The Structure Whisperer
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Thankfully, the FDA has something called a “jelly bean rule” that prohibits companies from labeling sugary products as “healthy.” The Center for Society in the Public Interest won a motion to…
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drwh0 reblogged this from icancstructures and added:
Oh yeah, CSPI is another one of my heroes.
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About The Structure Whisperer
This is the blog for the sociology classes of Prof. Richard Hudak (Endicott College, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Merrimack College).
When I started this blog, I had been enjoying a lot of the TV series “The Ghost Whisperer” in reruns. In imagining what it might be like to talk to the dead, I began to muse that sociologists, too, were weird to the average person, and “have a gift” of being able to see the hand of social structure in everyday life. The Sociological Imagination is what makes us “special” or at least distinctive.
But this is not a gift we have inherited, like Melinda Gordon of the TV series. Rather it is one that has been bequeathed to us by teachers before.
For the past few years I have shared with my students a variety of internet content related to sociology. This is a more systematic effort to do so, and to give students the opportunity to create their own posts as well. Welcome to “The Structure Whisperer.”
Posts I Like
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I wrote a post on ProfHacker today about using...
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Advancement Project’s A Real Fix: The Gun-Free Way to School Safety report makes recommendations of effective ways to improve school safety...
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Your Valentine’s Day checklist.
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“Judgments”
I took this last year, but in retrospect, I think it’s my strongest piece from high school.Working on this project really made me...
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From The Archives: Osama bin Laden, ca. 1993: Tuesday marks the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, which means that the all-too-familiar...
