Sociology

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• What tribal stage are you in?

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 524
  This is a cool and informative video. I think that it is well worth your time. It is about sociology and social networks.
  6 hours ago

• Precarization and Social Insecurity Keep Religion Alive

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Via Epiphenom : How very Durkheimian. The starting point: nrc.nl – International – Features – Insecurity not education determines church attendance via kwout So, how do these factors work when it comes to religiosity: nrc.nl – International – Features – Insecurity not education ...
  7 hours ago

• Be Buddhists of 21st Century, Bring Reform: Dalai

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Asking his followers to be "Buddhists of the 21st century," Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama today asked the community to work for removing evils like superstition and bring "positive change" in the society. Addressing a large number of people at a religious meeting at the Tawang Higher Secondary School, the ...
  10 hours ago

• A recent report from Bat Nha Monastery, Vietnam

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  “…the violent expulsion of monks and nuns from the Bat Nha monastery in Lam Dong Province and the government’s failure to protect them from assault, contradict Vietnam’s own commitment to internationally accepted standards of human rights and the rule of law…” The monks and nuns from Bat Nha are followers ...
  11 hours ago

• Travelwires.com home-office environment in pictures

  
  Travelwires.com — Authority: 438
  Blogging provides me an opportunity to work from home, thus I miss traffic, rude taxi drivers on the road and save on petrol expenses. I’m mostly online from 7 am until 7pm daily or late if there is... Send your news worthy industry press releases for publication today to muzi at travelwires dot com.
  11 hours ago

• A Subfield in Four Articles

  
  A (Budding) Sociologist's Commonplace Book — Authority: 113
  As part of our required introductory survey of the logics and methods of social inquiry, graduate students at Michigan spend a week each on a variety of methods (surveys, comparative/historical, field/observational, etc.). This week we are doing “network/relational methods” which translates roughly to economic ...
  15 hours ago

• Improving university-community research partnerships

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 615
  Researchers from Tufts University and their community-based colleagues have identified several strategies to improve community-based participatory research (CBPR) partnerships. A study published in a supplement to the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Public Health reported that training local leaders ...
  18 hours ago

• Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 126
  Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth  2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4199-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of ...
  19 hours ago

• Indiana U. at APHA: Studies about why men and women use lubricants during sex

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 615
  An Indiana University study involving 2,453 women ages 18 to 68 found that lubricant use during sexual activity alone or with a partner contributed to higher ratings of pleasurable and satisfying sex. read more
  19 hours ago

• West Bank rabbi: Jews can kill Gentiles who threaten Israel

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Just weeks after the arrest of alleged Jewish terrorist, Yaakov Teitel, a West Bank rabbi on Monday released a book giving Jews permission to kill Gentiles who threaten Israel. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapiro, who heads the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva in the Yitzhar settlement, wrote in his book "The Kings Torah" that even babies ...
  20 hours ago

• Sniffing out memories

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 615
  From Prousts Madeleines to the overbearing food critic in the movie Ratatouille whos transported back to his childhood at the aroma of stew, artists have long been aware that some odors can spontaneously evoke strong memories. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now revealed the scientific basis of ...
  20 hours ago

• Ancient face reading secrets reappear in scientific study

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Physiognomy was once a respected twofold science: a method to discern a person’s character from their outward appearance and divine one’s future from one’s physical characteristics. Since the divination aspect of the science was abused (as most divinatory arts are), it was eventually deemed unlawful to practice ...
  21 hours ago

• Photo Essay: In Taiwan, where cows fly

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  PENGHU, Taiwan — Each day, ferries ply the waters between the 90 small islands and islets of Taiwans Penghu archipelago. They bring a cargo of humans, pigs, scooters, cars and daily necessities, such as Taiwan Beer. And cows. Penghus bovines are raised and fattened on the grasslands of the small islands here, then ...
  21 hours ago

• Despite protests, Nepal to host world’s largest animal sacrifice fair

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Maneka Gandhi’s protest and Nepal’s ‘Budhha Boy’ Ram Bahadur Bomjan’s appeal would not be able to prevent sacrifice of nearly half a million animals at this month’s Gadhimai Mela in this Himalayan nation. Billed as the world’s largest animal sacrifice fair, the event held every five years at Bariyapur ...
  21 hours ago

• Global Sociology Blogroll – Theory Viewed From Mexico

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  This looks like a new socblog (found via Twitter), so, I hope the author, Luis Antonio Guerrero Cantera, sticks with it and get prolific because there aren’t enough soc theory blogs around! θεωρειν. Apuntes sobre teoría sociológica y antropológica via kwout As always, update your RSS feeds ...
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• Our Familys History of Carpenters

  
  Handyman Service — Authority: 148
  My family has had carpenters in it for at least four generations and I can not go back any farther than that. My fathers father came from Anglesey, an island off north Wales called Ynys Mon in Welsh. I visited his birthplace once. We were sent by a local old-timer to a meadow, but we could not see a dwelling or any ...
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• Death sentence affirmed in sarin attack

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  TOKYO, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Japans top court has affirmed the death sentences of two men convicted in a fatal sarin gas attack on a subway station, officials said. LINK TO ORIGINAL
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• Liquid modernity

  
  LimbicNutrition Weblog — Authority: 123
  Zygmunt Bauman – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Liquid Modernity” is Bauman’s term for the present condition of the world as contrasted with the “solid” modernity that preceded it. According to Bauman, the passage from “solid” to “liquid” modernity has created a new and unprecedented setting ...
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• Gladwellian "Insult"

  
  nanopolitan — Authority: 133
  Maureen Tkacik does a great job of Malcolm Gladwells brand of pop sociology (with an emphasis on pop) in Gladwell for Dummies . Heres a pretty blunt and devastating summary (buried somewhere in the middle of the piece): In searching for an anecdote or image with which to convey the ultra-absorbency of Gladwells ...
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• New breed of employees can’t communicate and wilt under pressure

  
  American Buddhist Net - Buddhist News & Forum — Authority: 159
  Heard the one about the company employee who got chewed out by her boss? Next day she was absent. Around mid-morning, there came a call from her mother: “My daughter’s afraid of her boss. Couldn’t she be transferred to a different department?” Or how about the bank freshman inadvertently passed over by an ...
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