Sociology and Anthropology at Linfield University

Congratulations to our sociology alum, Araceli Cruz, on her new position!

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I love seeing our students using their theoretical “lenses” and love that this has become a yearly Social Theory ritual!

https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-sociologists-can-battle-covid-denialism?cid=gen_sign_in

Opinion | How Sociologists Can Battle Covid Denialism On stigma, social death, and why, sometimes, getting a vaccine in secret is perfectly rational.

Congratulations to Emmaline Irvine (ANTH '21) who just published an article in the Journal of Undergraduate Research in Anthropology!! Way to go Emmaline (and her amazing mentor/ advisor Leslie Walker)!!

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Professor Gardner’s book gets a mention here- and among some great company!

16 Summer Reads: New Books by Brandi Carlile, Mary Gauthier, and More My summer essentials list is pretty simple: A ball cap and sunscreen for a hike, driving directions and a trail map for a day trip, and more than a few reading options for the couch that's inevitably waiting for me at the end of a long hot summer day. Gathering together all the new memoirs...

Not your average Senior Recognition for Sociology and Anthropology...! But our amazing students persevered and did a great job!

“The nervous breakdown was not a medical condition, but a sociological one. It implicated a physical problem—your “nerves”—not a mental one. And it was a onetime event, not a permanent condition. It provided sanction for a pause and reset that could put you back on track. But as psychology eclipsed sociology in the late 20th century, it turned us inward to our personal moods and thoughts—and away from the shared economic and social circumstances that produced them.”

Bring Back the Nervous Breakdown It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.

Free for this week. Looks like a great lineup.

Animating the Mother Tongue: An Indigenous Language Playlist Strengthening distinct Indigenous identity is the central theme of this playlist, directed toward a younger audience.

'Inspired choice': Biden appoints sociologist to top science post Scientists praise US president’s pick of Alondra Nelson, a specialist in bioethics and social inequality.

An interesting read from anthropologist Wade Davis, in Rolling Stone Magazine.

The Unraveling of America Anthropologist Wade Davis on how COVID-19 signals the end of the American era