#Sociology
In this future, people are citizens, rather than subjects or consumers. With this identity, it becomes easier to see that all of us are smarter than any of us. And that the strategy for navigating difficult times is to tap into the diverse ideas, energy and resources of everyone.
The “conditions, the conditions,” as Angela Davis often used to often say, in community accountability work: https://thirdeyecollective.wordpress.com/2021/12/28/the-first-successful-community-accountability-process-ever/
#transformativeJustice #justice #noPolice #noPrison #boundaries #anger #BlackFeminism #community #facilitation #process #BlackMastodon #BIPOC #intergenerational #sociology #ethics @ethics @sociology @socialpsych by Délice Mugabo
"Even after brothels were banned in metropolitan France in 1946, French military authorities illegally brought hundreds of Moroccan women to France to work in ‘Bordels militaires de campagne’ because of the Moroccan soldiers still present in the metropole. With poor living conditions, underage labour and a high workload, French military brothels exploited Moroccan women to theoretically ‘protect’ European women against sexual violence from Moroccan men."
Catherine Phipps (2023): https://academic.oup.com/fh/article/37/3/254/7099482
#patriarchy #stateViolence #brothels #prostitution #immigration #childLabour #bordels #military #army #sexWork #history #sociology #PoC #raceMaking #France #Morocco #coloniality #institutions #entitlement
Go EASST 2024 Amsterdam | Panel by Claudia Göbel and me on:
Re:organizing science in society. Organizations as sites and agencies of social transformation
Asking: How can the notion of organization be used to study and shape current societal transformations?
Will #STS and #organization scholars find a common language? Translations welcome, for paper proposals visit:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easst-4s2024/p/14181
finally released (online first):
Reconsidering foundational relationships between #ethnography and #ethnomethodology and #conversation analysis – an introduction (by Eisenmann, Meier zu Verl, Kreplak & Dennis)
#research #sociology #anthropology #qualitativeresearch #practice #ethnomethods
Next was an engaging discussion with Michèle Lamont on building a society of shared recognition at CASBS https://casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#toward-society-shared-recognition (9/11) #sociology
The Massachusetts ME/CFS and FM Association has posted a recording of their November 19 webinar:
"What Sociology and the Illness Narratives Can Teach Us About Living with Chronic Illness"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoX2nN_1EF8
#MEcfs #CFS #PwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicIllness #Sociology #MassME
Loser-palooza: "The incel movement has been linked to other deadly incidents around the world. Toronto van attacker Alek Minassian, who murdered 10 people and injured 16 others in 2018, claimed to be an incel, and was described to police as an “inspiration” by the then-teenager after the massage parlour attack." #sexism #femicide #incels #losers #ToxicMasculinity #sociology #legal #Toronto https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/incel-terrorist-who-murdered-toronto-spa-worker-with-sword-sentenced-as-adult-to-life-in/article_fe29bab1-944f-57a9-ab35-e934b9507da4.html
Join the CAFS Board!
#Food #FoodStudies #Academia #HigherEd #GetInvolved #Volunteer #BoardMember #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #FoodPolitics #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodInsecurity #Nutrition #Sociology #Geography #Anthropology #STS #Foodie #Foodies #FoodWays
https://foodstudies.info/recruiting-cafs-board-members-2023-25-2/
HOW TO START A CULT
If you search for this phrase or "how to start a religion" in Google, 670 million results are shown in the first case and more than 3 billion in the second case. On Amazon there are several books with these or similar titles such as (surprisingly) "How to Build a God in Your Garage". Some websites (with more or less seriousness) try to explain step by step how to create your sect or community of beliefs.
Por ejemplo, el artículo de Claire J. Harris "How to Start a Cult in 5 Easy Steps. You can totally do this at home": https://medium.com/swlh/how-to-start-a-cult-in-5-easy-steps-22beab4d7be5
Or the text by Stephen Mason: "How to Start a Cult. Become a god by starting your very own religion". https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/look-it-way/200906/how-start-cult
Each text on this subject has its own approach: ironic, search for economic success, creation of a community, personal empowerment, etc.
What conclusions can be drawn from all this?
I once read somewhere that 'it is not the person that consumes the product, it is the product that consumes the person' or something along those lines. Does anybody know where it came from?
It's awful that we can't fix ICE. This stuff still goes on; I'm guessing systemic and sociological within the system...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/28/ice-detainees-lumpkin-georgia
"On the Frontline of Global #Inequalities: A #Decolonial Approach to the Study of #StreetLevel #Bureaucracies"
is this month's #OpenAccess publication in the spotlight.
