February 2012
207 posts
I would like to follow some of you awesome people. I can’t follow back through this blog because it’s a secondary, but I can through my main. So, check me out and follow if you want or you can send me a message directing me to your blog.
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“…too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human...”
– Pres. Jimmy Carter (July 15th 1979)
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“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
(via uhnomik)
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“…As he shows, America is both especially unequal and has especially low...”
– The Great Gatsby Curve - NYTimes.com (via stealthbananas)
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“What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by...”
– C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (1959)
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“Today, students of the social sciences unquestionably understand the importance...”
– Brace (via eatingwithears)
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Asexuality Studies - Sociological Imagination →
zeezeescorner:
Here’s some presentations on asexuality by UK, American and Canadian sociologists. From a workshop hosted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.
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“We are all ultimately subject to an imprisonment in space/time within the limits...”
– Torsten Hägerstrand in Time Geography: Focus on the corporeality of Man, Society and Environment (1985) (via minusfortyfive)
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“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the...”
– Karl Marx, Preface to the Critique of Political Economy (via quotemarx)
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“I think that one of the defining issues has to be the tension between memory and...”
– Michael Eric Dyson (via turnupgreenz)
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“I suppose it’s true that the members of Spur Posse, a group of relatively...”
– Michael S. Kimmel, “Clarence, William, Iron Mike, Tailhook, Senator Packwood, Spur Posse, Magic…And Us” (via croatoan)
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“No ethics in the world can dodge the fact that in numerous instances the...”
– Max Weber (via pragmatichominid)
What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's... →
Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.
In the Finnish view, as Sahlberg describes it,...
“The message here is loud and clear. There’s girls stuff, like puppies and beauty...”
– LEGO Magazine: Girl Stuff and “Regular” Stuff | SPARK a Movement (via sociolab)
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“The problem of course is that the “power” of big data to help answer challenging...”
– Massive, crucial point, beautifully expressed - and by an undergrad no less (by name of Evan Freedman).
Comment on The Limits of Big Data by Klint Finley on RWW, June 2011
(via hautepop)
Comparing Social Science Job Markets →
A new research paper from the American Sociological Association compares the job markets (primarily but not exclusively in academe) in social science disciplines. Looking at the most recent jobs data (based on postings with disciplinary associations), the association found that sociology appears to be experiencing the most robust recovery in job listings (up 28 percent), followed by political...
“So, only if there were to take the risk of really calling into question the...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations
FAO Hollovv: Bourdieu putting what a sociology of philosophy entails a lot better than I probably did. (via robert-brydie)
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African-American Boys Receive Less Attention,... →
socialworky:
“A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black children — especially boys — no matter their family income, receive less attention, harsher punishment and lower marks in school than their White counterparts from kindergarten all the way through college. A subsequent article published in “The Washington Post” reported that Black children in the...
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“No living being can be happy or even exist unless his needs are sufficiently...”
– Emile Durkheim, Le Suicide, “Book II: Anomic Suicide” (via pramlattaships)
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“The picture of another man that a man gains through personal contact with him is...”
– georg simmel, “how is society possible?” (via samrick)
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“True expansion of self-identity comes not with an increasing number of...”
– Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), “Hope for a Better World: The Cooperative Community Way” (2002)
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Using Crowdsourcing Technologies to Research... →
vehpus:
Ever since I began to take an interest in crowdsourcing as a self appointed research subject, I’m just seeing ideas pop up everywhere. Today I found an article that lists at least ten examples of how ordinary people, when properly coordinated, lead to giant leaps in scientific research, due to the ability to process a huge amount of data in ways that computers aren’t able to, and perhaps...
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“The first wisdom of sociology is this: things are not what they seem.”
– Peter Berger (1963)
The Decline of Public Good →
What defines a society is a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions — public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.
Public institutions are supported by all taxpayers, and are available to all. If the tax system is progressive, those who...
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“If one says ‘the future of socialism’ or ‘international peace,’ instead of...”
– Max Weber (via pragmatichominid)
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“There is an important aspect of the “us vs. them” mentality when it comes to...”
– Haters Gonna Hate: Tebow & Sub-Culture Identity Theory (via sociolab)
“It isn’t a president, whether his name is Ron Paul or Barack Obama who gets good...”
– Tim Wise » Of Broken Clocks, Presidential Candidates, and the Confusion of Certain White Liberals (via sociolab)
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George Herbert Mead says..
seacheller:
“Selves can exist only in definite relations to other selves. No hard-and-fast line can be drawn between our selves and the selves of others, because our own selves exist and enter as such into our experience also. The individual possesses a self only in relation to the selves of other members of his social group; and the structure of his self expresses or reflects the general...
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“Practice never ceases to conform to economic calculation even when it gives...”
– Pierre Bourdieu (via fuckyeahanthrotheory)
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“You can see this discrimination when facilities that are gender based, like...”
– Dean Spade (via radicalqueery)
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“Nothing more clearly affirms one’s class, nothing more infallibly classifies,...”
– Pierre Beourdieu. (via lirilaiprophets)
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“I myself have called for a “prosocial” definition of tattoo, one that sees...”
– Generational Change in the Social Acceptability of Tattoos (via sociolab)
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dialoguing-demon asked: I greatly enjoy this blog; my blog itself is also dedicated to social justice and diversity. With the efforts of growth in mind, I was wondering if you did a type of promoting amongst your followers? If so, I would appreciate it. If not, that is fine, the blog is still awesome!
Holy followers Batman!
I’m assuming that most of you are coming from fuckyeahsociologysheep, which is awesome. I am grateful for the shout out! This blog has gotten about 400+ more followers than I ever thought it would. It makes me so happy to know that there are others in the world who love sociology just as much as I do.
Feel free to submit posts, ask questions, or whatever you like. I also encourage you...
“I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten...”
– Tony Benn, Politician (via thisisgreatbritain)
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“It’s pretty unbelievable, but women are still earning significantly less than...”
– Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism (via croatoan)
“Elias argues in The Court Society that people who think that studying the power...”
– Richard Kilminster, Norbert Elias: post-philosophical sociology
The more I read about Elias the further he climbs up my to read list. Loving this challenging of supposed boundaries between the domains of sociology, history and anthropology. (via robert-brydie)
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“Stereotypes may actually have some general statistical accuracy. The trouble is...”
– Sociological Images: A Theater Full Of Bikers (via themuckofages)
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“The news is rife with stories that are at best misleading and at worst factually...”
– should social scientists stop reading the news? (via sociolab)
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“Now, in contemporary industrialized democracies, the legitimate administration...”
– [David Graeber] (via rienfleche)
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potinsocio asked: Hi, about your post on free...
thesociologist: For French readers, this site looks quite impeccable. Free sociological texts that are legal? Count us in. Les classiques des sciences sociales: Maintenant 7 collections disponibles regroupant 4,823 oeuvres originales de 1,322 auteurs différents.
Merci beaucoup, potinsocio.
In related news, we are in the process of consolidating another list of resources and this time, we promise...
“It is not the number of victims or the degree of cruelty that is distinctive; it...”
– C. Wright Mills (via cultureofresistance)
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Research Experience for Undergrads at GSU
sociolab:
socialformsandsocialtypes:
I received the following on an email listserv and though I’d pass it along. I did an REU at Delaware myself and it was a wonderful experience.
The Department of Geosciences at Georgia State will host a NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site this summer called “Addressing Social and Environmental Disparities through Community...
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“To be excluded from these bodies of knowledge and the sites and processes of...”
– Feminist Theory: A Reader (via sociolab)