IUN Sociology

All that is old is new again.

Well this is certainly interesting. Thoughts?

Pew-Forum: Full analysis on Political Party Identification in 2012 election A new infographic slideshow illustrates changing trends in voter support for the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties among various religious groups - including Catholics, Protestants, Mormons, Jewish and Unaffiliated - from 2008 to 2012.

What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? A new approach to parenting gender-fluid children.

New website improves access to data and statistics on gender | Data President Jim Kim announced the release of a new data portal focused on gender issues at the recent “Closing the Gender Data Gap” conference, held in Washington DC on July 19. The website is a resource center for gender equality data, with statistics, tools and reference materials covering employmen...

Very well said.

Grading and Its Discontents - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education I like to think of college as a community of learners whose members are engaged in a common enterprise as well as a shared struggle against the forces of ignorance and complacency. Unfortunately, there's a serpent in this Garden of Eden. Potential for discord arises because some members of the commu...

Why a Sociology Major? A sociology education helps the student to think like a social scientist -- attentive to facts, probing with hypotheses, offering explanations, critical in offering and assessing arguments for conclusions.

Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality - Research The national conversation has recently turned to the high levels of inequality in the United States. Despite popular interest, clear and informative facts about the many different types of social and economic inequality in America have often been hard to find. To remedy this problem, social scientis...

A Social Experiment: How Situations Define Interaction and Taste Tags: art/music , class , goffman , methodology/statistics , theory , defining the situation, pierre bourdieu, social experiment, taste, subtitles/CC , 00 to 05 mins Year: 2007 Length:...

In Protest, Democrats Zero In On Men's Reproductive Health : NPR Lawmakers in at least six states — all women and all Democrats — have proposed bills or amendments in the last few weeks that aim to regulate a man's access to reproductive health care. The proposals are a response to legislation that would limit women's access to those services.

Racial segregation is written onto the landscape.

Crossing the St Louis dividing line The city of St Louis, Missouri, remains one of the most segregated cities in the US. But one street in particular has been known to residents as the "dividing line".

An amazingly rational (if somewhat foul mouthed) discussion of class inequality in the US. Thanks Cracked!

6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pi**ed off about it.

Powerful read.

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones "Don't take anything that happens to you there personally," the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at Amalgamated Product Giant Shipping Worldwide Inc. She winks at me. I stare at her for a second.