by david allan van nostrand | Aug 7, 2023 | Research, Sociology
When asked who Pavlov is, most people mention something about dogs. Some add that the dogs slobbered at the sound of a bell. A few know that Pavlov won a Nobel Prize, but almost no one knows it had nothing to do with his work with salivating dogs. A scientist friend...
by david allan van nostrand | Sep 13, 2021 | Sociology, The world around us
Susie Scott of Sussex University is trying to develop a Sociology of Nothing. She says that instead of looking at who we are and what we do in our lives, she wants to look into the shadows of things that are absent, lost, missing, empty, silent, and invisible. She...
by david allan van nostrand | Jan 20, 2020 | Sociology, Teaching
Undergraduate grade point averages are the first thing doctoral programs look at and my application would have been automatically binned if they had Artificial Intelligence scanners in those days, but it was 1977 and they didn’t. The Indiana University Sociology...
