Sometimes sociologist are really handy! Thank you, Ian! :)
A question for my sociologist friends/colleagues: what was your pathway into the discipline? What made you want to pursue it as a discipline? In talking with undergrads, I find almost no one goes to college/uni to become a sociologist. Rather, they find their way into the discipline at some point.
āSociologist Keith Kahn-Harris notes, āCentral to denialism is an argument that āthe truthā has been suppressed by its enemiesā; as such, factual information, no matter how voluminous, can be discarded as false out of hand if it comes from untrusted sources.ā
My latest publication is out. I published an article back in 2007 looking at the resurgence HIV denial w/ the rise of the internet & online advocacy. Sadly that's had a bit of a resurgence w/ RFK Jr & others, so I updated the piece with info from the last 15 years. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Though scientific consensus regarding HIV causation of AIDS was reached decades ago, denial of this conclusion remains. The popularity of such denial has waxed and waned over the years, ebbing as evid...
Read a book citing a sociologist who predicted in 1970 that automation would wipe out the gains of the Civil Rights Movement because Black workers would be "surplus baggage." And he didn't rule out genocidal outcome, but organized abandonment (RWG) might be more likely.
An acclaimed sociologist and Black feminist thinker, Patricia Hill Collins started her public lecture in Glasgow tonight by saying, "I'm feeling fired up" š„š„šāØļø I really enjoyed listening to her. #RacialJustice#Sociology#Politics#Activism#AcademicSky
I donāt know if anyoneās researched it in intersection with the personal finance niche; afaik Iām the only sociologist actively digging into that world. thereās a chapter analyzing Total Money Makeover in a book on mass media but thatās all iāve ever found
Bridget Fowler ā a sociological life: in our latest Monograph, scholars reflect on, and are inspired by, the eminent University of Glasgow sociologist. Edited by Alison Eldridge & Andy Smith | 14 chapters, 10 #openaccessbuff.ly/4h1Si4d
Generational sociologist Neil Howe said that GenX was the first generation of babies that people took pills not to have. And boy if that one didnāt punch me in the stomach.
Brilliant must-read essay @soziopolis.bsky.social#modernitywww.soziopolis.de/emotionales-...
