#other sociologist

[liccy]

I want to see people's routine when a scantily clad empty blog starts stalking you.

Please reblog to obtain a larger sample size, thanks!

#non art post #polls #being on mobile #i find myself #accidentally following #and i hate it #i just want to know #how common that happens #but I'm curious #of other’s reactions #my inner sociologist #demands data!

[cruelsister-moved2]

im sooooo sick of neopagans thinking they invented stuff that literally every religion thats not modern american evangelicalism already has 💀 i dont care if u want to light candles in ur bedroom or whatever, but even when youre swinging at “normie” religions ur still missing like okay catholics LOVE altars. jewish liturgy celebrates moon cycles. whatever youre trying to articulate about an all encompassing divinity of universal love was probably said in verse by a persian muslim centuries ago. your american christian/atheist background is a huge outlier in the global history of religion: it’s not even that you’re missing some niche exception, it’s literally that your entire perspective on “organised religion” is based on an outlier 💀

#this woman being like wicca is awesome because it doesnt teach fire and brimstone to children. #okay. good news about how many religions believe in the fire and brimstone concept. #and wicca is a funny example because its so infamously like. culturally appropriative and downright racist #like i agree it does less harm than evangelicalism but thats just because it does less of anything...... #it's more of a hobby than a religion #+ belief in the supernatural is both subjective + literally only one of like 8 markers of religiosity that sociologists study #fixation on that in particular ltierally stems from the UNIQUELY faith-based and exclusive model of xtianity #anyway this is why i believe in religious educationand w the additional benefit of learning abt other religions might help xtians of certain #stripes to realise how like abnormally fucked up their communities are #also most neopaganism is literally xtianity-jesus like the underlying concepts are so christian but theyll still be like fuck those #abrahamic religions. like okay you honestly are just an xtian holding an incense stick what does this have to do with me

[cthulhubert]

Some day I'd love to read a story about an alien visiting Earth, and we get a bunch of mileage out of how weird Geflorbians are. But it turns out it's just an extremely weird Geflorbian, and the typical Geflorbian is actually extremely similar to the typical Earthling.

#words #original #just getting kind of bored of the default alien basically being an autistic human #actually now that I've written this it kinda reminds me of this short thing I wrote once #with an alien sociologist explaining their peoples' behaviors and the other aliens getting angry at it #because that's just 'normal stuff' not weird psycho-social stuff like the alien is saying

[lucyvsky]

love hate relationship. with sociology. this quarter. on one hadn sociology. the subject. very cool very interesting. enjoying. on the other hand. my teacher is on some bullshit sometimes

#while she is generally well intentioned. with placing emphasis on corporate influence to our consumption of products. she then goes and puts #the pressure on individual people to reduce carbon footprints. which you can and should do but i feel like she does not address the scale #at which these actions are meaningless in the face of larger corporations. while we should all aspire to be better. about our consumption #it is not the individuals fault. unless you are a billionare. in my opinionnnnnn. #also shes lowkey fatphobic. ive been trying to figure out if this is a result of phd in sociology. or consuming fatphobic documentaries. or #personal bias. regardless it is weird and off putting and it makes me uncomfortable.......... and she also . not fully blames but does blam #people for being fat. which like. please youre literally a sociologist teaching about social problems. i feel like you have other prioritie #also the afformentioned. bothsidsing it of israel's genocide. most likely a result . of how proud she is that she does not consume american #news coverage. ONLY BRITISH. i feel as though this may be worse. that she only gets news from the bbc. famously. supporters of israel. #she has not explicitly talked about palestine in class but she did mention it basically exactly the same way as that question did. earlier #this quarter. which is such a bullshit cop out for talking about genocide. #sorry for conducting a profile of beliefs of my sociology teacher shes just been on my mind. need to explode her or something

[revengeromance]

99% of lgbt discourse over the past 5 years is just teenagers with a specific insecurity that they want to make everyone’s problem

#for example most people who parroted ‘only gay men can say faggot’ discourse #(in my personal experience) #were/are young trans mascs who are insecure in their identities and want something just for themselves… #often ignoring like… actual lgbt history lol! #I’m not a sociologist or anything so I don’t KNOW what I’m saying #but from what I’ve seen this has been the case… #anyway just thinking out loud here #this can probably be applied to other topics but I don’t know any!

