Just looked at the 2008 JCR impact factor for Sociology as a subject. BJS dropped from 3 to 12. What does this say about British Sociology?

Should you friend your students on Facebook? http://bit.ly/NhmjR presents FB as a potential academic ‘commons’ What do you think?

My 3-year old said to me, ‘Stop speaking Spanish, we’re in America now.’ Oh dear…

Talked about Kahin Na Kahin Koi Hai, a reality TV dating show in India, in my S. Asia class. Sony Entertainment making matches in heaven???

Watched and discussed Immortal Technique’s http://bit.ly/VxAFf today in class. Chime in at http://bit.ly/3nVZ3a if you are interested.

Scanning Facebook friends to see if you are gay: http://bit.ly/KiPCQ Surveillance,power relations,sexuality. Where’s Foucault? We need him.

My Intro. Sociology class just finished the Manifesto and I’m impressed with their questioning of ‘modern’ commodity culture.

A colleague and I were just talking about tropes, metonyms, and synecdoche. Release me de Saussure…

Founder of a Jedi religion asked to remove hood in a Welsh Tesco. http://bit.ly/8Yc4Y

Taught the communist manifesto in-class today. Hegelian dialectics are always fun to lecture about…