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Full-Text Articles in Educational Sociology
Toward A Cleaner Whiteness: New Racial Identities, David Ingram
Toward A Cleaner Whiteness: New Racial Identities, David Ingram
David Ingram
The article re-examines racial and ethnic identity within the context of pedagogical attempts to instill a positive white identity in white students who are conscious of the history of white racism and white privilege. The paper draws heavily from whiteness studies and developmental cognitive science in arguing (against Henry Giroux and Stuart Hall) that a positive notion of white identity, however postmodern its construction, is an oxymoron, since whiteness designates less a cultural/ethnic ethos and meaningful way of life than a pathological structure of privilege and narrowminded cognitive habitus.
Bits Of Belonging:Information Technology, Water, And Neoliberal Governance In India, Simanti Dasgupta
Bits Of Belonging:Information Technology, Water, And Neoliberal Governance In India, Simanti Dasgupta
Simanti Dasgupta
India’s global success in the Information Technology industry has also prompted the growth of neoliberalism and the re-emergence of the middle class in contemporary urban areas, such as Bangalore. BITS of Belonging shows that this economic shift produces new forms of social inequality while reinforcing older ones. The study investigates this economic disparity by looking at IT and water privatization to explain how these otherwise unrelated domains correspond to our thinking about citizenship, governance, and belonging. The ethnographic study in this book shows how work and human processes in the IT industry intertwine to meet the market stipulations of the …
Utilizing The Past To Shape The Future: The Rehabilitation Of Child Soldiers In Darfur, Michael K. Marriott
Utilizing The Past To Shape The Future: The Rehabilitation Of Child Soldiers In Darfur, Michael K. Marriott
Michael K Marriott
Child soldiering, an unfortunate reality of war, has become increasingly common in modern warfare. With world attention focused on the genocide taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan, issues regarding the use of child soldiers in the conflict have come to light. By providing an overview of the use of child soldiers both globally and in Sudan, discussing the relevant legal norms theoretically governing the country and providing a case study on Sierra Leone, this paper ultimately provides an analysis and proposed framework for comprehensive programs that could be put into action after cessation of hostilities in an attempt …
Sunday Friends: The Working Alternative To Charity, James D. Lee, Yoko Baba, Claudio V. Sanchez, Rebecca Wang, Chelsey White
Sunday Friends: The Working Alternative To Charity, James D. Lee, Yoko Baba, Claudio V. Sanchez, Rebecca Wang, Chelsey White
James D. Lee
Sunday Friends is a non-profit organization in San José, California, that provides multiple activities for families who are in need of financial support. Given the particular location of the program, most families are Latino and bilingual. Participants and program volunteers form a community at an elementary school on a couple of scheduled Sundays each month. When family members participate in activities designed to educate, improve skills, and to give back to the larger community, they earn tickets that they can redeem for items that they need and want from the Sunday Friends store. Activities include healthy cooking projects, “Thank You …
Perceived Drinking Norms, Attention To Social Comparison Information, And Alcohol Use Among College Students, Katherine Novak
Perceived Drinking Norms, Attention To Social Comparison Information, And Alcohol Use Among College Students, Katherine Novak
Katherine B. Novak
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Anaheim, CA, August 17-19, 2001.
Public Self-Consciousness And Embarrassability As Predictors Of Alcohol Use Among College Students, Katherine Novak
Public Self-Consciousness And Embarrassability As Predictors Of Alcohol Use Among College Students, Katherine Novak
Katherine B. Novak
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, CA, August 18-21, 2001
Social Determinants Of Responsiveness To Situational Influence: Self-Monitoring, Alcohol Use And Binge Drinking Among College Students, Katherine Novak, Lizabeth Crawford
Social Determinants Of Responsiveness To Situational Influence: Self-Monitoring, Alcohol Use And Binge Drinking Among College Students, Katherine Novak, Lizabeth Crawford
Katherine B. Novak
Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. August, 1999. Chicago, IL.