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Francois Dubet
April 3rd, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Racism, Socialization
One of the things I try to get across when I teach race and ethnicity is how much we live in a racist culture where white is associated with goodness, purity, and other good qualities whereas darkness is associated with evil. Based on this dichotomy, we have an entire symbolic repertoire that we are all [...]
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April 2nd, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Organized Crime
A while back, I blogged about the fact that, in the early states of the current depression, dirty money was the capital keeping the world-capitalist system from collapsing even more brutally than it already had. Today, the Guardian has a great investigative piece on the case of Wachovia, laundering money for the Mexican drug cartels: [...]
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April 2nd, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Humor, Socialization
I have been posting quite a lot on social inequalities lately, So, I thought I could devote one post to the difficulties tied to belonging to the upper class: Heart-wrenching, I know. It is, of course, from The Catherine Tate Show, Season one.
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April 1st, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Gender, Movies, Patriarchy
So, I dragged a good friend of mine to see this film, because it looked intriguing, adapted from a short story by Philip K. Dick, and it had Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and John Slattery (who can do no wrong): I owe my friend an apology. We should have gone see Rango instead, it could [...]
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April 1st, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Ideologies, Labor
Sociologist of labor Rick Fantasia penned a column in Le Monde Diplomatique (behind paywall) putting the Wisconsin union-busting issue in the larger context of US labor relations. He contends that what is going on is the end of an era opened by Reagan’s firing of the air traffic controllers. I think he is a tad [...]
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April 1st, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Labor, Social Inequalities, Social Stratification
Via The New York Times, Note that higher education is treated as optional when there are children involved. At the same time, it is not exactly news that it is impossible to make it at the poverty line and minimum wage level. Health care and education costs are higher than they are in other Western [...]
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