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Well it looks like the end of the world is finally here. Obama has just admitted there is no more cash. Unless the U.S. Government agrees to up the debt ceiling, all those who depend on social security are going…
This student essay was submitted for Sociology 435 (The Sociology of Social Change) at Athabasca University. It is a critical examination of the “heinous” way the media treated the aids epidemic, and their absolute disregard for social responsibility or the…
Name: Rachel Email: Bio: I am a PhD candidate in the department of Sociology at McMaster University. My research interests include gender, parenting, social policy and inequality. July 9th, 2010 Women in Academe In recent years, women have begun to…
Name: Colin and Sofia, aka “bugsy” October 12th, 2010 By Colin Schlossman, Ph.D., Columbia College and Sofia Schlossman, Florida International University The violence of conformity Upon perusing a copy of Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving…
BOOK REVIEW: Science, Evolution, and Creationism 2008. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. [amazonify]0309105862[/amazonify]In an effort to extol the virtues of evolution, the National Academy of Sciences has published an updated version of Science, Evolution, and Creationism (2008). In this brief, but colorful…
Oct 15th, 2010 | By Dr. Michael Sosteric | Category: Featured Articles, General As a publisher or writer or publisher of Sociology and Social sciences, you’ve probably never thought of a mass market for your goods. The critical study of…
It used to be identity was to be found in the way we thought, the groups we were a part of, and the things we held dear. More and more, however, we exist in a monotonic world where our identity…
As a sociologist I’ve always been interested in surveillance. Jeremy Bentham, Foucault, Orwell. Like it or not surveillance is an aspect of the industrial and post-industrial world. It’s been talked about for centuries and dystopian authors like Orwell, sociologists like…
A sociologist looks at energy. Not oil, not nuclear, but renewable. Solar panels, wind, geothermal, these are all part of a decentralization of power generation. When every home has its own energy generating power plant we won’t be dependent on…
June 18th, 2010 Sweatshops and Post-Industrial Society: Conflicting Contemporary Phenomena Emily Jill Hodgson SOCI 460 Athabasca University June 13, 2010 — The shoes on our feet The results of the Google search on both sweatshops and global sweatshops, as found…
