by Ilyas Mohammed | Sep 8, 2014 | Teaching Sociology |
The beheading of American freelance photojournalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world. He was taken prisoner in northwest Syria in November 2012 while on assignment for the Global Post. ISIS posted the video of his...
by William T. Hathaway | Aug 10, 2014 | Teaching Sociology |
This photo of my parents reveals much about their personalities (her’s vivacious and outgoing, his withdrawn and closed off), their relationship (little real contact), and also the times. The typicality of their lives reveals much about the USA. My mother was a...
by Tim Hutchcraft | Apr 28, 2014 | Teaching Sociology |
Status is the posturing we do in order to be a member of a desirable group. Status in turn has implications for how valued resources such as money, prestige, power, and honor are distributed. In an ideal world, labor economists tell us that the more productive labor...
by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | Oct 3, 2013 | Articles, Teaching Sociology |
To be grateful…to Marx for his inversion of the Hegelian dialectic in the interest of an empirical understanding of human affairs does not preclude the possibility that…one might once more stand Marx on his head….Put simply, this would imply that man projects ultimate...
by Mike Sosteric (Dr. S.) | Sep 26, 2013 | Articles, Teaching Sociology |
Recent discussions of cutback to our universities in Alberta, the neo-liberal led assault on post-secondary education, led one colleague of mine to decry the new instrumental rationality that pervades the social fabric. These days all things great and small come down...
by Dr. Manisha Sharma | Jun 24, 2013 | Essential Reading, Teaching Sociology |
Female Infanticide For 50 years, from 1960-2011, fewer and fewer girls were allowed to be born in India. This situation, what I refer to as gendered arrangement, is old and commonly misunderstood. In India, there are “about 7.1 million fewer girls than boys aged 0-6...
