Tuesday, February 13, 2007

other sociology news

Score one for the upper Midwest: Chris is taking over Contexts, the plainspoken magazine of the American Sociological Association. All the more reason for me to remain a proud subscriber. I'm hoping he enacts my longrunning suggestion of replacing the humor column on the back page with Xtreme Sociology Stunts.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

As long as Minnesota loses less than $600k on Contexts, we can consider it a success.

Corey said...

I'll second the elimination of the humor column. Not only is it not funny... at times it is insulting.

xtreme sociology stunts is much preferred.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 1:30 is too harsh. I'm calling it a success if it looses less than 450K at Minnesota.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 1:30 is too harsh. I'm calling it a success if it looses less than 450K at Minnesota.

shakha said...

I'm confused. Has contexts lost a ton of money? Details?
-Shamus (who does not hide behind anonymity when being a jerk - in part because that would mean he'd almost always have to be anonymous).

Anonymous said...

Yes and I think our hero provided the details in an earlier post.

jeremy said...

Contexts has lost something over a half million dollars since it's start, although I've heard its operating losses have decreased markedly from what it was at the beginning. I mentioned these losses before on this blog, not as a criticism of Contexts per se, but in making the point that ASA has sufficient funds around to pay the $45,000 it would have taken not to commit the organization from making a return trip to Atlanta in 2010.

Anonymous said...

I've heard that a man in a red suit leaves presents on Christmas Eve too...

I don't think the bleeding has slowed. At some point this vanity press will have to be closed down

christopher uggen said...

thanks, jeremy. we know you'll stick with us in 2010, so we're taking aim at your many friends and neighbors. i won't pitch you here, but rest assured that doug and i fully intend to develop contexts into a self-supporting gateway to the discipline.