Comments on: home, sweet home

By: tina

tina — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:59:45 +0000

OW: Sorry to hear about your mom. I hope it’s not too serious.

JF: I think that your (c) puts you squarely into the sociology soup in a way that similar work on my part does not.

By: Eszter

Eszter — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:31:11 +0000

There are awards like that, they’re given for pieces that have made an impact.

By: shakha

shakha — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:38:37 +0000

Brayden -

I think that’s a great idea. Wait up to five years before giving an award.

By: brayden

brayden — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:36:19 +0000

Jeremy - I think a lot of people read articles in the same way. I’ve wondered how the awards ceremonies at the ASA meetings would turn out differently if we voted on books and articles published five years earlier.

By: olderwoman

olderwoman — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:59:59 +0000

My mother is having health problems as well, although physical. Partly I think because of your earlier post, I made a point of talking to my sister, who lives near her, to acknowledge that she might get stuck with extra helping.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 06:30:19 +0000

If you don’t count (a) articles I read before 2007 that came out this year, (b) articles co-authored by me, or (c) articles I read as part of reading assistant/associate professor candidate files, I’m not sure I’ve read 10 sociology articles with a 2007 publication date this year. Or, wait, I mean I guess I have, but it would include papers for which I’m sure even the authors would agree were written with low ambition and so not “Top 10 of 2007″ contenders. I do much more reading for specific projects (and then going back several years into the past) than looking at the latest issue of a journal to see what’s being published now. Am I unusual in this respect?