Embedded Sociologists

Bookmarks for public sociologists.

Etzioni (The George Washington University) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2005.00067.x Bookmarks for public sociologists

Sociologists in the Press

Stimulated by debates on public sociology in the recent years I studied contributions of sociologists in daily newspapers in Austria. Although sociologists are rather present in the Austrian press, I argue this remains without noticeable effects on public opinion formation; the topics sociologists write and talk about are rather arbitrary and they lack factual content. Although my data refers t...

Black Sociologists: A Critical Analysis

Children are sociologists

Título: Los niños son sociólogos. Resumen: Investigaciones recientes han mostrado que los niños pequeños son muy sensibles a las características de las personas de las que obtienen o reciben información. Prefieren buscar y respaldar la información de los informantes con los que ya están familiarizados o de los que han demostrado ser fiables en el pasado. En este artículo se presenta una serie d...

BlogTrackers: A Tool for Sociologists to Track and Analyze Blogosphere

We present a tool BlogTrackers, which assists sociologists to track and analyze blogs of particular interests by designing and integrating unique features. We present an overview of BlogTrackers, illustrate its functions of various components of BlogTrackers, and outline future work for expansion in meeting the growing needs of sociologists. Introduction Blogosphere, the network of blogs, is gr...