Videos Exposing Weight Bias
Monday, November 26, 2012
Obesity - The Influence of One/'s Own Body Weight on Implicit and Explicit Anti-fat Bias
Obesity - The Influence of One/'s Own Body Weight on Implicit and Explicit Anti-fat Bias[ast]
The Influence of One's Own Body Weight on Implicit and Explicit Anti-fat Bias*
Puhl RM, Brownell KD. Confronting and coping with weight stigma: An investigation of overweight and obese adults. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2006 Oct;14(10):1802-1815.
Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity — Archived Publications
Puhl RM, Brownell KD. Confronting and coping with weight stigma: An investigation of overweight and obese adults. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2006 Oct;14(10):1802-1815.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Hanging tongues: A sociological encounter with the assembly line. William E. Thompson
Qualitative Sociology, Volume 6, Number 3 - SpringerLink
This study reflects approximately nine weeks of participant observation on an assembly line in the slaughter division of a large beef processing plant in the Midwest. Couched within a symbolic interactionist perspective, it focuses on the day-to-day activities of assembly line workers. It examines the sociological aspects of the workers'' interaction on the job, how they coped with the danger, strain, and monotony of the work, and how they developed consumer spending norms which virtually trapped them in the plant. It also examines how the workers attempted to maintain their sense of self-worth despite the demeaning and dehumanizing aspects of their jobs.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Colleges Turn to Crowd-Sourcing Courses - NYTimes.com
Colleges Turn to Crowd-Sourcing Courses - NYTimes.com
College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Changes in Three Strikes Law Reform California Prison System - IVN.us
Changes in Three Strikes Law Reform California Prison System - IVN.us
According to Ballotpedia, 8,800 inmates in California’s prison system were serving a sentence under the harsh “three-strikes” law as of June 2011. Despite legal challenges, the three-strikes law has remained intact up until this point, marking the significance of the passage of Prop. 36. “Legally speaking, it’s a modest change in the three-strikes law, but politically speaking, it’s a monster change,” says Adam Gelb, director of the Public Safety Performance Project at the Pew Center on the States. With 68.6% of voters in favor of Proposition 36, the ballot measure revises the controversial life sentence aspect of the law, imposing life sentence only when the new felony conviction is “serious or violent.” It also allows offenders previously sentenced under three-strikes and currently serving life sentences to appeal for re-sentencing if their third conviction was not serious.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
from_bi-racal_to_tri-racal_towards_a_new_system_of_racial_stratification_in_the_usa.pdf
From bi-racial to tri-racial: Towards a new system of racial stratification in the USA
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
Friday, November 2, 2012
Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - NYTimes.com
Dr. Dimitri Christakis, who studies the impact of technology on the brain and is the director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Hospital, emphasized that teachers' views were subjective but nevertheless could be accurate in sensing dwindling attention spans among students.
His own research shows what happens to attention and focus in mice when they undergo the equivalent of heavy digital stimulation. Students saturated by entertainment media, he said, were experiencing a "supernatural" stimulation that teachers might have to keep up with or simulate.
The heavy technology use, Dr. Christakis said, "makes reality by comparison uninteresting."
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