Fabio
A few days ago in my post about public sociology, socio-blogger Rachel S. wrote the following comment in the context of a discussion about the paucity of prominent socio-bloggers:
And as far as the last point, I really agree with you. There is no way around it, sociology has done a really **** job at promoting itself to the public.
I could not agree more. I am always shocked at our profession’s poor public image. Basically, the educated public barely knows that sociology is actually a real social science, and among those that do, sociology has a fluffy image. [Don’t believe me? Just watch the reaction when a kid tells mom and dad he’s switching from pre-med to sociology. It’s priceless.]
This is frustrating because we study important questions and we actually come up with some good answers. So here are some hypotheses about why we have such…
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