May 2012
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Essential links to new and classic social science research, The Reading List is a resource to inform your reading of the news, research in the field, and showing off at fancy cocktail parties (or on Twitter).
April 2012
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///: Why your Bachelor of Arts is worth more than... →
rustout:
At 11:00am on April 15, I penned the last words of my final undergraduate paper, bringing a close to the past five years of my life. In prior weeks, I had been anxiously anticipating this moment, but as I ran the final spell check and half assed another edit, I become reluctant to save and send….
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UC Berkley: Lower Classes Quicker to Show... →
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By Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations |December 19, 2011
BERKELEY —
Emotional differences between the rich and poor, as depicted in such Charles Dickens classics as “A Christmas Carol” and “A Tale of Two Cities,” may have a scientific basis. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found that people in the lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically...
March 2012
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Michigan State online course faces zombie threat →
Michigan State University is taking on the zombie threat.
The School of Social Work is offering an online course called “Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse - Catastrophes and Human Behavior.”
The seven-week course starts May 14. The university says students will learn how human behavior and nature change after catastrophes, both historical and hypothetical.
The course will combine...
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February 2012
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“As people gain the tools to work for social change — and find the courage to go...”
– Parker J. Palmer (via azspot)
Truth
January 2012
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izzy-anotherworld asked: what is sociological imagination?
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– Privilege comes in many forms — Interpretations and self defined means are sewn by a biased thread of perspective.
Awareness + Perspective = Understanding
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“Sociology is possible only because human behavior is patterned. Students in a...”
– So often the subtle patterns and trends of society go unnoticed by its participants, while the aware and observant sociologists look on, with the desire & passion to understand and make meaning of it all.
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WatchLive stream of TEDYouth — Enriching and engrossing applications of science and teaching, for the growth and betterment of everyone involved.
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Live Stream -- Grad School Info Session →
Have you been curious about the application process? How to select a program? What do you need to have in order to give yourself the best chance to get into the graduate school of your choosing?
This is an opportunity for you to ask those questions and figure out if you’re on the right track for graduate school. Stop in, check us out, and hopefully you’ll get what you need to...
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Comparing Quality of Life among Countries
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Key Works in Sociology
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Intelligent women forced to 'dumb down' and find a...
The source story provides interesting statistical analysis suggesting a paradigm shift, regarding households and “breadwinners.” It’ll be interesting to experience the shifting changes, likely to happen in the coming decades.
“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their...”
– Karl Marx
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WatchPopulation concerns & an understanding for how we got to be so plentiful.
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October 2011
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Shocking Chart: Typical Hourly Wage Went Up Just... →
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“Q - What class are you struggling with, and why?
A - The bourgeoisie, because...”
– Karl Marx
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“Whatever sociology may be, it is the result of constantly asking the question,...”
– C. Wright Mills
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Using Your Sociological Imagination
If you are a student of sociology, here is an assignment you can use to get your SOC on. As I’ve said, sociology is about the study of the world that you create through your actions, interactions, and “complicit” agreement with the “rules” of the world. In this assignment, I would like you to begin thinking like a sociologist. That is, take a sociological perspective on the world you live in and...
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One World in 60 Seconds
“The world in 60 seconds? A sociologist looks at daily life differently. Walking through a market with melon in hand, we see interrelationships, economic realities, injustices, and a world that “could be” or “might be” if we stopped buying into the “that’s just the way it is” mentality of “normal” life. Revolutionary? No. In a way it is deeply ironic. Engineers, chemists, even physicists...
“Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the...”
– Georg Simmel
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How Does Lack of Water Affect Women and Children
In parts of Africa it takes up to 8 hours to find water.
—In developing countries, women usually collect household water, especially in rural areas.
—Less time for education and employment.
11% more girls attend school when sanitation facilities are available.
—Many girls drop out of school when they start menstruating due to lack of facilities.
In Africa and Asia women...
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Network Connections of Global Capitalist Companies
Network Analysis of The top 50 of the 147 super-connected companies, as published in Popular Science.
The top 10 are listed below
Barclays plc
Capital Group Companies Inc
FMR Corporation
AXA
State Street Corporation
JP Morgan Chase & Co
Legal & General Group plc
Vanguard Group Inc
UBS AG
Merrill Lynch & Co Inc
More information and elaboration can be found here
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6 degrees of separation less for MSU community... →
Although it is one of the largest universities in the nation, students have found the MSU community might be connected by less than the popularized six degrees of separation.
According to the findings from an experiment conducted by assistant professor of sociology Neal and the students in his Contemporary Communities class, MSU students and faculty are connected by four degrees of separation.
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September 2011
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