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John Oliver Skewers The Prison Industrial-Complex in 17 Minutes

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Social Conflict and Spatial Capital

As illustrated by Maru and Hana: social conflict happens when scarce resources are unequally distributed and power arrangements may be reconfigured…

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Where The Guns Are

Appropriately enough, considering the latest news of police shooting yet another African American young man, Pew had a survey regarding the demographics of gun ownership a few weeks back and they...

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HDI 2014

http://thecrankysociologists.com/files/2014/08/HDI2014-ty9uy3.mp4 Relevant links: HDI country list and data Public Data Explorer PDE via Google:

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Where Religious (and Unaffiliated) People Are

Via the Pew Research Center, the name of the game is concentration: It is interesting to note that the only two religions that have  spread far wide beyond their place of origin are Christianity and...

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Enough With the !@#$ “Sharing” Economy Already

It’s not sharing if it involves buying and selling, no matter what price level. It’s more unregulated trading, which is a trait more akin to what is generally called an underground economy (usually the...

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Executions in the US, by States, Since 1977

There must be a pattern here, somewhere. I’m sure we can find it… oh, wait… Great gif by Pew:

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De Facto Segregation

If you need a definition of the concept, there is no better illustration than the interactive maps below, via the Urban Institute:

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Cranky Sociologists – Saskia Sassen

A new toon in the gallery of cranky sociologists: Saskia Sassen, thanks to The Cranky Sociologists’s cartoonist-in-chief, Kevin Moore:   I have long been a big fan of Saskia Sassen’s work. You can read...

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Book Review – First Contact

I am always on the lookout for some new teaching ideas (I teach a 5/5 load, people, you have to find new things to do if you are not going to insane). So, I got First Contact – Teaching and Learning in...

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