Read our interview with author Flávio Eiró on what changes he would advocate for in global #KnowledgeProduction to address inequality.
Does the open science movement sufficiently consider perspectives of the Global South?
#OpenScience #decolonization #GlobalSouth #sociology #anthropology
Both Rishi and Kyriakos are fighting it out just to show how ethno-nationalist they are and to appear as such to the domestic audience
they don't really care about the ancient world and they're both admirers of power and colonialism
#UK #Greece #archaeology #politics #culture #sociology #society #europe
How many of your jobs have been acquired through friend/acquaintance networking?
Please boost for better data.
Can anyone recommend data repositories similar to the German QualiService (https://www.qualiservice.org/) where I can easily find #qualitative research #data for scientific re-use/re-analysis?
📣Coming up this week! 📣 #FemQuantSeminar with @arianeophir Re-considering Re-partnering! This Thursday 30 Nov 2023. 17:30 (GMT)/ 18:30 (CET)/ 12:30 (EST). Free to attend, registration required. Sign up to join us: https://forms.gle/TJzknan3xoFnte5x9 #feminist #demography #sociology #quantmethods #gender
Next was a fantastic panel discussing Thomas Piketty's book Capital and Ideology with @gkbhambra, Jens Lerche, Sanjay Reddy, Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, @waitkus, Poornima Paidipaty, and Piketty himself. The panel really gets into the meat of the nature of capitalism, intersections with race, slavery, and colonialism, and more. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxEJ_R-JSBk (8/9) #economics #sociology
Britons don’t think the Autumn Statement will make much difference. The statement, as a whole, Britons see it as fair (38%) rather than not fair (23%). They are divided 31-29% on whether or not it is affordable. The general view is that it won’t make much different to the country (48%) or respondents’ own household finances (55%). This perception is shared equally by Conservative and Labour voters. (Source: YouGov) #money #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
With so many guns being sold in Israel, a nation with strong gun control checks but with people that seem to be open carry and the entire population trained to handle weapons, what sort of statistics follow. It should be of academic interest to see the process unfold.
By now, we should be prepared for a Labour victory at the next UK election. But are we prepared for what Labour can and cannot do for much needed reparations within the first year? And for any subsequent backlash? (Right now, we have time to think.) #money #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
The final chapter of
Virtually Real now on my blog.
https://ooze.net/virtually-real-being-in-cyberspace/7-conclusion/
Freedom and fun are the prime motivations for residents to create their own environments in online worlds. They seek to manifest a world of their ultimate creation, where there are no restrictions on their creative expression.
Having experienced the sacred in Cyberspace I can affirm that cyberspace is real and divine in the same way that meatspace is.
#Inequality researchers: Describing unequal slopes. Here, the slope for marriage on earnings is .12 for White women and .21 Black women. How would you describe this: Black women have a higher earnings return on marriage, or a higher penalty for non-marriage, or more marriage inequality? Does it matter that 35% of Black women and 62% of White women are married?
#sociology #methods
"Class relations within party organizations shape and set clear limits on the involvement of working-class activists."
A review of Raphaël Challier's book, "Simple militants. How political parties demobilise the working classes":
https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-politix-2022-1-page-235.htm
#politicalParties #parties #partisanship #activists #grassroots #politics #sociology @sociology
GSS really didn't ask relig in 2022? 🧩 #sociology
In 2006 I reported US children with disabilities were more likely to live with single parents, single mothers, and other female caregivers (https://www.terpconnect.umd.edu/~pnc/JMF06.pdf). 2022 update: Still true. Caring for children with disabilities exacerbates gender differences in carework.
#family #disability #sociology
Modern marriage commentary – Family Inequality https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2023/11/25/modern-marriage-commentary/ by @philipncohen #sociology
#RaymondTallis - How are #Humans Unique?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Olmzs41N7E
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #Consciousness #Sociology #Humanity #HomoSapiens #Animals #AnimalKingdom #Evolution #Language #Music #Art #Culture #Civilisation #Semiotics #Semiosphere #UrTool #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn
Would you let a guy with a face like this sell you some home insurance? #money #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
In our Special Issue on Teaching, Nicolas P. Simon, Emma James Burke, and Tyler Fairbanks offer explain Open Educational Resources (OER) or renewable assignments, and show how they relate to Generation Z.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2023.2283723
#sociology #OpenEducation #pedagogy #teaching #learning #GenZ
The Theory of the Leisure Class. In Our Time (BBC Radio4) Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Thorstein Veblen's critique of wasteful capitalism, as he saw it, in America's Gilded Age with conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sdrt #podcast #consumerism #BlackFriday #economics #sociology
Welcome to the consumer mass psychosis! #Freud #psychoanalysis #psychology #blackfriday #sociology #philosophy #america #academicmastodon #academia https://www.dustinjbyrd.org
Society can be understood as something that only exists as long as actions are performed, as long as processes take place, as long as we all contribute in some way to its ephemeral construction.
