Comments on: Sociology Student Sheep have fun-ruining epiphanies

By: wysinwyg

wysinwyg — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:42:00 +0000

“Okay, so it’s been objectively determined that the joke is “bad?”

Guess you had to be there.

By: Johnny Paul Coolin

Johnny Paul Coolin — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:23:00 +0000

Has Sociology changed since I did my degree in the mid-90s? Or is it just different in the US?

This sounds more like Psychology, or at best, Social Psychology.

Is it Psycho Sociology?

By: Amelia_G

Amelia_G — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:35:00 +0000

I should but don’t remember Georg Simmel, and he looks so interesting! So thank you three times.

“The Stranger” is an interesting topic, not just because of Dan Savage’s local alt-weekly, and there Simmel seems to diverge from what I’ve observed of modern German life. He applies great value to a stranger’s outsider advantages? Modern Germans may think of strangers as one of three groups they divide all people into: friends, acquaintances and strangers. Friends you do everything for, acquaintances are necessary for a good life, and strangers, well. You can use elbows on strangers.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:50:00 +0000

READ STUFF AVAILABLE ON WIKIPEDIA
(sheep picture)
DECADES OF DEBT

By: B E Pratt

B E Pratt — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:50:00 +0000

Is that a Bachelor of Academic Arts?

By: Rindan

Rindan — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:49:00 +0000

I dated a sociologist and hung out with her sociologist friends. So true. Sociologist live on another plane of existence. That plane of existence isn’t one where people make prediction based upon models and test those predictions against reality.

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:19:00 +0000

“Heck, no,” said the farmer. “Sheep lie!” <– If you don't know the leadup to this punch line, you're probably better off that way.

By: eviladrian

eviladrian — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 23:59:00 +0000

DO SAME DOUCHE STUFF AS EVERY OTHER FRESHMAN
(sheep picture)
USE ONE SEMESTER OF PSYCH TO RATIONALISE YOUR BEHAVIOUR

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 22:07:00 +0000

If there was ever a group of people to whom the proverb “to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail” was more appropriate, I’ve yet to find one.

By: mindysan33

mindysan33 — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 19:33:00 +0000

Probably funnier if you are a sociology grad student, maybe? I thought some of them were funny, actually, though I’m a history grad student. There is also this tumblr, which I thought was hilarious:

http://wheninacademia.tumblr.com/

For example, this particular one:

http://wheninacademia.tumblr.com/post/32827069418/when-i-get-a-new-whiteboard-marker

But this would only be funny for people who teach and have limited access to things like white board markers…

By: Just_Ok

Just_Ok — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:31:00 +0000

The new degree offered is a BAA and you get it on a real sheep’s skin

By: aikimoe

aikimoe — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:30:00 +0000

“Acquaintance tells bad joke, but everyone laughs.”

Okay, so it’s been objectively determined that the joke is “bad?”

It’s been objectively demonstrated that the people laughing didn’t really find the joke funny?

It’s not really doing the discipline any favors, is it?

By: John K Goodman

John K Goodman — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:18:00 +0000

those are…not very funny