Today I got a molar pulled. It was an easy extraction: no incisions, the tooth popped out with little tugging, and no stitches needed. The oral surgeon sent me home with a wad of gauze in my mouth to stop the bleeding. I stopped in the pharmacy to pick up my prescriptions and at the…
Yesterday I told my therapist about my research question for sociology class. He says studies have shown that depending on the field there is a certain age where you have to be discovered for you to be embraced by that industry. He mentioned age 14 or 15 for an instrument like violin, for example. The exception was…
Our second writing assignment in Sociological Imagination will be an annotated bibliography on a social stratification topic of our choosing. We were asked to share our preliminary research questions with the class. Mine is, “In what ways does the music industry discriminate against newcomers over age 40?” I explained that whenever established artists or industry…
