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The Inadvertent Nazi Salute

At least, that is what this Greek soccer player is claiming, but I would say that, based on the other player’s stare, that’s unlikely: It’s hard to believe that a young European would not know the...

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Book Review – Game Over

I do not follow sports, except for the World Cup of Soccer. And I especially do not follow American sports such as baseball, basketball or football (or as we Europeans call it, American football, since...

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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...

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David Harvey on Monopoly Rent and Local Capitalism

This is the second one of my re-post on David Harvey’s Rebel Cities. In chapter 4 of Rebel Cities, Harvey focuses on what he takes to be the essence of capitalism: the establishment of monopoly rent....

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Beware of Generational Generalizations… They Don’t Always Work… But Sometimes...

As is the case here: No matter which category you click on, the distribution across age groups show limited variation, across media. And printed books still lead the reading game. Now, on other topics,...

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Data Analysis for Intro to Sociology – Culture: Changing Views on LGBT- Part 1

[I should have noted this before, but, in order to get a better view of larger visualizations, you should click on the "<>" symbols on the upper right corner of the page for flexible page width....

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Data Analysis for Intro to Sociology – Culture: Changing Views on LGBT- Part 2

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Book Review – Liquid Surveillance

Needless to say, when two of my favorite contemporary sociologists write a book together, on a topic of high relevance, lately – surveillance – I jumped on it. Liquid Surveillance – A Conversation is...

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Data Analysis for Intro To Sociology – Values and Socialization

In the soon-to-no-longer-be-used Microcase workbook I have been using for years, one of the exercises, in the chapter on socialization, involved looking at what particular traits people think children...

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Presenting Indigenous Peoples Through a Deficit or Asset Model

By David Mayeda I love Aljazeera. It is my favourite news site, and I peruse its stories virtually every day. This is partly why I was so disappointed in its recent story on the over-representation of...

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I, too, am Auckland

For the past six months, six University of Auckland students and I have been working steadily on a video project inspired by African American students at Harvard University who initiated the “I, too,...

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Questions Regarding I, Too, Am Auckland

Since release of the I, Too, Am Auckland videos (all three of which can be viewed here), a number of questions and critiques have been raised, which this post will attempt to address. Issue 1: Was...

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I, Too, Am Auckland Returns

Now updated, here are all four new videos produced by the “I, Too, Am Auckland” team. This iteration’s theme is titled, “CONVERSATIONS.” We hope the videos illustrate how critical dialogue can help us...

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