Sociology is something that you do, not something that you read. Erving Goffman

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http://www.rawstory.com/2014/12/clinical-psychologist-explains-how-ayn-rand-helped-turn-the-us-into-a-selfish-and-greedy-nation/ Clinical psychologist explains how Ayn Rand helped turn the US into a selfish and greedy nation Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet 15 Dec 2014 at 03:27 ET The ‘Atlas Shrugged’ author made selfishness heroic and caring about others weakness. This story first appeared at AlterNet. Ayn Rand’s “philosophy” is nearly perfect in its immorality, which…

https://thesocietypages.org/specials/white-trash/   Matt Wray Special Feature June 21, 2013

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-3-what-exactly-is-neoliberalism-wendy-brown-undoing-the-demos   Timothy Shenk ▪ April 2, 2015 Booked is a monthly series of Q&As with authors by Dissent contributing editor Timothy Shenk. For this interview, he spoke with Wendy Brown about her new book Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books, 2015). Climate change, a crippled welfare state, the 2008 financial crisis, skyrocketing income inequality, political disappointments reaching…

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/white-trash-history-reveals-why-class-is-crucial-in-u-s-election-1.3703775 Air Date: Aug 02, 2016 12:00 AM ET with Anna Maria Tremonti Author Nancy Isenberg on her book “White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America” and the roles of race and class in this year’s presidential election.   here is the transcript: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-august-2-2016-1.3703739/august-2-2016-full-episode-transcript-1.3704740 Tuesday August 02, 2016 August 2, 2016 full…

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/?utm_source=atlfb   Alec MacGillis and ProPublica September 2016 Issue The Atlantic Sometime during the past few years, the country started talking differently about white Americans of modest means. Early in the Obama era, the ennobling language of campaign pundits prevailed. There was much discussion of “white working-class voters,” with whom the Democrats, and especially Barack…

http://www.theestablishment.co/2016/05/24/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump/ by Jonna Ivin I’m just a poor white trash motherfucker. No one cares about me. I met the man who said those words while working as a bartender in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. It was a one-street town in Benton County. It had a beauty parlor, a gas station, and a bar…

http://diverseeducation.com/article/85667/ by Matthew Lynch Diversity on college campuses is ever-evolving, thanks in big part to the students who attend. The student population determines the level of advocacy on particular campuses and also the basic makeup of the diversity. As all of us who are a part of the college and university landscape look ahead to…

by TracyShildrick, RobertMacDonald   The Sociological Review Volume 61, Issue 2 May 2013 Pages 285–303 Original article Abstract Drawing on life history interviews with sixty men and women in north-east England who were caught up in ‘the low-pay, no-pay cycle’, this article describes how people living in poverty talk about poverty – in respect of…