[huntunderironskies]

The struggle between "this is a really good idea for some homebrew mechanics and my need for instant gratification means I want to share it immediately" versus "I should probably actually experience this game from a player-facing point of view before trying to design power sets for it."

(This is about Changeling, I have two Contracts that originated from the Wilmington setting I've written. One is from the Court of Breath, which are a group of Changelings who've organized under a Strix, the other is the Contract of the Phial which is. Well. (: Let's just say my persistent obsession with Jacques Ellul plays into it.)

#razolutions #the other issue is I don't have a full set of four common +four royal yet #i'm two short on both #sorry to mal who constantly has to deal with my love letters to an obscure french sociologist and lay theologian #and anyone who has to read my academic work

[babymyleopard]

honestly? yes. I need validation, I feel the most alive when I am around others and I only feel beautiful when there's someone else's eyes upon me.

THIS is what makes us human. it's not a flaw or weakness. we are social creatures and we need to relate and socialize.

#being a sociologist that's what always fascinated me abou society as a concept #but at the same time I've been ashamed of that for all my life #my mother raised me to believe being independent and strong is abandoning humanity #I'm listening to Barbara's book while I wait for the physical copy to arrive #and that's what she is saying to me #the simple possibility of us understanding other's experiences being capable of empathy is what I think is wonderful about us people #people who need people etc etc

[so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site]

So, in the course of starting and subsequently scrapping at least two further meta essays, I think I've come upon a frustrating phenomenon of fandom that I've decided to term "should've stayed in the classroom". It's related to "should've stayed in the drafts" and "fandom wank" BUT the original poster has a legitimately good point that is unfortunately completely wasted in the fandom social media format, which lacks the understood terms of debate, simultaneous approach to the same source material, pretense of expert moderation, and teeth-clenched dedication to at least surface level politeness and good faith that academic debate does.

(Ever seen a paper titled something like "A measured response to [someone else's paper]"? Someone is about to try and tear a bitch apart, but they can't *say* it)

Of course, academia has a litany of institutionalized issues that, frustratingly, often parallel those in fandom and social media. HOWEVER, there is something to be said about how social media is essentially a busy street corner you're shouting on-- even if the Shouting Street Corner Guy is saying something important or that you like, you're unlikely to listen to him there rather than at something like a conference or structured debate. Such debate is NOT going to happen on the street corner. It's vital to bring such ideas to the wider world, and admittedly I have no idea how, but the random street corner shouting isn't it.

So yeah, if you're wondering what happened to some of my planned essays, I took a look at how the arguments were shaping up and decided they Should Stay in the Classroom. The observations were either too dense for the likely random-passerby reader, angry in tone, or easy to take in bad faith outside of specific context.

#one was an expansion about misogynistic handling of characters in The Sandman books #the other was about how fandom as we know it was not just made in the 60s but has in many was not developed at all since the 60s #I took a look and went “some of these quotes will either end up way out of context” and “an actual sociologist needs to take this one” #fandom #fandom problems #fandom meta #original post

[brambletakato]

biggest author green flag ever is if they know the difference between archaeology and paleontology or something similar to that. Yes the fields often intersect but NO they are not the same thing!!

#It's just like how some people think psychology and sociology are the same thing #psychology is a special interest of mine but I SUUUUUCKED at sociology classes #those two fields come into contact with each-other a lot BUT #that does NOT mean a psychologist knows about sociology and vice versa #YES because of psychology we can provide more context to sociologist theories because the two works so closely to each-other #and YES because of sociology we can provide more context to psychologist theories #but thats additional context not the source #am i making any sense idk

[moleshow]

oh. there’s the problem

#what is WRONG with sociologists #the other part i get. but something is rotten in denmark. #and by denmark i mean the field of sociology

[bazingerrr]

Did you all know that I’ve been falling into a deep hole where I can feel myself disconnect from myself and view myself not as me but as a person separate from my being, the more I think of myself as a human and watch old videos of myself all I feel is the urge to talk to her but she doesn’t exist because she is me and I can’t interact with her in a way that is truly real because we are the sa-

OH MY GOD THE RIDDLER TAG UPDATED!! :DD

#tw vent #? #anyway I feel much better after looking at the riddler because he is sooooo my bf guys totally #hahahaa… #ha #when I get like this I like to stare at my mirror for a bit and it makes me feel more like myself #is that strange?? #I’m pretty sure it’s normal because my other friend told me they need to calibrate themselves too #it’s like an apple pen getting disconnected from an iPad #you just need to #tweak #it slightly #and presto! you ar working functionally like a team #call me the sociologist functionalist Parsons’ idea of society because I am a body working together to complete goals harmoniously !!

