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Theories of Crime and Deviance

ShortCutsTV

Three short(ish) films dredged-up from The Archive (Im not exactly sure which Archive but it probably sounds more-authentic than found on an old neglected hard drive) that provide a good overview of the major theoretical strands in the history of sociological theorising about crime and deviance.

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Social Theory Podcast Episode 2 – WEB Du Bois

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

We had a really good chat about his work and its importance for sociology but it was also interesting to hear Lisa’s take on his significance for criminology. For episode 2 of the Social Theory Podcast I spoke to Dr Lisa Long about the monumentally important sociologist and activist WEB Du Bois.

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Social Theory Podcast Launch – Marx

This Is Not a Sociology Blog

Probably the best and most easily accessible source for writing by and about Marx’s the Marxists Internet Archive which houses a huge amount of material: www.marxists.org/ The text by Marx referred to most frequently in the episode is Capital (sometimes called Das Kapital): www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Also mentioned a couple of times (..)

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. . Washington University in St.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Du Bois ultimately became a leader of sociology and Black intellectual thought, and one of his later texts, “Darkwater,” was a poetic autobiographical collection of essays, poems and prose.

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Revisiting the Spiritual Violence of BS Jobs

Sapiens

Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. Read more from the archives: “ The Anthropology Professor in an Amazon Warehouse.”

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The Real CSI

ShortCutsTV

To which end, the upshot of all this collaborative enterprise and expertise is an archive of […]