Skip to main content

Home/ Quorum/ Group items tagged anthropology

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Kevin Champion

Ideas for research? - 103 views

Yeah, I don´t like that either. I think partially it is designed that way so that you can reply to any post on in the thread of the forum, rather than just being able to reply to the most recent. ...

started by Adam Bohannon on 17 Aug 07 5 follow-ups, last by Kevin Champion on 28 Aug 07
Adam Bohannon

On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data - New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...17facebook.html

anthropology facebook research sociology

shared by Adam Bohannon on 19 Dec 07 - Cached
  • “One of the holy grails of social science is the degree to which taste determines friendship, or to which friendship determines taste,” said Jason Kaufman, an associate professor of sociology at Harvard and a member of the research team. “Do birds of a feather flock together, or do you become more like your friends?”
  • Facebook’s network of 58 million active users and its status as the sixth-most-trafficked Web site in the United States have made it an irresistible subject for many types of academic research.
  • Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor at Michigan State University, and colleagues found that Facebook use could have a positive impact on students’ well-being.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • An important finding, Ms. Ellison said, was that students who reported low satisfaction with life and low self-esteem, and who used Facebook intensively, accumulated a form of social capital linked to what sociologists call “weak ties.” A weak tie is a fellow classmate or someone you meet at a party, not a friend or family member. Weak ties are significant, scholars say, because they are likely to provide people with new perspectives and opportunities that they might not get from close friends and family. “With close friends and family we’ve already shared information,” Ms. Ellison said.
  • Ms. Ellison and her colleagues suggest the information gleaned from Facebook may be more accurate than personal information offered elsewhere online, such as chat room profiles, because Facebook is largely based in real-world relationships that originate in confined communities like campuses.
  • Eszter Hargittai, a professor at Northwestern, found in a study that Hispanic students were significantly less likely to use Facebook, and much more likely to use MySpace. White, Asian and Asian-American students, the study found, were much more likely to use Facebook and significantly less likely to use MySpace.
Adam Bohannon

A New Debate on Female Circumcision - TierneyLab - Science - New York Times Blog - 0 views

tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/...-debate-on-female-circumcision

anthropology ethics feminism rites ritual

shared by Adam Bohannon on 18 Dec 07 - Cached
  • Dr. Shweder says that many Westerners trying to impose a “zero tolerance” policy don’t realize that these initiation rites are generally controlled not by men but by women who believe it is a cosmetic procedure with aesthetic benefits. He criticizes Americans and Europeans for outlawing it at the same they endorse their own forms of genital modification, like the circumcision of boys or the cosmetic surgery for women called “vaginal rejuvenation.”
Kevin Champion

Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology - A Group Blog » Are our best... - 0 views

savageminds.org/...our-best-students-dropping-out

anthro education

shared by Kevin Champion on 20 Jul 07 - Cached
    • Kevin Champion
      Kevin Champion on 20 Jul 07
       
      While I have not gone to grad school, and thus I am not an authority on the matter, one very large motivation for not going is something like this fear. I do not want to put myself in a situation where I am forced to study, read, and write about things that are of little importance to me. I would much rather pursue my own interests. Thus far, I have found this approach to be rather prolific, reading a book a week and working on numerous projects. I also find it very interesting how defensive these people are in the comments to this post. They seem to disagree whole-heartedly. This raises flags for me, flags of ignorance. Perhaps they are purposefully looking the other way. What do you think?
  • It seems that while most faculty (and, I would add, many students) assume that people drop out because they aren’t up to snuff, it may in fact be that the best students are finding that it is graduate school which isn’t up to snuff. Especially women.
Kevin Champion

Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones - New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...05afghan.html

anthro

shared by Kevin Champion on 04 Oct 07 - Cached
  • Kevin Champion on 04 Oct 07
     
    I bet Dr. Prins would like to use this for his lectures... or at least send it to the anthro listserv!
Adam Bohannon

World Bank accused of razing Congo forests | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...congo.forests

anthropology business economics exploitation globalization worldbank

shared by Adam Bohannon on 04 Oct 07 - Cached
  • · An area of 600,000 square kilometres (232,000 square miles) of forest was earmarked for logging companies.· The bank failed to address critical social and environmental issues.
  • The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world's second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a report on an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts. The report by the independent inspection panel, seen by the Guardian, also accuses the bank of misleading Congo's government about the value of its forests and of breaking its own rules.
  • It ignored between 250,000 and 600,000 Pygmies believed to be living in the Congolese forests, even though their presence was well known and documented.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • Criticism is made of the forestry reforms that the bank imposed in return for loans of more than $450m. Initially, said the panel, "the bank provided [to the government] estimates of export revenue from logging concessions that turned out to be far too high. This encouraged a focus on reform of the forestry system at the expense of pursuing sustainable uses of forests, the potential for community forests and for conservation.
  • In a scathing analysis of the bank's economic reasoning, the panel said the bank had "distorted the real economic value of the country's forests" by looking solely at the tax and revenue that increased industrial logging might generate. "There seems to have been little action to support alternative uses of the forest resources," it said.
  • The panel travelled deep into the forest to take evidence from the Pygmy communities, who told it they were not consulted before the bank launched its wide-ranging forestry reforms.
1 - 19 of 19
Showing 20▼ items per page