[rooh-afza]

yeah maybe I’m biased as someone with a degree in anthropology but I don’t think gansey would be a sociologist I think he’d be an anthropologist and specifically an archaeologist. maybe that’s cliche but whatever. and if blue were an anthropologist she’d be an ethnobotanist btw

#but I think the tension between anthropologist gansey and sociologist blue would be funny. neither knows what the other does and they both #think their discipline is better. and maybe the sarchengsey break up happened bc henry was a psych major #rooh.txt

[thegayestmusic]

Continuing on my blogging of letters from Watson. My guess is that Brunton found the ‘treasure’, which was the wooden box containing coins, and got trapped in the place it was buried and just died of starvation. As for the woman (forgot her name sorry :/) she helped Brunton lift the stone, witnessed him getting trapped and could do nothing to help him. Went back to the house crying for help but everyone thought she was crazy. Then committed suicide in guilt that she unintentionally buried a man alive. Will add in the tags if I was right or not!

#sherlock holmes #letters from watson #the musgrave ritual #ahh I was right about Brunton being buried alive #didn’t think the woman had the guts to straight up kill him #I completely forgot about the bag with the trinkets but if I remembered it I would have come as far as ‘Brunton handed it to the woman’ #also the woman is alive and got away with killing her cheating ex? don’t know if I should feel happy for her #I mean #Holmes did imply that Brunton also abused her but it’s all just conjecture #I’m going with murder is bad even if you ex is a scumbag so she did a bad #other then that #good on Holmes for finding an artifact of historical importance #the sociologist in me is appreciative #best part of this story is the intro though 100% Sherlock adhd icon

[dangerclaw]

So you’re telling me aliens can be cars, but people can’t be genderfluid???

The math isn’t mathing

#transformers #America explain #wait math isn’t America’s strong suit #anyways I find it ridiculous that we have so much discrimination against the LGBTQ community #when there’s so many queer allegories in popular pieces of media #honestly a symptom of society’s lack of media literacy #people don’t want to analyze and assess what they consume #and where’s the joy in that??? #weird way to live tbh #could not be me #the transformers are so queer #genderfluidity #genderfluid #people are so scared of gender #when it’s just a concept #like calm down #because how traditional gender norms have pervaded in other facets of society #people don’t understand how to separate gender from everything else in life #but idk I’m just spitballing #I’m no sociologist

[dampfoxes]

not to be dramatic but

#I might end up physically brawling with my history lecturer #we're not even 4 weeks in and we have major beef #because she's setting these readings right? I'm doing the readings. I'm taking it all in. #and she always puts in a really controversial piece #one week it was a statistician that was wrong about smth in the 70s #last week it was a flame piece on mary seacole from the sociologist who founded the florence nightingale society #anyway she keeps being really weird and defensive about these articles that have SO many issues #and in class I discuss it with the other students and with her and I bring receipts and notes and I have a handle on my argument #and SHE the TEACHER a lot of the time will just not be familiar with the section I'm making a point about #and will be like 'lol I guess I should read it again' LIKE???? #lady you don't even know what's in the assigned readings? #and even when she does know what myself and others are talking about she's still super defensive!!! #that should not be the point of a class discussion!! you're meant to facilitate debate! #also it's just so wild that she was on mckeown's dick so much because he was just flat out wrong #and we've known he was wrong two of my lifetimes ago #and yet she's still teaching his work and the less critical of my classmates are just going to take that with them.......... #like okay cool what else should I be wary of in these classes and should I bring boxing gloves to the next tutorial

[fairuzfan]

Epistemicide can be broadly defined as the destruction of knowledge systems and the knowledge that they generate. The Latin American sociologist Ramón Grosfoguel explains how epistemicide played a crucial role in Europe's colonization of the rest of the world, including the settler colonization of the Americas. It granted European philosophy an “epistemic privilege,” allowing it to become the “new foundation of knowledge in the modern/colonial world.”

In other words, it created a world in which only knowledge produced by European colonists and settlers was deemed legitimate, while colonized societies were compelled to construct new systems from scratch — often mirroring those of their colonizers — because their own systems had been destroyed. As a result, the structural conditions of knowledge production that facilitated the mechanisms of their colonialization also imposed constraints on their liberation.

#palestine #gaza