Marriage Equality in Canberra
Same sex marriages have been talking place in the Australian Capital Territory, the first Australian state or territory to legalise non-heterosexual marriage. Continue reading Marriage Equality in Canberra
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Beading Your Way to a Successful Blog
Denise Krebs is an educator who has created this system of “B.E.A.D.” to advise students on how to blog more effectively. Her advice is useful for all new bloggers from the community sector, business and other industries.
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Cultural Architecture of Western Sydney
I’ve been doing a visual sociology of the Western Suburbs of Melbourne via Instagram, which is why I loved this story from early November. The Western Sydney suburb of Granville had been hosting a bus tour highlighting the cultural diversity of Sydney’s architecture.
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Using social science to build online communities
Richard Millington discusses some of the uses of social science methods in building online communities. This includes using social validation to create a panel of experts to set the tone for discussion in a community; using symbols to evoke previous community activities; and systematically documenting community achievements.
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How to Promote Gender Equality in Your Workplace
A forthcoming international survey of 240,000 workers by Barbara Annis shows that women feel professional exclusion in their workplaces, while men remain unaware that there’s a problem. Men resort to expressing old fashioned chivalry like opening doors and offering to pay for lunch, thinking this makes women feel more comfortable and appreciated. In fact, it is the way that men exclude women from promotional opportunities, meetings, and mentorship that is a problem for women.
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Measuring Well-Being: Why Health, Gender and Communities Need to be Counted in Surveys
The OECD’s Better Life Index attempts to compare well-being amongst OECD nations using education, housing, environment measures. The Economist has reproduced this graphic, which ranks Australia first, the USA second and Norway third.
On the one hand these types of surveys are useful because they measure social conditions rather than simply material wealth. On the other hand, this particular graphic neglects other socio-economic measures that give a different picture of national well-being.
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Blogging Tip: WordPress Username
Your username serves two purposes. First, it’s your login for the back-end administration of your website. Second, it’s the public name that will appear on your blog, whenever you comment on other WordPress sites and when you join other blogs. The two don’t have to be the same.
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Career As An Applied Sociologist
Earlier today I spoke on a careers panel at the postgraduate students’ day for The Australian Sociological Association.
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Culturally Relevant Mental Health Services for Indigenous Youth
Indigenous communities in remote areas face problems of access and relevance when it comes to mental health services. In areas such as Darwin and Alice Springs, where mental health practitioners are so far away that they need to be flown in, mental health delivery is costly.
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