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    • Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right—Dude, Where’s My Stimulus?
      Years ago, I once had a conversation with an economist who freely admitted that there was no unified macroeconomic theory.  What works versus what doesn’t work in a particular sociopolitical context is really just so much spitballing.  This never surprised me given the complex realities of global capitalism. I’ve been genuinely perplexed by Barac […]
    • Weekends Are for Porn (Not News)
      Just in case you’ve ever wanted evidence that people do more online searches for porn on weekends (especially Friday nights!): Thanks to Larry. UPDATE: Reader Dangger sent us a comparison of searches for porn and news: (Via.) (View original at http://contexts.org/socimages)
    • Weber’s Monopoly on Violence
      Perry H. sent in this cartoon: The cartoon, of course, reminds us of the power of words.  Calling something “terrorism” is a way to make it seem illegitimate.   And, often, what makes violence illegitimate is not something inherent in the violence itself, but your perspective on it. The cartoon also reminds us of Max Weber’s insight that th […]
    • Finally A Women’s Movement Men Can Get Behind
      Last week Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a scorching critique of the uproar over pushing regular mammography back till 50-years-old, in light of the muted response to the Stupak amendment excluding abortion from both state and public health insurance programs. “So welcome to the Women’s Movement 2.0,” she writes “pink-ribbon culture has replaced […]
    • Homo-hatred in Uganda: a gift from US conservative evangelicals
      In yesterday’s news, CNN reporter Saeed Ahmed asks “Why is Uganda attacking homosexuality?” As Ahmed reports, the Anti-Homosexuality Bil in this Eastern African nation (introduced in October, and expected to pass by the end of December) “features several provisions that human rights groups say would spur a witch hunt of homosexuals in […]
    • US literacy rates (2003)
      The key Number of Adults in Each Prose Literacy Level Prose Literacy * Below Basic: o no more than the most simple and concrete literacy skills * Basic: o can perform simple and [...]
    • The Discovery Channel: “Not for Women’s Eyes”
      Benno K. sent in a link to some ads he saw in the Netherlands for the Discovery Channel, which Benno describes as “the channel that used to be for science, but is now mostly explosions and motor bikes.” In both posters the men have “women’s” eyes–that is, they appear wide-eyed and long-lashed, with mascara: The caption say […]
    • Public bathroom of the future – revised
      Work in progress Regular readers will recognize this as a slightly modified version of a bathroom design I posted a couple weeks ago. I took some time to incorporate readers’ comments and hope you’ll continue to make recommendations. Here are the major changes: + all the plumbing is routed through exterior walls + sight lines are [...]
    • Class and the Framing of a Work-Free Year
      This cartoon illustrates how a work-free year is interpreted as lazy and irresponsible if you’re a working class person and a well-deserved treat if you’re middle class or better. Found at The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Genuis, via Missives from Marx. (View original at http://contexts.org/socimages)
    • The Relativity of Feminist Liberation
      I spent a day in Salzburg this September with a man from Dubai.  We had a wonderful time comparing perspectives. Dubai, he explained, was a wildly modern, multicultural city.  The default language in public was English due to the international population.  He was a stockbroker who had gone to college in London and gone part way through an MBA. He interacted […]

Posts Tagged ‘Divorce’

Learning Objectives – Chapter 14 and Chapter 15

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 26 April, 2009

Learning Objectives, Chapter 14 – Divorce & Remarriage

1.      How are divorce rates measured?

2.      How do divorce rates vary across cultures?

3.      How have divorce rates varied historically in the United States?

4.      What factors are associated with divorce?

5.      What are the dimensions of the divorce experience?

6.      What are the consequences of divorce for children?

Learning Objectives, Chapter 15 – Families and the Sociological Imagination

1.       How does the sociological imagination help us to understand families?

2.      How are family members, especially women and children, affected by economic disparities in the United States?

3.      How are societies and nations around the world interconnected?

4.      How are families both private relationships and public institutions?

5.      How do family policies reflect historical, cultural, political, and social factors?

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