White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
Jun 21, 2013 · 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 …
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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.
Who is the Millennial Generation? | Pew Research
Oct 4, 2011 · American Generation Age Timeline (Age measured in 2009) | Pew Research What works. Pew Research has created a tidy series of interactive graphics to describe the demographic characteristics of American generational cohorts from the the Silent Generation (born 1928 – 1945) through the Boomers (born 1946 – 1964), Generation X (1965 – 1980) [this is a disputed age range – a more recent ...
Sex Discrimination in Sports and Society: Why Transgender …
Sep 7, 2023 · My own collaborative research results from the 2018-19 National Sports and Society Survey (NSASS), that asked 4,000 U.S. adults about the extent to which they (dis)agreed with allowing transgender athletes to compete with their choice of male or female athletes found majority support for transgender athletes’ rights to choose. Taken together, these findings show increasing opposition to ...
Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
Sep 15, 2009 · 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.
NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
May 31, 2014 · 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.
Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda
Feb 27, 2012 · 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.
The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries
Sep 10, 2020 · So, what are the boundaries of each socially constructed racial category? Generally, racial categories are constructed based on superficial biological characteristics of individuals such as skin tone, hair texture and color, eye shape, etc.
Historical Views of Suffering and Societal Betterment
Sep 12, 2017 · The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
Causes and Consequences of the Duckface - Cyborgology
May 13, 2014 · I look specifically at the architecture of the Duckface. For a broader discussion of Selfies and control over the feminine body, see @anneLBurns excellent presentation from the #TtW14 pics panel, linked in the first paragraph above.. Comments 13. DumbDowner — May 13, 2014. The average human is more concerned about visual appearance of everything than they need to be at this stage in human ...