The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

Sociologist Ann Swidler calls these strategies “ cultural repertoires.” And even while many parents aspire to have their children go to college, our cultural repertoires for attaining that goal are different. Natasha Warikoo is professor of sociology at Tufts University and a former Guggenheim fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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MARCH 29, 2021

When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.” When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture,” she said. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That’s one of the key questions raised by the book “ Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.” That makes it difficult for universities like UC Riverside and UC Merced to provide all the teaching, advising, mental health and cultural resources that benefit college students. They are Laura T.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. million book images from the Internet Archive. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

In general, teachers don’t have the kind of voice that other professionals typically do,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor of education and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. But while school culture is important, it can’t alter some of the structural issues driving people from the profession, such as low pay.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

At a big institution, it’s easier to be around people who have similar backgrounds in terms of your culture and even your race,” said Mai Xiong, reflecting on her experience when she attended the University of Minnesota. “I I wanted to be in a certain dorm because I wanted to live with my friends.”. It just sort of happens.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. There’s a fundamental disrespect for these students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2018

When elite admissions offices stepped up recruitment of low-income and first-generation students several years ago, they focused on financial aid, not noticing the cultural issues. When held in November, it was standing-room-only in the small room they booked. Last fall at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.,

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

In his groundbreaking book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature (2024), Slimak delves into the depths of Neanderthal life, challenging preconceived notions and offering a fresh perspective on what it means to be human. Slimak asserts. "We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Researchers say that’s because they feel out of step with campus culture. He’s coauthor of the book “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America.” Just since 2016, the proportion of rural students who enroll in college has dropped even more. Criminal justice. Philosophy. Political science.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 17, 2024

He then served in the US Army in for two years (1952–54) and as a government researcher in Germany before earning a PhD in cultural anthropology in 1961 from the University of London, with certificates in African and Islamic law and Swahili at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) in 1958. He authored two books with Virginia H.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 12, 2023

The divisions they display for the most part don’t correspond to any familiar type of boundaries — political, natural, or cultural. His book, The Races of Europe (1899), is a prime example of this pseudoscientific approach to anthropology, but it was relatively non-controversial at the time. So what do they denote? railway policy.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The response from readers was unlike any he had experienced, prompting him to expand his ideas into a book, B t Jobs: A Theory , first published in 2018. The book has been translated into many languages, and while it has been criticized for some rather broad generalizations, he clearly struck a chord.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

That was apparent in January when the Board of Governors for Florida’s state university system, in approving regulations for the new anti-DEI law, also removed sociology from the list of courses that meet general education requirements. (On On the social platform X, Education Commissioner Manny Diaz berated sociology as “woke ideology.”)

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2025

Based on seven years of research, my recent book, Being Dead Otherwise , explores the explosion of initiatives, businesses, and services generically referred to as ending activity ( shkatsu ). Editors note: This essay was adapted from the authors book Being Dead Otherwise.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

We speculated what colleges might have to say if the court told them they could no longer prioritize children of donors, something for which panelist Natasha Warikoo, a Tufts sociology professor and author, has long advocated.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Two chairs by the fireplace sit ready for one-on-one tutoring, a cluster of ottomans nearby can accommodate a study group, and spaces to hunker down with a book or notes abound: a couch by the front door layered with pillows and blankets, a desk tucked into a corner, a fire table on the patio, and a backyard.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

In particular, I looked at how technologies such as x-rays and MRI is, as well as more simple technologies such as books shaped how we understand bodies and health. 1995) ‘The rise of surveillance medicine’ Sociology of Health & Illness, 17(3): 393-404. Armstrong, D. Petersen, AR. and Lupton, D. London: Sage Publications.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It feels like a broader attack on truthweve moved backwards, Natasha Warikoo, a professor of sociology at Tufts who has written widely on affirmative action, told me. Shes among those who believe in its benefits, supported by a large body of research.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

It’s a business major aimed at turning out what it says will be future corporate leaders, for which students also are required to take philosophy, language, culture and other humanities courses toward an eventual degree in business. “We More than three-quarters favor applicants who understand other cultures. How will you find a job?’”.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Whitaker to discuss his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. You write about how that census was then used in the 1890s by the statistician Frederick Hoffman in his book, Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. And she publishes a book called Southern Horrors.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2025

Its definitely more political than it is fiscal or policy-oriented, said Selingo, who is also the author of several books on higher education. The courses removed from Floridas 12 state universities were primarily sociology, anthropology and history courses. Universities havent done what certain politicians wanted them to do, he added.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2021

Conservative legislators across the country are passing laws to ban books and courses that espouse critical race theory — scholarship born in the 1970s that examines the role that racism plays in our daily lives. I learned about critical race theory in grad school along with plenty of other sociological concepts that have since faded away.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Its about understanding the broader contexteconomic conditions, cultural shifts, and unforeseen events like debates and media coverageall of which can change the outcome at the last minute. and in the Department of Sociology at American University. His recent book is entitled Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Thanks, T.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

A scholarly book or article about history or philosophy counts. So does a local oral-history project, an art exhibit, or a dinner-table conversation about books, movies, or music. Ortiz, directs the MA in Engaged and Public Humanities Program at Georgetown University, where hes a professor of Latinx literatures and cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The program, organized by a Kentucky-based nonprofit of the same name, had brought together 14 students from four universities in the state — a mix of secular, religious, urban and rural institutions — as part of a semester-long course on developing ways to communicate with people of different races, religions, cultures, politics and worldviews.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Wendy Luttrell, a professor of urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center and author of the book “Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens,” said an increase in pregnant and parenting teens is a “commonsense prediction.”

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