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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Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Woah! Prop 35 is a mess
A woman who runs a health clinic would have to register as a sex offender for life+ have her computer monitored for life because she was previously busted as a street walker. This law is totally messed up. Don't forget to vote against it folks. Don't forget to vote. http://www.againstthecaseact.com/ Opposing Prop 35, the CASE Act "a dangerous initiative"
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation | AAUW
Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation | AAUW
Graduating to a Pay Gap: The Earnings of Women and Men One Year after College Graduation explores the earnings difference between female and male college graduates who are working full time one year after graduation. The report, which uses the latest nationally representative data, compares apples to apples by looking at the pay gap after controlling for various factors known to affect earnings, such as occupation, college major, and hours worked. It also examines one immediate effect that the pay gap has on many women: the heavy burden of student loan debt.
Vicki Larson: Does Porn Watching Lead to Divorce?
Vicki Larson: Does Porn Watching Lead to Divorce?
If you read many of the online advice boards, it seems that a lot of women are fed up with their partner's porn watching and wonder if they should get a divorce. According to research by Patrick F. Fagan, senior fellow and director of the conservative Center for Research on Marriage and Religion, pornography is a "quiet family killer." Not only does watching porn contribute to infidelity, but a spouse's porn obsession was a factor in 56 percent of divorces, Fagan says.
The New York Times > Health > Divorce Rate: It's Not as High as You Think
About 60 percent of all marriages that eventually end in divorce do so within the first 10 years, researchers say. If that continues to hold true, the divorce rate for college graduates who married between 1990 and 1994 would end up at only about 25 percent, compared to well over 50 percent for those without a four-year college degree.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging - CNN.com
We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging - CNN.com
If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. "I talk to kids and they describe their fear of conversation," says Turkle. "An 18-year-old I interviewed recently said, 'Someday, but certainly not now, I want to learn to have a conversation.'"
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Anger of wartime sex slaves haunts Japan and South Korea | World news | guardian.co.uk
Anger of wartime sex slaves haunts Japan and South Korea | World news | guardian.co.uk
There is disagreement on the exact number of women forced into prostitution by Japan. Campaigners believe between 50,000 and 200,000 women – mostly Koreans, but also Chinese, south-east Asians and a small number of Japanese and Europeans – were forced or tricked into working in military brothels between 1932 and 1945.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
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