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Original Technorati articles tagged “sociology”

• in Business
  Black Friday Madness: Should America Seek Help?
  Does consumer madness on Black Friday indicate a larger problem with the American economic system?
  by sethjared / on Nov 15, 2011
• in Politics
  Politics Values and Culture: Government Shutdown and the Economic Crisis
  What does the current debate over the budget in Washington politics say about what 21st century American culture?
  by rlm4136 / on Apr 8, 2011
• in Technology
  Does Facebook Make Us More Sociable? It Depends on Whom You Ask
  Does Facebook increase our sociability score or lower our expectations from others?
  by missbobetier / on Jan 31, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “sociology”

 

• From Olympic massacre to the Olympic Stress Syndrome

  
  SAGE Insight — Authority: 103
  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 Insider — 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

  
  The Plaid Bag Connection — Authority: 113
  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 Raccoon — 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 Kitchen — 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?

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  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

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  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 Fiction — 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 ...
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• two recent and unrelated news items on which I have thoughts

  
  Future Feminist Librarian-Activist — Authority: 405
  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

  
  The Scholarly Kitchen — Authority: 547
  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 »
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• The New in Social Research

  
  ANTHEM — Authority: 100
  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.

  
  ANTHEM — Authority: 100
  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

  
  Future Feminist Librarian-Activist — Authority: 405
  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 Blog — 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, Ideas — 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

  
  Fractal Ontology — Authority: 94
  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 Fiction — 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

  
  tabsir.net — Authority: 108
  “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

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 482
  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 Book — 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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