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Download Citation Abstract Cannabis gets a lot of bad press, but perhaps it is undeserved. While alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and even tobacco are known to be highly addictive and damaging to the physical body and brain, there’s not a lot…
Greg SmithDepartment of Sociology University of Salford ABSTRACT The fate of Goffman’s Gender Advertisements in the sociological literature is reviewed nearly two decades after its original publication. The paper underlines Goffman’s consistent social constructionist approach to gender differentiation, an approach…
Juan M Delgado-Moreira Madrid Spain Ministry of Education An earlier version of this paper was presented at the “Nation Creation and Dissolution” session at the American Ethnological Society Meetings, Puerto Rico, April 21, 1996. Mary Rauner, Phil Lowenthal and several…
Download Citation Abstract 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…
Download Citation Abstract We all see the world through eyes colored by the psychological imposition of gender. Girls are girls and boys are boys and never the twain shall meet. We think what we see is natural reality, but is…
Download Citation Timothy McGettigan Einstein’s oft-repeated, and dogged insistence that “God does not play dice” is scientifically wrong-headed for a number of reasons. First of all, where science is concerned, God is irrelevant. Any references to God’s presumptive influence on…
Timothy McGettigan Fate is the most potent weapon in the arsenal of hard determinists. To contend, as hard determinists plainly do, that the outcomes of events are predetermined is essentially the same as saying that the ebbs and flows of…
Download Citation Abstract What is money? What is the nature of money? This is a problem that has occupied Sociologists since Karl Marx wrote his magnum opus, Das Kapital. If you go by Karl M’s massive, or by any of…
In this unit, we conclude our introductory look at social movements by looking at current anti-war movements, and by examining the Internet and the WWW as potential resources for those interested in initiating social change. Recall that we started our…
Download Citation Abstract 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…
