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Because of the abundance of social interaction and diverse clientele, subways have long been the sites of sociological experiments to understand human behavior. read more  
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Steve Busfield reports from a conference exploring US TV series The Wire as social-science fictionHow many sociologists does it take to change a lightbulb? Five. One to change the lightbulb and four to examine The Wire.Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson believes that The Wire has done more "to enhance our understanding of the challenges of urban life, and the problems of urban inequality, than any other media event or scholarly...  
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Where can I get help to write my sociology term paper? If you are in need of writing assistance, then this website is your ultimate source for that.  
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In an effort to build community and help provide residents with nutritious food options, students from the Public Sociology program will launch a community vegetable garden Oct. 24 at the Wilmington Housing Authority (WHA)/ UNCW Community Campus at Hillcrest.  
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Last month, Natalia Sarkisian, a professor in the sociology department, was awarded the Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award at an American Sociological Association meeting. The Oliver Cromwell Cox Article Award is presented to the author of the best research article in the field of sociology that studies ethnicity and race.  
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"Henry Pharris, ring bearer, wore L.L. Bean rain boots with his navy blue blazer and khakis." The Daily Star , November 5, 2007 This is a rainy day when we will attend the funeral of a good friend and neighbor Michel Freitag. November, they say here, is the mois des morts, partly because it begins with All Souls' Day, and partly because the weather is usually gray and the days are growing very short. This year we have had record sunshine, but death is closer than usual. Besides Michel, this week has seen funerals for our brother-in-law's mother as well as that of the ... Read Full Story
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Can you spot the sexism and ageism in this ad for MTV? The ageism is pretty obvious but let’s see if you can spot the sexism. Answer and comment below the fold. "Sorry, Mom !"… They can’t help themselves, can they? It is typical though: young cool people, no substance whatsoever, ageism and sexism. The Obama campaign in a nutshell. It’s beyond parody. Authored by SocProf . Hosted by Edublogs . Read Full Story
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Le Monde has a very interesting (and interactive) feature on the impact of incarceration on inmates’ perception of (and relationship to) their body along with the bodily transformations that incarceration involves. Le corps incarcéré LEMONDE.FR | 22.06.09 © The corporal trajectory, as described by men and women inmates, includes several broad categories of bodily treatment based on institutional and systemic actions that impact individual behavior: The searched body: The Other’s body: pornography, frigidity, forced intimacy The sick body: vision, teeth, hair loss, rotting The reclaimed body: self-mutilations, torture, the thick skin developed through intense exercise The liberated body: suicide, death, liberation The article also ... Read Full Story
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The excellent French socioblog “Fred et Ben Sociobloguent” is moving to new digs, so, update your blogroll / RSS Feeds. They are now at Socio Voce with some good content already. I am keeping the "old" blog in the blogroll to keep access to their archives. Their first article is on the persistence of social determinations on vacation choices: Les déterminismes sociaux perdurent en vacances | Socio-Voce via kwout Authored by SocProf . Hosted by Edublogs . Read Full Story
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I don’t blog enough about sociology of culture. Fortunately, others do it better than I could and bringing up topics I had not thought of: The Economy as a Cultural Scandal « Sociology Lens via kwout Now, I need to explore Mark Jacobs ’s concept of "no-fault society" as applied to public scandals (the concept originates in the study of the juvenile justice system). Authored by SocProf . Hosted by Edublogs . Read Full Story
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