With inspiration from indexed, xkcd and WickedAnomie, I present Embeddedness Made Easy (or, Polanyi Made Simple):
(Polanyi 1944, 1947 before you get all Wikipedia on me. Speaking of which, I would love to make that protest sign sometime, maybe for an Intelligent Design or anti-Climate Science kind of presentation. Or, you know, a commencement speech. Whatever trips your trigger.)
A (Budding) Sociologist’s Commonplace Book
A Budding Sociologist’s Thoughts on Politics, Economics, Sociology and Such
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July 9, 2008 at 12:28 pm |
Awesome. There should be a Sociology Made Simple book, with nothing but flow charts and Venn diagrams. It could be in cartoon, with little stick figure narrators or something.
I dare you to make a ‘citation needed’ sign and hold it up at someone’s conference presentation at ASA. Though, for the benefit of your career, perhaps that should be done at a friend’s presentation
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July 9, 2008 at 12:32 pm |
Hm.. I think my friends are only doing roundtables this year… Although my old advisor might be giving a talk… She has a pretty excellent sense of humor – she very much liked the Voodoo doll for example.
Maybe I could wear a Drek costume?
July 9, 2008 at 12:43 pm |
“Maybe I could wear a Drek costume?”
Hey, I recognize that joke from a few weeks ago…
July 9, 2008 at 1:01 pm |
Haha, yes! That would be hilarious if you did that to your old adviser! You could do it while wearing one of the shirts from Drek’s store
August 14, 2008 at 4:48 pm |
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October 12, 2008 at 10:19 am |
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December 7, 2009 at 10:51 am |
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