How to Set Up Your Business Blog
There is a large volume of advice articles on how to set up and write an effective blog. This post brings together the advice that influenced me in setting up my various personal blogs, The Other Sociologist and my Tumblr, as well as my blog on Sociology at Work. I want to focus on the little tips that may not seem immediately important, but from experience, I can guarantee you that they make it harder for your blog to be enjoyed and shared easily.
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Managing Blog and Social Media Comments
Business leaders who are not very active online are often put off by the idea of being trolled. This reticence then leads them to shy away from having a strong social media presence. There are different schools of thought about how to manage online abuse.
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Hispanic women are fully aware that our culture is entrenched in misogyny, but not necessarily any less than American culture. Women in the United States are often expected to take their husbands’ last name. Many men still go to their … Continue reading Gender Politics
Making the Most of Communication Styles Within Business
Today’s post provides an overview of the key personality types that are used in management training and in team building exercises. I will then talk about some of the limitations of applying personality types too strictly within organisations. I’ll discuss how managers and leaders can adopt a more flexible model of personality types to improve how their team members communicate with one another, which in turn will boost their team contributions at work.
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Our brains try to save effort by drawing quick conclusions. These associations are sometimes useful, but often wrong. Learn more about system 1 thinking (quick or seemingly automatic mental effort) and system 2 thinking (slow and analytical thinking). Continue reading Fast and Slow Thinking
Research Consultancy to Improve Civic Participation
On Sociology at Work, a not-for-profit that I run, Scott Burrows writes about his work addressing youth unemployment in picturesque Illawara, in regional New South Wales, Australia. Scott works a sociologist and research consultant for private industry.
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Including Youth in Community Consulting
Societies make many negative assumptions about the types of young people who are forced into criminal activity, and why this might occur. Yet, as Sociology professor Randy Blazak points out, youth voices are often missing from these discussions. Professor Blazak talks about the problem of labelling at-risk youth “gang members.” He notes that not listening to these youth’s experiences can become a “self-fulling prophecy.” He explains: “People don’t get better when you focus on the bad stuff.” In sociology, we know this as labelling theory.
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Peruvian Dancing
Indigenous dancers from Peru. An old photo from my family Continue reading Peruvian Dancing
Social Science of Masquerade
Social psychologist Efrat Tseëlon is interested in feminist readings of fashion and culture. Tseëlon argues that while the English dictionary might define the practice of wearing masks and disguise as an attempt to conceal and misrepresent, masquerade is something different. Masquerade is not about portraying something false, but rather it is a way to understand the intricacies of identity. Masquerade draws its meaning through historical context, as the way in which we present our ideal selves in public changes over time.
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Work Riot is About Institutions
An article in the New Yorker that the riot in Foxconn, Taiyuan, China, is “about institutions.”
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