The Color Line » Race, Ethnicity & Immigration in the 21st Centu. A couple of weeks ago, I made my first ever visit to China and I wanted to share some sociological observations with you about what I saw and experienced while I was there. My trip was under the auspices of my university’s International Programs Office (IPO) that’s in charge of all the study abroad programs on campus. From time to time, the IPO visits various study abroad sites around the world to make sure that they are high-quality programs for our students. Normally, the different staff at the IPO conducts these visits, but this time around, they asked me if I wanted to go to Beijing to check out the Council on International Educational Exchange’s (CIEE) programs in Beijing. It was an offer I could not pass up, so I jumped at the opportunity. Specifically, the CIEE programs that I visited were based at Minzu University and Peking University.
Below are a few pictures from my visit to China. China at a Crossroads Where Do Chinese Americans Fit Into China? Crawler » Sociology Online. Photo by Travis Barfield, Flickr Creative Commons. Forbes Magazine recently highlighted some shocking numbers. According to the USDA, A child born in 2012 will cost his parents $241,080 in 2012 dollars, on average [in the first 17 years of life]… And children of higher-earning families drain the bank account more: Families earning more than $105,000 annually can expect to spend $399,780 per child.
That works out to about $14,000 a year on the low end. In a hard economy in a country with high inequality, parental investment in children is truly important, Conley goes on. That question, Shin writes, is at least partially answered with Conley’s new book Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know about the Science of Raising Children But Were Too Exhausted to Ask. ThickCulture » A multidisciplinary blog about culture, technolog. The following is a guest post by Concordia College sociology major Ryan Larson ’14. After graduation, Ryan intends to pursue graduate study in sociology and criminology. He is also a huge hockey fan. Hockey is back at the forefront of the national sports consciousness thanks to T.J. Oshie and his Olympic shootout heroics against host team Russia on Saturday morning.
Many in the media have made claims as to which country will obtain the coveted title of world hockey dominance (via a gold medal, which isn’t actually solid gold). However, to what extent are these claims mere speculation? The Claims Baseball has long been the hallmark choice for sports analytics, due to its large sample sizes (162 game seasons) and relatively independent events (for a more thorough discussion, I highly recommend Nate Silver’s The Signal and The Noise, Ch. 3). The Data The Model Table 2 depicts each predictor’s effect on the change in probability of success in the Winter Olympics. 1. 2. 3. Predicting Sochi 2014. Sociological Images » Seeing is Believing. Sociology Lens » news. resources. commentary. Nudge yourself better: how to become your own Choice Architect. by Roger Tyers, 3 days ago at 11:00 am By: Adam GaultCollection: OJO My PhD research is about changing people’s behaviour – how to make people lead better, greener, more sustainable lives.
A key part of my outlook is how insights from so-called ‘Nudge’ theory might be used to foster change in individuals. Who better to use as an individual case study, than myself? The basic premise of Nudge is that we can improve people’s behaviour not just through the old-fashioned interventions of the State like taxing things or making things illegal: ‘shoving’ people to comply; but by subtly ‘nudging’ people to make better choices, whilst still allowing them the freedom to make bad ones.
(more…) Avery Gordon’s “Ghostly Matters” and the Haunting of Sociological Research by rademacher, 4 days ago at 07:00 am Source: Ghostly Matters by Avery F. (more…) by Huw C Davies, Mar 26, 2014, at 08:00 am Source: ft.com. The 40th Anniversary of the Violence at Kent State – a gap in ou. Today is the 40th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. Not long ago, I looked out at my large section of a social problems course and asked if anyone could explain the events that took place at Kent State on May 4th, 1970.
I wondered, in the silence following, how a lack of knowledge about this tragedy could exist. I rephrased my question…to no avail. This event is part of American History and is taught as such. Perhaps there is some sort of cohort effect in not knowing about Kent State; students in my classes generally know what happened at Columbine High. Beyond theory, it seems frightening that we could collectively forget an event such as one in which students at a university were murdered. On the Contributions of Cognitive Sociology to the Sociological Study of Race, Brekhus et al. Shots Still Reverberate for Survivors of Kent State, Noah Adams, NPR Images in this piece are thanks to the National Archives and Records Administration.
Updated List of White Backlash Examples » The Color Line. What are Discourses about the Internet Doing to Our Brains? » Th. There is currently a great deal of fanfare and criticism in the press over Clay Shirky’s new book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age, which celebrates the Internet’s achievements. The Boston Review sums up the book’s intriguing argument: “Just as gin helped the British to smooth out the brutal consequences of the Industrial Revolution, the Internet is helping us to deal more constructively with the abundance of free time generated by modern economies. Shirky argues that free time became a problem after the end of WWII, as Western economies grew more automated and more prosperous. Heavy consumption of television provided an initial solution. Gin, that ‘critical lubricant that eased our transition from one kind of society to another,’ gave way to the sitcom. More recently TV viewing has given way to the Internet.
The Los Angeles Times contrasts the book with Nicholas Carr’s thesis in The Shallows, which argues that.