"Social organization is messy and refractory, a shambles rather than a crystal […]. There is no tidy atom and no clear-cut world, only complex striations and long strings that reptate as in a polymer goo" (White, H.C. (2008), Identity and control, Princeton, Princeton University Press, p. 18).
@romulus88@mastodon.social
@romulus88@mastodon.uno
@sociology
@anthropology
@academicchatter
💡We’re drawing inspiration from the #ImagineOtherwise archive to bring you our interview with IoF author Anima Adjepong on interdisciplinary intuition. 🎧 Host Cathy Hannabach and Anima chat about how to use intuition to identify the book you really want to write rather than the one that feels more disciplinarily safe.
https://ideasonfire.net/144-anima-adjepong/
#Sociology #IoFAuthors #AfricanStudies #Ethnography #GenderStudies #SexualityStudies #LGBTStudies
** BIG DISCOUNT **
Thanks to Black Friday, my book #Catholicism and politics in #Mozambique is on sale with a 60% discount - with Code BB260 #history #Africa #Church #Catholic #Beira #Politics #Sociology #Religion
During the UPAC colloquium work in progress session next Tuesday (28 Nov), we will be discussing the draft by Adrien De Sutter:
A Universe Lost to the World? On Speculative Origins; Or, Why the Universe may be running away from Cosmologists.
https://www.uu.nl/en/research/utrecht-philosophy-of-astronomy-cosmology/events/upac-colloquium
Recruiting CAFS Board Members – 2023–25
We are recruiting a few new members for the Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS) board of directors.
https://foodstudies.info/recruiting-cafs-board-members-2023-25-2/
#Food #FoodStudies #Academia #HigherEd #GetInvolved #Volunteer #BoardMember #PhDLife #AcademicChatter #FoodPolitics #FoodWays #FoodSovereignty #FoodInsecurity #Nutrition #Sociology #Geography #Anthropology #STS #Foodie #Foodies #FoodWays
A sombre documentary on #hikikomori. Perhaps manifesting in an unusual place, one individual states that in the 21st century we need to be content with being poor. A true testament to the neoliberal order.
Check out this helpful undergraduate dissertation example, including valuable feedback, from @SociologyMag: #sociology https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/guides-how-tos/undergraduate-dissertation-example-including-feedback/
Next was a wide-ranging talk by @heejungchung on the complex individual, organizational, and societal implications of flexible work and how to change the status quo at the @oiioxford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3V43_cctpI (4/9) #sociology #RemoteWork #work
Does anyone know why ASA is still posting on Twitter? I have no connections to anyone close to leadership of that org, but I’m curious if they view this as the right response to the situation over there. #sociology https://bird.makeup/users/asanews/statuses/1726979278271627765
Academic search terminology 'cheat sheet' from @SociologyMag
@sociology
@academicchatter
@academicsunite
https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/guides-how-tos/academic-search-terminology/
"The #Florida Board of Governors voted on Nov. 9 to remove the Principles of #Sociology from the list of core courses that the state’s public #college students can take to fulfill their general education requirements...
'It’s really important for #students to understand that human behavior is not just a factor of individual level characteristics, right? That there are larger social structures at play'".
