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culture | The Socjournal

Home / Tag Archives: culture On June 2, 2011, Mark Guarino reported in the Christian Science Monitor that the Louisiana Science Education Act managed to survive a recent legal challenge in the Louisiana legislature. Sadly, that does not bode well…

Socjourn Authors | The Socjournal

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 and…

Courses | The Socjournal

The following pages contain sociology courses provided by various institutions.  These courses are free to view online, but links are provided to the institutions should you be interested in the courses and associated credentials. Please feel free to browse the…

Vinay Kumar | The Socjournal

Feed Subscription Love love love. All you need is love. Love is like oxygen. Love lifts you up. Love is everything, or is it. Romantic love wasn’t always the Walt Disney deal it is today. It got started at a…

Building indices of social capital and its outcomes

Venanzio Vella, MD, PhD. Epidemiologist of the Italian Development Cooperation, Department of Health, South Africa, [email protected] Deepa Narajan [email protected] Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show how empirical data collected in household surveys can be transformed into indices…

Varieties of Violence | The Socjournal

Varieties of Violence Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us. Where does it come from?The answer propagated by the mass media is…

SAMs for Uncle Sam | The Socjournal

Here is an awesome article that questions the western view of Arab women, the Western view of women, the Westernized view of the family, the Western fetish with the Hijab, and even Western understandings of the politics of colonialism and…