herbertmarcuse
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Try Goldsmith University in London.
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Friends,
I'm trying to delete some thing from my S.O.P.so I don't look like the weaker candidate.What are some things which should never be included in a S.O.P? How do I make myself look like the alpha candidate in a S.O.P?
Thanks,
HM
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is this at uic?
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Anyone else applying to PhD Sociology program at University of Illinois at Chicago?
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Honestly,I've never heard of her name until now.There are so many sociologists out there trying to make a living and so little time to keep up with all of their works. Still,thanks for mentioning her work!
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Yes the societypages/socimages blog is known to me. I'm also a big fan of Contexts magazine!
HM
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Howdy friends:
After the elementary school shootings in Connecticut I really got interested with some of the fine photographic work by Kyle Cassidy. Especially his powerful set of photos in the book Armed America got me thinking more about guns and political culture. Likewise, there is so much fruitful stuff that amateur photographers do that often intersects within in the fields of poverty and social politics For someone who is constantly thinking outside of the academic box, I wonder if plain photography (or sociologists using more photography in their work)might make sociology actually more radical and useful to the lay-public. What do you yall think? Could sociology mix with a little photography on the side?.Would it be embraced by sociology institutions or face rejection and even visual censorship?
Link to some works by Kyle Cassidy:Armed America (Sorry in Spanish, I think)
http://blogs.20minutos.es/trasdos/2012/12/20/armas-eeuu/
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He is also working on another book called War Paint which is on the symbolism of tattoos worn by members of the Armed Forces.
Let me know what you think,
HM
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Panama Slim:
By the way I really enjoyed the photos on your blog. I've always considered doing a little photography while expanding my career possibilities in sociology.By the way,are you familiar with some of the work by Kyle Cassidy?
take care,
HM
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Howdy:
I was wondering if it might be possible for some of the current sociology instructors and advanced PhD fellows in the gradforum to share some of the favorite sociology teaching books. While many like to use those heavy Soci introduction books by Pearson and Norton, I'm really stuck with this core dichotomy sociology book and enjoy using it for 1st semester and 2nd semester sociology students. Core Sociological dichotomies also make for excellent little homework assignments which can be used throughout the entire semester!
http://books.google.com/books/about/Core_Sociological_Dichotomies.html?id=DEExO1mBv1EC
Let me know what you think of this book,
HM
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Thanks for sharing the powerful video. I was wondering if you could reframe your question a little so I could figure out what you are asking. Coming from a Marxian background, I'm thinking that this video clearly strengthens the classic argument of the Reserve Army of Labor problem and the lack of affordable housing in the city.
HM
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Howdy:
Having received my Masters degree in a European country about 8 years ago, I was never forced to take the GRE or grad entry examinations for admission. Sadly, now I am having to take it to enter into PhD programs.Like most of my fellow European counterparts, I'm starting to think that the GRE( like most other graduate entry- exams) is like playing the academic lottery. For that reason, i'm honestly thinking about taking the GRE without any major preparation or studying whatsoever. Not sure if anybody has ever succeeded with this plain strategy,but I want to see if I can get a minimal score to allow me in some low ranking PhD Social Science program.
Let me know what you think....
HM
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I did not even bother applying this year...so no benefits for me.
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I recommend:
University of Maryland at College Park.
If you can get in, you might consider taking classes with Patricia Hill Collins.
Cheers,
HM
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Gentrification, that is, improving property, is a good thing. The neighborhood I live in was recently ranked the most dangerous neighborhood in the country. Fifty years ago it was an affluent Jewish neighborhood. Neighborhoods change rapidly in cities. It's not a simple matter of affluent neighborhoods spreading-from-center, pushing minorities further and further toward the edges of the city and eventually off the edge of the world.