the latest appalling news from Florida. #sociology www.insidehighered.com/news/student...https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2023/11/17/sociology-may-be-removed-gen-ed-course-list-florida?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=49e65f3a77-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-49e65f3a77-237342473&mc_cid=49e65f3a77&mc_eid=1824ade7ff
Maintaining intellectual honesty in sociology is crucial. @SociologyMag offers a guide on how to achieve this: #IntellectualHonesty #Sociology https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/guides-how-tos/maintaining-intellectual-honesty-in-sociology/
Discover the experiences of single fathers and lone fathers in this academic article by @SociologyMag: #SingleFathers #Sociology #LoneFathers https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/subject-areas/sociology-of-family/experiences-of-single-fathers-lone-fathers/
What about a return to a solid world? Is that impossible? @sociology #sociology #sociologia
Access a comprehensive bibliography exploring perceptions and attitudes towards single parents and lone parents from @SociologyMag: #Perceptions #sociology #Bibliography https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/publications-resources/bibliographies/bibliography-perceptions-and-attitudes-to-single-parents-lone-parents/
Learn about society's attitudes towards single parents and lone parents in this article by @SociologyMag: #Attitudes #sociology #SociologyofFamily https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/subject-areas/sociology-of-family/attitudes-towards-single-parents-and-lone-parents/
Next was a great pair of talks by Elizabeth Anderson and Alondra Nelson on societal equity at CASBS at Stanford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CO8xf3MzC8 (6/10) #sociology #philosophy #equity
Looking for resources on stepfamilies? @SociologyMag has compiled a helpful bibliography on this topic: #Stepfamilies #Bibliography #Sociology https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/publications-resources/bibliographies/bibliography-stepfamilies/
Curious about lone-parent and single-parent families? @SociologyMag provides insights into these terms in their article: #LoneParent #Sociology #SingleParent https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/subject-areas/sociology-of-family/what-are-lone-parent-and-single-parent-families/
Malcolm Gladwell loved our book so much he blurbed it!!!: "Life under Pressure told me more about what has gone wrong with the upper-income corners of American society than any book I’ve read in years. It is a devastating work of scholarship."
Buy It Early!!!!
#sociology #suicide #psychology #psychiatry #socialwork
@sociology@a.gup.pe @socannex @sociology@mastodon.social
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/life-under-pressure-9780190847845?cc=ca&lang=en&
Next was a great talk by Matthew Jackson on homophily, herding, and economic outcomes in networks at the Simons Institute. There's some pretty interesting empirical data here from college students on homophily that wasn't intuitive but should spawn some new friendship theories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbkF_tQ5ao (8/11) #economics #sociology #networks #complexity
'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' "You have manifestly and repeatedly failed to deliver on every single one of these key policies. Either your distinctive style of government means you are incapable of doing so. Or, as I must surely conclude now, you never had any intention of keeping your promises..... As on so many other issues, you sought to put off tough decisions in order to minimise political risk to yourself." #money #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
My promised article series on how to set up an academic personal website is coming closer. I have now written a total of more than 20,000 words (roughly 50 pages) that cover literally everything that could be important incl. step-by-step instructions.
Stay tuned! #sociology #academia #phd
All, the newest issue of Contexts is live and living in color!!! It is free to download for 30 days, so get your rad, rigorous, readable, relevant #sociology now, now now!!!!
What is a compound family and how does it differ from other family types? Gain insight into this concept with @SociologyMag: #CompoundFamily #Sociology https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/subject-areas/sociology-of-family/what-are-compound-families/
"We are seeking funds to offset the additional costs of Prof Kay’s lawsuit against the Irish Rover, and for costs to ensure her safety and security as she continues to try to ensure that academic freedom and safety are prioritized not only for herself but for all Notre Dame faculty, staff and students."
I’ve been slow in getting RSS/mastodon feeds for #sociology journals up. Haven’t found an ideal solution for bulk feeds that doesn’t involve running new server/code - which I’d prefer not to do. feedsin.space from @muffinista is promising though. You can follow ASR at @ASR_recent Sadly no support for including authors in posts (yet). Lemme know if you want more authorless journal feeds & I can set some up.
What are moral panics and how do they affect society? Gain a better understanding of this phenomenon by reading @SociologyMag's article: #MoralPanics #Sociology https://sociologymag.com/academic-sociology/subject-areas/sociology-of-crime-deviance/what-are-moral-panics/
New blog post:
“Mundus, Quo Vadis?”
https://babumenos.com/blog/2023/11/mundus-quo-vadis
“The law of the jungle has gained foothold everywhere. That’s why many of us feel as if society is regressing now: Human evolution has always been driven by co-operation.”
#Capitalism #Cooperation #Democracy #Humanity #Politics #Psychology #SocialHealth #Sociology #Solidarity
Work! We're hiring a a postdoc in experimental #sociology at @utrechtuniversity funded by #odissei_nl https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/postdoctoral-researcher-in-experimental-sociology-08-10-fte
Great episode of #twimai #podcast, featuring @DAIR's @alex talking about their career, at the intersection of #CS and #sociology, and in particular, the pivotal role of #data in #MachineLearning, and how #datasets have #politics.
https://twimlai.com/podcast/twimlai/pushing-back-on-ai-hype/
My partner Dan Jaffee isn't on social media, but he's put out a new book, and with it, this piece in The Conversation.
