating social reality. This means that we must understand what life is like for the individual or self before we can truly understand life at...
Challenging Gendered Beauty Norms: Ashley Judd's Conversation
By Sally Raskoff Did you read Ashley Judd’s essay regarding the media attention to her appearance? It is a rare day that an actor calls attention to the disparities and inequalities in our societal structure. Ms. Judd’s essay is a.....
Correlation vs. Causation: Decoding Autism Research
By Sally Raskoff Recent news reports cite a huge increase in autism rates. Autism, a disorder involving problems with social interaction and communication, is estimated at 1 in 88 children. The rates by gender are 1 in 54 boys and.....
Culture (a)Drift
By Sally Raskoff Some exciting studies have been making the news lately. Human society will be better understood once the data from such studies are analyzed. Based on what we’ve been learning from life lived on the International Space Station,...
Science, Resistance and Cognitive Dissonance
By Sally Raskoff Science is the tool we have to get the most accurate information possible. But do we believe what science tells us? Especially when that information may counter what we want to believe or when authority figures tell...
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