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 👀)?
@tphinney That's a good point — we thought that the end section had a little hopeful advice but on second reading it's pretty pessimistic. We'll adjust the original caption.
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
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Ahh I would rather get the materials watch lecture remote reading list etc, then go in and talk about parts I have questions about…it drove me crazy in traditional learning.
No problems taking tests typically after I learn. I think the groups help it’s just harder being autistic/adhd. Esp as I get older it bothers me more. Learning is my favorite past time tbh… I was told I have learned how to learn but I still need guidance
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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.
Yes, there is no profit because it has already been mostly pilfered from the privatised system leaving governments to step in. In the UK, many universities for example are on the brink of bankruptcy. Money is taken out or squandered on anything except students and education itself. The state then have to step in to 'protect the free market' of education.
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Yeah totally. The beauty (and simplicity) of becoming-anarchist is we behave now as though the world we fight for is already here. At least for me, that world has no political parties, or states, or central banks or private property. These models for self-determing federation are actually quite ancient. Indigenuity is my humble brief!
@easysociology@sociology@academicchatter@academicsunite Interesting site. I just finished reading "The Status Game" by Will Storr. Great book and explained a lot. We won't be having a complete egalitarian society post AI taking jobs.
The article does not claim education increases inequality, rather, it legitimizes inequality that does exist. So levels of education and inequality seems tangential.
The negative correlation between education and inequality can be explained in the other direction as well. More equal nations may choose to invest more in public education along with quality education decreasing inequality.
Are there any #scienceAndTechnologyStudies people here? I'm looking for the history of the terms "doing science"/doing culture etc. I know it's Latour (did he ever use the term himself?), constructivism, doinggender, performativity, etc, but I can't find a source that elaborates on the development of this term. Does anyone have pointers where to look? I spent most of my work day looking through sociology and sts books and papers...
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"This is because, the sociologist #ErvingGoffman shows us, there is nothing simple about passing through a public space. Instead, we are always expected to reassure strangers around us that we are rational, trustworthy and pose no threat to the social order. We do this by conforming to all manner of invisible rules, governing, for example, the distance we maintain from one another, where we direct our eyes and how we carry ourselves."
"It is tempting to think that the primary goal of conversation is the exchange of information. Indeed, this remains an assumption in much contemporary philosophy of language. Goffman shows us that conversation is far more than this and can be just as much about preserving each other’s sense of self as about communicating facts or opinions."
