The Global Sociology Blog

Via the National Geographic Blog, look who’s in a class of its own…

David Held has been a foremost analyst of globalization as institutional phenomenon. He has written and edited multiple books on the subject and has been a proponent of global cosmopolitanism. In this article in the Social Europe Journal, Held examines the shifting power dynamics of global governance, he again makes the case for more egalitarian [...]

While I wrestle with the beginning of the term and Blackboard, y’all play amongst yourselves, here’s the Mars Volta, L’Via L’Viaquez:

I have long been a fan of Partners in Health for their work in the Global South. They were already working in Haiti when the massive earthquake happened. It is a worthwhile and reputable organization to support: Partners In Health (PIH), Health Care for the Poor | Contribute via kwout For those of you unfamiliar [...]

This article from Business Week is a bit long but it is a definite must-read on the state of labor in the United States. In a way, there is no big surprise for those of us who have read Louis Uchitelle’s Disposable Americans and Jacob Hacker’s The Great Risk Shift. The labor trends outlined in [...]

Over at the Giddens Blog (that is, the blog that goes with Giddens’s Intro to Soc textbook), Luke Martell debunks a few myths regarding global migration: Myth Number 1: OMG, the whole Third World is invading our countries: Anthony Giddens • Sociology 6th edition – Blog via kwout Myth Number 2: They’re taking our jobs [...]

Via Visual Economics (click on the image to go to the larger original). Nothing really surprising here but the visual is impressive. And I find that projected 100% of the GDP scary, for some reason.

Southern Italian town world’s ‘only white town’ after ethnic cleansing | World news | The Guardian via kwout But never mind the human rights issues. Read the allocation of blame (with the terrorist metaphor) along with a summary of what the problem ultimately is: not the mistreatment of human beings but the fact that crops [...]

Via Agnese Vardanega (the title of the post translates roughly as “We’re not racist but…”), Immigrant riots rock southern Italian town as tensions explode – Europe, World – The Independent via kwout Once the article digs deeper, interesting things come up: Immigrant riots rock southern Italian town as tensions explode – Europe, World – The [...]

Via Kevin Moore, How long would certain resources last if current patterns of consumption persist (outer number) or if the world consumed at half the US pace (inner number). Click on the image for a much larger view:

Via Venus Evans-Winter: First, use this neat interactive map… Minority Businesses Shut Out of Stimulus Loans – NAM via kwout Does this have to do with the lower numbers of minority-owned businesses or the lower numbers of minority in the overall US population? And, of course, having a lower probability of receiving stimulus aid has [...]

Comparing This Recession to Previous Ones: Job Losses – Economix Blog – NYTimes.com via kwout And another one from Calculated Risk: The entire post is worth reading… for instance: Calculated Risk: Employment-Population Ratio, Part Time Workers, Temporary Workers via kwout

Hey kids, remember when I wrote this? Random Notes on Gender and Fitness Classes | The Global Sociology Blog via kwout Little did I know that none other than Master Cartoonist Matt Bors would one day cover the same territory in exactly the same way! Bors Blog: Illustration Friday via kwout This is an illustration [...]

I guess the economy sucks for everybody: 200 Best Jobs of 2010: 21 – 40 | CareerCast.com via kwout

Neil Fligstein‘s Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and The Future of Europe is an application of Fligstein approach to economic sociology developed in his previous book, The Architecture of Markets (which, if I were remotely consistent, I would have reviewed first). A very simplified version of this approach is that markets do not fall from [...]