Daniel Silver reads Georg Simmel - Give Theory A Chance
Nov 17, 2024 · In this episode, Dr. Daniel Silver, Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto Scarborough and author of Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life (2020), joins us to discuss and read from Georg Simmel’s Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms (first published in 1908). Be sure to check out Dan’s co-authored essay on …
Humor and Memes in Politics - There's Research on That
Nov 5, 2024 · The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
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) …
Restorative Justice - There's Research on That
Oct 24, 2024 · Green grass with morning dew clinging and glowing in the sunlight. Image by Nandhu Kumar from Pexels is licensed under Pexels license.. When a crime is committed, the harm done to victims and communities can rarely be …
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 …
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.
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The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
The Evolution of the Gender Revolution - The Society Pages
Jun 15, 2023 · Frances Goldschieder, Eva Bernhardt, and Trude Lappegård. 2015. “The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior.” Population and Development Review 41(2):207–39.. This article examines trends associated with the second demographic transition (SDT) and compares them with the on-going gender …
Families change. The way we support kids should change too.
Apr 8, 2024 · But when we look across the whole span of childhood, we see something quite different. Sociologists Susan L. Brown, Bart Stykes, and Wendy Manning described the family structure pathways experienced from birth to age 12 among adolescents in 2006-2010. They found that only 3 percent of children always lived with a single parent. Even among those born …
Racism In Disney’s Fantasia - Sociological Images - The Society …
Mar 7, 2008 · The centaur scene in Disney’s highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film as released, all of the centaurs end up in color-matched heterosexual pairs.