NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
网页2014年5月31日 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared.The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
网页2013年6月21日 · While many American eugenicists railed about the threats posed by hordes of “dysgenic” immigrants (non-white, often, but also people from “undesirable” countries and bloodlines of all sorts), the core of eugenical science was based in field studies of …
The Society Pages
网页The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
Home - Sociological Images
网页Lisa Wade, PhD, is the founder of Sociological Images. Born and raised in California, she earned a BA in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in human sexuality from NYU, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
网页2009年9月15日 · Jean Piaget, a psychologist who published his most influential works from the late 1920s through the 1950s, is most known for his theory of stages of cognitive development.
The Homogenization of Asian Beauty - The Society Pages
网页Still, the U.S. may actually be at the forefront of promoting more diverse images of beauty. As the Census Bureau has long predicted, by 2045 or so, non-Hispanic whites will become a minority (they will still be the largest racial group by far, but they will comprise less than 50% of the U.S. population compared to groups of color).
Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda
网页2012年2月27日 · I know I'm late on this post, but Bernays did not fabricate this idea out of thin air. In the 1900s, in particular pre-war Greenwich Village, rebellious women, many of whom called themselves feminists, consciously smoked in public as a protest of male dominated culture.
A New Era for Sociological Images - The Society Pages
网页2017年11月23日 · Originally posted at Gender & Society.. Photo by JCDecaux Creative Solutions flickr creative commons.. I recently took in a poignant guest lecture on hookup culture by Lisa Wade. During the talk, Wade detailed the link between rape culture and hookup culture.While hooking up encourages women to behave “like men,” it …
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: COLLEGE ENROLLMENT IN CONTEXT
网页2014年8月16日 · An understanding of the sociological imagination can be difficult in our very individually focused society. As a topic, the sociological imagination is usually the first or second class of every introduction to sociology course.
Re-evaluating the “Culture of Poverty” - The Society Pages
网页2014年10月14日 · Gustafson: Social scientists concerned about social inequality should turn their attention to poverty, especially child poverty. Scholars can play a role in informing students and the public of the very fact that child poverty is widespread, can take opportunities to study the long-term effects of child poverty on families and society, and …