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January 2013

January 09, 2013

Starting Points for Positive Sociology

Ever since I met Martin Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, at his...

January 05, 2013

Random thoughts about the Newtown Shootings

Like many people I am still attempting to make sense of the Newtown shootings. The...

January 02, 2013

My Monastic Vacation

"Would you please tell me how you got invited to stay in a 13th monastery...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

Asian American Evangelicalism and Middle Class Individualism

About every 3 years or so, a collegiate parachurch ministry called Intervarsity Christian Fellowship holds...

December 27, 2012

Should Parents Force Their Children to Attend Church?

In preparing my classes for this coming semester, I reviewed one of the best known...

December 25, 2012

Christmas Liturgy from the Vatican

From Rome, December 25th, 2012 Have you ever wondered what Christmas liturgy at the St....

December 22, 2012

Still Retreating from Race: Asian Americans in the Ivy League

“…claims that Asian American students were as well qualified but less likely than whites...

December 15, 2012

“War on Christmas” and Symbolic Hostility

Recently much has been made at this time of year of what has been...

December 11, 2012

That’s Just How Women (and Men) Are

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the stereotypes that we place on one another,...

December 07, 2012

Sexism in Racist Tones

Last spring UCLA was the site of a YouTube rant by a former student who...

December 06, 2012

Can money buy happiness?

Apparently yes, if it is spent correctly. I wonder if this makes routine tithing as...

December 03, 2012

The Naked Truth about Self-Esteem?

About a week ago a curious story began to make the media rounds. Apparently porn...

December 01, 2012

Why are the Tea Partiers so Happy?

In the spirit of bringing up politically incorrect research for discussion allow me to introduce...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

Sex Work in Vietnam

Much of the material I teach on racial, gender, and class inequalities is US based,...

November 29, 2012

How do we know if people are flourishing?

As Margarita Mooney so ably put forth in a previous post, Sociology is in need...

November 27, 2012

The Problem with Being Thankful

I enjoyed celebrating Thanksgiving with my family. I’m thankful for the lives of my three...

November 26, 2012

Liberal Women Wish for More Sex. Why?

OK, I’ve been at it again, meaning that I’ve been exploring associations between various measures...

November 23, 2012

Unexpected Learning From Student’s Experiences of Loss

This past summer I lost a friend at church and a family friend to terminal...

November 22, 2012

Theory of Self Determination and Christianity

One of the joys of being an academic is reading in a wide range of...

November 21, 2012

First-Hand Accounts of Hurricane Sandy’s Damage in Santiago de Cuba

Would you consider donating money to help personal friends of mine in Santiago de Cuba...

November 19, 2012

Why David Petraeus Cheated

Yet again the media is alive with speculation about why men in positions of power...

November 18, 2012

It’s Not Christmas Yet!!!

Sometimes you fight battles you know you are not going to win. You fight them...

November 16, 2012

“Porn in the Title” and Other Insights Gleaned Over Dinner

In a recent email interchange, Brad Wright suggested we go out to celebrate our 400...

November 15, 2012

Mastery Goals and Working Out Our Salvation

Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals is a wonderfully interesting book by Heidi Grant...

November 14, 2012

When is Suffering Transformative? Sullivan’s “Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty”

According to the women Susan Crawford Sullivan interviewed for Living Faith: Everyday Religion and Mothers in...

November 12, 2012

When Data Go Bad

Imagine if some evangelical social scientists set out 20 years ago to document how the...

November 11, 2012

“I Can’t Believe I Did That!” The Role of Shame in Happiness

A little more than a week ago, the molecular geneticist and Buddhist monk Matthieu Richard...

November 07, 2012

What Two Deaths Taught Me about Doing Fieldwork

On this day 16 years ago—November 7, 1996—I walked in to my office at the...

November 06, 2012

The Right to Vote and Political Change

In my last post, I noted how much I’ve appreciated the chance to read through...

November 05, 2012

Democrats: Losing their Religion

It’s election week, and we’re inundated with polls, predictions, and predilections, so I’ll keep this...

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