Anti-gentrification sentiments inspire protectionist economic policies -- or rather I should say local alderman in my neighborhood not letting Arabs and Whites open businesses because doing so "keeps money in the Puerto Rican community." No -- preventing people from trading one another, like say whites or arabs setting up businesses and offering Puerto Rican consumers competitively priced goods so that they can invest those dollars saved into more productive margins like, say, their children's education -- is how you make everyone rich, Puerto Ricans and Arabs and Whites alike.
After reading your comment, I assume your not a member of the RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH PARTY?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=x4o-TeMHys0
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Graeber has a section in Fragments about this, pages 3-7. Start from "It does seem that Marxism holds an affinity with academia that anarchism never will" and read through "and that, of course, is going to get one in far more trouble than anything one could ever write". Link to a PDF of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.
Hats off for sharing this book and the friendly academic warning. Although to be candid, I have only recently have been exposed to some of the stuff by David Graeber, mostly from the few 50 minute Against the Grain Podcasts. Hence,I think I will be needing more time studying some of his writings before making any comments on the fruitfulness of his pose and style. And yes I took the last quote you provided extremely serious. As he says in full: "...At the very least, one would imagine being an openly anarchist professor would mean challenging the way universities are run - and I don't mean by demanding an anarchist studies department, either -- and that of course, is going to get one on far more trouble than anything one could ever write." (Graeber 7)
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Critical theory is something different than pure Marxism.
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FWIW, probably the most relevant part of What is Property?:
If I were asked to answer the following question: What is slavery? and I should answer in one word, It is murder!, my meaning would be understood at once. No extended argument would be required . . . Why, then, to this other question: What is property? may I not likewise answer, It is robbery!, without the certainty of being misunderstood; the second proposition being no other than a transformation of the first?
I'm not saying that's right, I'm saying that's what Proudhon says. Also Proudhon (if I remember correctly) differentiates property from possessions. Possessions aren't theft, and having exclusive use of a house isn't theft (I forget the category of this), but rents on property or even just the abstract idea of a right to property is theft. I wouldn't be surprised if Proudhon started two failed communes, but I don't think that really has much to do with anything.
I felt like jumping in here because the topic does interest me in my own discipline. Honestly.I think we make a huge mistake by just going back to writings by Proudhon or other anarchist writers to find out what they really meant by property and theft question makes it all too philosophical. Rather, we need to take these old ideas and put them into the contexts of present day issues of over basic affordable housing and concern over gentrification.Granted, these two areas may be two different topics but they are appearing in news stories that makes this issue not go away.For those that are still interested, I recommend reading the Spiegel article below which talks about a number of protests happening across Germany on the issue of Skyrocketing Rents across major German cities. What do you think?
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Sorry for the delay. As always, you raise a fruitful number of issues. Being more on the sociological and public opinion side, you might read up on some of the group experiment stuff developed by the Frankfurt school in Germany during the 1950s and 1960s. Not sure if neo-marxian social theory is your thing, but there is some fruit in their methodology and technique that they used and developed.
http://www.amazon.com/Group-Experiment-Other-Writings-Frankfurt/dp/0674048466
Cheers,
HM
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Where can I get the sociological side of this story? What devices are used in survey methods in order to control for biased reporting (I know the basics of randomization and blinding, and a little bit about confusing people so they don't know what's being studied and game their responses, but that's about it).
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Or how about trying squatting in London?
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I read an article on that which might interest you.
http://contexts.org/articles/fall-2009/breastfeed-at-your-own-risk/
Good luck,
HM
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Thanks for sharing that article. Are you trying to achieve a self-fulfilling prophecy in your own thesis? Unless I completely misunderstood you, I think what you're trying to look for is how individuals (such as the blind dude you described) and their prior contradictory attitudes on greed likely explains how people "self select" into economics programs or similar majors. I would follow your thesis, if you had more supportive empirical evidence - like some sort of greed survey or did some sort of group experiment/participant observation on students who wanted to become potential business or economic majors. I would be happy to be your co-author if you decide to go forward with this.
Favorite Sociologists
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Ulrich Beck and Richard Sennett. They seem to know their stuff.