The Sociology of Gossip
By SocProf. There are some good points in this speech and it makes a good, relatively short, video to show in class and that would probably trigger discussion with students. But, I confess to not...
View ArticleThe Patriarchy Never Takes a Break
So, the Taliban tried and failed to kill Malala Yousafzai and now she’s famous, is getting a book contract and everything. That has to be frustrating for your average medieval patriarch. So, how does...
View ArticleMasculinity and Sports
By SocProf. Over at Sociology in Focus, Dave Mayeda has a new post on the intersections between masculinity, rape culture and sports and explores masculine bonding as constructed against a feminine...
View ArticlePatrolling Patriarchal Borders – Sports Edition
By SocProf. And keep the girls out! “Last Tuesday evening, Mark Cuban, the famously outspoken owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, told ESPN that he would consider drafting Brittney Griner, the 6ft 8in...
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Homicide – Globally Speaking – Part II
Yesterday, I looked at some data on homicide, worldwide, with a focus on regions, inequalities, presence of criminal organizations, guns, and weak governance. [As usual, click on the images for larger...
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How Gender Equality Benefits Society (and not only women, and not at the...
Being a total nerd, I am currently going over the United Nations 2013 Human Development Report. As always, the report goes over the types of policies that improve the Human Development Index of a...
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The Walking Dead – Clash of The Patriarchs Edition
It’s been a while since I have blogged about The Walking Dead (well, since last season). So, half of season 4 has come and gone and it’s time to review what, I think, has been the most consistent...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead – The Whole Blog Series
While I’m at it, I might as well link to my previous posts on The Walking Dead (in chronological order, from oldest to most recent): What I learned watching The Walking Dead The Walking Dead – Still...
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It’s Pretty Much Still “Man of The Year”
This cool animated GIF (below the fold because it’s on a loop and that gets annoying fast) from the French daily Libération shows the number of women to have been designated “Person of the Year”...
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The Sociology of Gifted Children
Everyone and their brothers is talking about this NYT article regarding Google search on giftedness and their gender bias: “MORE than a decade into the 21st century, we would like to think that...
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Homicide and Gender
With the recent shootings at UCSB, there has been a lot of talk about the gendered nature of homicides, where the gender of shooters is almost invariably male, and the gender of the victims is largely...
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“Do your parents know that you’re fucking a different nigger every night?”
That is what a cop said to Alice Goffman after she was swept up in a raid at the residence of her African American subjects / friends. Actually it gets even better than this: “On the way to the...
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The Walking Dead – Return of the Exiled Woman
[The whole TWD blogging series is here.] So, when we last discussed TWD, several things had happened: Woodbury had collapsed, Andrea had died, and the Governor had abandoned his survivors. This was all...
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