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New Blog – The Cranky Sociologists 23 May 2013 | 06:39 am
And while I was busy setting up a new blog with Todd Krohn and Dave Mayeda – The Cranky Sociologists – I forgot to put a post here sending you all there if you feel so inclined. There is some really g...
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The Visual Du Jour – A Mystery 7 Mar 2013 | 07:34 pm
What? What could possibly explain this trend?
The Visual Du Jour – The World: Urban and Crowded 5 Mar 2013 | 09:28 pm
At least, based on this graphic: With the exception of the city-states (Monaco, Hong Kong), it is rather clear that population density in the selected countries can be extreme in urban areas. One need...
The Visual Du Jour – Mexican Drug Cartels 5 Mar 2013 | 08:41 am
There is much to explore with this infographic but you can clearly see the different flows. I am not a fan of bubble maps but this one still reveals the extent of the killing, especially in certain st...
The Walking Dead… Where Black is The New Red Shirt 5 Mar 2013 | 08:20 am
Because it seems to me that the series is on a “black dude of the week” theme. So, first, of course, there was Morgan (and his son) who rescued Rick, freshly awaken from his coma and still in his hosp...
The Visual Du Jour – More Leeches! 28 Feb 2013 | 09:34 am
Surely, at some point, this austerity thing… somewhere… in the future… for sure, it’s going to work: Making a large number of people poorer is guaranteed to boost demand. More leeches! Like Atrios kee...
In Which Justices Do Not Understand Institutional Discrimination 28 Feb 2013 | 03:59 am
So, this Alabama county does not think it needs to still implement provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the case is now before the US Supreme Court: “Shelby County says it is no longer neces...
The Visual Du Jour – Where The Catholics Are 23 Feb 2013 | 06:48 am
Not exactly where they were a century ago: The European decline is striking. It is based on these data that calls for a non-Italian, non-European Pope are based. There were about 1.1 billion Catholics...
Sociology As The Science of Slow Violence 18 Feb 2013 | 01:32 am
Via Global Dialogue (a newsletter from the International Sociological Association), South African sociologist Jackie Cock explains how the task of sociology is to expose what she calls slow violence: ...
