March 2011
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Reminding my followers that I have moved to...
July 2010
3 posts
Lonely? It all depends on your perception. →
thedailyfallout:
” ‘Loneliness is the discrepancy between your achieved and desired level of social contact, and that has important implications,’ Segrin says. ‘The portrait of a lonely person is very difficult to paint because what is really important is what is in your head.’ “
Stanford Prison Experiment web site →
(via socialpsychology)
Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil →
socialpsychology:
Philip Zimbardo helps us understand what causes people who began life with good intentions, to discard them.
[warning: very graphic]
June 2010
3 posts
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So, we have a holiday assignment.
It’s a mini research project on methods of research. I was really excited about it at first but now that I’ve gotten started, I’ve realised that research is a bitch. You never get the information you really need. Instead, you get millions of other irrelevant points which you end up adding into your assignments and eventually, you get sidetracked.
Some case studies we’ve...
I got a D (overall) for my second Sociology...
I deserve to die in a raging fire.
May 2010
26 posts
Today's Sociology class was interesting, to say...
I was on the verge of tears. It just ruined my whole day. No, no, Sociology didn’t ruin my day, patriarchal ideology did.
We were told to bring magazine cut-outs, pictures, videos, texts, anything that portrayed women in an empowering or, in contrast, a subordinate role.
A friend of mine brought a women’s health magazine. We scanned it briefly, looked pretty normal. Then we put on...
Also.
Sociology classes are a chance for Fiqah, Sakina and I to talk about Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato and Sophia Bush respectively.
“I FEEL SO GAY.” — Fiqah.
“It’s OK, we’re all bi to a certain extent. I mean, LOOK AT THOSE WOMEN, OK!” — Me.
Yes. On a completely different sociological note, I cannot wait to study suicide and talk about Durkheim’s...
Oh.
We also talked about Fa’afafines in class today. Super interesting. S and I have found a new favourite word.
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Today, we continued discussing Gender...
For you interactionists (like me) out there, who believe that human nature is active and that we are able to decide whether to accept or reject what we are taught, have you ever thought that we might be subtly getting brainwashed? By innocent things like fairytales?
YES. FAIRYTALES TRANSMIT PATRIARCHAL IDEOLOGY. The damsel in distress, always a female. The rescuer, always a male. Cinderella was...
“Today’s deviance may be tomorrow’s norms.”
– Emile Durkheim (via edmundsyuzon) (via fuckyeahsociology, edmundsyuzon-deactivated2010031)
True story, bro.
Cinderella Effect
fuckyeahsociology:
bestofwikipedia:
The Cinderella effect is a term used by psychologists to describe the high incidence of stepchildren being physically abused, sexually abused, neglected or murdered, or otherwise mistreated at the hands of their stepparents at significantly higher rates than their genetic counterparts. It takes its name from the fairytale character Cinderella, who in the...
RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background... →
fuckyeahsociology:
fairphantom:
TEN THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RACE
Our eyes tell us that people look different. No one has trouble distinguishing a Czech from a Chinese. But what do those differences mean? Are they biological? Has race always been with us? How does race affect people today?
There’s less - and more - to race...
BIOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY
Q: What's the difference between biology and sociology?
A: When the baby looks like his dad or mom, then it is biology. When the baby looks like the neighbor, then it is sociology.
Alternative Ways to Understanding Sociological...
fuckyeahsociology:
trixiejackmattachine:
Karl Marx: Life’s not fair, let’s all share!
Emile Durkheim: You get the ankles, I’ll get the wrists.
Max Weber: All work and no play…
Georg Simmel: I feel like I am ze Country Mouse in ze Zitty, Ja?
Jurgen Habermas: Why can’t we all just get along?
Talcott Parsons: I have a diagram that explains EVERYTHING!
Pierre Bourdieu: Kids, stay in school.
Michel...
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“Don’t let anyone try to convince you that you can’t do anything simply because...”
– Patrick Stump, Fall Out Boy.
This is why I love them.
