Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future. By Karen A. Cerulo and Janet M. Ruane. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. 280. $27.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ...

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"To tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world." RFK Sr. following the assassination of MLK

So happy to see Dreams of a Lifetime reviewed in the AJS!
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Netflix dropped season 7 of Black Mirror last Thursday. It does not disappoint. Especially loved the episode "Common People."

For those of you interested in culture and cognition, the C&C network still exists. Rutgers removed the link from it's department page, but we are still up and running: sites.rutgers.edu/culture-and-...

Delighted to see former grad student Portia Allen-Kyle on the PBS News Hour representing Color of Change at a demonstration today.

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Stand!
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1976 US Presidential Election Map: Carter vs Ford The map above shows the result of the 1976 US presidential election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Turnout for the election was 54.80%.

Wow! Look at the electoral map for Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential victory. California is red and Texas is blue among other things. Interesting.
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Well, the drones have arrived in my town.

To Shoo a Mockingbird — Little Old Lady I love birds. In my early years, I grew up in an urban setting. For the most part, I saw only the routine city dwellers: pigeons, sparrows, the occasional blackbird. But when I bought my first home, ...

My first foray in humorous essay writing: www.littleoldladycomedy.com/all-works/to...

My new article, “What Shapes Our Dreams for the Future” published in Contexts Magazine. Free to read or download thru 9/29: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.....

What a great way to end the week. Jan and I just signed a contract with the University of California press for our new book tentatively titled "Are You Sure About That? Strategies for Discerning Fact from Fiction." Happy to be working with Naomi Schneider. Now for the writing!

The Impact Factor (IF) for my last year as editor of Sociological Forum was just release. I’m proud to say that our a two-year IF was 1.8; our five year IF increased to 2.3; and we moved up in rank to 83 of 217, placing us in the 2nd quartile. I look forward to the new editors moving us further!

We built a mean game to test AI's ability to apologise If you're struggling to say you're sorry, AI is happy to help. But can robots handle social intelligence? To find out, we we put their apologies to the test.

An interesting study on apologies using AI! My work is liberally quoted.
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The best books to understand the impacts of social inequality Karen A. Cerulo shares the 5 best books on understanding how social inequality impacts hopes and dreams, not simply opportunities. Have you read Bright-Sided?

Great new site for exchanging ideas about books!
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Take a "dreamy" trip down the Danube with a good book! Paperback now available.

Read the paperback in nParis, the City of Lights ... and Dreams!

The paperback is out and making it's world tour! Missed getting it last time? Order now at Princeton University Press!

Interested parties: Judith Butler will be interviewed tomorrow on the New Yorker radio hour broadcast on WNYC at 10AM. The interview will also be available on the New Yorker's podcast.

Read all about it: The popularity of turning captions on Experts say, despite advances in audio recording, films are getting harder to hear, which may explain why the majority of people watch TV with the closed captions on.

We've been wondering why we seem to need subtitles on our TV watching even though we have very good hearing. Here's why!
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Thanks so much to the Eastern Sociological Society for honoring me last night. I was so disappointed not to be there in person and was so grateful to Phil Kasinitz for Zooming me in to hear the lovely comments. I was so very touched.

Homepage - Imagining the Digital Future Center Imagining the Digital Future is a research center of Elon University focused on the impacts of the digital revolution and what lies ahead

Very much worth reading: Very much worth reading: imaginingthedigitalfuture.org

I totally agree--why aren't we???

Mandy Patinkin is an acquired taste for some, but with all the hate in the world these days, I find myself coming back to these two songs--he does a great job:
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Warren Buffett Has Spent 70 Years Of His Life Married — His Advice: 'If You Want A Marriage To Last, Look For Someone With Low Expectations' Warren Buffett, the 93-year-old investment icon and one of the richest men in the world, is renowned not only for his unparalleled success in the financial realm but also for his willingness to share ...

Maybe he should have said reasonable expectations.
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'Rhapsody in Blue': After a century, Gershwin's musical melting pot still resonates On Feb. 12, 1924, a sassy fusion of jazz and classical music debuted in New York, sparking a mutual exchange of ideas still debated today.

An anniversary of note!
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Humbling: "Dreams of a Lifetime belongs to a particular shelf, one that holds those books that utilize sociology seriously to best capture the pulse of the U.S. at a particular juncture in time." Benzecry compares it to work by Riesman, Slater, Putnam, Sennett, Bellah, Liebow, Desmond. (SOCF:38:4)

In his recent testimony to Congress, Mark Zuckerberg stated that research shows no causal link between social media use and teenage mental health. That is false.  Zuckerberg should refer to the work of Jean Twenge or Jonathan Haidt before making these claims. Facts not myths will lead to solutions.

It seems that Oprah had some measurable impact on the Obama vote. Taylor Swift endorsed Biden in 2020. She may influence the youth vote in 2024. We shall see.