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The romantic and the mundane: Finding your soulmate via Social Practice Theory
Do you believe that ‘The One’, your ‘soul-mate’, your ‘life-partner’ exists? Have you already found them? Hollywood movies, glossy magazines, and agony aunts repeatedly reassure us that, firstly,...
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The Necessity of Disorder in a Soft City: De Certeau vs Foucault
This is a two-part guest post by Bea Moyes, who is an independent researcher based in East London. Having completed a Masters in Research at the London Consortium, Bea is working on ongoing research...
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The Necessity of Disorder in a Soft City: De Certeau vs Foucault (Part 2)
This is the second in a two-part guest post by Bea Moyes, who is an independent researcher based in East London. Having completed a Masters in Research at the London Consortium, Bea is working on...
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Are We All Expert Impostors?
Image credit: PhD Comics www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1723 In a previous post (which can be found here), I mentioned the ‘impostor phenomenon’ and how I and many people I know who work...
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Parenthood as Collective Identity
Photo by: DonkeyHoteyFound on: Flickr Creative Commonshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Iowa is engaged in an historical race, possibly sending their first female to the U.S....
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Legacies of The War on Poverty: A chat with Jill Quadagno on the 20th...
Jill QuadagnoThe Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined The War on PovertyEminent ScholarFlorida State University In 1994 Jill Quadagno published The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on...
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Festivus for the rest of us
Satanic Temple holiday display, Florida Capitol Rotunda For the second year, Florida hosts a variety of religious displays in the rotunda of the state capitol. This year, for the first time, the...
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What’s the true meaning of the 1914 Christmas Truce?
Source:http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/media/latest-stories/2014/1112-sainsburys-and-the-royal-british-legion-partner-to-bring-first-world-war-christmas-truce-story-to-life/ Since August in the UK we’ve...
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CONAIE Headquarters to be Shut Down: Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador Request...
Protestors gather outside the CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador) in Quito, Ecuador. Yesterday, in Quito, Ecuador, hundreds of Indigenous people from around the country, including...
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TTIP and Model Politicians
From Corporate Europe Observatory (http://corporateeurope.org/international-trade/2014/07/who-lobbies-most-ttip) Many Sociology Lens readers will by now have heard of ‘TTIP,’ the Transatlantic Trade...
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The Queer Life: Surrounding Myself in Queer Culture and Queer Spaces
Over the past few months, I have been deep in the throes of my thesis- conducting, transcribing, coding, and analyzing interviews- on homonationalism and scripting of student identities in study...
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Will the LGBTQ Community Ever Become Ubiquitous?
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:LGBT_rights#mediaviewer/File:Demonstration,_with_Gay_Liberation_Front_Banner.jpg, via Wikimedia Commons) During the trials of Eric Garner, Michael...
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Ubiquity and Privilege Checking
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unity#mediaviewer/File:3D_Full_Spectrum_Unity_Holding_Hands_Concept.jpg) In my last post I discussed the problems with juridical changes and...
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Love and Homonormativity: One in the Same?
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gay_wedding_a_by_Stefano_Bolognini.JPG) What is love? Does everyone understand love as how Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines it? Starting from birth,...
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Generational Changes in a Time of Evolving LGBTQ Rights
(Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Demonstrations_and_protests_in_support_of_LGBT#/media/File:Russian_Embassy_in_Helsinki,_LGBT_pavement.jpg) In an age where millennials are starting...
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The Division of Society into Two Classes Transforms into the Sexual...
(Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marxism#/media/File:Flickr_-_NewsPhoto!_-_Marxisme_festival_Amsterdam.jpg) The economist Karl Marx believed for society to change, there was a need...
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One History for All?: Pride
Photo owned by Megan Nanney I will never forget my first Pride. I was living in New York City for the summer working as an intern at the Human Rights Watch. The office, last minute, decided to join the...
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Framing of the FIFA Turf Controversy
Photo credit: https://pixabay.com/en/the-ball-stadion-football-the-pitch-488717/ For the first time in the history of FIFA’s 2015 Women’s World Cup, the competition is being...
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The Missing Base: Barriers to Coalition-Building Around the Murder of Trans...
(Photo credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Prop_8_protest,_Washington_D.C.,_November_15,_2008.jpg) Today is the last day of the American Sociology Association’s annual...
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Making sense of the ‘social’ in social media (and social enterprise, social...
Image: http://internet-map.net/ Doubtless I am not alone among the contributors to Sociology Lens in having been exposed, during my first year as an undergraduate, to an array of foundational thinkers...
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The Perpetually Angry Activist: Emotions and Social Change in News Media
Source: https://pixabay.com/en/anger-angry-bad-isolated-dangerous-18615/ News coverage of protests and the activists which engage in them forms into patterns; media tends to highlight the extreme,...
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Buying Time: Stefano Sgambati’s Sociology of Money, Debt & Finance
Photo by Nathan Keay, (c) MCA Chicago: William Kentridge (1995-96), ‘Drawing for the film History of the Main Complaint’ Writing for the Guardian’s Comment is Free blog yesterday, David Graeber warned...
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Can green norms cross borders? The experience of Chinese students in the UK.
Much academic literature has been written about behaviour change. The traditional, ‘common-sense’ view is that attitudes precede behaviours, as stated in Azjen’s Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB)....
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‘LOBO’ Loans: Derivatives, Local Government Debt & Citizen Audits
AN Fischer (2008) Fundament. Mapping of world GDP and global derivatives trading volume for 2008. Birch and poplar. I was recently asked to contribute to a piece on derivatives for an economics...
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Corruption, Formal and Informal
Artwork: Sumi Perera RE (2015) ‘White Collar’ [http://www.sumi-perera.com/]In a 2014 review article for Sociology Compass, David Jancsics outlined a ‘minimal consensus’ on what constitutes corruption,...
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