Sociology at Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg, Lock Haven and Mansfield

08/25/2026

An interesting article from Samuel Abrams about teaching sociology.

Ideas like social capital, organizational culture, institutional trust and role conflict all came out of sociology.

08/18/2026

Here is a young Erving Goffman, one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century... in case you wanted to know.

08/16/2026

Wisdom from sociologist C Wright Mills...

“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness.

We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions.

We sense the cultural mediocrity around us-and in us-and we know that ours is a time when, within and between all the nations of the world, the levels of public sensibilities have sunk below sight; atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial.”

—C. Wright Mills

08/12/2026

The official music video for James Blunt - Someone Singing AlongT...

07/28/2026

Wisdom from Alex McCann and helpful to our sociology students...

The most interesting people I know are unembarrassed generalists, fluent enough in five different worlds to spot the connections the specialists keep missing.

We built an education system that rewards going narrow as early as possible, and the people who refused to are having a wonderful time.

07/23/2026

Your future starts here! Join us for Summer Preview Day at Commonwealth University – Lock Haven on August 14 to kick-off the 2027 application launch!

Explore campus, meet faculty and current students, tour residence halls, and discover what it means to be part of The Haven. ☀️

🔗 Register today at commonwealthu.edu/visit

07/21/2026

Dr Walker at the Lock Haven campus wrote an article. Read it for free on Substack.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theanomicnormalschool/p/do-you-remember-oliver?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5xmlq9