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The Inadvertent Nazi Salute
At least, that is what this Greek soccer player is claiming, but I would say that, based on the other player’s stare, that’s unlikely: It’s hard to believe that a young European would not know the...
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Book Review – Game Over
I do not follow sports, except for the World Cup of Soccer. And I especially do not follow American sports such as baseball, basketball or football (or as we Europeans call it, American football, since...
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By SocProf. There are some good points in this speech and it makes a good, relatively short, video to show in class and that would probably trigger discussion with students. But, I confess to not...
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David Harvey on Monopoly Rent and Local Capitalism
This is the second one of my re-post on David Harvey’s Rebel Cities. In chapter 4 of Rebel Cities, Harvey focuses on what he takes to be the essence of capitalism: the establishment of monopoly rent....
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Beware of Generational Generalizations… They Don’t Always Work… But Sometimes...
As is the case here: No matter which category you click on, the distribution across age groups show limited variation, across media. And printed books still lead the reading game. Now, on other topics,...
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Data Analysis for Intro to Sociology – Culture: Changing Views on LGBT- Part 1
[I should have noted this before, but, in order to get a better view of larger visualizations, you should click on the "<>" symbols on the upper right corner of the page for flexible page width....
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Data Analysis for Intro to Sociology – Culture: Changing Views on LGBT- Part 2
[In order to get a better view of larger visualizations, you should click on the "<>" symbols on the upper right corner of the page for flexible page width. I have finally figured out how to...
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Book Review – Liquid Surveillance
Needless to say, when two of my favorite contemporary sociologists write a book together, on a topic of high relevance, lately – surveillance – I jumped on it. Liquid Surveillance – A Conversation is...
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Data Analysis for Intro To Sociology – Values and Socialization
In the soon-to-no-longer-be-used Microcase workbook I have been using for years, one of the exercises, in the chapter on socialization, involved looking at what particular traits people think children...
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