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Ο πανικός για τη μοναξιά

borealis wrote 2 days ago: Μία μελέτη το 2006, πυροδότησε έναν πανικό στην Αμερική καθώς υποστήριζε ότι οι Αμερικανοί είχαν  εν … more →

Tags: ψυχολογια, ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ, μοναξιά, American Sociological Review, Judith Shulevitz

Study: Religious Affiliation At Low Point In US History

timothybella wrote 2 months ago: BERKELEY, Calif. (CBS Sacramento) – No religious affiliation? No problem. A new study from UC Berkel … more →

Tags: News, Syndicated Local, God, National Science Foundation, Liberals, Trending, religious affiliation, General Social Survey, Daily Californian

Watch A Smart Guy Stump A Religious Bigot With Her Own Religion

digger666 wrote 3 months ago: Watch A Smart Guy Stump A Religious Bigot With Her Own Religion.  Reblogged from Upworthy, 13 March … more →

Tags: US Politics, gender issues, Performing Arts, Stage & Screen, Politics & World Affairs, Western Hemisphere, LGBT, justice & law, diversity & equal rights

Religion Among Americans Hits Low Point, As More People Say They Have No Religious Affiliation3 comments

globaltechateam wrote 3 months ago: Batterfly_Bindig_Spread (Photo credit: vlasta2) Written by Katherine Bindley.  Posted by Alan Bailey … more →

Tags: Week 2 Blog Discussions, united states, Duke University, General Social Survey, University of California-Berkeley, Religion, HuffPost, University of California

The Social Meaning of Technology6 comments

David Stearns wrote 5 months ago: Sometime in the early-1980s, Kodak began using a sleek new voice messaging service that they called … more →

Tags: social shaping, theory, Reflections, America Caling, KMX, Kodak, Mobile Phone, Social Media, Telephone

America's Calling: A Summary of the Social History of the Telephone

Whitney Phillips wrote 7 months ago: For the past two three weeks (thanks a lot, Sandy), my New Media’s Past and Future class has f … more →

Tags: Teaching, Modern Primate, NYU new media's past and future, Hurricane Sandy, Telephone History, America Calling, social history of telephone, why do we say hello on the telephone, history of telephone sexist

Using vacations to talk about class consciousness

John wrote 9 months ago: If you want to talk to your students about class consciousness without getting too political (and wi … more →

Tags: Social-economics, Teaching tricks, Teaching, sociological images, Memoirs of a SLACer, boston review, Class-consciousness, Social class

Claude Fischer on the culture of poverty: adaptation or pathology?

Patricia Cohen wrote 1 year ago: The Berkeley sociologist Claude S. Fischer writes about the culture of poverty in the latest issue o … more →

Tags: poverty, poverty, boston review, Charles Murray

All the Lonely People3 comments

Ned Resnikoff wrote 1 year ago: There’s a whole subgenre of pop sociology and social psychology dedicated to enumerating all o … more →

Tags: Culture, atlantic, facebook, farmville, loneliness, scrabble, Social Media, social networking, Sociology

Heroic Americans — citizens of the land of the free, home of the brave

Stephen Zielinski wrote 1 year ago: Journalist Eyal Press, during his report on dissent, whistleblowing and elite opposition to both in … more →

Tags: Commentary, Barack Obama, united states, Wall Street, Bradley Manning, Pentagon, Whistleblower, Torture, lying in politics

Networks, social traits, and Cosmopolitanism

androte wrote 1 year ago: An interesting theme in social network analysis is that social traits – like smoking, obesity, … more →

Tags: Sociological Reflections, Networks, Social Networks, social traits, Cosmopolitan, Urban Life, microcultures

Religion, politics: Walking away from church - latimes.com

Jeff Pruett wrote 2 years ago: The most rapidly growing religious category today is composed of those Americans who say they have n … more →

Tags: Politics, Religion, united states, conservatism, Republican, George W. Bush, Jerry Falwell

The Berkley History Project

Compass Editorial wrote 4 years ago: by Feistyle Since 1991 Berkley have conducted interviews with their faculty. The 31 videos are an ar … more →

Tags: Sociology, Berkley, Harry Edwards, Peter Evans, Todd Gitlin, Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Arlie Hochschild, Michael Hout, Stanley Lieberson


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