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Dead Wild Roses: Oh hey, Socialism good for business – Social Safety Nets and...
Grabbed from Sociological Images - Again, more evidence that egalitarian policies are good not only for people, but for business. “George W. Bush did not really say, “The problem with the French is...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: OWS and Social Conformity – The Fear of a Different Model
Reflect on how the people involved in the OWS are framed and then consider this lecture by Allan Watts. Filed under: Politics, Social Science Tagged: Counter-Culture, Normative Attitudes, OWS, Sociolgy
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Religion – The Bad Parent
Theramin Trees is notable for his particularly pellucid discourse when it comes to the topics of religion and atheism. The relationships we have and maintain necessarily change over the course of our...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Need Help? – Wear a tie. The Bystander Effect
We all think that we’ll help others in distress. Experimental evidence says otherwise… Filed under: Science, Social Science Tagged: Bystander Effect, Experimental Psychology, Science
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Racism is So Over…
When you tell someone they are being too sensitive…or they should just suck it up or you just dismiss what they are saying; you’re probably in the wrong. You and your privilege need to stand down, stop...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: So you think you stuff is safe in public?
Urban living makes it difficult to break with the expected privacy norms…watch and see. Filed under: Science, Social Science Tagged: CIty Expectations, Safe in Public?, Sociolgy
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: You are what you watch – Violence in the Media
I think one of the smartest things a parent can do is get rid of the TV if they have children. TV land is a violently misogynistic place that perpetuates the current ugly set of cultural norms we have...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Prohibition is Still Failing. Portugal Shows That...
When I was quite young and much more naive than I am today, I was talking to my dad about drugs. We were talking about all the negative health effects of smoking in school, so I told my dad that I...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Failures of Capitalism – Unquestioned Assumptions on Happiness
Did you ever wonder about economic growth? Take the time to question your assumptions on economic growth and how it effects you? Thomas Homer Dixon has and what he says is quite interesting. From The...
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Dead Wild Roses: Project Unbreakable – Pictures that say too much.
*TW for sexual violence. Project Unbreakable is about the survivors of sexual assault. It is a photoblog of survivors holding up signs with messages about their experiences and feelings. Powerful...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Inequality Begins at Home
For your quick hit of sociological fact, look no further. Inequality is bad for societies and also bad for families. In other breaking news global warming is a “go”, religious is still deceiving people...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Spot the Problem?
Of course, it could just be me… Filed under: International Affairs, Social Science Tagged: Helpful Infographics, Public Sector, USA
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Gendered Cheese!
*sigh* Like the gender binary needs more reinforcement… Thanks to Dr. Lisa Wade over at Sociological Images for the pic and commentary. “Dieting is for women. I mean we all know that dieting and women...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Quote of the Day – Chris Hedges and the Empire of Illusion
“We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Chris Hedges on The Empire of Illusion
My summer vacation reading was a sunny little book by Nick Turse called Kill Anything That Moves. I finished the other book I was noshing on, the Age of American Unreason, just after returning from...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Chris Hedges’ 2003 Rockford College Commencement Address –...
Let us take a good look at how free speech and competing idea’s are treated at a American College. You wonder why so many people just roll their eyes when the words American and enlightened are...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: Empire of Illusion – On Postive “Psychology”
Dealing with positive psychology and its converts can be most irksome at times because, like religion, they don’t smell the bullshit they are peddling. Let’s look at the concise way Chris Hedges sums...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – The Ideology, or Cult of Happiness
Today, let’s look at one of the prime methods of baffling the masses. The power of positive thinking and the credulous ‘Positive Psychology’ that buttresses the fatuous assertions made by the...
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The Sexy Lie – Caroline Heldman
A fantastic video on identifying and stopping the objectification of women. Filed under: Education, Feminism, Social Science Tagged: Feminism, Objectification, The Next Generation, The Sexy Lie, Women
View ArticleDead Wild Roses: The Innovation of Loneliness – Film Short.
I’m not much for the social media, to be honest I prefer to be alone because the rest of you are so darn noisy. Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Loneliness, Technology
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