The Conversation recently featured a new study that finds that Aboriginal people who are incarcerated are in dire need of mental health support services. Aboriginal people make up 26 percent of the prison population in Australia, despite the fact that they comprise less than three percent of the general population.
Continue reading “Aboriginal People, Incarceration and Mental Health”
A question from a reader:
Continue reading “Victim Blaming”Hi there, would you happen to know where I can find a good definition of victim blaming, be it online or a book.
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’
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
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.
Nice animated video about standing up against conformity. Continue reading Think
While the editor in chief of Out magazine is positive about the progress on American television, LGBTQ representation remains limited in scope Continue reading Thoughts on ‘2011: A Good Year To Be Gay’
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
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.
At Scientific American’s request, the chief scientist at bitly (www.bitly.com) [Hilary Mason], which shortens URLs for Web users, examined 600 science Web page addresses sent to the company’s servers on August 23 and 24. Then she tracked 6,000 pages people visited next and mapped the connections (below). The results revealed which subjects were strongly and weakly associated. Chemistry was linked to almost no other science. Biology was linked to almost all of them. Health was tied more to business than to food. But why did fashion connect strongly to physics? And why was astronomy linked to genetics? Check out the … Continue reading Link Analysis of Science on Bitly
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