I have promised about a dozen people that I have a list of reading for the work I attempt to do. That work is at the intersection of education, organizations, and inequality. It’s what I would call critical org theory, if I were so allowed. Basically, I argue that organizational characteristics — like their profitRead More “A Reading List (By Request)”
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Crowdsourcing a New Syllabus: Teaching Contemporary Stratification
Along with speaking, writing, researching, consulting and mocking professional pundits that wear ascots, I also teach. I am very excited to be writing a syllabus for a stratification course, to be taught in the Spring. I took to Twitter earlier today to crowdsource some of the excellent sociology tools that have floated across my timelineRead More “Crowdsourcing a New Syllabus: Teaching Contemporary Stratification”
Twitter Tactics Talk at Emory’s Center for Injury Control
The regular readers know that I make a habit of posting powerpoints before a talk. I find it saves participants from copious note-taking. That makes for a more engaged room. [slideshare id=22973450&style=border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px&sc=no] Ecictt from Tressie McPhd In the presentation I mention several resources. They follow: #followanadult London School of Economics TwitterRead More “Twitter Tactics Talk at Emory’s Center for Injury Control”
A Woman In The CIA Read Porn And The Daily Beast Is On It!
This probably needs a PREAM warning. I do not really do public debates about feminism and organizational logics anymore for reasons, but I thought this story in The Daily Beast was an interesting chance for a very quick analysis. I thought it went without saying that the story was undeniably gross. It uncovers that AvrilRead More “A Woman In The CIA Read Porn And The Daily Beast Is On It!”
More on Building a Prestigious For-Profit
I continue to think through a theoretical framework to understand how prestige and for-profit colleges interact. The first post about that project got a significant amount of interaction. I appreciated it. Since then I have read, read some more, and done some thinking. I read across institutional, neo-institutional, macro structural theories of legitimacy and microRead More “More on Building a Prestigious For-Profit”
How To Work With Academics For Media Folks
I have had the good fortune to work on a topic that has some minimal appeal to popular media. I have done a little radio, a little print and a little TV, at this point. Along the way I have had some incredible experiences. However, I *am* a sociologist. It would be impossible for meRead More “How To Work With Academics For Media Folks”