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TSP Tuesdays, December 17th, 2024 - The Editors' Desk
Dec 17, 2024 · New & Noteworthy. How Negative Feedback Impacts Women’s Political Participation Online by Dylan DiGiacomo-Stumm covers research by Zhaodi Chen and Junghun Han. They examined how negative feedback affects women’s participation in online political discussions using survey experiments.
TSP Tuesdays, December 10th, 2024 - The Editors' Desk
Dec 10, 2024 · New & Noteworthy. This week’s Clippings via Mallory Harrington highlights recent sociological insights, including Arlie Russell Hochschild’s exploration of political divides in Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right, Gi-Wook Shin’s analysis of South Korea’s political instability following President Yoon’s martial law declaration …
A Historical Look at the Popularity of Male Circumcision
Jan 23, 2009 · I got circumcised at the age of 19 because of phimosis. Here in Germany, only about 5-7% of non-Muslim and non-Jewish males are circumcised, so you can see that the number of men who actually benefit from circumcision is rather low.
Racism In Disney’s Fantasia - Sociological Images - The Society …
Mar 7, 2008 · The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film as released, all of the centaurs end up in color-matched heterosexual pairs.
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Lisa Wade, PhD, is the founder of Sociological Images. Born and raised in California, she earned a BA in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in human sexuality from NYU, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
“Show Her It’s a Man’s World” - The Society Pages
Jul 24, 2011 · "that tell her it's a man's world . . . and make her so happy it is. Riiiight. A tie is gonna make a woman so happy to be a second-class human.. What does it do---iron itself AND the rest of the laundry, give her excellent oral sex while the husband is asleep, hypnotize the kids into behaving, cook dinner, and buy her pearls and diamonds out the wazoo so that the only surviving characteristic ...
Daniel Silver reads Georg Simmel - Give Theory A Chance
Nov 17, 2024 · In this episode, Dr. Daniel Silver, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life (2020), joins us to discuss and read from Georg Simmel’s Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms (first published in 1908). Be sure to check out Dan’s co-authored essay on Simmel’s three concepts of form ...
James Baldwin: “I Can’t Afford Despair” - The Society Pages
Dec 4, 2014 · Baldwin of course is correct and insightful. Despair like worrying is a wastful emotion. One's energy is better spent on constructive planning and action.
Hurricane Katrina and the Demographics of Death
Aug 29, 2011 · The Demographics. During disasters, poor people, people of color, and the elderly die in disproportionate numbers (), and Katrina was no exception.Many decisions were made in the days leading up to and shortly after Katrina that amplified loss of life for these groups.