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Solidarity: What Brings Us Together
11/22/2009 7:56:52 PM
By Sally Raskoff Are you a member of a club? Have you joined any organizations and spent any time or money with the group and the other members? You might be experiencing something that Emile Durkheim wrote about. Durkheim’s concepts...
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Everyday Sociology Talk: Majoring in Sociology
11/22/2009 7:56:52 PM
Thinking of majoring in sociology? Members of USC's sociology club talk about why they became sociology majors.
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Losing Confidence: Americans and Social Institutions
11/22/2009 7:56:52 PM
By Karen Sternheimer Do you feel less confidence in the government? In corporations? In the press? If so, your feelings reflect a general trend found in the most recent data from the General Social Survey, a nationally representative household survey...
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False Alarms and Copy Cats
11/22/2009 7:56:52 PM
By Janis Prince Inniss MoBull Messenger is the University of South Florida (USF) emergency text messaging system that faculty, staff, and students can register for, in order to receive emergency notices. As I mentioned in a previous post, on the...
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War, Suicide, and Emotional Labor
11/22/2009 7:56:52 PM
By Sally Raskoff Janis Prince Inniss recently blogged about the cost of war and mentioned the rising rate of military suicides. As the New York Times reported, the suicide rate within the military is higher than that in the general...
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Sociology & Tiaras
11/22/2009 7:56:52 PM
By Hilary Levey Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in Health Policy Every Wednesday night at 9 pm I sit down in front of the TV, put on TLC, pull out my notebook, and do research for two hours. Yes, that’s right—watching...
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Everyday Sociology Talk: A Minute at a Sociology Conference
11/22/2009 7:56:52 PM
Ever wonder what a sociology conference is really like? Karen Sternheimer narrates a one minute tour from the 2009 American Sociological Association (ASA) meeting in San Francisco. To learn more about sociology conferences, click here or visit the following sites...
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