Posted in Education, Institutional theory, Science and Technology, tagged schooling on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
An article in the Sunday New York Times details how a few school districts are now using SchoolStat, a data-collection system modeled after the Compstat system famously implemented by William Bratton in New York in the mid-1990s, and now used in police departments around the country. The SchoolStat system allows district leaders to collect data [...]
Posted in Education, Education and Society, Expertise, Institutional theory, Sociology on September 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Earlier in the year I was in a class on the sociology of expertise - a field that’s still poorly defined, I think, though I don’t want to say anything about that now. In the course of our discussions, I became interested in exploring the distinction between expertise and competence. What does it mean to [...]
Posted in Academia, Conferences, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, International and Comparative Education, Organizations, Science and Technology, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I went to a number of sessions over the last two days of the conference, but I’ll only mention a few.
1. The very last session I attended at the conference was on Cultural Sociology and Disciplinary Change, chaired by a very droll and funny Jeffrey Alexander presiding over a standing-room only crowd who came [...]
Posted in Asian Studies, Conferences, Cultural Politics, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, New York City, Politics of Identity, Social Theory, Sociology on August 12, 2007 | No Comments »
Thought I’d take running notes on how the American Sociological Association conference is proceeding - for me, that is. I could wait and do a single wrap-up once the whole thing packs up and leaves town, but I probably just won’t remember anything. So, it’s just as well to jot things down as they take [...]
Posted in HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, tagged sociology of AIDS, sociology of organizations on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Tonight in class:
The Magic Johnson Foundation has partnered with Abbott Laboratories in a new HIV/AIDS-prevention and awareness campaign called I Stand With Magic. I didn’t know about it, but then again I find it difficult to keep up on every HIV/AIDS awareness campaign out there. This campaign is focused on ‘Black HIV/AIDS’; but as someone [...]
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