Sociology

Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.

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Enculturation - an anonymously refereed journal devoted to contemporary theories of rhetoric, writing, and culture
Vox: Everyone's A Sellout Now - So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?
Current Affairs: The Truth Is Paywalled, But The Lies Are Free
The Guardian: The Real Lord of the Flies
!Vice: Minecraft Server Datamining - personal, heartfelt, and tragic stories remain buried on dead servers.
Stanford: Hallucinatory voices shaped by local culture
MIT News: MIT study explains why laws are written in an incomprehensible style - The convoluted “legalese” used in legal documents conveys a special sense of authority, and even non-lawyers have learned to wield it.
Noema: The Tyranny of Time - "The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political. It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us."
The Conversation: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
CNN: Audiences experience 'Avatar' blues - "Ways to cope with the depression of the dream of Pandora being intangible"
Ney Yorker: Clarence Thomas's Radical Vision of Race - "Thomas has moved from black nationalism to the right. But his beliefs about racism, and our ability to solve it, remain the same."
Adam Mastroianni: I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop - "I don’t want people to tell me they have diarrhea."
IGN: A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed - See also: Internet
Pew Research: What The Data Says About Gun Deaths In The U.S.

"A good science fiction story 
 should be able to predict 
 not the automobile 
 but the traffic jam."

    - Frederik Pohl

Lexicon

anomie: social condition/instability defined by an uprooting/breakdown/erosion of moral values/standards/guidance for individuals to follow
concept creep: the process by which harm-related topics experience semantic expansion to include topics which would not have originally been envisaged to be included under that label
euphemism treadmill: the process by which euphemisms fall into disuse and are replaced by new ones, as the old ones become socially unacceptable over time
hidden curriculum: behavior/attitudes learned at school which aren't part of the formal curriculum
homophily: concept describing the tendency of individuals to associate and bond with similar others
mores: widely observed social norms within a paticular society/culture
ostracize: to exclude from a group/society
passing: the ability of a person to be regarded as a member of an identity group/category
shibboleth: a custom/tradition, usually a choice of phrasing/single word, that distinguishes one group from another
socialization: the process of learning/teaching/internalizing the norms/ideologies/culture of a society

Memories

2020-10-07: "I can't help but wonder if the rise in conspiracy movements like QAnon could have been fueled partly by mass unfamiliarity with navigating the high-pressure infohose that is the modern internet. Conspiracy is an attention monster. It's free in the way it needs to be to become a successful attention economy product. It strikes me as more of a misapplication of thought than an absence of thought, with all the effort that they must devote into researching chemtrails and shit like that." (Source)

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