The Great American Gun Addiction
Gun violence does not exist in isolation. It is a symptom of a larger, societal disease.
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Lecture 11: Qualitative Methods of Research
A look at qualitative research and the interpretivist tradition of research.
Read More Lecture 11: Qualitative Methods of ResearchConflict Cycles and Body Cameras
It looks like we’re just going to have to deal with institutionalized structures of violence rather than try to focus on controlling the behavior of a few “bad apples.”
Read More Conflict Cycles and Body CamerasLecture 10: Quantitative Research Methods
In this time of Fake News and Alternative Facts, we need a standard for discerning what is real and what is not. We need ways of sorting through the Alternative Facts and getting the Factual Facts. Fortunately, that’s pretty much what sociologists do every single minute of every day.
Read More Lecture 10: Quantitative Research MethodsThe Marketplace of Ideas is Closed for Business
It is now undeniable that what was once vaunted as a marketplace of ideas is now nothing more than a boarded up strip-mall.
Read More The Marketplace of Ideas is Closed for BusinessOn Walls and the Disappearance of Left Wing Discourse
…the goal must be to institute a leftist globalism, not a globalized left, which is a much different thing.
Read More On Walls and the Disappearance of Left Wing DiscourseLecture 9: Postmodernism
THE LATEST: LECTURE 9 — THE POSTMODERNISM
Read More Lecture 9: PostmodernismOn Locker Room Talk, Patriarchy and Grabbing Pussies
HOW OBJECTIFYING DISCOURSE LEADS TO SEXUAL ASSAULT If the Locker Room Talk Scandal has done nothing else, it has put a spotlight on the way men talk when they don’t believe they are being heard and how what might be private words can translate into public actions. It’s also forced men, honest men at least, […]
Read More On Locker Room Talk, Patriarchy and Grabbing PussiesWhat’s Wrong with Our Country?
LAW AND ORDER, TRUMPISM AND “US AGAINST THEM” Protests in the streets, mass shootings, police shootings, political gridlock. What in the world is wrong with our country? I hear this all the time. It’s hard for a sociologist to answer. We have so many variables running through our brains, all of which we are, by training, locked […]
Read More What’s Wrong with Our Country?The Truth about Torture and Trump
TORTURE IS THE FIRST TOOL OF THE TYRANT The New York Times reports today that the government has declassified some transcripts from torture victims at Guantanamo Bay. Predictably, the transcripts remain heavily redacted, limiting their value. However, some new information does come to light based on an analysis of the documents. Equally predictable, the new release […]
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