Month July 2012

Neil J. MacKinnon, PhD* Department of Sociology & Anthropology University of Guelph Jeffery D. Molson, BSc, BEd College Heights Secondary School Guelph, Ontario J. Douglas May, MD Oncology and Palliative Program Cambridge Memorial Hospital Cambridge, Ontario * Direct all correspondence…

John Garrick Faculty of Business UTS Robin Usher RMIT University Melbourne Dr John Garrick is a Senior Researcher at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and the author of ‘Informal Learning in the Workplace: Unmasking Human Resource Development’. He is…

Melissa Smith School of Social Science. University of Queensland Philip Smith Department of Sociology. Yale University. Abstract Taking a cue from Robert Merton’s concept of “dysfunctions”, this study takes prohibition policies to be a problem for users of “hard drugs”.…

Let me tell all you good folks a little story. When I was an undergraduate way back in the 1980s, feminism was just emerging (or at least, my awareness of it was emerging). At that time women all over the…

Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear…

David Beckett Department of Vocational Education and Training University of Melbourne [email protected] Dr David Beckett, lecturer in VET, at The University of Melbourne, publishes on professional practice, organisational epistemology, policy analysis and philosophy of education. Contact is welcome: Phone (03)…

The Socjourn has reached the limit of its resources. Serving up to six million hits a month, we need a bigger server. Some revenue comes through advertising, but that accounts for only a fraction of our current costs. We don’t…

Carter G. Woodson, the father of Negro History Week and the author of The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), wrote “Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it…

Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not “set them free” but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again Facebook ain’t your friend. From the facile and shallow way it connects people to the awesome power it gives authorities to monitor and surveille, Facebook is a technology born not in…