{"id":2,"date":"2008-03-24T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-04T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:55:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment --><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-12\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/2008\/04\/04\/america-listens-to-the-world-hah\/12\/\" title=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\"><\/a>Ron Anderson (Prof. Emeritus of sociology at the U. of Minnesota) is passionate about compassion, social well-being, and oh yes, technology.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like a private eye, in this blog\u00a0I use the lens of sociology to shed light on world problems. This world vision gives perspective to American society and the American character.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-12\" href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/2008\/04\/04\/america-listens-to-the-world-hah\/12\/\" title=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" alt=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" alt=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" title=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/files\/2008\/04\/istock_000005181840xsmall.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"istock_000005181840xsmall.jpg\" height=\"1\" \/>Eyes like visuals. You\u2019ll see a lot of pictures, charts, and drawings in these posts.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the posts will be comments on root causes of social problems. Other times they will be on consequences, and other times on social and personal actions that may help to fix the problem.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThat\u2019s where you, the reader, can help. We hope to get lots of comments on what can be done to solve a problem, not just discussion on whether or not a problem exists.<\/p>\n<p>Topics to be addressed in the coming months include: abortion, aging, aid for developing countries, civic engagement, community service, crime, fear, forgiving, globalization, health, human rights, hunger, inequality, philanthropy, population control, poverty, religious beliefs, values, volunteering, and world opinion toward the United States.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see the focus will be upon human and social well being. In the interest of alleviating the suffering of those who suffer the most, we will find comparative data whenever possible to help address the problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the banner:<\/strong> The <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/necromundo\/1792920854\/\">eye image in our banner<\/a> was published by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/necromundo\/\">necromundo<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\">flickr<\/a> under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons<\/a> license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Anderson (Prof. Emeritus of sociology at the U. of Minnesota) is passionate about compassion, social well-being, and oh yes, technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/eye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}