Caste and Kinship in Central India: International Library of Sociology E: The Sociology of Development (International Library of Sociology)
Porter County Politics (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
From Chicks on the Right - one of my regular reads: Is it just me, or is anyone else just dumbfounded by the people who are still convinced that we need to take any action, drastic or otherwise, to make an impact on the climate? If there is one constant certainty, it’s the CLIMATE FREAKING CHANGES. It always has. As the article points out, “ From millennia before the Medieval Warm Period...
SchansBlog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Wow...a lot of good stuff from TownHall.com the last few days on this amazing story. As someone who has thought and written about politics as a means to various ends, I find it fascinating to consider the use of illegal means to air out unethical and illegal behavior. Here are some of the TownHall nuggets that got my attention: From Jonah Goldberg at TownHall.com... By now you might have heard something...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Scientists Behaving Badly A corrupt cabal of global warming alarmists are exposed by a massive document leak. ... ...even before Climategate, the campaign was beginning to resemble a Broadway musical that had run too long, with sagging box office and declining enthusiasm from a dwindling audience. Someone needs to break the bad news to the players that it's closing time for the climate horror show....
Omniorthogonal (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Bruno Latour is a sociologist of science best known for his insistence that scientific facts are constructed rather than discovered. He's widely reviled by scientists and critics of postmodernity ; I rather like his work myself and feel that it's usually misinterpreted . Anyway, my guess is he's laughing his Gallic ass off right now at the so-called Climategate affair, which seems like a perfect test...
Mangan's (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
James Delingpole: Peer review is dead : Here’s what poor Ed doesn’t get. It’s perhaps the single most important fact to emerge from the Climategate scandal. Peer-review is dead. Meaningless. Utterly void of credibility. More irredeemably defunct than a Norwegian Blue. [...] What the CRU’s hacked emails convincingly demonstrate is that climate scientists in the AGW camp have...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual force The fame of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died aged 100, extended well beyond his own subject of anthropology. He was without doubt the anthropologist best known to non-specialists. This is mainly because he is usually considered to be the founder of the intellectual movement known as...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
For Americans, simple lifestyle changes could effectively add up to a massive cut in greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to France’s entire annual emissions, according to a new study.Thomas Dietz of Michigan State University's department of sociology and environmental science and policy issued a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Tuesday that outlines 17 simple activities...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Michigan State University researcher, colleagues tap behavioral dataNew technologies and policies that save energy, remove atmospheric carbon and limit greenhouse gas emissions are needed to fight global climate change – but face daunting technological, economic and political hurdles, a Michigan State University scientist said.The good news: Basic actions taken by everyday people can yield fast...
in theory (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
Via Izabella Laba and Crooked Timber, I have found this very interesting book review by Scott McLemee of Diego Gambetta’s book Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate. Gambetta, a professor of sociology at Oxford, has studied the problem of trust from a game-theoretic perspective, and he considers the issue of signaling in trust [...]
Inductivist (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Suckiologists III: A genetic twin study on impulsivity (and other traits) by Eaves, Martin, and Eysenck was published in 1977 which showed very small shared environmental effects. Loehlin et al. (1987) reported zero shared environmental influence for impulsivity in a study of adoptees. A Swedish study (1988) found that the correlation for identical twins raised together was almost the same as that...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Not quite your average beach reads, but definitely a few titles to challenge the grey matter, Penguin's Great Ideas Series 2009 is bound to change your life, if not make you question your miserable existence... presuming, of course, you do exist! Due to be launched this week, the Great Ideas Series 2009 includes 20 pocket-sized books that have been instrumental in changing our world view. "The...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Grinnell College assistant professor of sociology Karla Erickson studies the relationships between caregivers, elderly patients, and their families and is at work on a book about "Laboring at the End of Life."
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
A University of Cincinnati sociologist combed through newspaper accounts of 19th and 20th century Ohio executions to understand how executions became more "professional and scientific" in character. Annulla Linders, an associate professor of sociology, presented the paper Aug.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
A University of Cincinnati sociologist combed through newspaper accounts of 19th and 20th century Ohio executions to understand how executions became more "professional and scientific" in character. Annulla Linders, an associate professor of sociology, presented the paper Aug. 9 at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.
The Localizer (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
This one is a tough grinding article to develop and I don't want to approach it from an academic or research perspective for two reasons: one, that approach would feed into the very problem that I'm trying to isolate. Second, academic papers are usually well crafted, cited, and organized. However, they rarely lead to change, social, cultural, or otherwise. This is indeed a thinkpiece, quite far from...
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