Miscellaneous
Collection by The Sociological Cinema • Last updated 2 days ago
Misc: Sociology
Thinks sociology is common sense reasoning. Fails first test on sociological imagination.
This is what happens when a sociologist takes a wrong turn on her way to the restroom and stumbles across a panel discussion for aspiring business leaders. -------------- Featured slide from a "leadership" panel for undergraduates in a pre-business program. I hope that $55K/yr in tuition provides more than $55 of self-help advice worthy of an airport bookstore, including basic instruction on survivor bias, sampling [on the dependent variable], and attribution errors. ~ @WeedenKim
What Is Sociology?
What is Sociology? 1. Broadly speaking, Sociology is the study of society; 2. It is a social science involving the study of the social lives of people, groups, and societies; 3. An overarching unification of all the studies of humankind, including History, Psychology, and Economics. What do Sociologists do? -Sociologists use a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods to understand their areas of study... Source: chawije (www.designcrowd.com/design/1568928)
We Live in a Society
Source: The Autopoiesis of Memes
Misc: Economics
S&P 500 during Donald Trump's Presidency
The longest bull market in history began shortly after Obama entered office and continued well into Trump’s presidency. Investors welcomed Trump’s corporate tax cuts in 2017, and although the trade war with China put them on edge, stocks enjoyed a record-breaking run all the way up to 2020. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, the S&P 500 plunged 34% in about a month, before recovering later in the summer. As of October 28, the index was up 44% in Trump’s presidency, overall... Source: CNN
Gross Domestic Product during Donald Trump's Presidency
The widest measure of economic activity — gross domestic product — measures the value of the goods and services produced in the country. It typically grows between 2% to 3% per year after adjusting for inflation. Trump’s first three years were all within that range, but 2020 saw a deep decline. We don’t have a full year of data yet, but the second quarter was the worst in records going back to 1947. Third-quarter data, which was released on Thursday, showed a partial recovery. Many…
Debt-to-GDP
The federal government’s debt burden hasn’t been this high relative to the size of the economy since World War II, but it didn’t get there during Trump’s presidency alone. The debt grew under Reagan, who ushered in massive tax cuts, and it surged under Obama, who used federal stimulus funds to aid the economy during the Great Recession. At the time Trump took office, the debt totaled around 76% of GDP.... Source: CNN
Saturday Stat: The U.S. is a “Low Tax Country” - Sociological Images
The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota
Economic Growth Forecast for All EU Countries in 2019
% economic growth expected in EU member states in 2019 (as of Feb 7, 2019) Source: European Commission
The World Economy - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Country
Misc: Science & Academia
Share of U.S. College and University Faculty by Tenure, 1969 and 2009
Source: Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Academic journals: - don't fund research; - don't pay authors - don't pay peer reviewers - charge libraries & the public for access to research that is publicly funded - issue copyright violations to researchers Why do we put up with this? ~ @clairlemon
An Ecosystem of Public Intellectualism (Beyond Peer-Review)
[BLUE ARROW FROM 'SOCIAL MEDIA' TO 'AUDIENCE'] Package your research and ideas into a format that can be readily shared on social media. This packaging typically involves communicating your big idea as a brief but interesting story with vivid characters. Your work may be grounded in empiricism, but anecdotes grab people's attention more than regression coefficients. Source: Lester Andrist, www.thesociologicalcinema.com
Academia: wher people publish world-changing ideas in little booklets the people of the world cannot access. ~ @TheSocyCinema
I'm not a big fan of the commonly seen *, **, *** system for denoting p-values on graphs. Let's embrace 21st century symbology and do better: p < 0.1 :) p < 0.05 :) :) p < 0.01 :) :) :) p < 0.001 :) :) :) :) p < 0.000000001 :) :) :) :) :) ~ @nelson_lab
The Sweet Spot is at the nexus of narration, visuals, and data
Misc: Social Theory
Beliefs, Values and Attitudes
BELIEFS - spiritual - moral - social - intellectual - economic - political VALUES - Values are global, abstract principles that serve as guiding principles in people's lives (e.g., freedom, honesty, equality, beauty, harmony, competitiveness, happiness, order and wisdom). ATTITUDES - Three components: 1) Cognitive (what we believe); 2) Affective (our feelings); 3) Behavioral (learned associations)... Source: Mohan Kumar
"Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals." ~ Jean Baudrillard
Social Murder
Social murder is a term coined by Friedrich Engels in 1845 and used to describe murder committed by the political and social elite where they knowingly permit conditions to exist where the poorest and most vulnerable in society are deprived of the necessities of life and are placed in a position in which they cannot reasonably be expected to live and will inevitably meet an early and unnatural death.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; They do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. ~ Karl Marx
