On the Meaning and Measurement of Inequality
Via Acta Sociologica
Abstract
This article offers a defence of the methods and findings of what some critics have referred to as the “Nuffield school of class analysis”. In particular, we respond to the critique mounted by Hellevik [...]
Thinking through Political Subjectivity
Via African Diaspora
Abstract
In the introduction to this special volume the editors focus on the analytical value of “political subjectivities“ in emergent social fields that are characterized by multiple diasporic overlaps. They emphasize [...]
Darkness At Noon, by Phineas Upham
By Phineas Upham
Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon discusses the dilemma of an “old guard” communist who is captured by a system which, in its present state, he despises as immoral, crude, and the antithesis of its original [...]
Teenage Drinkers: Reckless Rebellion or Responsible Reproduction?
From Children & Society
By Peter Johnson
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to challenge the discourse that underage drinking is inevitably ‘deviant’. Rather than imposing an adultist lens, the article draws upon focus-group interviews [...]
Search vs. Exploit, by Phineas Upham
By contributor Phineas Upham
In Opportunity and Constraint, Paul Ingram and Joel Baum explore how organizations learn from experience and what sorts of experience they learn from. Their results are counterintuitive and initially confusing – [...]
Fortune Society Will Provide Green Job Training Through EPA Brownfields Grant
From The Fortune Society:
(New York, N.Y. – July 26, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Fortune Society of New York a $300,000 workforce development and job training grant to help fund the organization’s program [...]
A Model for Giving: The Effect of Corporate Charity On Employees by Phineas Upham
By Phineas Upham
Abstract:
In addition to potential external customer attraction benefits, there are also possible powerful internal benefits for a corporation that gives to charity. In this essay we lay the groundwork for a rational and strategic [...]
Survey Finds that Republicans Are Less Likely to Trust the News
Via the Washington Post
In a country increasingly divided into red and blue states, the media are taking on a more partisan coloration as well — at least in the eyes of those who read and watch.
Republicans have come to distrust the media [...]