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All that is old is new again.
11/12/2012

All that is old is new again.

Well this is certainly interesting. Thoughts?

09/06/2012

A new infographic slideshow illustrates changing trends in voter support for the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties among various religious groups - including Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Jewish and Unaffiliated - from 2008 to 2012.

08/08/2012

A new approach to parenting gender-fluid children.

08/08/2012

President Jim Kim announced the release of a new data portal focused on gender issues at the recent “Closing the Gender Data Gap” conference, held in Washington DC on July 19. The website is a resource center for gender equality data, with statistics, tools and reference materials covering employmen...

Very well said.
07/12/2012

Very well said.

I like to think of college as a community of learners whose members are engaged in a common enterprise as well as a shared struggle against the forces of ignorance and complacency. Unfortunately, there's a serpent in this Garden of Eden. Potential for discord arises because some members of the commu...

07/03/2012

A sociology education helps the student to think like a social scientist -- attentive to facts, probing with hypotheses, offering explanations, critical in offering and assessing arguments for conclusions.

06/01/2012

The national conversation has recently turned to the high levels of inequality in the United States. Despite popular interest, clear and informative facts about the many different types of social and economic inequality in America have often been hard to find. To remedy this problem, social scientis...

05/30/2012

Tags: art/music , class , goffman , methodology/statistics , theory , defining the situation, pierre bourdieu, social experiment, taste, subtitles/CC , 00 to 05 mins Year: 2007 Length:...

03/16/2012

Lawmakers in at least six states — all women and all Democrats — have proposed bills or amendments in the last few weeks that aim to regulate a man's access to reproductive health care. The proposals are a response to legislation that would limit women's access to those services.

Racial segregation is written onto the landscape.
03/14/2012

Racial segregation is written onto the landscape.

The city of St Louis, Missouri, remains one of the most segregated cities in the US. But one street in particular has been known to residents as the "dividing line".

An amazingly rational (if somewhat foul mouthed) discussion of class inequality in the US. Thanks Cracked!
03/07/2012

An amazingly rational (if somewhat foul mouthed) discussion of class inequality in the US. Thanks Cracked!

All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pi**ed off about it.

Powerful read.
02/27/2012

Powerful read.

"Don't take anything that happens to you there personally," the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc. She winks at me. I stare at her for a second.

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