February 2012
111 posts
“The first wisdom of sociology is this: things are not what they seem.”
– Peter Berger (1963)
On this day 47 years ago Malcolm X died with 21...
miseengarde:
This week NYPD officers shot and killed three innocent black men.
“Sociology is justified by the belief that it is better to be conscious than...”
– Peter Berger (via sociolab)
Fuck Yeah Sociology!: 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…
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of...”
– Maya Angelou (via icecream-for-dinner)
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Some latent functions of late...
Manifest and latent functions are one of the first things you learn about in intro, everything has them, and lately I’ve been noticing more than a few from grad school…
I’m doing the reading for my community class and it focuses on counterfeit community. Everything I read in this book makes me want to scribble false consciousness in the margins. I think I’m becoming more...
“It’s pretty unbelievable, but women are still earning significantly less than...”
– Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism (via croatoan)
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
America's Poorest People Running Out Of Places To... →
For every 100 households that earn less than one-third of the median income for their region, according to the report, there are only 30 affordable and available rental units — meaning, places to live that aren’t dilapidated, prohibitively expensive, too far from public transportation, or already occupied by someone earning a higher salary.
You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face →
This blog entry is amazing! Everyone should read it and then stop teaching little girls that when a boy hits you it means he likes you!
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Research Experience for Undergrads at GSU
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 Geography and Geographic...
“Public programs that provide funds for rich people are not called ‘welfare’, but...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Food stamp families to critics: Walk in our shoes →
“I usually don’t talk about stuff like this on my show, but I really want to...”
– Ellen Degeneres
“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat...”
– Kate Harding (via rhiannon-random)
another example of thin privilege, your body type doesn’t carry these negative synonyms
(via fatcatsandcurls)
“Social repair requires sociological thinking. The depressing lesson of the past...”
– David Brooks: Sociology reveals more than economics - Editorial - Ohio (via sociolab)
“It’s not true that people in disorganized neighborhoods have bad values. Their...”
– David Brooks: Sociology reveals more than economics - Editorial - Ohio (via sociolab)
“Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent...”
– Shirley Chisholm (via brandx)
Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the sentences given to...
“Human behavior cannot be understood simply in individualistic terms; we must...”
– Emile Durkheim (via awkward-creativity)
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Sociology, the study of paper chain people. →
From Uncyclopedia, “Sociology’s first belief (derived from Algebraic philosophy) is that for every bearded intellectual who expresses his opinion, there will always be another bearded intellectual who expresses the opposite. And a bearded intellectual who expresses an opinion in between the first two.”
“Women are seen so much as public property, as objects to look at and judge, that...”
– Jessica Valenti - He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (via misscoldroses)
Yes. A billion times yes.
(via fyeahfeminism)
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven’t even begun to pull the knife out. They won’t even admit the knife is there.”
—Malcolm X
Last FEMA Temporary Housing Unit Leaves Orleans... →
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Southern Rural Development Center Data Center →
My professor sent me this link to use for a project I’m working on but it’s a useful source for anyone looking for data on the south…Here’s what SRDC has to say about it: In many rural counties, gaining access to relevant demographic, education, social, and economic data is not easy to come by, or, at a minimum, difficult to locate in one centralized site. As a way of...
“Men’s fear of being judged a failure as a man in the eyes of other men leads to...”
– Michael S. Kimmel, “Clarence, William, Iron Mike, Tailhook, Senator Packwood, Spur Posse, Magic…And Us” (via croatoan)
“1 in 4 U.S. jobs pay less than a poverty-level income.
During the 1980s, 13%...”
– MotherJones (via anticapitalist)