Sociologists! If forced to choose, which of the following theoretical perspective should be dropped from the curriculum? (Structural functionalism / Conflict theory / Symbolic interactionism) ~ The Sociological Cinema
Value Theory
Value theory encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why and to what degree people value things; whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. This investigation began in ancient philosophy, where it is called axiology or ethics. Early philosophical investigations sought to understand good and evil and the concept of "the good." Today much of value theory is scientifically empirical... Source: World Heritage Encyclopedia
Measuring Three Dimensions of Social Capital
Source: Social Capital Research
Misc: Ethics & Morality
Stoic Disciplines
Desire (Stoic Acceptance) - derived from Physics - Virtues: Courage, Temperance - "Don't hope that the events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace." (Epictetus, Enchiridion, 8) Action (Stoic Philanthropy) - derived from Ethics - Virtue: Justice - "Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them." (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, VIII, 59) Assent (Stoic Mindfulness) - derived from Logic - Virtue: (Practic
4 Schools of Ethics
Kantian Philosophy (Immanuel Kant, Germany, 1724-1804) - Deontological (from Greek for duty); non-consequentialist - Says: do it because it is the right thing to do, on principle. - People are ends in themselves, must not be treated as means to ends, 'respect for persons' - Motives are what counts, having a 'good will,' a sense of duty, makes an action right. - Linked to Natural Law (Thomas Locke, 1632-1714); precursor to 'universal human rights'...
Sophism
The Sophists held that all thought rests solely on the apprehensions of the senses and on subjective impression, and that therefore we have no other standards of action than convention for the individual. Specializing in rhetoric, the Sophists were more professional educators than philosophers. They flourished as a result of a special need at that time for Greek education...
Pre-Socratic
Pre-Socratic philosophy is Greek philosophy before Socrates (and includes schools contemporary with Socrates that were not influenced by him)....
Relativism
Relativism is the concept that points of view have no absolute truth or validity, having only relative, subjective valuue according to differences in perception and consideration. As moral relativism, the term is often used in the context of moral principles, where principles and ethics are regarded as applicable in only limited context. There are many forms of relativsm which vary in their degree of controversy. The term often refers to truth relativism, whic is the doctrine that there are…
Deontological Ethics
Deontological ethics, in philosophy, ethical theories that place special emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions. Deontology (Greek deon, "duty," and logos, "science") consequently focuses on logic and ethics. No attempt is made in such theories to explicate specific moral obligations. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Teleological Ethics
#philosophy #concept #ethics Teleological ethics, (teleological from Greek telos, "end"; logos, "science"), theory of morality that drives duty or moral obligation from what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved. Also known as consequentialist ethics, it is opposed to deontological ethics (from the Greek deon, "duty"), which holds that the basic standards for an action's being morally right are independent of the good or evil generated. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Misc: Psychology
Misc: Happiness
Life Satisfaction, on a 0 - 10 scale, 2012
Source: Gallup World Poll / OECD
The Happiest Countries in the World
Source: United Nations World Happiness Report, 2013
Happiness Score of Countries, 2018.
Source: World Happiness Report
Misc: Violence
"Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture." ~ Resmaa Menakem
Misc: Globalization
Misc: Stereotypes & Prejudice
A face you can trust
Princeton psychologists recently showed that certain faces, even when expressionless, strike people as trustworthy or untrustworthy. Features like the shape of the eyebrow are part of an unconscious language of trust that powerfully affects human interaction. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot...
Young People Far More Likely to Intervene to Stop Discrimination When They Know the Victim
Source: PRRI / MTV 2017 National Youth Survey
Misc: Power
Misc: Technology
(2 of 2) An argument in favor of video games from a quarantined mother. #Quaranteens #wtfparenting
Pretty soon they discovered their first impressions were correct. JamMaster WAS much younger than they were - only 10 years old. They also discovered that it was his birthday in the morning. The boys realized that JamMaster had been hanging out by himself all night, on the eve of his 11th birthday, which he would be spending by himself in quarantine. CLEARLY SOMETHING HAD TO BE DONE. YA'LL, THEY THREW HIM AN 11TH BIRTHDAY PARTY...
