Oh bby.

We'd say we're studying health psychology, but really we'd get into sexual health. I think it'll help with the MCAT.

I have to think about it and look around. I'm just now starting to finally read for pleasure again. Grad school really burned me out. I remember by the end I was having a really hard time of things...cognitively....I wasn't sleeping, was experiencing disorganized and racing thoughts, had difficulty focusing, was anxious, wasn't tending to my ADLs properly, depression, anxiety, it was terrible. Academic induced psychosis IMO. I was in my late 30s though, less fluid intelligence and more crystallized intelligence. Your shit is young and fluid still, you will be fine

I'll think about this and look around. I'm not envious. Still though, I could hit the books for another year or two and get an MSN and become a nurse practitioner....they make a decent chunk more than I make.

But anything written by Macionis is going to be good as sociology goes.

If you really want to dive into the more subversive stuff, check out the Strong Programme, which is part of the SSK (Sociology of Scientific Knowledge) movement. This is very serious stuff, so serious they call it Strong Sociology (critical theory) vs. what they viewed as Weak Sociology which viewed things through rosey (structural functionalist IMO) glasses. Even their journals were different, because they would add pictures of the author of the journal writing the journal to remind the readers that they were humans working rather than using huge emblems that convey authority and infallibility. It is really neat stuff. I would have never even learned about it had I not taken a Science, Technology, and Philosophy class.

I know the sociology of food is another thing the big texts tend to ignore but is really important....It is described as:


It is amazing the differences of having a rice vs wheat based society can cause in the development of people, such as the tendency for rice growers to work together very closely to create less calories and how individualism was cultivated in the West for example because so many calories could be grow in such a small space.....so effectively that a Malthusian disaster caused a large chunk of Europe to die in plague. Or how monoculturing a crop, like potatoes, can cause a national disaster and crisis, such as in Ireland. How food distribution in the United States is so stratified based on race and class, with outright food deserts in some areas, and other areas where you have three or four grocery stores in the same neighborhood and sometimes parking lot...in our Ridge neighborhood, by Hyde Park (fart in wine glasses and sniff for enjoyment) Meijer and Target share a lot, and behind them is a Kroger megastore....but you can't buy a banana or tomato in Over the Rhine or Avondale. Buses there run every two hours and if you're coming from one of the poor neighbors I mentioned you have to at least ride a bus downtown then catch another across town to get there. That is just a local example...you learn about it and you start to see it everywhere.

One of the big things is the intersection of society and health and Social Determinants of Health. This is healthcare and governing (biopower) becoming more technocratic and authority slipping away from tradition and into knowledge.

Intersectionality is pretty important and what I think the oncoming paradigm is going to be in the social sciences. So far, mostly due to the way universities are structured, knowledge is very fragmented and compartmentalized into little groups and sub groups that almost exist as their own discourses in a vacuum and autonomously, as if they really exist (in the way Greeks thought numbers existed, objectively). This has led to the explosion of identity-based commodities, including identity politics. Because of how divisive things have become the challenge of unifying the body of knowledge we have becomes the only clear way forward, while trying to avoid the old dichotomies that we've ran into in the past. I just hope the hard-core feminists don't ruin it....but if anything can make feminism more productive again it would be intersectionality, because of its emphasis on class and race as well as gender. The idea that privilege is contingent on time/space is pretty revolutionary, because it contradicts a lot of what sociology has put out about privilege in the past. Here is a link to a pretty good guide on Intersectionality that I recommend: https://www.sfu.ca/iirp/documents/resources/101_Final.pdf

I'll think about new and relevant things for ya, I'm just braindead after the day I had today. I pretty much faced a firing squad and really had to fight some people who wanted to act in a really concretely fascist way.

This post was edited by Skinned on Mar 30 2017 08:40pm

I know you asked Skinned, but your question here was interesting. It's hard to think of something without knowing exactly what's covered or what type of questions they ask on the MCAT.

If you ever want to check out a multi-part documentary on sociology and health though, then I would recommend Unnatural Causes. It's a little bit dated, in that I think it first came out about 10 years ago. However, it is the first thing that came to mind.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/unnaturalcauses

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/326796-trump-appears-to-forget-to-sign-executive-orders

This guy is really something

hes the president he can do whatever the fuck he wants lol

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/29/global-anger-and-dismay-after-trump-slams-brakes-us-climate-action

"While world leaders, scientists, and policy makers expressed outrage and skepticism about the president's move, they also vowed to step up and increase climate change mitigation in the absence of U.S. leadership."

"The Guardian's Damian Carrington also argued that it is "far from fanciful to imagine other nations penalizing future U.S. goods if they are produced with dirty energy."

""If 'America First' means you want to lead, then you can't turn the clock back and rely on a century-old technology. You're missing the train," Thomas Stocker, a climate scientist at the University of Bern, Switzerland, told the New York Times about Trump's push to reinvigorate the coal industry."

Yeah we are losing our place up top because we're being too conservative.

It sucks, but the US is no longer leader of the free world.

This post was edited by Skinned on Apr 2 2017 09:59am

Joe going hard this morning.

Libs will be behind bars before Summer wnd.

looks like the serial sexual harasser Oreilly might finally pay for being the fox news phone creeper

about fucking time