The sociology of sleep?

Having frittered away a considerable amount of my April on things like furniture shopping and mindless reading, I realized late last week that the semester’s end is looming, and that my paper for my Contextualization seminar is in no better shape than it was in January, when I submitted my initial proposal to join the [...]

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Talks for Tomorrow

A ridiculous number of interesting talks at Columbia tomorrow (March 28), so for those thinking of skipping out on AERA for the afternoon…here’s a sample:
(1) Manufacturing Inequalities. What Do We Learn from the Study of Artistic Labor Markets?
Pierre-Michel Menger
12:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Location: Maison Française: Buell Hall, East Gallery.
Artistic labor markets are puzzling. [...]

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Um. Help.

After receiving back a paper prospectus for a graduate seminar in sociology that I’m taking this semester, I noticed that my professor had written in the margins a reference to an article in Science that he apparently thought relevant to the ideas I happened to be outlining, essentially about how clouds of meanings sometimes emerge [...]

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Semester’s End!

Well, not really. I still have a couple of sessions and a final examination for my regression class, but I’m not very worried about that (perhaps foolishly so).The ‘true’ end of the semester came for me today as I handed in a paper for my stratification class, a breathless race to meet a hard-stop 12noon [...]

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Oh !@#$%, it’s Sunday night?!

A familiar Thanksgiving ritual, which I’ve followed since my college days, is making a solemn promise about how much work I’ll do over the holiday, and realizing the Sunday evening before vacation’s end how little of that work I actually managed to accomplish. It’s a quirk of behavior that I still really don’t quite understand. [...]

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