Bradley Wright's Blog

There's a substantial literature about the use of shaming in deterring crime.  This picture gives an example of it, and, at least to me...

From today's comics (wrong colors, though)

For my intro to sociology class, I gave an assignment for the students to find the worst social statistic that they could find (and I would ...

Here's an article from Inside Higher Ed that describes how sociologists are not only studying religion more often, but they're becom...

It's wonderful to see people use their businesses to help the poor.  Wonder what I could do as a sociologist?  Maybe teach regression a...

The Pew Foundation published a report that had this very interesting table in it.  It displays the relationship between the wealth of nati...

I came across an article about Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries .  He works to free prisoners who were falsely convicted.  I love these...

I've recently seen several studies that look at correlates of religiousness and various social maladies in different population areas (...

I love this "demotivational" poster....  I don't know how, yet, but I'm going to work it into an intro sociology lecture.

An article in the New York Times last week described a group of Christian ministries based on mixed martial arts.  One of these ministries h...

The U.S. Census, which is coming up this year, does not measure people's religion, but it turns out that wasn't always the case.  In...

As a follow up to Monday's post, I have long thought that clergy members are consistently among the most moral, loving people that I kno...

What makes a news story interesting? One thing is if it is unexpected (e.g., man bites dog rather than dog bites man.) When it comes to re...

This pretty much summarizes my attitude toward many media stories involving social science: " Reporters are faced with the daily choice...

Last year we bought a dog--an adorable miniature poodle named "Attila." She's smart, personable, and just a lot of fun. So, ...