February 2012
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“As much as the bourgeoisie attempt to constrain & manipulate technology, let...”
– Your sincere Proleteriat (via teulayyan)
“Cultures that are different are often taken as inferior, especially when such a...”
– Howard Zinn (via darlenej)
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Anonymous asked: I am Arabic(more than 1/4), but I have white skin and features. Am I considered "transethnic" for identifying as an Arab person, even though I am not a visible minority
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petercroce replied to your post: petercroce answered your question: I would like to…
Thanks! I’m currently getting an interdisciplinary socal science degree w/ a soc minor. Visiting WSU, UW, UO, and PSU next week. The Pac-NW sure is enchanting. Love your blogs. Keep on enlightening!
I was thinking about checking out those schools as well. I’m afraid to go out of state because of the...
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“White power secures its dominance by seeming not to be anything in particular....”
– George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
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queerio19 asked: OMG I DID LAUGH! dudelsack bahahaha what a silly looking word :]
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petercroce answered your question: I would like to follow some of you awesome people….
Feel free to follow me. :) I’m currently finishing up my last year of undergrad and I’m starting to look at grad schools. Love the blog.
Thank you! Your’s looks awesome. You’re a sociology major right? What grad schools are you looking at?
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“If you have the audacity to criticize, you better have the guts to help.”
– (via abdulbary)(via theyoungradical)
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New law requires women to paint nursery before... →
OK, that one was from The Onion. But you weren’t sure till I said so, were you? Such is the state of reproductive politics in the US.
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she-hulk-smash asked: I can't believe I didn't know you were fyeahsociology! I love both your tumblrs and if you wanted to follow me, that would be cool, too. :)
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Easily Pronounced Names Make People More Likable →
teleological:
Though it might seem impossible, and certainly inadvisable, to judge a person by their name, a new study suggests our brains try anyway.
Studies have already shown that people can partly predict a person’s income and education using only their first name. Childhood is perhaps the richest area for name research: Boys with girls’ names are more likely to be suspended from school....
Hard Truths: Minority Scholarships →
moobar4lyfe:
Excerpt from this post:
White Men are the new minority. They can’t get scholarships for school because of the colored and lady folk. Except, that’s not true. Not even a little bit. […]
Well, I have the numbers for the Nationwide study. I’ll admit it, these are the numbers that dance in my head when I hear “White people/white men are the new minorities.” Ready? Here we go…
White:...
datadispatchesdiagrams:
Social life, and society as a whole, appears simple from our limited vantage point. We make an observation, create an anecdote, and apply it to the general population. This practice is dangerous. When we attempt to map out broader social relations that constitute our everyday life, and uncover the collaborations, contradictions, and resistances that we chart in our...
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“Society will need more and more intellectual work. It’s this topic of...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Philosopher/ sociologist/ psychoanalyst (via rethinkcapitalism)
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A show I love has been met with some controversy.
substitutemyreality:
I watch a show called Days of Our Lives. I’ve been watching it on and off for 15 years. Over the time I’ve been watching, the following story lines have occurred without causing any sort of public outcry.
Nicole was forced into pornography at 16 by her father.
Marlena was possessed by the devil.
Samantha was raped. By two different people.
There have been countless...
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“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via icecream-for-dinner)
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“I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour,...”
– Robert Burns (via robert-brydie)
The psychological poverty trap →
Shafir has proved that anyone faced with adverse conditions will consistently make bad economic decisions. An experiment he conducted with Mullainathan and Zhao placed financially-savvy Princeton students from prominent families under the stressful and rushed conditions that poor people face every day. They were given questions to answer in a series of timed rounds, but were permitted to...
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“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for...”
– Emma Goldman, 1897 (via thenewwomensmovement)
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“If a woman should be forced to see a sonogram of her unborn fetus before an...”
– (via happinessnotstrength)
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“Whenever I hear the phrase “militant secularism”, I know that someone,...”
– Joan Smith, Independent on Sunday (via atheismfuckyeah)
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Comedian Bill Maher donates $1,000,000 to Obama's... →
thesoapboxschtick:
“For all the rich liberals out there, if Bill Maher can do it, you can do it too… I am doing this not just for a better nation but to protect what money I have left… Obama could lose. This is America, remember. We only get two parties and half the country is fucking nuts.” -Bill Maher on his donation
“You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident...”
– Jodi Picoult (via thepajamawarrior)
“The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by...”
– Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95) English biologist (via thepajamawarrior)
“We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do...”
– Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via thepajamawarrior)
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