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Dr. Michael Sosteric – I’m a sociologist at Athabasca University where I coordinate,amongst other things, the introductory sociology courses (Sociology I and Sociology II). My current interests lie in the area of scholarly communication and pedagogy, the sociology of spirituality…
Home / Sections / Stratification and Inequality I can remember at about the age of eleven being at one of the many Arabic parties I would attend growing up. The women were all laughing and dancing, their head scarves off,…
Home / Sections / Sociology of Religion The beheading of American freelance photojournalist James Foley by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world. He was taken prisoner in northwest Syria in November 2012 while…
Home / Sections I can remember at about the age of eleven being at one of the many Arabic parties I would attend growing up. The women were all laughing and dancing, their head scarves off, no men in the…
Home / Publication Types / Lectures For a scientists, citations are key. If your papers get cited by others, the assumption is your work is valuable. But is this a safe assumption? This article questions the validity of citation counting…
Here’s something you maybe didn’t know went on in our world, female infanticide or killing girl babies just because they do not make economic or social sense. It is a problem in certain countries of the world and the fallout…
Home / Sections / Sociology of Science Homo sapiens has enjoyed singular success at tweaking the environment because of the unique psycho-social wiring of the human mind ( Pagel ). Hearkening back to the nature-nurture debate, the human mind is…
The word “social technology” is a bit of a contradiction. Social technologies connect us like never before, but at the same time the superficiality of our social world, and our isolation, seem greater then ever. We are embarrassed by the…
War!? What is it good for? Taking stuff from others. Say it again. Oh, ah. Well, enough with the homage to Frankie who was in Hollywood in the 80s. War is another one of those ideological hot buttons, like greed,…
Home / Many Worlds, but only One Reality: Stephen Hawking and the Determinist Fallacy / Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking, the arch-determinist. 2012-11-05 +Timothy McGettigan About Timothy McGettigan Tim McGettigan is a professor of sociology at Colorado State University – Pueblo.…
