" Had the commission understood what human subjects research is under present definitions, it would know that the bulk of human subjects research conducted in the U.S. is not regulated. Nor should it be, if it only involves asking questions of adults. "

" Social scientists need to communicate the value and importance of their research to policy makers in Washington, DC, and throughout America if they want to receive more financial support in the future, a Congressman told Consortium of Social Science Associations (COSSA) members. "

" This is an open, shared space for distributed research focused around OccupyWallStreet / OccupyTogether. We are sharing ideas, research questions, research methods, tools, datasets, and later working to gather, analyze, discuss, write, code, and otherwise develop the theory and practice of occupy research together. "

Protip to other sociologists: Acting like pretentious, uninquisitive asses makes us all look stupid.

useful for discussing the concept of "concept" - about which a great many academics and pundits remain sadly confused

FFS OMFG epic fail GTFO " So, is text-ese wrong? Only according to those who are making the rules (and Pearson’s tests). "

" Yet only sociologists force-fed as graduate students will not choke on this book. That many of them have come to adore this stuff is only striking proof of the discipline’s collapse. "

Sociologists are the absolute last people who should be warping emotionally charged words to mean whatever they want them to mean. See also: Tea Party definitions of socialism and fascism. "given the recent discovery of 4 bodies in Long Island, some or all of whom were women sex workers. Targeted violence on this scale is a form of war, of terrorism, of outright hatred for a particular category of people."

" When they try to label and categorize the politics of these new, conservative radicals, they convince one another but don't break through to the rest of the country. "

" “We’ve finally reached the stage where people aren’t afraid of being politically incorrect,” said Douglas S. Massey, a sociologist at Princeton who has argued that Moynihan was unfairly maligned. "