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We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality.

5 hours ago: Submit Your Abstract: Theorizing the Web 2012

Analyzing the visual presentation of social data. Each post, Laura Norén takes a chart, table, interactive graphic or other display of sociologically relevant data and evaluates the success of the graphic.

6 hours ago: Ageing: An infographic haiku | John Maeda

Sociology Lens is the associated site for Sociology Compass, Wiley-Blackwell’s review journal on all fields sociological. On this site we host daily posts, video files and news items from our team of contributors.

3 days ago: Why College Educators Who Care about Critical Thinking Need to Pay Attention to White Privilege and the Tucson Unified School District

Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry.

6 hours ago: Racial Stereotyping and Perceptions of Competence

An easy-to-use website about teaching sociology. Posts range from sharing exemplary syllabi and readings to quick tips about grading and using technology efficiently.

18 hours ago: Fat-Shaming

A multi-disciplinary blog about what makes cultures "thick": public discourse, multiculturalism, technology, and civic engagement.

Jan 19: The Poetry of High Speed Rail

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

Changes

Slowly but steadily, we’ve been introducing a number of changes around The Society Pages, particularly in the last couple of weeks. Today, as you head into the weekend, I’d like to bring your attention to the first installments of several new features that we’ll be building on, and, of course, warn you that our web [...] Keep Reading

Contexts is an ASA publication, edited by Jodi O’Brien and Arlene Stein. The Society Pages is proud to host contexts.org.

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