AN EXPLORATION OF ABLEISM’S IMPACT and a set of thoughtful recommendations for creating a more inclusive society, from entrepreneur/disability activist Tiffany Yu. Wise, insightful, admirably clear, aimed primarily at currently able allies. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-anti-ableist-manifesto-tiffany-yu/1144796202?ean=9780306833663

@bookstodon

Creative Breaking Social Norms Ideas For Students OF LIFE, at any age, and throughout entire life
https://bestprojectideas.com/breaking-social-norms-project-ideas/ #sociology

All healthy humans are innately pro-social, the result of our evolution as a social species and the need for social cohesion.

As we grow up, that innate predisposition to cooperate and get along with others is shaped by the cultures in which we are raised to make us the kind of adults we become.

And as adults we then help shape the further development of our culture.

Are we heading in the right direction?

http://www.aspenproposal.org

Teaching a class on Christian Nationalism in the US at this moment is both really despairing, because it is hard to read all the white supremacy and patriarchy -- this is a toxic political movement -- and also really invigorating because I have a class of smart students grappling with this awfulness with me. #Sociology #SociologyOfReligion #HigherEd #USPol

Words matter.

For a moment let's look beyond Trump's nonsense tariff "plan" which is certain to cause global harms.

Please consider the words this abuser chose to use in defending the tariffs:

"our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered”

I understand the economic damage is occupying everybody's thoughts but we must call Trump out for trivializing sexual assault in this way. Allowing these phrases to go unchallenged is harmful to survivors and affects public discourse / social norms.

April is #SAAM (Sexual Assault Awareness Month) - please call out this sad excuse of a man for his mysogynistic, moronic, and ironic phrasing.

https://business.inquirer.net/517271/trump-global-trade-has-looted-pillaged-raped-plundered-us-economy

@sociology @publichealth #sociology #publichealth #communications #media #Trump #misogyny #abuse #trauma

A GLORIOUS MEDITATION ON BLUE, and on the blues, and on the centrality of the color, the mood, and the music to all of African and diaspora life, but particularly to Black life in the US. Elegant, eloquent, erudite, yet profoundly direct. SOLID A

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-in-blues-imani-perry/1145525940?ean=9780062977397

@bookstodon

My 401k is sinking, but at least my book on Trump’s mental disorders is selling well. Thanks, Donny! #Trump #MAGA #tarriffs #Europe #Canada #Mexico #psychoanalysis #philosophy #sociology #GOP #politics #USA #stockmarket #academia #donaldtrump #TrumpLies #TrumpIsARussianAsset #FuckTrump #trumptariffs #trumpadministration https://a.co/d/bVkT1Ca

Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship”.

Worth taking the time to read and re-read.

Insight after insight, page after page.

About Germany ~1933 - ~1963 but speaking to us now, decades later.

Via @interfluidity and @resnikoff

https://grattoncourses.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/responsibility-under-a-dictatorship-arendt.pdf

Brain rot and the crisis of deep thought in the age of social media

https://www.psypost.org/brain-rot-and-the-crisis-of-deep-thought-in-the-age-of-social-media/

Travelling to "Non-Religion in the Nordic Countries" symposium in Uppsala. The symposium contributes to Nordic perspectives on noneligion, which is a growing area within the Sociology of religion. My presentation explores interconnections between nonreligion, wellbeing and community gardens.
https://www.uu.se/centrum/crs/kalendarium/konferenser/symposium-non-religion-in-the-nordic-countries

When I browse Mastodon at 2:30 a.m. I'm always amazed at the variety of different people that I don't normally encounter every day. Hey everyone, half the world's asleep when you use your social media, and you are missing all of their thoughts.

(11 Dec) How To Know If You’re The Baddies: A Metric For Evil People

Without touching a penny of their existing wealth, while still leaving $500,000 per year income each, the top 1% in America could raise everyone above the poverty line 3,781 times over.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/v6j0z
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/g9awq

#computers #economics #ethics #philosophy #social-justice #society #sociology #evil #poverty #uspol

Science fiction may help foster a sense of global solidarity by evoking awe, study finds

https://www.psypost.org/science-fiction-may-help-foster-a-sense-of-global-solidarity-by-evoking-awe-study-finds/

No one talks enthusiastically and profoundly about Parsons anymore? Well, then you should listen to Daniel Silver on Give Theory a Chance:

https://thesocietypages.org/theory/2025/03/21/daniel-silver-on-talcott-parsons/

Wer oder was treibt Veränderungsprozesse voran?
Danach fragen Jan-Felix Schrape und ich in unserer Ad-hoc-Gruppe "Treiber der Transition?" im Rahmen des DGS-Kongress in Duisburg-Essen. Frist ist Karfreitag (18.4.).
Gerne teilen, noch lieber: Mitdiskutieren!

https://kongress2025.soziologie.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Kongress/Calls/Ad-Hoc_Gruppen/CfP_AdH94_Treiber.pdf

I'm really sick and tired of the "wait it out, the pendulum will swing the other way" types who think the rule of law and societal norms are just going to magically hold. We're looking at a shockingly quick move toward genuine authoritarianism in the United States, with pervasive efforts to crush free speech and dismantle opposition. Do these people think the "pendulum" just "swung the other way" in WWII? Millions of people died on multiple continents to PUSH it the other way. #uspol #sociology

'Social Inflation'

I want to introduce a concept I'll call "social inflation", defined as 'the gradual thinning of the interpersonal resources of a society'. I imagine that the field of sociology has some language for this, but let's pretend I'm coming up with something new.

Economic inflation is something we are long familiar with, as it is just assumed that everything has to always get more expensive as 'standards of living' (for the wealthy) must perpetually increase (not wages, though). Social inflation, however, is impossible to define quantitatively. Leading up to times of turmoil there is a creeping breakdown of relationships that can snap suddenly, a socio-economic depression, to the point that our civil institutions can no longer function. Globally, we may be entering a socio-economic depression that will drastically reshape our states and institutions.

I believe that social and economic inflation, essentially the drawdown of resources that support our civic institutions, is driven by technological grifting and worker exploitation. #Luddite platforms simultaneously address workers rights and techno-scams. The foundation of #Luddism, to me, is addressing these two intertwining factors, by rejecting the hyper-technological 'growth' used to justify the 'trickle down' approach to economics that exploits workers and destroys the planet. #usPol #SolarPunk #Sociology #PoliticalScience