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The Visual Du Jour – Poverty Reduction Works
Jared Bernstein has the data: As the blog post notes (emphasis mine): “The figure shows pre-transfer and post-transfer poverty rates among OECD countries (mostly the advanced economies). The former...
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Book Review – Who You Claim
Robert Garot‘s Who You Claim – Performing Gang Identity in School and On The Streets is a great and highly readable account of the life of high school students living in a gang-dominated area (mostly,...
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The Visual Du Jour – Honey Boo Boo Syndrome?
[I will cop to a shamefully link-baiting title, but it is this category of people that is under discussion and affected by this trend, no? FSM knows much is made of their unhealthy lifestyle for our...
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Book Review – Ship Breaker
I read Paolo Bacigalupi‘s Ship Breaker as part of my never-ending quest to find good science-fiction books for my sociology classes. I have to go with young adult materials as my students’ reading...
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It’s The Inequalities, Stupid – A Never-Ending Story
This is the one new thing: ever since the economy crashed and burned and the Occupy movements, at least, there has been talk about social inequalities in the past three years or so. Otherwise, look at...
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One More Time for Emphasis: It’s The Inequalities, Stupid
I am not sure how many ways there are to make highlight this. Part of the problem is the general attitude that inequalities are the “natural” effects of either individual tendencies or magical and...
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The Visual Du Jour – It’s Still The Inequalities, Stupid
As I mentioned in my previous post, a less unequal society produces better social outcomes. Case on point, this infographic (click on the image for ginormous view): For those of you familiar with the...
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The Visual Du Jour – The Consequences of Racial and Social Stratification in...
A lot of people are circulating this but it is of special interest to sociologists: Can anyone say “redlining” and institutional discrimination?
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As With Guns, The Remedy for Inequalities is More Inequalities
So, by now, you have all probably read, or at least heard of, Joseph Stiglitz’s column in the New York Times as to how inequalities are stalling economic recovery: “With inequality at its highest level...
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