Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development: Experiments with Kids
Sep 15, 2009 · Jean Piaget, a psychologist who published his most influential works from the late 1920s through the 1950s, is most known for his theory of stages of cognitive development. He suggested a four-stage model that children go through as they develop more complex reasoning skills. Children start out in the sensorimotor stage, which lasts until they ...
White Trash: The Social Origins of a Stigmatype
Jun 21, 2013 · The stigma of white trash remains an active part of our fevered cultural imagination, even as some try to reclaim the phrase as a badge of rebellious honor. But few who use the term today—either proudly or as a shaming slur—seem to know about its deep historical entanglements with the politics of sex, race, and class.
Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence
Jul 24, 2013 · Colorblindness vs. Race-Consciousness—An American Ambivalence. Meghan A. Burke. Special Feature. July 24, 2013. Consider the setting: a racially diverse urban neighborhood where organizers and most residents take a tremendous amount of pride in their community’s racial diversity. But many still think the black kids in their community don ...
Home - Sociological Images
Lisa Wade, PhD, is the founder of Sociological Images. Born and raised in California, she earned a BA in philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, an MA in human sexuality from NYU, and a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is an Associate Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, with appointments in Sociology, Gender ...
Possibly the most exhaustive study of “manspreading” ever …
Feb 8, 2017 · A 1979 German Photo Book Traces Manspreading Back to Ancient Civilizations – Arkadian Times — February 9, 2017. […] ever published. Translated into English in 1984, the photobook, brought to Slate’s attention by Tristan Bridges at Sociological Images, contains around 5,000 photographs of men and women in a wide range of postures and ...
Sex Discrimination in Sports and Society: Why Transgender …
Sep 7, 2023 · My own collaborative research results from the 2018-19 National Sports and Society Survey (NSASS), that asked 4,000 U.S. adults about the extent to which they (dis)agreed with allowing transgender athletes to compete with their choice of male or female athletes found majority support for transgender athletes’ rights to choose. Taken together, these findings show increasing opposition to ...
The Society Pages
Sociological Images. World Suffering. CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike. The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of Minnesota.
NACIREMA: UPDATING A CLASSIC TO SEE YOUR OWN CULTURE …
May 31, 2014 · Nacirema, that “exotic”, far-off place where people do “strange” things is one of the best ways to help students look at American culture as an observer rather than as the standard by which all other cultures should be compared. The paper, written by University of Chicago trained anthropologist Horace Miner was originally published in 1956.
The social construction of race: fuzzy boundaries
Sep 10, 2020 · Generally, racial categories are constructed based on superficial biological characteristics of individuals such as skin tone, hair texture and color, eye shape, etc. To argue that the socially constructed racial categories are “natural” means that each category has to have definable boundaries.
Is Breaking the Law Bad? Practical vs. Moral Approaches to the Law
Apr 8, 2016 · Practical vs. Moral Approaches to the Law. Lisa Wade, PhD on April 8, 2016. Flashback Friday. Americans tend to conflate the law and morality. We believe, that is, that we make things illegal because they’re immoral. While we might admit that there are exceptions, we tend to think that our laws generally reflect what is right and wrong, not a ...