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
Tag: Sociology
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’
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’
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
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.
Link Analysis of Science on Bitly
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
Pepper Spray Cop Meme
This is a nice, brief analysis of the ‘Pepper Spray Cop Meme’. The video gives a quick run down of the development of this meme and it poses some interesting questions. Has the use of satire regarding this controversial act … Continue reading Pepper Spray Cop Meme
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