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Sociology Eye

http://sociologycompass.wordpress.com/

Sociology Eye is the associated site for Sociology Compass journal from Wiley-Blackwell. We host daily posts, video files and news items from our team of contributors. Each post gives an example of Sociology in action and a link to an academic resporce for further reading.

• Added on: Oct 23rd, 2008
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Philip Smitth
• Listed in: Society Education & Learning
• Tags: news commentary gender sociology sociology compass sociology eye

Recent Posts

• The Presentation of Self…in Dating

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 23:00 in Culture, internet, technology, Dating, consumerism, representation, communication and media, eva illouz, sociology of emotion

  Eva Illouz, in Cold Intimacies asks us to consider how technology changes notions of the body and of emotions.  One of the forced rearticulations occurs in the realm of the presentation of self.  As Illouz notes, when technology (specifically in th...

• Editor’s Highlights: Reality Television as Small Screen Documentary?

  Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 19:31 in communication and media

  This fall’s lineup in the United States featured fewer reality programs, but they are still a dominant part of network TV.  Jelle Mast’s September 2009 article in the Communication and Media section of Sociology Compass challenges sociol...

• Muslim Identity, Cultural Trauma, and the Racialized Backlash

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 13:29 in Culture, Identity, muslim, military, Army, Islam, racism, violence, crime and deviance, race and ethnicity, communication and media, jeffrey alexander

  by Nickie Wild Jeffrey Alexander writes that “cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marking their memories forever and ...

• Wikipedia’s ‘increasing focus on quality and referencing’

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 17:02 in education, google, Advertising, media, search engines, anarchy, University, Wiki, quality, forum, code, wikipedia

  by paulabowles Many lecturers and teachers will recognise the feeling of disheartenment when confronted by an undergraduate essay containing multiple references to Wikipedia. Despite regular exhortations for students to resist its charms, its appeal ...

• Portable pornography in the public sphere: Convenient, offensive or hazardous?

  Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 21:27 in Culture, political, pornography, portable technology, pornography addiction, crime and deviance, communication and media, public versus private

  By Rachael Liberman It’s one thing to experience the pornification of culture through public advertising (billboards, subway adverts), among other mediated formats. But what if someone sitting next to you on the subway is watching pornography on t...

• Consequences of terror trials in NY: Re-traumatization and Revenge

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 21:27 in new york, terrorism, trauma, 9 11, social psychology and lifecourse

  By Dena T. Smith The announcement that several terror suspects, including Khalid Saikh Mohammed, implicated in the 9/11 attacks, will have their day in New York City courts was released last week. This news sparked fervent debate both between and wit...

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