Just a couple of links to look at...
Danny Dorling - Why Social Inequality Persists
Max Weber, one of the three main "fathers of sociology," contributed to our understanding of the sociological perspective, to the nature of social change, and to the nature of social inequality.
Wednesday 25 April 2012
Sociology Blogs - How to really do it.
This blog is significantly better than mine, 'DJ Academe Teaching sociology with videos' click here to go straight to the inequality stuff. Here are a few of the videos...
and this MIA video is just tha bomb, peeps!
and this MIA video is just tha bomb, peeps!
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Brown Eyes vs Blue Eyes
http://ww.janeelliott.com/
wiki Jane Elliott
How Racist AreYou?
Jane Elliott, the American schoolmarm who would rid us of our racism.
American schoolteacher Jane Elliott invented the concept of diversity training in response to racial tension in 60s America. Forty years later she's trying the same techniques on British TV… with rather less success, writes Andrew Anthony.
Here!
Monday 23 April 2012
The Naked Rambler
"We can either end up living a life that others expect of us or lives based on our own truth. The difference is the difference between living a conscious life or one that is unconscious. And that's the difference between living and not living."
Read this.
UPDATE: He's OUT!
UPDATE: He's BACK INSIDE!
UPDATE: They think he's MAD! Or is it our CULTURE that's mad? YOU decide!
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| This man has balls. |
"We can either end up living a life that others expect of us or lives based on our own truth. The difference is the difference between living a conscious life or one that is unconscious. And that's the difference between living and not living."
Read this.
UPDATE: He's OUT!
UPDATE: He's BACK INSIDE!
UPDATE: They think he's MAD! Or is it our CULTURE that's mad? YOU decide!
Monday 16 April 2012
Inequality - The Gender Pay Gap
'The truth about why women are paid less - even if they ask for more. New research shows that women who haggle over money are seen as 'less nice' by their bosses'.
Why having a penis is worth £10,000. Tanya Gold on why women get paid less.
Equal Pay - The Facts
Equal Pay is still an issue. In the UK, women get paid, on average, 15.5% less than men. Why is this? And what can be done about it?
Gender pay gap widens to £10,500 for managers, CMI says. The gap between how much male and female managers are paid has widened by £500 to £10,546 in the past year, a study suggests.
Sunday 8 April 2012
Upside Down - by Eduardo Galeano (1998) - A2 Inequality
In 1960, the richest 20 percent of humanity had thirty times as much as the poorest 20 percent. By 1990, that figure had increased to seventy times. And the scissors continue to open: in the year 2000 the gap will be ninety times.
Between the richest of the rich, who appear on the pornofinancial pages of Forbes and Fortune, and the poorest of the poor, who appear on the streets and in the fields, the chasm is even greater. A pregnant woman in Africa is a hundred times more likely to die than a pregnant woman in Europe. The value of pet products sold annually in the United States is four times the GNP of Ethiopia. The sales of just the two giants General Motors and Ford easily surpass the value of all black Africa's economies. According to the United Nations Development Program, "Ten people, the ten richest men on the planet, own wealth equivalent to the value of the total production of fifty countries, and 447 multimillionaires own a greater fortune than the annual income of half of humanity." The head of this UN agency, James Gustave Speth, declared in 1997 that over the past half century the number of rich people doubled while the number of poor tripled and that 1.6 billion people were worse off than they had been only fifteen years earlier.
Read more here...
The Battle of Orgreave - BBC doctored footage?
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An example from history of the media, in this case the BBC, allegedly doctoring footage to back the government of the time. Below, a few links for background info and an italicised quote from one to give you a brief intro...
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In 1984, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) went on strike. On 18 June, thousands of miners bravely defended themselves from police batons, snatch squads and cavalry charges in a field outside Orgreave coking plant near Rotherham in Yorkshire. Scandalously, the BBC – acting as part of the state’s propaganda machine – reversed the footage of the attack so that it looked as if the miners instigated the violence. The BBC was forced to issue an apology for this ‘mistake’ – but only in 1991.
China does it too, of course...
China TV 'substitutes Top Gun for air force footage'
Friday 6 April 2012
Thursday 5 April 2012
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