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Let me reproduce another comment (with footnotes and links, for Pete’s sake!) by Dangger as a follow-up to our previous discussion on Connell’s ideas. It is well worth a post of its own. And my comments in blue again. And for the record I love the idea of sociology as pariah science! “About scholarships and [...]

BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | 1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’ via kwout But it probably made a lot of security-related companies very wealthy, what with all these government contracts. And it gave the government and authorities the illusion of panoptic omniscience.

It is worth it… Charlie’s Diary: Merciless via kwout

Finally! An Italian Socblog! Appunti di Sociologia, by sociologist Agnese Vardanega… The blog is in English, the website (content-rich!) is largely in Italian Appunti di sociologia via kwout

Dangger left a pretty interesting and thorough comment regarding some aspects of Southern Theory. So, I thought I’d just bump it into a post and address some of the concerns he raises. Also, if you read Spanish, be sure to check out his review of the book as well. Anyhoo, here is Dangger’s comment (my [...]

Phil Zuckerman‘s Society Without God: What The Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment will not surprise any European reader. But I suspect we are not the audience for this book. This book is clearly geared towards an American audience. It is highly readable and would be appropriate for undergraduate students and provides a [...]

American meritocracy = myth: It’s time to embrace American royalty – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com via kwout Having the right name opens doors and gives access irrespective (and sometimes in spite of) merit and qualification. This is not exactly something new. It is classical social reproduction of class position and privileges. But, as I have [...]

Part 1 here. After reading through most of Southern Theory, I was afraid the final section would be a version of “let’s dump everything Northern and embrace everything Southern as infused with golden wisdom.” But, of course, Connell is much too smart a sociologist to endorse such a simplistic position. See the short and sweet [...]

In Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science, Australian sociologist Raewyn Connell sets herself the ambitious task of extirpating the imperialist roots of Western social science (sociology in particular) and bring to the fore the social science projects of the periphery through the exploration of a variety of sociologists from the Global [...]

Via The New York Times, can we all say “La Reproduction‘? Maths scores: Writing scores: Combined: And… SAT Scores and Family Income – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com via kwout So… Bourdieu Pierre. La Reproduction

Wonderful graphics by Baptiste Coulmont on the networks composed of individuals (red dots) sitting on administrative councils of companies (blue lozenges) listed in the CAC40 stock index (the French equivalent of the Dow Jones, if you will). And a close-up: Most of the names on the graphs will be familiar for people who follow French [...]

When I saved this post by Brayden, at Orgtheory, on protests, I knew it would come handy some day. I was right, especially in light of the current right-wing townhall protests taking place all over the country. The immediate goal of these protests is the potential health care reform being manufactured in the US Congress, [...]

The whole health care fiasco has certainly revealed the nastiness of a segment of the American society. And yes, they may be bought and bussed to town hall meetings by big industry groups, but that does not change the fact of the existence of infantile Randoids and just plain ignoramuses who think they own nothing [...]

Here is another interesting sociology communities focused on applied sociology and sociology outside of academia: Home | Sociology at Work via kwout

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