9 Best Articles in 2020
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A Sociology of the Smartphone
Longreads
20+ min read · 161 saves · From 2017 · Smartphones have altered the texture of everyday life, digesting many longstanding spaces and rituals, and transforming others beyond recognition.
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What Works of Sociology and Anthropology Should All Students Read?
thesociologicalreview.com
39 saves · From 2017 · What works of Sociology and Anthropology should all students read? We asked our followers for their recommendations.
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LSE Review of Books
Book Review: What is Digital Sociology? by Neil Selwyn
LSE Review of Books
58 saves · Jun 15th · In What is Digital Sociology?, Neil Selwyn offers a new overview of digital sociology, advocating for its mainstream acceptance as a valuable expansion of…
The New York Times
The Age of Rudeness
The New York Times
20+ min read · 73 saves · From 2017 · As the social contract frays, what does it mean to be polite?
perc.org.uk
Thoughts on the sociology of Brexit
perc.org.uk
8 min read · 66 saves · From 2016 · The geography reflects the economic crisis of the 1970s, not the 2010s It became clear early on in the night that Leave had extraordinary…
New York Magazine
Here’s the Most Effective Way to Say No to People
New York Magazine
4 min read · 32 saves · From 2016 · All it takes is a slight wording tweak.
The Guardian
Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?
The Guardian
~19 min read · 128 saves · From 2017 · The long read: Since it decriminalised all drugs in 2001, Portugal has seen dramatic drops in overdoses, HIV infection and drug-related crime
Lifehacker
The Evolution of Anxiety: Why We Worry and What to Do About It
Lifehacker
6 min read · 40 saves · From 2017 · Let’s pretend for a moment that you are a giraffe. You live on the grasslands of the African savannah. You have a neck that…
In Education
medium.com
Forget STEM, We Need MESH
medium.com
8 min read · 23 saves · 2019-09-17 · Tim Wise · The importance of media literacy, ethics, sociology and history education
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2 min read · Sep 14th
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Anne Warfield Rawls
conversationanalysis.org
Oct 9th · Welcome to the State of Talk podcast. For this episode Elliott Hoey interviews Prof. Anne Warfield Rawls, Professor of Sociology at Bentlee University and…
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Narrative Economics
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78 saves · From 2018 · The field of economics lags considerably behind other social sciences, such as history, anthropology and sociology, in understanding the ways narratives affect human thoughts…
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Family Background, Cultural Capital and College Major Choice in China
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78 saves · From 2018 · In a study published by The British Journal of Sociology in December 2107, Chinese scholars Hu Anning and Wu Xiaogang investigated the correlation between what French…
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The Legion Lonely
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20+ min read · 29 saves · From 2017 · Over the past few decades, loneliness has reached almost epidemic levels, with men uniquely suffering its effects. How and why has isolation become such…
Guardian Books
Top 10 books writers should read
Guardian Books
6 min read · 28 saves · From 2016 · From unforgiving French sociology to Machiavelli’s manual for realpolitik, the Booker prize-winning author DBC Pierre recommends books that helped him write
WIRED
A 1970s Essay Predicted Silicon Valley's High-Minded Tyranny
WIRED
6 min read · 29 saves · 2018-11-15 · Published in Ms. magazine, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" observes that organizations built to avoid hierarchy develop leaders with pernicious power.
Nautilus Magazine
Overcoming Us vs. Them
Nautilus Magazine
~20 min read · 56 saves · From 2017 · As a kid, I saw the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes. As a future primatologist, I was mesmerized. Years later I discovered…
Eugene Wei
The age of distributed truth
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10 min read · 48 saves · From 2017 · Apparently, for years, Nora Ephron, who was once married to Carl Bernstein, would openly tell people that Deep Throat was FBI Associate Director Mark…
The Economist
Democracy continues its disturbing retreat
The Economist
3 min read · 60 saves · From 2018 · More than half the countries in the latest update of a democratic-health index saw their scores decline
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How to forecast an American’s vote
The Economist Data Team
4 min read · 21 saves · From 2018 · Religion, not race, is the best single predictor of voting preferences
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