#Sociology

A New Radical Centrism

[THREAD]1/ I came across this unadulterated cringe: A nice white lady recommending on MLK Day that we follow some "seriously badass scholars of color," in particular @black_epi, an epidemiologist whose

Brooke Binkowski

There is is. Those craven fucking bootlickers at @Facebook abdicated their responsibility to the people years ago. They don’t give a shit about free speech, freedom of the press, anything

The Original Nig of the North

the_original_b_

I don’t like this thread because it enables people who have loose ass understandings on social/political concepts such as “toxic masculinity”, “eurocentrism”, etc. to get on here and make arguments

Those COVID apps some colleges are trying to force students to download? Worse than useless. You know what else is worse than useless? Bringing the students together for a few

Dr Jenny Thatcher (Mischievous Sociologist)

[email protected] is providing some of the best analysis on why the average person has turned away from Labour.https://twitter.com/lokiscottishrap/status/1392082458225545220 So much of what he is saying chimes with what I’ve observed

I got my first real job in '99 on the biz dev team at Amazon. Like most first jobs, it was a combination of hustle and luck. I had no

Reading Ted Chiang’s “Understand” last night made me realize what was missing in Neuralink's demo: aesthetics There’s nothing more beautiful than achieving a higher form of intelligence -- one can

★ Glacier System ★

May as well make a little "about us" thread to pin to the top of our profile! We're a diagnosed British system of 7+. Our names are Misha, Zao, Alec,

Implicit Religion Conference

ImplicitReligio

This week's #TuesTreat is @DavidFeltmate an Associate Professor of Sociology at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is a sociologist of religion specialising in popular culture with a particular expertise in

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GUYS IVE GRADUATED SO NOW I HAVE NOTHING TO LOSEMy senior seminar professor (and the chair of women’s gender and sexuality) wrote an email about me, meant to send it

I think it will be intersting to see if cameo causes a shift in fan bases in various things. If you can afford a cheaper cameo every couple of months

ry

[thread!] okay I’ve joked about this before but I’m sincerely looking into a career change so if anyone on here has suggestions for a field w/ entry-level positions that could

lionel_trolling

There's also a kind of anti-respectability politics, which views everything that appeals to conventional people as either hopelessly naive and dowdy or thoroughly hypocritical, and sometimes as both Usually this

"Ndagira inama saa xx, ishobora kuza gutinda, tuze guhura saa xx" - This sentence surprises me, & I've heard it a couple of times recently in both public & private

Nicholas A. Christakis

Perfect example of cancel culture — by which I mean 1) forming a mob, to 2) seek to get someone fired (or disproportionately punished), for 3) statements within Overton window.

I want to know why computer science programs have no tech ethics course requirements when the industry promises students that they have the power to change the world How the