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Prejudice, Stigma and Exclusion with Bad Economic Times – 3 Cases
First case, of course, is the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, which is neither a Mosque nor at Ground Zero (which isn’t even Ground Zero) but the very formulation of if is in itself a reflection of...
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Bed Bug Stigma – What Would Goffman Say?
Quite often, students tend to confuse deviance will illegal activities and criminality. I always have to remind them that a deviant label may be imposed on people who hold unconventional beliefs but...
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Institutional Discrimination – A Tentative Exploration
This is my work for tomorrow (this will probably kill my students but what the heck!):
View ArticlePrejudice and Discrimination
One of the things I emphasize in my lectures on prejudice and discrimination, it is their arbitrariness presented as natural (often because based on biology), but if races are socially constructed out...
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Racism By Any Other Name – Whitewashing Les Bleux
Holy !@#$. Seriously. I guess this is the next stage in the controversy that followed the World Cup fiasco (which was discussed here). The political fall-out is this: it’s the Blacks and the Arabs that...
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Book Review – The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca’s Skloot‘s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is not a sociology book but there is certainly a lot of sociology between the lines. The book is a (well-deserved) best-seller, so, most people...
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Downplaying and Explaining The Racial Unemployment Gap
Looking at the persistence of the 2-to-1 Black/White unemployment ratio, Andy Kroll notes three major things: 1. That ratio resists explanation: “The hollowing-out of America’s cities and the decline...
View ArticleInstitutional Discrimination 101 – (Not) Blinded With Science
In science, it pays to be white: “Black scientists in the US are much less likely to be awarded funding than their white counterparts, says a US government research-funding agency. The National...
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Book Review – Evil
In Evil, sociologist Michel Wieviorka aims to claim “evil” as a territory for sociological investigation. It is not hard to see why sociologists have stayed away from the topic. It is thorny one. And...
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Book Review – To Free A Family
Sydney Nathans’s To Free A Family: The Journey of Mary Walker was a birthday gift. What a great reading it turned out to be. As the title indicates, the book is about Mary Walker’s struggle to get her...
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