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31st January 2012
New YouTube Playlist: "Research Methods in Context"
We have just posted a new YouTube playlist featuring sociologists talking about their research methods. The researchers interviewed include Deborah Carr, Jooyoung Lee, Ashley Mears, Nikki Jones, Brian Powell, and Sharon Zukin. We’ll post more soon, so stay tuned!
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Video
18th January 2012
What are the lived experiences of families who aren’t legally recognized as a “family?” From an interview with Brian Powell
(Source: youtube.com)
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Video
24th October 2011
Trick or Treat!
Social Problems and the Myth of Poison Halloween Candy — Interview with Joel Best
(Source: youtube.com)
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Quote
18th August 2011
“Personal notes, reported by [Saskia] Sassen over a glass of Argentinian wine, Harvard Inn, April 22, 1994.”
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Manuel Castells, Footnote 22, “Chapter 6: The Space of Flows,” The Rise of the Network Society (1996)
My friend just drew my attention to this, the greatest of all footnotes. You’re welcome, Internet.
(via neveralovelysoreal)
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Photo
17th August 2011
There’s a joke in here somewhere about the job market or Republicans trying to cut NSF grants or something, but I’m too tired from trying to understand The Logic of Practice to figure it out.
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Quote
2nd August 2011
“Rather than a case of abject failure,” Hunt and Lipo argue, “Rapa Nui is an unlikely story of success.” The islanders had migrated, perhaps accidentally, to a place with little water and “fundamentally unproductive” soil with “uniformly low” levels of phosphorus, an essential mineral for plant growth. To avoid the wind’s dehydrating effects, the newcomers circled their gardens with stone walls known as manavai. Today, the researchers discovered, abandoned manavai occupy about 6.4 square miles, a tenth of the island’s total surface.”
~ Was Jared Diamond right about the collapse of Easter Island?
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Audio
2nd August 2011
Good interview with sociologist Victor Rios, a gang member-turned university professor, who has written a terrific ethnography about the impact authority figures have on at-risk youth.
(Source: onpoint.wbur.org)
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27th July 2011
“Becky Petit and Bruce Western found that 30% of Black men without a college education served some time in prison while this percentage nearly doubled to 60% for Black men who were high school dropouts.”
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SOURCE: Everyday Sociology Blog
