March 2012
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“What I’m suggesting is that marriage is not an institution that is available to...”
– Didn’t You Forget Me? A Queer Black Feminist’s Analysis of the Black Marriage Debate (via sociolab)
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Sociology
maraglen:
Guest lecturing tonight for a first year sociology class. There are around 350 students in the class. So excited.
Yay! Good luck ;)
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“You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing,...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via humanformat)
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“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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“One is neither born an intellectual nor does one become one by earning a degree.”
– Patricia Hill Collins (via wretchedoftheearth)
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“‘You could say that black people made progress, but to say black people have...”
– Chris Rock (via vagabondaesthetics)
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The difference between Anthropology and Sociology
Anthropology: I'm going to go out and study this obscure tribe of people in the far reaches of the jungle! I may be killed by unwelcoming natives but, I'll be able to document the languages and customs of these rare, secluded people!
Sociology: Cool. Hey tell us what you find, ok?
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“You may have learned by now that Sociology majors don’t make the best movie...”
– I did this last night while watching the previews before Hunger Games and then during the Hunger Games. My roommate actually turned to me and said, “Stop it. I will choke you with popcorn.” Then my mind began thinking about the consequences of his action and how the movie goers around us would...
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“Plenty of corrections officers might tell you that offenders doing time in...”
– The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement – Dart Society Reports (via sociolab)
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“We spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via humanformat)
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“You may have learned by now that Sociology majors don’t make the best movie...”
– Is sociology ruining your fun? » The Editors’ Desk (via sociolab)
Sociology majors are awesome.
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“And so for me, the whole point of the gender movement is that it’s not only...”
– Riki Wilchins Gender Rights Are Human Rights (via skrinkles3)
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“We want to recast the debate shifting from arguments over origins (is...”
– Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini, Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (via authorlauralee)
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“The single mother; the woman seeking an abortion; the prostitute; the’ welfare...”
– The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the ‘welfare queen’ | openDemocracy (via sociolab)
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“What seems to most people to be “reasonable” and “natural” nearly always turns...”
– Erich Goode, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook
I love this.
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“The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the...”
– Robert K Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure (via yougojenncoco)
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“Our society has learned to see why women would want masculine privileges like...”
– E. J. Graff, “The M/F Boxes” (via quitequiteblue)
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