‘Man Up’
Beautiful spoken word poem by Guante: 10 Responses to the Phrase “Man Up”: I want to be strong in a way that isn’t about physical dominance. Continue reading ‘Man Up’
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Aggression Theory
This is a stick figure animation of aggression theory that cites Dollard and colleagues’ (1939) paper ‘Frustration and aggression’ and Green (2001) ‘Human aggression’. Continue reading Aggression Theory
Economic inequality of CEO wages
This infographic doesn’t include Australia, where I live, but I did some digging and Australian CEOs earn 63 times more than the average full-time worker.
Data by Shields (2005) via Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Think
Nice animated video about standing up against conformity. Continue reading Think
You must change the whole pattern at once
Continue reading “You must change the whole pattern at once”There are too many complaints about society having to move too fast to keep up with the machine. There is great advantage in moving fast if you move completely, if social, educational, and recreational changes keep pace. You must change the whole pattern at once and the whole group together — and the people themselves must decide to move.
Margaret Mead, 4 September 1954, Time Magazine
Thoughts on ‘2011: A good year to be gay’
Aaron Hicklin, editor-in-chief of Out magazine, recently celebrated the progress made on the depiction of ‘gay culture’ in American TV shows. He writes in The Guardian: In many ways the transformation of attitudes has been ongoing for decades, accelerated in large part by the impact of Aids, which reconfigured gay identity around community and relationships. In TV shows such as Glee and Modern Family, gays are no longer comic stooges or punchlines, their relationships treated with the same respect as those of their straight counterparts. They hold hands, they kiss, they even share the same bed. This was a quantum … Continue reading Thoughts on ‘2011: A good year to be gay’
Marshall McLuhan
We’re just trying to fit the old things into the new form, instead of asking what is the new form going to do to all the assumptions we had before. Marshall McLuhan. Love a bit of McLuhan to round off the year. Continue reading Marshall McLuhan
Read All the Books
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath. Continue reading Read All the Books
Michael Burawoy on Public Sociology
Michael Burawoy For Public Sociology, Part 1: Introduction. Michael Burawoy’s presidential address at the American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting in 2004. Burawoy is the current President of the International Sociological Association. He discusses the role of sociology in advancing American … Continue reading Michael Burawoy on Public Sociology
Visual Sociology
Continue reading “Visual Sociology”All photographs… represent more or less clearly what was framed by the camera at the moment the picture was taken; they also identify the vantage point of the camera and, presumably, the photographer… [N]ot only do images have a history and a politics, but also they often have a career, traveling from one context to another, with dramatically different meanings imputed to them on the way.
John Grady (2007) ‘Visual Sociology’, pp. 63-70 in Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck (eds) 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook, Volume 2. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
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