I could this blog post as my reading list for the next sevreal months.
Turns out nobody pays attention to the ASA page limit guidelines. Wish I knew this a month ago.
This is pretty opaque, but I think it is really pretty great.
Amazing review of a truly amazing article. Via AaronSw, to whom I am now in debt.
Dude. We did this EXACT experiment last night!
Check out the Reducing Inequality post which were recently featured on Crooked Timber. Recommended reading.
My life is crimes of disambiguation.
Ouch. This is a bad book review: "The empirical information he provides is perfunctory at best. His command of Marxism seems limited. His historical reach extends to his own earlier works. His vast theoretical apparatus is jimmy-rigged and empty. The graphs are inane, the writing atrocious. To call this book dull as dish water maligns dish water."
“This is Erving Goffman, your president. He would rather hear himself speaking than being spoken about.†Having said those two sentences, I was to shut up and sit down.
"The review reinforces the common mistake (apparently made by Lubet too) that Ethnography’s role is to furnish us with hard-to-obtain facts about the social world. But is that what we get from the great ethnographers like Geertz or E. Goffman? No. Rather, great ethnography offers us deep, general *insights* See e.g., how Homans uses Whyte. *Thats* why Whyte is a classic."
A quick look at some of the issues raised by computation research using FB or other social networks.
More books I need to read. Things get added onto this stack a lot faster than I keep up with them.
"Credit is a sacred trust, it’s what our free society is founded on. Do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia? I said, do you think they give a damn about their bills in Russia?"
I'm fascinated by for-profits turning into non-profits and vice versa.
