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Dawn of Social Networks: Ancestors May Have Formed Ties With Both Kin and...

Ancient humans may not have had the luxury of updating their Facebook status, but social networks were nevertheless an essential component of their lives, a new study suggests. The study’s findings...

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Stone Age Social Networks.

Continuing from the Dawn of Social Networks: Ancestors May Have Formed Ties With Both Kin and Non-Kin Based On Shared Attributes. HERE If you ever sit back and wonder what it might have been like to...

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Talking To The Future Humans

Steve Fuller is a sociology professor who’s interested in how technological enhancements can improve the human body and mind. This could lead to a world full of superhumans, like Robocop but without...

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Norton Sociology

W.W. Norton & Company is the oldest and largest employee-owned publishing house in the U.S., and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with their college textbook department on a...

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Richard Sennett: The Sociology Of Public Life

Speakers: Professor Craig Calhoun, Professor Bruno Latour, Alan Rusbridger, Professor Judy Wajcman, David Adjaye, Professor Geoff Mulgan, Lord Richard Rogers, Polly Toynbee. This event was recorded on...

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Noisolation Headphones

Our ears can’t blink. It is an observation that is frequently raised in areas of study such as biology, sociology and sound theory. This is used to demonstrate how valuable listening has been to our...

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Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space – Miodrag Mitrasinovic

Total Landscape, Theme Parks, Public Space employs the theme park in identifying, dissecting and describing the properties of PROPASt – privately-owned publicly accessible space in a themed mode – a...

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Ideology never ends. An interview with sociologist Daniel Chirot

“Eastern Europe as such was never “backward” and marginality is the least of the region’s problems, argues Daniel Chirot. While some countries have shaken off the “post-communist” tag, in others it...

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The disadvantage of smarts

What, if any, evolutionary advantage does intelligence give us? Actually, less intelligent people are better at doing most things. In the ancestral environment general intelligence was helpful only...

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Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks

A new theory of viral relationality beyond the biological In this thought-provoking work, Tony D. Sampson presents a contagion theory fit for the age of networks. Unlike memes and microbial...

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How We Learn To See Faces

Two eyes, aligned horizontally, above a nose, above a mouth. These are the basic elements of a face, as your brain knows quite well. Within about 200 milliseconds of seeing a picture, the brain can...

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The Writing of Stones by Roger Caillois

Surrealist and Sociologist Roger Caillois was known for his writings on biomimicry, especially within the insect world, pareidolia and lithic scrying. His latter interest provided us with The Writing...

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A Critique of Everyday Life

Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Critique of Everyday Life Volume One: Introduction. A groundbreaking analysis of the alienating phenomena of daily life...

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