September 3rd, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Social Inequalities, Social Stratification
That is wealthy people who would like to continue benefiting from various forms of labor for their enrichment without having to live too close to the laborers. So, first, we all had a good laugh at this: “First, he launched Paypal, and then he went on to fund DNA sequencing, commercial space travel and Facebook. [...]
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September 2nd, 2011 by SocProf and tagged food, Poverty
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September 2nd, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Gender, Patriarchy, Sexism
We will get around to this (And I am not making fun of what Barbara Stocking is saying in the article at all).: When patriarchal systems, institutions and groups stop doing… 1. This: “Legislation initially proposed by Nadine Dorries and Frank Field would strip abortion providers such as Marie Stopes of their counselling role and hand [...]
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September 2nd, 2011 by SocProf and tagged surveillance society, Technology
One of the important things, I thought, in Evgeny Morozov’s The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom (review here) is the debunking of the idea that young cool and hip activists are outsmarting big, bulky, clunky, bureaucratic and uncool and unhip governments all over the world. The Cool Kids are using Twitter and other social [...]
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September 1st, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Sociology, Teaching Sociology
Over at Everyday Sociology, Peter Kaufman offers a smart and simple typology of what doing sociology means, which can be used with incoming freshmen who are taking an introduction to sociology course. The post addresses the perennial question of what it means to “do sociology”, something that, somehow, we have a harder time answering than [...]
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September 1st, 2011 by SocProf and tagged Commodification, food, Globalization
You must read this four-part article in Der Spiegel: “Here, in the trading room of the world’s largest commodity futures exchange, decisions are made about the prices of food — and, by extension, the fates of millions of people. Those decisions affect both hunger on the planet and the wealth of individual investors. For Alan [...]
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September 1st, 2011 by SocProf
Zygmunt Bauman describes how the fear that no one is in control is a major source of uncertainty, which itself, is the human condition in liquid society, when pretty much nothing is solid anymore.
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