"You know, SOMEONE should do a study on how people [behavior or interaction that has already been intensely scrutinized in dozens of studies with thousands of subjects for decades].
"My theory is [simplistic interpretation that was debunked in the 1960s]!
"Therefore we should all try to [personal or social intervention that was unsuccessfully implemented from 1947 to 1977 until it was finally shown to be useless and/or harmful]!"
Insightful essay from Bruce #Schneier and Barath Raghavan - using James C. Scott's "Seeing like a State" and showing how abstraction of socio-technical systems now lets us "See like a Data Structure".
Sociology professor Christopher T. Conner started looking into the QAnon movement four years ago, but his research soon broadened into all kinds of conspiracy theorists, from race scientists to New Age spiritualists. He writes for @TheConversationUS about why people are susceptible and how politicians and influential figures take advantage of them. Do you have conspiracy theorists in your life (if you don't know any, maybe it's you 👀)?
Feminism and the mythopoetic men's movement: Some shared concepts of gender
Helen Gremillion, 2011 Women's Studies J.
"certain strands of feminist thought, which have gained wide popularity in various forms, share constructs of gender with the MMM: namely, a tendency to represent gender as binary and to imagine gender as a stand alone variable of social life."
“Since the beginning of #Israel’s war on #Gaza, academics in fields including #politics, #sociology, Japanese #literature, public #health, Latin American and Caribbean studies, Middle East and African studies, #mathematics, #education, and more have been fired, suspended, or removed from the classroom for pro-#Palestine, anti-Israel speech.”
another one from The Hill, this one about RFK Jr now being demonized by Republicans as a threat to Trump.
can we agree he isn't so much a political threat but a cypher for the mental #health of USA's political class and the citizens who parasocially elect them?
A very interesting paper by Megan Stevenson which I am still reading. But it really piqued my interest since I have definitely harbored what she called an "engineer's view" that we can do sociological randomized control trials with people to test public policy.
I have a feeling this is going to trigger a lot of introspection on my thoughts about this until now...
Relationships and Processes within Schools: Exploring Teacher-Pupil Dynamics, Pupil Identities, Subcultures, the Hidden Curriculum, and Teaching and Learning Organization
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist George Herbert Mead died #OTD in 1931.
He is considered one of the founders of social psychology and the school of thought known as symbolic interactionism. Mead’s most influential ideas revolve around the concept of the self, which he saw as arising from social interaction. Mead’s ideas were mostly published posthumously, with his students assembling his lectures and notes into books.
The goal: to have a comprehensive data driven understanding how multi-generational trauma shapes implicit bias in institutions, groups, familes etc and how it intertwines DK in community leaders.
So that we can work together to address these issues together!
"The Death Spiral Effect: a vicious cycle of self-reinforcing dysfunctional behavior, characterized by continuous flawed decision making, myopic single-minded focus on one (set of) solution(s), resource loss, denial, distrust, micromanagement, dogmatic thinking and learned helplessness."
Amazing, how quickly news about Australia, has vanished from the media headlines, as it is not about 'terrorism' but about something indifferent to irresponsible 'journalists', such as the psychiatric situation and what the welfare states and health systems are doing about it.
The links between #crime, #poverty, and social #opportunity are so basic that they're covered in every intro. #sociology textbook, yet #conservatives insist on ignoring causation, reason, and evidence, and think more #guns and #prisons will keep them safe. It's frankly idiotic.