March 2012
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“Here is evidence that suggests that when your football team does well, grades...”
– How Big-Time Sports Ate College Life - NYTimes.com (via sociolab)
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February 2012
252 posts
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“The first wisdom of sociology is this: things are not what they seem.”
– Peter Berger (1963)
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“The habit of considering racism as a mental quirk, as a psychological flaw, must...”
– Frantz Fanon (1967:77)
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“People learn when they are quite young a few of the things that they are...”
– John Gagnon, Human Sexualities (via croatoan)
Open Veins of Latin America
mexistentialist:
by Eduardo Galeano
Download it for free here.
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Is There a Liberal Bias Among American Professors? →
sociolab:
Sociology 44.0 Ethnic Studies 16.3 Performing Arts 16.0 Neurosciences 13.1 Languages & Literature 11.9 Psychiatry 11.8 History 10.9 Biology 10.7 Anthropology 10.5 Art 8.8 Psychology 8.0
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“It is not the excitement of coming upon the totally unfamiliar, but rather the...”
– Peter Berger, Invitation to Sociology (via laststoptonowhere)
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“When, in a city of 100,000, only one man is unemployed, that is his personal...”
– C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination (1959)
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via soul-surfer)
“From the interweaving of countless individual interests and intentions […]...”
– Norbert Elias, The Civilizing Process (via robert-brydie)
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“Institutions tend to remain hidden behind habitual practices until flaws emerge...”
– Klaus Krippendorff, “Content Analysis” (via tpizza05)
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“For to teach morality is neither to preach not to indoctrinate; it is to...”
– Durkheim in Moral Education (via aaronitron)
“We’re living in unequal societies, but what makes the inequality noxious, and...”
– Will Hutton (via azspot)
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“The fact that sex is indeed a spectrum, which is something that as an intersex...”
– Cary Gabriel Costello, Transphobia, Racism, and Segregation (via feministsociologist)
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“To say that [prejudice] is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility...”
– Beverly Daniel Tatum, “Defining Racism: Can We Talk?” (via croatoan)
“The more highly unequal a society is, the higher its rates of violence.”
– Dr. James Gilligan (via knowapower)
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HELP!
thesetvcoupleskeepkillingme:
Tumblrs,
I am a sociology major and im working on my capstone project for Data Analysis. We are required to survey 300 undergraduates. My survey has been IRB approved but I have come to a standstill and not enough people have been taking my online version of the survey. I am about hafwaly to my goal and I need to be finished collecting surveys by Spring Break which...
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“Some bodies can afford plastic surgery, braces, and weekly facials, while others...”
– Donna Nicol (via croatoan)
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“If tectonic plates shifted, resulting in an enormous opening at the bottom of...”
– Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer, Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America. (via helmhammerhand)
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“What science disputes in religion is not its right to exist but its right to...”
– Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (via villa412)
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“Kant initially was not an Idealist; his first Critique prohibits just the kind...”
– Randall Collins, The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change (via robert-brydie)
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“Social change is change in the way people relate to each other, not change in...”
– Lawrence M. Friedman and Jack Ladinksky (via huyennie)
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“We are uncomfortable with disabled bodies that question or trouble our accepted,...”
– Disabled Bodies and Ableist Acceptance (via sociolab)
“Being born in the elite in the U.S. gives you a constellation of privileges that...”
– Class Matters by the correspondents of The New York Times (via socialworky)
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“My understanding of truth can change from day to day and my commitment must be...”
– Ram Dass (via quotesforintellectuals)
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“The only rational and objective explanation of events consists in discovering in...”
– Emile Durkheim, on Marxism (via fuckyeahanthrotheory)
“Learn all you can about people in other parts of the world. Understanding how...”
– Carol Bellamy (via aliyahloves)
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“There is much evidence in history that acute inequalities often survive...”
– Amartya Sen (via vurge)
“One of the biggest long-term challenges we face, I think, is the way an...”
– Nicholas Kristof (via azspot)
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The Sociological Imagination: Tending Your 'Ideas... →
robert-brydie:
Glad to see a post on this. The end section of Mills’ The Sociological Imagination was what encouraged me to start actually jotting down various thoughts that came to mind instead of constant “notes to self” in my mind sure to fade away by the next day. It remains one of the few short texts I’ve found of an academic explaining how they work and as a bonus one that was actually...
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“To define racism only through extreme groups and their extreme acts is akin to...”
– Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer in What is Racial Domination? (via kidonacloud)
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Race and incarceration in the USA: the effect on...
zeezeescorner:
Philip N. Cohen posted this chart comparing the rates of incarceration across racial groups in the USA (via Sociological Images). Cohen writes:
to understand the disparate impact of this change on Black men in young adulthood primarily — and secondarily, Latino men — here are the rates of incarceration for men by age and race/ethnicity (Blacks here exclude Latinos; Asians and...
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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.”
–
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)