In Which Rep. Marcy Kaptur Totally Kicks Butts
September 23, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Corruption, Economy, Politics
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Archive for September 23, 2008
Whaddaya Know… Lying Bastards
September 23, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Corruption, Economy
Emptywheel » Bush Mouthpiece Admits: They’ve Been Sitting on this Plan via kwout The Shock Doctrine… After the disaster, comes the shock therapy.
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Sexism Pays!
September 23, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Economy, Gender, Labor, Patriarchy, Sexism, Social Inequalities, Social Privilege, Social Stratification, Structural Violence
BBC NEWS | Health | Men with sexist views ‘earn more’ via kwout Be sure to check out this Scatterplot post as well. There may be different explanations for this, of course (and as usual): The one mentioned above: traditional (i.e. sexist) men wield power around (translation: behave like big jerks). Traditional men are the [...]
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Global Sociology Blogroll – More French SocBloggers
September 23, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Blogs, Global Sociology, Sociology
Via Baptiste Coulmont (already on the Global Sociology Blogroll): Joël Gombin (Ok, technically he’s a political scientist but Coulmont describes him as a political sociologist, so that counts) Contrebande by Damien Babet Romain Garcier whom Coulmont proclaims a "sociologist of space"… you know… a geographer
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Book Review – Heart of Diamonds
September 23, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Africa, book review, Corruption, Development, DRC, Globalization, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Labor, Mass Violence, Media, New Wars, Politics, Poverty, Religious Fundamentalism, Sexism
[Disclaimer 1: I suck at reviewing fiction] [Disclaimer 2: my only criterion when it comes to reading fiction is "is the story any good?" as in "does it keep me interested?"] Ok, now that that’s out of the way: I LOVED Heart of Diamonds (HofD). Gosh, I lost valuable hours or sleep, work and blogging [...]
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