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November 2012

November 03, 2012

The World Ends on Tuesday!!!

You read the title right. This Tuesday the world ends. So say about two thirds...

November 02, 2012

Racial Exclusion and Selective Inclusion: One Student’s Observations

Since I teach an undergraduate course on racial, gender and class inequality I am always...

November 01, 2012

What is “Positive” Sociology?

Last week, Margarita has a very interesting post about positive psychology and it's implications for...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Modesty: It’s not a Bad Word

What ideas or images come to your mind when you hear the word modesty? Until...

October 29, 2012

Is Massive Job Creation Likely?

While the third and final presidential debate focused on foreign policy, it was notable that...

October 28, 2012

Happiness versus Life Satisfaction: What’s the Difference?

A month ago, the economist Richard Easterlin published an op-ed in the New York Times...

October 24, 2012

Sayer’s “Why Things Matter to People”

Recently, while reading Andrew Sayer’s book “Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and...

October 22, 2012

The Closing Gender Gap in Infidelity

A friend passed along this article from the Wall Street Journal, about the shrinking gap...

October 22, 2012

Why “Fact Checking” Falls Short

Perhaps it's my imagination, but "fact checking" this election season seems to have reached a...

October 20, 2012

What Motivates Cultural Progressives – Part 4

This is the last entry of my series based on my latest book entitled...

October 19, 2012

Racial Religious Patterns in Political Ideology – Expanded Version

In a recent report by the Pew Hispanic Center, we had some new statistics available...

October 18, 2012

Map of Religious Diversity in America

Yet another interesting map from the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies. This gets...

October 16, 2012

My Re-Encounter with Martin Seligman: Launching a Psychology-Sociology Dialogue on Human Flourishing

When, as a 7th grader, I wrote a speech based on Martin Seligman’s theory of learned...

October 15, 2012

Young Women and Porn Use: What Does the Data Say?

Recently I gave a talk at a Christian college about the contemporary mating market, and...

October 13, 2012

How much does our happiness have to do with other people?

What can we do to make ourselves happy? A lot of talk (and research) about...

October 12, 2012

All in the American Reincarnated Family

In this post I highlight a couple of books I have been reading (which I...

October 11, 2012

Where the Protestants Roam: Map of Protestant Denominations in the US

Protestantism, and its decline, has been in the news a lot this week with a...

October 10, 2012

Personalism and Sociology: Understanding Relationships as Obligations

Yesterday I sat down in my favorite spot at home and surrounded myself with books...

October 08, 2012

Unplanned Pregnancies: The Subtle Assault on Half of Us

I was in the room several years ago when discussions with students of sexual behavior,...

October 06, 2012

What Motivates Cultural Progressives – Part 3

This is the third entry of my series based on my latest book entitled What...

October 05, 2012

Racial-Religious Patterns in the 2012 Elections

I received a news alert from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life where...

October 04, 2012

Why we overestimate the prevalence of abusive priests, dishonest pastors, and unloving congregations

Cognitive heuristics are mental shortcuts--rules of thumbs--that we use to make judgments about ourselves and...

October 03, 2012

Does Gender Matter in the Classroom?

The New York Times recently reported on a study conducted by researchers at Yale in...

October 02, 2012

Dolls, Books, and American Girls

In the last two years, I’ve been introduced to the culture of American Girls. Living...

October 01, 2012

NFSS data release

This isn't much of a blog post, but I thought I'd note here that I've...

September 2012

September 27, 2012

More thoughts on homophily and faith

After writing about religion and social homophily (i.e., like people grouping together), I became aware...

September 26, 2012

The “Nothing Box”: One Way Men and Women Are Different

As I was thinking about my most recent blog on male-female differences, I asked the...

September 24, 2012

Asexuality

Amid all the rancor these days over who’s sexually attracted to whom—and what public policymakers...

September 21, 2012

Being American by Being Korean? K-Pop and Korean American Identity

Growing up Korean American, it was taken for granted that Korean culture and politics would...

September 19, 2012

Thank You, Holden, for Being My Chancellor

The email announcement from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp stating...

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