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The New Faces of Welfare: Overcoming the Stigma of State Assistance

by ChristinaBlunt Despite last week’s promising government figures showing a decline in the American unemployment rate, “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Young Adults’… more →

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The New Faces of Welfare: Overcoming the Stigma of State Assistance — 5 comments

christinablunt wrote 3 years ago: by ChristinaBlunt Despite last week’s promising government figures showing a decline in the American … more →

Tags: Culture, Organisations and Work, Race and Ethnicity, social stratification, civic participation, Depression, economic recovery, food stamps, government program

Protesters Challenge Skeptics: The Earth is Round and Climate Change is Real — 1 comment

smteixeirapoit wrote 3 years ago: by smteixeirapoit The United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in Copenhagen from De … more →

Tags: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements, climate change, United Nations, Copenhagen, stop climate chaos, Camp for Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Global Warming, World Environmental Regime

Don't blame the Internet: Reevaluating the decline in American journalism — 17 comments

rachaelaliberman wrote 3 years ago: By Rachael Liberman In a recent article from The Nation, heavyweight media scholars John Nichols and … more →

Tags: Communication and Media, Culture, Internet, Journalism, FCC, FTC

Telling the Truth: Immigrants and their communities — 1 comment

christinablunt wrote 3 years ago: by ChristinaBlunt Today, December 2, Maryland pastor Lennox Abrigo will be at the White House to dis … more →

Tags: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements, Crime and Deviance, social stratification, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, Immigration, NAACP, Immigration reform, Lennox Abrigo

Portable pornography in the public sphere: Convenient, offensive or hazardous? — 1 comment

rachaelaliberman wrote 3 years ago: By Rachael Liberman It’s one thing to experience the pornification of culture through public adverti … more →

Tags: Crime and Deviance, Communication and Media, Culture, Pornography, public versus private, Portable Technology, pornography addiction

Conference Summary Part I: The Internet as Playground and Factory — 4 comments

PJ Rey wrote 3 years ago: by pj.rey The New School held a conference last week that may be of interest to many Sociology Lens … more →

Tags: Video Resources, Communication and Media, Organisations and Work, Culture, science and medicine, Sociology, Frankfurt School, consumption, capitalism

Smuggling Tunnels in Gaza Strip — 1 comment

smteixeirapoit wrote 3 years ago: Map of Gaza Strip by smteixeirapoit Palestinians have created hundreds of tunnels under the Gaza Str … more →

Tags: social stratification, Organisations and Work, poverty, Unemployment, Smuggling Tunnel, Israeli Blockade, Egypt, rafah, Palestinians

election day and attributing blame — 1 comment

dena_t_smith wrote 3 years ago: By Dena T. Smith In elections, we determine who to vote for via a number of factors: party affiliati … more →

Tags: Social Psychology and Lifecourse, attribution, Blame, Elections, Politics, Social Psychology, Voting

Fat Taxes and Foucault — 8 comments

bmckernan wrote 3 years ago: by bmckernan In recent months, proposals for “fat taxes” have gained growing popularity amongst cert … more →

Tags: Collective Behaviour and Social Movements, Race and Ethnicity, Culture, science and medicine, Foucault, obesity, fat taxes, Soda, Discipline

When Prosumption is Law, the Prosumer is King (for Now) — 2 comments

PJ Rey wrote 3 years ago: by pj.rey Smokers, if I told you that I could get you high-quality cigarettes for half the usual pri … more →

Tags: Crime and Deviance, Organisations and Work, Culture, science and medicine, consumption, Law, capitalism, Prosumption, Prosumer

Renegotiating the Gender Contract — 5 comments

christinablunt wrote 3 years ago: by ChristinaBlunt According to a recent article in the New York Times, the single mothers of South K … more →

Tags: Social Psychology and Lifecourse, Collective Behaviour and Social Movements, Gender, social stratification, Organisations and Work, Culture, Abortion, Human Rights, Israel

Peace Prize Choice Celebrated and Criticized

smteixeirapoit wrote 3 years ago: by smteixeirapoit The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that President Barack Obama will receive t … more →

Tags: Communication and Media, Angela Merkel, presentation of self, President Barack Obama, nobel peace prize, International Diplomacy, Arms Control, Global Challenges, Nuclear Disarmament

When method becomes a matter of life or death

rachaelaliberman wrote 3 years ago: By Rachael Liberman While public school violence has been an ongoing epidemic in Chicago, the recent … more →

Tags: Crime and Deviance, Race and Ethnicity, school violence, chicago public schools, statistics

Net Neutrality: Must Freedom Be Organized?

PJ Rey wrote 3 years ago: by pj.rey Net neutrality” is a phrase that emerged almost immediately as access to the Interne … more →

Tags: Communication and Media, social stratification, Culture, Internet, obama, capitalism, Karl Polanyi, Net Neutrality, regulation

The Paradoxical Invocation of Humanity — 7 comments

nmccoy1 wrote 3 years ago: nmccoy1 This week, Republican Congressman Terry Franks invoked humanist philosophy to simultaneously … more →

Tags: Culture, Abortion, Citizenship, Humanity, obama, Politics

Case Closure — 1 comment

christinablunt wrote 3 years ago: by ChristinaBlunt On September 23, the Chicago Tribune reported that Christopher M. Stevens, the con … more →

Tags: Social Psychology and Lifecourse, Collective Behaviour and Social Movements, Crime and Deviance, Culture, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Christoper Stevens, Zachary Snider

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