(1 of 2) An argument in favor of video games from a quarantined mother. #Quaranteens #wtfparenting
My 15 yo son has spent every second of his free time during this pandemic hanging out online, playing video games with his friends. He started by ranking up to the elite tiers of Apex Legends. I am told this is quite a feat. Honestly I believe it because it took him and his friend 6 hours a day for a week to rank that high. After that came Sea of Thieves. He joined up with more friends and sailed the digital oceans until piracy lost it's shine...
Most teens who use cellphones do it to pass time, connect with others, learn new things
Source: Pew Research Center
Misc: Ethnocentrism
Other Pins
"It doesn't matter how many books he gave you, he's still your captor," says the therapist to Belle
Artist: Guada
Crosses cast shadows at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, June 15, 2020
An aerial view of crosses casting shadows at the Parque Taruma cemetery in Manaus, Brazil, June 15, 2020. At the time of this photo, Brazil was the world's No. 2 coronavirus hot spot after the United States. Photo credit: Bruno Kelly
"Trauma in a person, decontextualized over time, looks like personality. Trauma in a family, decontextualized over time, looks like family traits. Trauma in a people, decontextualized over time, looks like culture." ~ Resmaa Menakem
Inglehart–Welzel Cultural Map, 2020
Analysis of World Value Survey data posits two major dimensions of cross cultural variation in the world: Traditional values versus Secular-rational values and Survival values versus Self-expression values. This map shows how scores of countries are located on these two dimensions. Moving upward on this map reflects the shift from Traditional values to Secular-rational and moving rightward reflects the shift from Survival values to... Source: World Values Survey 7 (2020) [Provisional…
S&P 500 during Donald Trump's Presidency
The longest bull market in history began shortly after Obama entered office and continued well into Trump’s presidency. Investors welcomed Trump’s corporate tax cuts in 2017, and although the trade war with China put them on edge, stocks enjoyed a record-breaking run all the way up to 2020. At the start of the pandemic in 2020, the S&P 500 plunged 34% in about a month, before recovering later in the summer. As of October 28, the index was up 44% in Trump’s presidency, overall... Source: CNN
Gross Domestic Product during Donald Trump's Presidency
The widest measure of economic activity — gross domestic product — measures the value of the goods and services produced in the country. It typically grows between 2% to 3% per year after adjusting for inflation. Trump’s first three years were all within that range, but 2020 saw a deep decline. We don’t have a full year of data yet, but the second quarter was the worst in records going back to 1947. Third-quarter data, which was released on Thursday, showed a partial recovery. Many…
Debt-to-GDP
The federal government’s debt burden hasn’t been this high relative to the size of the economy since World War II, but it didn’t get there during Trump’s presidency alone. The debt grew under Reagan, who ushered in massive tax cuts, and it surged under Obama, who used federal stimulus funds to aid the economy during the Great Recession. At the time Trump took office, the debt totaled around 76% of GDP.... Source: CNN
A face you can trust
Princeton psychologists recently showed that certain faces, even when expressionless, strike people as trustworthy or untrustworthy. Features like the shape of the eyebrow are part of an unconscious language of trust that powerfully affects human interaction. According to recent work by Nikolaas Oosterhof and Alexander Todorov of Princeton's psychology department, we form our first opinions of someone's trustworthiness through a quick physiognomic snapshot...
Stoic Disciplines
Desire (Stoic Acceptance) - derived from Physics - Virtues: Courage, Temperance - "Don't hope that the events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace." (Epictetus, Enchiridion, 8) Action (Stoic Philanthropy) - derived from Ethics - Virtue: Justice - "Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them." (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, VIII, 59) Assent (Stoic Mindfulness) - derived from Logic - Virtue: (Practic
4 Schools of Ethics
Kantian Philosophy (Immanuel Kant, Germany, 1724-1804) - Deontological (from Greek for duty); non-consequentialist - Says: do it because it is the right thing to do, on principle. - People are ends in themselves, must not be treated as means to ends, 'respect for persons' - Motives are what counts, having a 'good will,' a sense of duty, makes an action right. - Linked to Natural Law (Thomas Locke, 1632-1714); precursor to 'universal human rights'...
Beliefs, Values and Attitudes
BELIEFS - spiritual - moral - social - intellectual - economic - political VALUES - Values are global, abstract principles that serve as guiding principles in people's lives (e.g., freedom, honesty, equality, beauty, harmony, competitiveness, happiness, order and wisdom). ATTITUDES - Three components: 1) Cognitive (what we believe); 2) Affective (our feelings); 3) Behavioral (learned associations)... Source: Mohan Kumar