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First-generation, or “first-gen,” students are the first in their families to go to college. When a first-gen student graduates from ... read more
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Paul Farmer’s Pathologies of Power is an indictment of the ideological manifestations of neoliberalism in civic and economic structures. ... read more
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Bourgois and Schonberg’s Righteous Dopefiend is a photographic ethnography of heroin addicts in San Francisco’s Edgewater neighborhood. The ... read more
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Laurence Ralph’s Renegade Dreams centers on the community of Eastwood and the intersection of gang life, postmodern urban development, and ... read more
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Robin D. G. Kelley’s Yo Mama’s Disfunktional! outlines the ideological culture war African Americans have engaged in through the latter ... read more
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Forrest Stuart’s Down Out & Under Arrest paints a cinematic picture of life in Los Angeles’ Skid Row through his ethnographic research of ... read more
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This week’s reading establishes the idea of activist research. Hale’s introduction outlines the structure of the book, engaging with the ... read more
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Quantum Mind and Social Science by Alexander Wendt “note: i was not kind to wendt, so skip to the next section if you’re a fan” Wendt’s ... read more
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On the Plurality of Feminisms This week’s readings are a survey of the several permutations of contemporary feminist perspectives. The four ... read more
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Feminism and Postmodernism: An Uneasy Alliance by Seyla Benhabib Benhabib begins her piece by connecting feminism with postmodernism and ... read more
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The Modern Fact, The Problem of Induction, and Questions of Method by Mary Poovey Poovey’s text is a Foucauldian genealogy about the ... read more
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Discipline: Docile bodies Reading Foucault is like going on an archeological dig with an expert paleontologist. He is relentless in ... read more
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s&i notes 2018-02-12 1:30 PM
front matter standards: don’t be encyclopedic, find standards that are interesting and unpack the implications. in terms of RAND i’d ... read more
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Disclaimer and Reflections on Essays I did not follow the recommended reading directions for reading Mythology Today first, since Barthes’ ... read more
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Taylor Taylor describes how the science of interpretation grounding hermeneutical science under a three-part rubric: “There are, to remind ... read more
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introducing: book reviews I am an aspiring social scientist. I self identify as such and my landing page also says so. I am reading a ... read more
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nexdoor If Facebook revealed how disappointing the people I knew socially where, Nextdoor has done the same for my neighbors. In the ... read more
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commutes & routine For some of us, doing the same thing every day brings joy. Yes, that’s a Kando word and I’m aware of my opinions about ... read more
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Box Notes 2017-06-08 6:45 PM
overture It took me one dedicated day to kill our Evernote productivity plan once and for all. It had reared its ugly head again after a ... read more