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Men’s Less-Than-Super Contributions to Housework
Source: Wikimedia Commons How do women and men divide housework? That question has become a matter of intrigue in US media in recent years. In fact, in the last week alone two major newspapers, The...
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Everyday Deviancy and the Web
ntu.ac.uk Since the credit crunch of 2008, and the global financial crisis swept around the world, a new rogue’s gallery of folk devils have been the focus of media opprobrium. The British Prime...
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The Sociology Classroom: Critical, Transformative, Radical? Part 3 of 3....
Source: Luiz Carlos Cappellano (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.In the first part of this series, I asked whether the sociology classroom can be a space of critical or radical pedagogy...
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Teaching Gender and Feminism as a Male-Identified Instructor
(Source: Canadian2006 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0/r GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.My colleague Cliff Leek elsewhere has recently talked about the tension, struggles and challenges of being an ally. Those...
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Goffman and the Web
researchaboutsocialmedia.com Despite writing in an era that predated many of the digital communication technologies that have become important to us, Erving Goffman’s analyses of social behaviour and...
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Unist’ot’en action camp: the importance of autonomy in resistance
The Unist’ot’en Action Camp. (Source: http://unistotencamp.com/?cat=6) As the Midwest and Northeastern United States thaw out from our early January “Polar Vortex,” I can’t help but wish governments...
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Fatherhood and Black Fatherhood
Source: Wikimedia Commons You may have noticed that a photo of a Black man doing his daughter’s hair was plastered all over Facebook and Twitter newsfeeds last month. That man, Doyin Richards, runs a...
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Do Guns Make Women’s Lives Safer?
By Francois Polito (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.One of our readers responded to my...
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From the defining issue of our era to “green crap” – the transformation of...
Source: http://politicalscrapbook.net/2013/11/david-cameron-get-rid-of-all-the-green-crap/ As the saying goes ‘the jury’s in’; human activity is causing global temperatures to rise unnaturally and...
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The elusive gay male soccer player in Germany – Homophobia and Solidarity
“Fans against Homophobia” display in the stadium of German soccer club Mainz 05, celebrating the 5 year anniversary of their LG(BT?)-fan club. [Source:...
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West Virginia Chemical Spill as State-Corporate Crime
West Virginia citizens wait in line to retrieve clean water. On January 9, 2014 government officials in West Virginia discovered that over 7,500 gallons of chemicals used to clean coal had leaked out...
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Speech, Identity, and Losing the Accent
source: http://blogs.tribune.com. The voice has not often been addressed as a specific subject for sociological analysis, despite affecting and representing a great range of highly sociological topics...
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Lesbians watching gay porn: fluid sexuality or a second wave hangover?
Source: feministninja.tumblr.com This post was borne out of a recent discussion with a good friend of mine, Harriet, who is a self-identified lesbian. (I include the phrase self-identified here...
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What Comes After Woman?: gender identity and the women’s movement
Genderqueer Pride Flag (Source: Wikimedia Commons) Last year, as I completed my fieldwork, I was unexpectedly reminded of the continuing contention around gender identity. Interviewing dozens of people...
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Valentine’s Day and the (sociological) Power of Love
In case you were the only person who didn’t realise, last Friday was Valentine’s Day. I hate Valentine’s. Its’ ever increasing prevalence, its’ cloying, creeping appearance that infiltrates perfectly...
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The Myth of the ‘Skills Gap’ and the Attack on (Higher) Education
By movie studio [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.In January, President Obama became the latest in a long list of politicians and high profile public figures in taking a shot at academic...
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Introducing Digital Sociology
Source: http://www.123rf.com/photo_24005597_education-concept-pixelated-words-sociology-on-digital-background-3d-render.html For its emerging practitioners, Digital Sociology is an ambitious and...
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Shifting Hegemonic Masculinity? Gay Male Athletes and Discourses of Masculinity
By mariselise derivative work: Steffaville [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.The NBA has its first openly gay player in Jason Collins, and the NFL will follow soon, as former college player Michael...
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Fly me to the Moon: Aviation: past, present, and future
By Yamaguchi Yoshiaki from Japan [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons This year marks one century of commercial flying. On New Year’s Day in 1914, a...
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Obama’s Initiative for Young Men of Color & the Rhetoric of Individual...
[By Pete Souza (White House Flickr Account) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]A few weeks ago, President Obama announced a new initiative designed to increase opportunities for young Black and...
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