tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post116726176045045523..comments2024-02-20T17:40:21.618-05:00Comments on jeremy freese's weblog: jeremy freese: the footnotes interview, final partjeremyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1168011779395357242007-01-05T10:42:00.000-05:002007-01-05T10:42:00.000-05:00you know, having been out of academia for several ...you know, having been out of academia for several years, yet remaining tied in through some aspects of my work (more applied) and through participating in debate lists, I started the blog completely as a selfish enterprise in inexpensive therapy. And because I was pissed.<BR/><BR/>But I was so steeped in thinking sociological, always translating everyday events into sociological explanations that it was virtually impossible not to do sociology somehow, someway. I do not generally make it explicit, but what happens is someone says, "what?"<BR/><BR/>And then I explain.<BR/><BR/>I don't know. When I was teaching, I always told my students that taking sociology of work would not help them "do" work better -- help them get a promotion. It wouldn't help them "do" the family. What it could do, though, was help them figure out was going on in their lives, help them better understand, say, why there is interpersonal conflict at work or what is going on when your sister and brother-in-law divorce because, say, he can't find steady work in his chosen profession.<BR/><BR/>That's was about the only way I thought of my blog as "doing sociology": C. Wright Mills' history and biography, where I can hardly think of my own life or anyone else's without thinking of it all through that framework.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1167338390874659762006-12-28T15:39:00.000-05:002006-12-28T15:39:00.000-05:00Hee. That is the other way of looking at it.Hee. That is the other way of looking at it.jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755662766163119607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558726.post-1167334357883654382006-12-28T14:32:00.000-05:002006-12-28T14:32:00.000-05:00Hey Man, It's ALLL sociology....Hey Man, It's ALLL sociology....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com