The Depressing Map du Jour – Unemployment
October 20, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Labor
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Archive for October 20, 2009
Noreena Hertz’s Co-op Capitalism Sure Looks A Lot Like Solidarity Economics
October 20, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Globalization, Solidarity Economics
I have blogged several times about solidarity economics (here and here) which is something I find very interesting and promising. So, I was very glad to see one of my favorite economists seems to be supporting what looks like the same idea, except she calls it co-op capitalism: How an Economist’s Cry for Ethical Capitalism [...]
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Jobs for Social Scientists
October 20, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Sociology
Via Jon Witt, There Will Be Web Jobs for Social Scientists via kwout This is one thing that is very frustrating in sociology: our work informs A LOT of different fields but we never really get the recognition for the methodologies and research that is pillaged by others. The skills necessary to generate good data [...]
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Religious Hysteria… Somehow, It Almost Always Turns Against Women
October 20, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Collective Behavior, Gender, Mass Violence, Patriarchy, Religious Fundamentalism, Social Deviance, Social Sanctions, Social Stigma, Sociology
Video here. BBC NEWS | South Asia | Village ‘witches’ beaten in India via kwout Now might be a good time to revisit Kai Erikson’s Wayward Puritans for an interesting study of how accusations of possession and witchcraft are almost always directed at women and involve both symbolic and materials issues: BBC NEWS | South [...]
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