Too good not to share. #infrastructure #justice #inequality #water #sociology
My book _Mapping Texts_ with https://sciences.social/@mtaylor_soc officially has a cover!
Pre-order here:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/mapping-texts-9780197756881?cc=us&lang=en&#
#sociology #computationalsocialscience
@sociology
@communications
@academicchatter
#textanalysis
#rstats
The 'natural owners' include PEPs - politically exposed persons - who comprise a significant proportion of clandestine possessors of the vast sums of assets escaping taxation at home. Unsurprisingly, such individuals, often in our own government, will wish to avoid any investigative procedures concerning tax evasion, allowing the system to persist secretly and unpunished. Voila! #money #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
Panama Papers: Informative ten-minute video (if you can put up with the clamorous voice) explaining how investors avoid taxation through a web of limited liability, invisible shareholders, subteranean trusts, holding companies, zigzagging international locations hosting banking privacy rules to confuse investigators and protect the identity of the 'natural owners'. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uLhh5GSxsQ&t=42s&ab_channel=HowMoneyWorks #money #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography
Understanding is a cognitive function through which humans gather information from their environment in order to make sense of it and create a context in which they can interact with it.
UK. Homelessness now increasing in rural England. A very informative 10-minute video. #money #economics #banking #UKnews #sociology #demography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSodakiJ_Kw
Q: What could #anarchism contribute to #sociology?
Richard Day: It could help to create more people with more radical stances on more issues; to push people beyond liberal social democratic approaches. And—though this is increasingly unlikely given the ongoing neoliberalization of the university—anarchism might help to show academics that being merely academic is not enough [...] they have to take risks.
This is the kind of weird thing that made the old web so cool to surf around…
More like this please.
> HighRock. https://www.hirocker.com/index.html
Note that there is at least one anomalous hidden section:
> A Taoist Guide To No Man's Sky. https://www.hirocker.com/meditation/nms1.html
Talking Heads: The New Science of How Conversation Shapes Our Worlds is a bestseller today and on kindle special offer
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Praise-Talking-Shane-OMara-ebook/dp/B09X99TWLS
#sociology #kindle #talking #conversation #shared #reality
Your APeriodic Reminders that:
* The Practice of Time is Hubristic
* Suffering has been UnJustly Allocated
* Hope is UnSustainable WithOut Action
* Faith is what Clarifies your Interpretation of your Senses
* Your Mind is your most Sensitive Sense Organ
* Call your Family. It's been a While.
#Halloween
#Christmas
#Humanity
#Maths
#Theology
#Sociology
#CelestialCourt
#Bahamut
Your APeriodic Reminder of Grammar:
* "To Run" is a Verb
* "To Lex" is a Verb
* "Alex" is a Noun, a Chore "A Lex"
* "Jesus" is a Verb, roughly "To Bless"
#Linguistics
#English
#Maths
#Theology
#Sociology
#Christmas
#ChristmasCameEarly
“Seeing strangers connect in a positive way—that’s always a good sign of the value of a given cultural phenomenon,” he says. “Anything that can move 55,000 people for good or ill is worthy of our attention.”
For Kansas Alumni magazine, Steven Hill profiles a professor about the #sociology of #TaylorSwift: https://kansasalumnimagazine.org/magazine-article/taylor-swift-fans-research/
#Longreads #Music #PopCulture #Culture #KansasCity #UniversityOfKansas
As a (re) #introduction on this new server, I have been on Mastodon for a few months (see previous post for why I have moved servers) after not using social media for most of the last 3 years. I wanted to connect with people on Mastodon - and through its decentralised, anarchistic ethos - with similar interests and beliefs, especially after becoming increasingly isolated through having #LongCovid since 2020 where I am now pretty much housebound, the difficulties I have had with communication because of my #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder alongside living in accordance to the scientific fact that #CovidIsNotOver and #CovidIsAirborne. In the brief time I have been on Mastodon I feel very lucky to have connected with the people I have, which has had a positive impact on my mental health and life. I look forward to building on these connections and also chatting with more people who are interested in things like #Anarchism #MutualAid #RadicalCommunalCare #Intersectionality #Veganism #StarTrek #DisabilityJustice #DisabilityActivism #AntiCapitalism #SciFi and #Sociology to name a few topics/interests!
Anyone familiar with the history and origin of the "identity trap"? Used in a popular book by Harry Browne (1973), and by a South African academic, Du Preez (1980), and many more; popular again in Yascha Mounk's new book (2023). #sociology #politics #woke