Finalising Fieldwork Interviews
This week ended on a hectic note, but much was achieved!
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Marriage Equality
I marched at the Marriage Equality rally in Sydney this afternoon among with 30,000 people! It’s the biggest LGBTQIA protest in Australian history and also the biggest rally ever in Sydney.
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I interviewed Associate Professor Kathleen Butler, sociologist and Aboriginal woman belonging to the Bundjalung and Worimi peoples of coastal New South Wales, who led the “Indigenous Sociology for Social Impact” workshop. Continue reading Decolonising Theory, Methods, and Practice
Race and Dating
I filmed an interview on race and dating. Thoughtful discussion of sexual racism, meaningful relationships, how to address structural and unconscious bias in Australia, and much more.
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Marketing Sociology
I’ve been thinking a bit about social marketing lately because I’ve being managing communications and media for research organisations and not for profits for many years. In general, marketing in the social sciences could be enhanced, especially in my field of sociology.
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Ellen Ochoa First Latin Woman to be Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame
Dr Ellen Ochoa, a Mexican-American scientist with a PhD in electrical engineering, was the first Latina in space. Twenty-four years later, on May 19 2017, having already been awarded NASA’s highest award, the Distinguished Service Medal, she’ll be inducted into the USA Astronaut Hall of Fame.
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Race and Dating
Last week I was part of a panel on Race and Dating, at 107 Projects in Sydney.
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Equality of Educational Opportunity
James Coleman’s classic sociology study on the structural inequalities of the American education system has an ongoing influence in academia and in public discussions.
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Toxic Management
Sociologists Martha Crowley and Randy Hodson conducted a study of the organisational dysfunction at General Motors. In a climate where people feared job cuts, every layer of management was afraid to report problems upwards, as there were many examples of people who had been fired after raising issues.
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How Poverty of Work Becomes Entrenched
A sociology study of the experiences of working class migrant workers finds that the conditions of their work make it virtually impossible to get ahead.
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