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Social Stigma of Race and Albinism
Last week I wrote about the social stigma of a man going to a spa. For this post I would like to discuss the more serious topic of the stigma of albinism. We discussed in class how race is usually...
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“What Are You Doing?? It’S Not Halloween!”
http://sarahsenvelope.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/ready-for-halloween/ Harold Garfinkel coined the term “breaching experiment”, relating it to the sociological study of ethnomethodology (everyday methods...
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Ideal Type Based on Racial Degradations?
I saw this poster outside of a storefront offering “native american” styles in preparation for the winter season. A couple things came to mind that we have discussed up to this point in class. I...
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Presenting the Pushed-Up Self
The picture above was taken by my girlfriend who thought it was funny because she had heard talking about performances and how people act differently when they are indifferent situations. She thought...
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Currently Trending: Seductive Women in Revealing Clothing..
Haha this one is really great. I saw this poster hanging above a rack of clothing in a pretty typical store at the mall. The question that I immediately asked myself is: What exactly is trending??...
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Still Talking About Blackface?
As I read through my online new sources this week I saw a striking and uncomfortable story being retold through various sites. A lovely group of sorority girls at the University of Southern...
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Race in Games
The two pictures above i took while playing the children’s board game “Guess Who”. The way the game is played is by guessing your opponents character that they create using humans, aliens, monsters,...
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Using the Consumer Society to Promote Religion?
I wonder if a shirt like this should really surprise us at this point. By now, we are well aware that advertisers will stop at no boundaries to try and promote their product, but Facebook and Jesus?...
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The “Un-Manly” Man
I have seen these commercials a few times during broadcasts of sporting events and other television shows. They depict a man ordering a generic light beer in a bar with his friends. His friends tell...
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Seeing Results Is (Not) the BEST Motivation
Signs and advertisements like these are so common in America that some people may think nobody pays attention to them at all. But based on the simple fact that we do continuously see these, means...
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