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A Beginner's Guide to Culture Science - Defender’s Corner

#culture #memes #society #sociology | Also known as "memetics", it's the study of the narratives that shape human behavior, and how they propagate & evolve

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Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making | Free to read | Financial Times

#england #inequality #poverty #sociology | <blockquote>Three east London boroughs were already at breaking point. Then the pandemic struck </blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Stockton’s Basic-Income Experiment Pays Off - The Atlantic

#administration #cooperation #economy #poverty #sociology #welfare | <blockquote>A new study of the city’s program that sent cash to struggling individuals finds dramatic changes.</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
How the humble, all-purpose thumbs-up took over the world | WIRED UK

#communication #emoji #language #research #social_media #sociology

7 years ago | View Shared by victor
guest post: artificial intelligence discovers gayface. sigh. – scatterplot

#ai #bias #ethics #paper #sociology #stereotypes | <blockquote>The following is a guest post by Greggor Mattson. AI Can’t Tell if You’re Gay… But it Can Tell if You’re a Walking Stereotype. [First published September 9th. This post has been updated with subsequent information, denoted by square brackets, cited on this resource of responses to the story by tweeters, bloggers, media, and Kosinski himself].…</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
Own, Apologize, Repair: Coming Back to Integrity

#accountability #communication #emotion #essay #integrity #privilege #sociology | <blockquote>There is a variation on ‘Not All Men.’ It is called ‘I Feel Bad When You Say That.’ My godson Kyle is six. He is fairly emotionally perceptive for his age, as his grownups have been working with him to create an emotionally responsible and self-aware boy who we hope will grow into an emotionally…</blockquote>

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"Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor - The Toast - The Toast

#capitalism #emotion #equality #feminism #sociology #toread | <blockquote>A willing foe, and sea room.</blockquote>

8 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine – Scout: Science Fiction Journalism – Medium

#ai #fake_news #politics #propaganda #sociology

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One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment - Mei Fong - Google Books

#birth #book #china #population_control #sociology #to_read | <blockquote>An intimate investigation of the world's largest experiment in social engineering, revealing how its effects will shape China for decades to come, and what that means for the rest of the world </blockquote>

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What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? | Aeon Essays

#automation #economics #human_nature #income #politics #sociology #work | <blockquote>Economists believe in full employment. Americans think that work builds character. But what if jobs aren’t working anymore?</blockquote>

9 years ago | View Shared by victor
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil | PenguinRandomHouse.com

#big_data #book #business #democracy #inequalities #politics #sociology #to_read | <blockquote>Longlisted for the National Book Award New York Times Bestseller A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern...</blockquote>

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Deviancy amplification spiral - Wikipedia

#effects #hype #media #media_studies #morality #panic #phenomenon #scale #sociology

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Des accidents de la route pas si accidentels, par Matthieu Grossetête (Le Monde diplomatique, août 2016)

#accident #class #inequality #lang:fr #road #safety #sociology | <blockquote>À chaque période de vacances, tandis que le risque d'accidents de la route s'accroît, le thème de la sécurité au volant revient dans l'actualité. Le gouvernement multiplie alors les consignes de bon sens. En se focalisant sur le comportement individuel des conducteurs, ces préconisations négligent les causes profondes de la mortalité routière.</blockquote>

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translating habitus from bourdieu to english « scatterplot

#bourdieu #social_patterns #sociology #translation

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
La dynamique des langues en France au fil du XXe siècle

#20th_century #evolution #filetype:pdf #immigration #lang:fr #linguistics #regional_languages #sociology

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
Lettre ouverte - Ad Virgilium

#culture #gender #heteronormativity #homosexuality #lang:fr #letter #sexualities #sociology

10 years ago | View Shared by victor
#FOMO at ICA «DIS Magazine

#anxiety #online_culture #post_digital #sociology #technology | Report of “Fear Of Missing Out” event at London's Institute of Contemporary Art

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Forer effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

#interesting #personality #psychology #sociology #thinking_theory

11 years ago | View Shared by victor
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is

#explanation #feminism #gamer #games #gender #nerd #privilege #racism #sexism #sociology

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