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    • Insurance Company Drops Woman after Rape
      Lisa recently posted about a woman who was denied health insurance due to having a C-section in the past; the health care plan would cover her only if she agreed to be sterilized. Mackenzie I.-T. sent in this clip from Anderson Cooper 360 about a woman who was dropped by her insurance company after she was raped, due to her doctors putting her on antibiotics […]
    • deterrent effect of death penalty still a mystery
      The Houston Chronicle recenly reported on the efforts of social scientists to understand whether the death penalty deters potential murderers.  According to the article, research on the issue has historically produced mixed results: In 1967, sociologist Thorsten Sellin found no significant impact when he studied murder rates in adjacent states with differing […]
    • New York Marathon Winner: Not a ‘Real’ American?
      Questions about Meb Keflezighi's 'American' identity after winning the New York City Marathon is the latest example of anti-immigrant and anti-minority backlash among many White Americans.
    • New York Marathon Winner: Not a ‘Real’ American?
      Questions about Meb Keflezighi's 'American' identity after winning the New York City Marathon is the latest example of anti-immigrant and anti-minority backlash among many White Americans.
    • Outsourcing Art
      Peter Hessler, at the New Yorker, discusses the practice of outsourcing art to China. According to Hessler, Chinese people, mostly from the countryside, are trained to paint copies of photographs or paintings en masse and those paintings are sold to tourists elsewhere in the world. Painters pose in their workspace: Paintings to be sold as souvenirs somewhere […]
    • Guest Post: Oral Sex, Vaccines & Other Dangerous Pursuits
      Welcome back guest blogger, Adina Nack.  Adina is an associate professor of Sociology at California Lutheran University specializing in medical sociology, gender inequality and sexual health.  You can visit her online here. We are pleased to feature a post she wrote for us reflecting on recent FDA decisions and a video released by the Oral Cancer Foundation. […]
    • Toronto 2.0
      Notes from North of 49ºN Toronto Mayor David Miller recently unveiled the opening of city datasets on the OpenTO website, ushering in the city’s new era of Gov 2.0.  In less than an hour, the above map of the city’s wards  was generated from the shapefiles.  According to Now Magazine:: “Basically, OpenTO amounts to the city offering [...] […]
    • “The Killer Inside Me” Promo (NSFW! And Major Trigger Warning!)
      Cate M. emailed us about the promo for the movie “The Killer Inside Me,” saying, The level of violence is at NSFW levels and quite possibly one of the most ‘trigger warning’ vids I’ve ever seen used to promote a non-horror film. We get a lot of submissions about sexualized violence toward women, so I thought, “well, ok, we […]
    • What Sources of Sexual Knowledge Correlate with Actual Knowledge?
      The D.C. Council’s Committee on Health released a report after surveying D.C. high school students about sex education (discovered via Feministing).  One of their questions was about the source of sexual health information.  The pie chart below shows that students name, in order, their parents or guardians, health workers, teachers, friends, and boyfriends o […]
    • German Frat Sexes Up the Nursery
      Kay, a student at a University in Munich, sent along an invitation for a Corps Isaria fraternity, or or “Burschenschafts,” party. The cover for the invitation reads “Isarias Gute Kinderstube” which, she explains, “translates literally to good nursery and means something like being well raised, knowing how to behave.” When […]

Posts Tagged ‘PowerPoint’

Social Class – Slideshow with Links

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 14 October, 2009

From class 9/29/2008

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Gender – Slideshows from Class

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 29 September, 2009

Twp presentations from class – Constructing Femininity (Wednesday) and Constructing Masculinity (Friday).


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Chapter 1 Slides

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 13 September, 2009

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PowerPoint – Friday March 27

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 27 March, 2009

We looked at the first half of the slideshow and worked through the concept of Socialization. The slide presentation included a video clip which I will upload if it is possible.

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PowerPoints – Race and Ethnicity

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 21 February, 2009

Here are the two PowerPoint presentations from class regarding ethnicity and race

PowerPoint #1 – Race and Ethnicity (Monday Feb 16)

PowerPoint #2 – Inequality (Friday Feb 20)

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PowerPoint – Social Class

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 13 February, 2009

PowerPoint from class presentation on Social Class

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Constructing Masculinity

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 6 February, 2009

PowerPoint presentation from class on Friday6 February.

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Constructing Femininity – Class presentation/discussion

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 4 February, 2009

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Demographic Transition

Posted by Sr. Edith Bogue on 16 November, 2008

Slides that will be analyzed in class on Monday, 17 November.

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