The Emmett Till Antilynching Act and the History of Anti-lynching ...
WEBAug 30, 2022 · Wells shared the truth about lynching in her publications Southern Horrors and A Red Record.In A Red Record, Wells tabulates statics and provides detailed descriptions of lynchings that occurred across the United States.Wells makes the case that since Emancipation, there had been a series of three excuses made by …
SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION: COLLEGE ENROLLMENT IN CONTEXT
WEBTodd Beer on August 16, 2014. An understanding of the sociological imagination can be difficult in our very individually focused society. As a topic, the sociological imagination is usually the first or second class of every introduction to sociology course. Teaching topics by relating them to students’ immediate context (especially early in ...
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
WEBJun 21, 2013 · The stigma of white trash remains an active part of our fevered cultural imagination, even as some try to reclaim the phrase as a badge of rebellious honor. But few who use the term today—either proudly or as a shaming slur—seem to know about its deep historical entanglements with the politics of sex, race, and class.
Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda
WEBFeb 27, 2012 · Torches of Freedom: Women and Smoking Propaganda. Wendy Christensen on February 27, 2012. Edward Bernays (1891-1995) is largely considered the founder of public relations (or “engineering consent,” as he called it) but is not known very well outside of the marketing and advertising fields. A nephew of Sigmund Freud, Bernays was the first to ...
NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
WEBMay 31, 2014 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared. The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.
Possibly the most exhaustive study of “manspreading” ever …
WEBFeb 8, 2017 · A 1979 German Photo Book Traces Manspreading Back to Ancient Civilizations – Arkadian Times — February 9, 2017. […] ever published. Translated into English in 1984, the photobook, brought to Slate’s attention by Tristan Bridges at Sociological Images, contains around 5,000 photographs of men and women in a wide range of postures and ...
Unity for What? The Togetherness Created by Sports
WEBJan 23, 2017 · The emotional unity created by the long awaited Cubs’ championship season certainly created shared relief and euphoria, and undoubtedly reaffirmed or facilitated horizontal bonding among Chicagoans, but there is little evidence that it facilitated vertical bonds that could be effectively used to bridge structural divides in the city.
Race, Spanking, and Shame: Dimensions of Corporal Punishment
WEBSep 22, 2014 · Take American attitudes about spanking over the past 50 years. In 1968, 94% of American adults approved of spanking a child, but by 2012, the figure dropped to 70%. While the majority of American parents still spank their children, some are more likely to spank than others. According a recent study of 20,000 kindergartners and their parents ...
The Human Impact of a Sport-less Society - Engaging Sports
WEBJul 30, 2020 · It is a highly commercialized and commodified sector used to entertain and distract. From a youth development standpoint, sport participation can serve as a positive activity in building character, teaching life skills, and developing mental, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing. Moreover, it has the ability to engender and facilitate ...
The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries
WEBSep 10, 2020 · Generally, racial categories are constructed based on superficial biological characteristics of individuals such as skin tone, hair texture and color, eye shape, etc. To argue that the socially constructed racial categories are “natural” means that each category has to have definable boundaries.
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