Triathlon is the new Golf: As a young lawyer making a name for himself in the mid-seventies, my father’s superiors told him to “pick up golf” as a way to rise quickly within the firm, and t...
https://economicsociology.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/guest-post-the-economic-sociology-of-triathlons/
You know what’s really fun? Being sick and in pain, up the middle of the night, trying to decipher the directions inside a box of pain medication, in a language you don’t really understand th...
“Economic Sociology” has been selected as one of the official blogs of the American Sociological Association, so now it will be hosted on the ASA’s “Contexts” website. The look of the s...
https://economicsociology.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/economic-sociology-moves-to-asa-website/
The cult classic film “Repo Man” turns 25 this year, and I’d like to mark the occasion by quoting this exchange between two of the lead characters. The context here is the moral justificati...
https://economicsociology.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/film-club-repo-man-turns-25/
Anyone reading this blog is probably aware of the LOL-fad: the addition of witty captions to photos of cats, fashion models, and so forth, which has taken the interwebs by storm. So in a moment ...
Since today marks the end of a catastrophic calendar year in the financial markets, these snippets of etymology I ran across recently seem particularly appropriate, in a gallows-humor way. On the...
https://economicsociology.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/financial-etymology/
The Catastrophe Haiku Challenge of December 11th brought many delights, not least of which was the realization that this blog has at least five readers (still counting myself) instead of the thre...
https://economicsociology.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/castastrophe-haiku-classics/
Watching the financial mayhem unfold over the past weeks has been uncannily reminiscent of the early 1980s, when the AIDS virus was first discovered on American shores. The impact of the crisis h...
For all three regular readers of this blog (and yes, I’m counting myself), I’ve decided to revive my Olde Tyme classroom haiku tradition. I used to offer this for extra credit to my students ...
https://economicsociology.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/catastrophe-haiku-contest/
In my ongoing quest to document the under-examined world of populist economic sociology, I submit for your inspection this surrealist gem, snapped in Milan, 26 May 2007 on the wall of an alleyway...