“American Dream” and Family

Here are some resources students might be interested in: Boorstin, D. J. (1961). The image, or, What happened to the American dream. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Duany, A., Plater-Zyberk, E., & Speck, J. (2001). Suburban nation: the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream. Macmillan. Hochschild, J. L. (1996). Facing up to the [...]

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3 Year Bibliography

Zotero has limited my storage capacity and I have exhausted the free limit.  Although that is unfortunate, it prevents digital hoarding which is great.  I’m paranoid that I might become a digital hoarder, which was only emphasized by my watching a “Good Morning America” story on it this week while waiting for @JaimeZerka to get [...]

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Harold Garfinkel NY Times Obit

“At the time, most sociologists believed that if you could specify the rules people lived by, you could predict their behavior,” said John Heritage, a professor of sociology at U.C.L.A. and the author of the 1984 book-length study “Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology.” “He dropped a bomb on that idea, by saying rules need to be specified [...]

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New Social Capital Article

Somers, Margaret R. 2005. “Beware Trojan Horses Bearing Social Capital: How Privatization Turned Solidarity into a Bowling Team.” Pp. 233-274 in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others, edited by G. Steinmetz. Durham: Duke University Press.

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MSU Sociology 2nd Year Papers

Congrats to all my comrades who presented second year papers in preparation for a PhD at Michigan State University – Sociology   Cameron T. Whitley            Kalof               Culture of Violence:  Animals As Double Victims of the Animal Production’ Industry   Paula Miller                          Broman         Whites’ Feelings of Closeness To Blacks:  A Study Using Data From the National [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06

I spent 30 minutes riding a stationary bike. 260 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 30 minutes riding a stationary bike. 260 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 30 minutes riding a stationary bike. 260 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 30 minutes riding a stationary bike. 260 calories burned. #LoseIt #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-23

I spent 30 minutes riding a stationary bike. 260 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 15 minutes running. 217 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 30 minutes riding a stationary bike. 260 calories burned. #LoseIt # I earned the Exercise Buff badge on Lose It! #LoseIt # I spent 15 minutes riding a stationary bike. [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-16

I spent 30 minutes running. 433 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 30 minutes riding a stationary bike. 260 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 15 minutes riding a stationary bike. 130 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 30 minutes running. 433 calories burned. #LoseIt # I just used #Shazam to discover No by Ryan [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-09

I spent 15 minutes running. 217 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 15 minutes riding a stationary bike. 130 calories burned. #LoseIt # I spent 15 minutes running. 217 calories burned. #LoseIt # Just completed a 0.00 mi run – Whew! http://rnkpr.com/adhjuo #RunKeeper # Just completed a 0.00 mi bike ride with @runkeeper. Check it [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-02

I'm going "off the 4square grid" in 2011. Visit http://JohnGirdwood.com to find out what I'm up to and catch the latest news & notes! # Going off the Twitter grid in 2011. Visit http://JohnGirdwood.com for news and updates! # Caesar salad, single cottage cheese, skim Dean's, free left out @Freep #bliss table for one (@ [...]

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