Cosmarxpolitan, Issue 9
Say what? 100 deflowering stories you won’t believe
Young. Political. Frequently feminist. Realist. Sarcastic. Anti-child and pro-pets. Dealing with my own personal demons. Trying to see the world as a burgeoning sociologist.
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Find the Pony
Find the Pony
There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough
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Oddly enough, in U.S. colleges and universities, we have numerous courses on social problems, but very few on social solutions: ‘To map and analyze the dimensions of social problems—crime, inequities, racism, corporate control, and environmental hazards—is seen as scientific research. To discuss and describe alternative practices and develop solutions is seen as moving toward politics and advocacy—areas that are perceived as a threat to the objectivity of research.’
This skew in U.S. sociology is problematic and discourages many, including new or younger, social scientists from getting involved in community-related research with a clear solution focus. Fortunately, participatory action researchers are helping to change this view. In the coming century, solutions will be central to the social science research process, if only because of the many current threats to human civilization over the next century. As a rule, participatory action research involves the social researcher in the lives and activities of those people being researched. At its best, participatory action research involves those being researched in both the decisionmaking and the interpretation phases of the research project. Such an approach does not view the people studied as passive but helps to empower them to bring change in their own lives and communities.
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Liberation Sociology by Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera (via sociolab)
Adding this to my reading list because lately I’ve been having discussions (with others and in my mind) about the line between academic and activist.
(via sociolab)
“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good; to know how to create is better.”
— Henri Poincaré (via sociologic)
“The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.”
— Wendy Wunder, The Probability of Miracles (via simply-quotes)
(Source: simply-quotes, via avictoryxiv)
A new commission for .net magazine on the subject of designing web forms. The focus of the article was how forms make sense out of chaotic information, so I wanted to reflect that in the typography, almost as if it were being tuned in so it started off distorted before becoming legible and orderly.
What should I ask for as a grad present?
I’m such a calculating bitch, I always want to know how much I could get away with asking for. God forbid I ask for something too small and miss an opportunity.
To all the social scientists and researchers,
You might hear that research is me-search. What we perceive as the most important areas in our chosen field are also seen as the most important issues in our personal lives. So what does that say about you?
I’ve always been acutely aware that what I am interested in studying is directly related to my own life.
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”
(Source: buteuavineyard, via lasociologue)
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” - Jaws (1975)
Favourite movie.
(Source: cinyma, via bitchyoudrunk)
Had to start following as many game of thrones tumblrs as I could, to balance out all the stupid supernatural/doctor who on my dash.
