December 4th, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Biodiversity, Environment, Globalization, Neocolonialism, Sustainability
Over at Farmland Grab (a must-read resource for everything related to the oh-so neocolonial practice of using peripheral farm land for our own purposes), there is very good and succinct presentation on the basics of land grab (in French). L’accaparement des terres et la crise alimentaire mondiale – diaporama via kwout Below are the most [...]
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December 3rd, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Music
“Underdog” from their latest album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
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December 3rd, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Book Reviews, Culture, Economy, Embeddedness, Gender, Globalization, Institutional Discrimination, Social Deviance, Social Discrimination, Social Identity, Social Inequalities, Social Institutions, Social Norms, Social Stratification, Sociology, Teaching Sociology
In my never-ending pursuit of sociology books that I could use in my introduction classes that would show sociologists “in action”, I stumbled upon Peter Callero‘s The Myth of Individualism – How Social Forces Shape Our Lives. Anything titled “The Myth of…” is attractive to me as one of main objectives, I think, of introduction [...]
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December 3rd, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Global Cities, Globalization, Saskia Sassen, Sociology, Urban Ecology
Sciences Humaines has a new issue dedicated to cities. It is filed in its geography area on the website but there is no doubt that urban ecology has been a topic of interest to sociology very early on as nexus of social dynamics, processes and practices. Les nouvelles capitales du monde via kwout Of course, [...]
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December 2nd, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Cultural Capital, Culture, Embeddedness, Gender, Institutional Discrimination, Networks, Patriarchy, Public Policy, Sexism, Social Capital, Social Disadvantages, Social Inequalities, Social Institutions, Social Structure
This is interesting: French plan to force gender equality on boardrooms | World news | The Guardian via kwout Needless to say, this is a good idea. At the same time, ideas like these (think affirmative action) are often misunderstood because they examined as if the only existing form of discrimination was interpersonal. Actually, such [...]
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December 1st, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Labor, Social Inequalities
Via Deanna Summers, The Department of Labor has a similar but larger interactive map: U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division (WHD) – Minimum Wage Laws in the States via kwout You can find an ordered list at the links below, with the ten states with highest minimum wage: State Minimum Wages, 2008 [...]
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December 1st, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Book Reviews, Science-fiction, Social Change, Technology
I posted my review of Makers a few days ago here. Urbanverse also reflects on the future presented in Makers and extracts the major features of the book beyond the individual characters and storylines: Images of Future Cities: Courtesy of Makers by Cory Doctorow – urbanverse’s posterous via kwout I have disagreements with some of [...]
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