January 2012
269 posts
“No amount of fresh towels and edible breakfasts can make up for the feeling that...”
– British journalist Laurie Penny writes about her experience with the US healthcare system and how she “began to understand how profoundly the stranglehold of American private healthcare keeps ordinary people cowed and compliant in the land of the notionally free.” A fabulous read. (via...
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“No history books used in public schools informed us about racial imperialism....”
– bell hooks: Racism and Feminism (via cultureofresistance)
“Queerness is also a performative because it is not simply a being but a doing...”
– “Cruising Utopia : The Then and There of Queer Futurity” by Jose Esteban Munoz (via sistahmamaqueen)
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December 2011
282 posts
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“For all the girls who think tradition should be continued, go back to the...”
– Rebecca Arrellano to the girls who were against her getting crowned homecoming king (her girlfriend was crowned homecoming queen) because it went against tradition (via feministfairytale)
“To go back to Jefferson’s point, how can we be trusted with our own government –...”
– How Ignorance, Greed and Ideology Are Warping Science and Hurting Democracy | Julian Brookes | Rolling Stone (via sociolab)
The top 10 anti-gay foes spend three times as much...
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Professor is dumpster-diving urban Robin Hood →
sociolab:
Sociologists make the best people.
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“It would be a shame if the country goes down now because the government is not...”
– an informant in Mary K. Anglin’s Lessons from Appalachia in the 20th Century: Poverty, Power, and the “Grassroots.” American Anthropologist 2002 (via morganna)
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fyeahanthropology is up and running! →
Fellow sociologists, I suggest you follow. We have a lot to learn from anthropologists. Better to be friends than enemies. We both play a vital role in the social sciences.
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“White women face the pitfall of being seduced into joining the oppressor under...”
– Audre Lorde from “Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” in Sister Outsider (via sisteroutsider)
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“The choice we face is deeper than politics, broader than charity. It is whether...”
– Rabbi Arthur Waskow (via okigetit)
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“The Sociological Perspective: In Sum our efforts to improve life often destroy...”
– Social Problems, 9th edition, James Henslin and Lori Ann Fowler. (via mysayischange)
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fyeahanthropology is up and running! →
Fellow sociologists, I suggest you follow. We have a lot to learn from anthropologists. Better to be friends than enemies. We both play a vital role in the social sciences.
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“Most official investigations of welfare cheating have concluded that less than...”
– Herbert J. Gans in “The Positive Functions of Poverty.” 1972 (via femsomniac)
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“Silence concerning the social prerequisites for the appropriation of culture or,...”
– Pierre Bourdieu (via ohhdamnamanda)
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“[The] lack of ready intelligibility [in scholarly writing], I believe, usually...”
– C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (via robert-brydie)
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“From a biological standpoint, the difference between someone with type O blood...”
– The Real Word, Kerry Ferris & Jill Stein (via airfrommylungs)
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“The paradox of sociology-the power of society over its members versus the power...”
– Human Agency: Individuals and Groups in Society Changing Social Structures (via band-witch)
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“I don’t believe that you can expect the choices of patients and providers to...”
– Daniel Kahneman (via azspot)
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“Stability is good when a society is peaceful and prosperous. Stability is evil...”
– Freeman Dyson reviews legendary psychologist and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow — a must-read (via curiositycounts)
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“it is not the disability that disables the person, it is the society that...”
– Prof. Michael Iwama, proponent of the Kawa Model (via avarea)
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“The objective decline of the relative position of the professorial body, and the...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger (via robert-brydie)
“In order to achieve such an upset of power relations at the heart of the...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger (via robert-brydie)
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Do Nice Guys Finish Last? →
dragoni:
Research says they do, cutting into their annual salary nearly $10,000.
This suggests that nice guys finish last because people are subtly biased against them. Although agreeable people are less likely to get fired, and are just as likely to supervise others, they appear far less effective at negotiating pay increases, thus suggesting that the main financial benefit of...
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“So when The Girl Scout Research Group says it has some “positive” statistics,...”
– Autostraddle — What Reality TV Does To Girls (via sociolab)
“One man’s imagined community is another man’s political prison”
– Arjun Appadurai (via icreateasispeak)
“And finally, in many cases, the word “slut” has been drained of meaning through...”
– [Why Teens Can’t Stop Calling Each Other Sluts Kids] (via sociolab)
“Women are being sold the idea that shopping is fun and being a consumer is...”
– Motherhood, Free With Every Purchase | SPARK a Movement (via sociolab)
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“A new study from The Girl Scout Research Institute found that female Reality TV...”
– Autostraddle — What Reality TV Does To Girls (via sociolab)
“Once upon a time it wasn’t always like this — and by “this” I mean reality...”
– Autostraddle — What Reality TV Does To Girls (via sociolab)
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“In 2010, Sarah Coyne, a psychologist at Brigham Young University, found that...”
– Autostraddle — What Reality TV Does To Girls (via sociolab)
““Brilliant from a business standpoint, this model has serious implications for...”
– Autostraddle — What Reality TV Does To Girls (via sociolab)