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  • From Olympic massacre to the Olympic Stress Syndrome


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    From International Review for the Sociology of Sport The first in our series of articles highlighting various aspects of Olympic Games to celebrate the countdown to 2012 t his article considers how the development over the last 40 years of anti-terrorism measures has resulted in Olympic Games that ...
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  • Graduate School Scholarships – Better Life Better People


    X M L InsiderAuthority Authority: 125
    Do you have any idea how expensive it is to go to college on your own? IF you do, then perhaps, you already know that graduate studies are even more expensive than that. A graduate school diploma brings opportunities, that is a fact but the cost makes it difficult to pursue unless you have graduate school scholarships ...
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  • Songs about the Asian diasporic experience


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    The Sociology Source teaching blog has started a new section called Sociology Sounds for songs that can be used as … Continue reading »
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  • Occupy Psycho-Sociology


    Anna RaccoonAuthority Authority: 506
    From the thrumming intellectual engine at the heart of the Occupy movement, earlier this month: (Davane) I just wanted to point out that I found the Sack Boris Campaign website the other day, and took the opportunity to donate some cash to get some Sack Boris Oyster card wallets. A friend of mine works in the ...
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  • Chart of the Day: How Science Stacks Up in the US Budget


    The Scholarly KitchenAuthority Authority: 547
    From an Atlantic article entitled, “The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State“:
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  • (Sightings) Martin Marty—How Shall We think about the American Divide?


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    One might add to the list of the many causes of the divide: cynicism spread by cynical popular culture and mass media; hyper-individualism (St. Ayn Rand) and denigration of community and support of "the common life;" polarization in politics and the loss of civility in "discourse;" quick-fix solutions to problems in ...
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  • (WSJ) Charles Murray—The New American Divide


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    America is coming apart. For most of our nations history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world—for whites, anyway. "The more opulent citizens take great care not to stand aloof from the people," wrote Alexis de ...
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  • Review: Rapacia (The Second Circle of Heck) by Dale E. Basye


    Literature Young Adult FictionAuthority Authority: 114
    Reviewed by First Mate Keira Title: Rapacia (The Second Circle of Heck) Author: Dale E. Basye Format: Hardback Page Count: 384 pages Grade Reading Level: Grades 5-8 Summary: Milton is back on the surface, but is having troubles maintaining the energy that keeps him together and in the present. A science ...
    5 days ago
  • two recent and unrelated news items on which I have thoughts


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    random pretty thing ( via ) 1. On Cynthia Nixon and choosing ones sexual identity . According to Cassie Murdoch @ Jezebel, actress Cynthia Nixon said some things about choosing her current partner, another woman, which have irritated other people also in same-sex relationships. In response, Nixon told the New ...
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  • The Little Letters in Our Lives — e to the i to the x


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    Is the decade-long trend in e, i, and x naming based on a deeper trend in how the world is coming together? Continue reading »
    6 days ago
  • The New in Social Research


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    Spring 2012 seminar series at CSISP and the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, London Feb 7:  Alex Taylor | Microsoft Research – Executable biology: at the borderlands of technoscience Feb 21: Matt Fuller and Graham Harwood | Goldsmiths – Database as Funfair Feb 28: Evelyn Ruppert |Open University – ...
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  • Forthcoming events with Callon, Latour et al.


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    20 February 2012,  18:00 – 19:30 – Bruno Latour at the Science Gallery in Dublin. 7 March 2012, 16:30 – 19:00 -  Bruno Latour & Richard Rogers:  “Digital societies: between ontology and methods,” at Goldsmiths , London 30 March 2012 – 12:30 – 16:30 – Michel Callon, Fabian Muniesa, Adam ...
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  • booknotes: the lives of transgender people


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    I was super excited to get my hands on an advance review copy of The Lives of Transgender People  by Genny Beemyn and Susan Rankin (Columbia Univ. Press, 2011) a couple of months ago. Lives  is being touted as a unique and much-needed large-scale study of the identities and experiences of trans* individuals as ...
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  • So, what kind of music do you like?


    Princeton University Press BlogAuthority Authority: 415
    It’s the question teenagers have been asking each other for decades to size up each others’ style, philosophy, and  even politics. There’s no doubt about it, music communities matter. But how much credit should we give to musical geniuses like George Clinton, or James Brown? Which musical failures should we ...
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  • Online game Everquest 2 provides a new way of studying human behavior


    Manuel Marino / Music, Arts, People, IdeasAuthority Authority: 128
    by snakegirl productions Article by Fionee Can the researchers to study the population of games such as Everquest 2 from Sony, as they learn the traditional community of Moscow, Tokyo and Dresden? Finding experts in the field theory of computing machines and systems show that the interactive online gaming ...
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  • Simmel and Simondon: From the Ventures of Life to the Advent of Adventure


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    From http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/143013-L.jpg I have added a strange note to the end of this post that…trails off at the end. When you see it, if you do, good reader, (ha, old conventions are funny), it will make sense that it does not make sense (to which, they replied, you mean the paper or the note?) ...
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  • Review: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (The Nine Circles of Heck, Book 1) by Dale E. Basye


    Literature Young Adult FictionAuthority Authority: 114
    Reviewed by First Mate Keira Title: Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go (The Nine Circles of Heck, Book 1) Author: Dale E. Basye Format: Hardback Page Count: 304 pages Grade Reading Level: Ages 9-12 Summary: The afterlife isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. A bureaucratic error sends Milton down to Heck ...
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  • CyberOrient Call for Papers


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    “The Net Worth of the Arab Spring”
 Call for Papers 
 CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco
 Guest Editor: Ines Braune 
Submission deadline: 31 May 2012 Aim 

As the first anniversary of the “Arab Spring” nears, several long-standing ...
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  • Zygmunt Bauman—2011 – The Year of People on the Move


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    There is some likelihood that the year about to end will be recorded in history as a “year of people on the move”. When people move, two questions are in order. The first is: where from are they moving? The second is: where to? There has been no shortage of answers to the first question; indeed, there was a ...
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  • Law and the Performativity of Economics: “Fraud-on-the-Market” Claims and the EMH


    A (Budding) Sociologist's Commonplace BookAuthority Authority: 99
    The performativity of economics has taken on a lot of meanings in the past 15 years, but all of them revolve around the ways that economic theories alter the objects about which they are theorizing. Some versions – MacKenzie’s story of Black-Scholes-Merton – focus on the self-fulfilling character of economic ...
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