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Lecture Tomorrow<\/del>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

SocImages Contributor Caroline Heldman and I are giving a talk together titled “Do Friends Matter? Love, Family, and Friendship in U.S. Culture.” \u00a0If you’re in Los Angeles, find us at 6:30pm in Johnson Hall, Room 200. \u00a0We’re gonna talk about how great friends are and what short shrift friendship gets in American culture.\u00a0 UPDATE<\/strong><\/span>: Because of the power outages in Southern California, the talk was rescheduled for\u00a0Tuesday Dec. 6th at 6:00pm (Johnson Hall 200, Occidental College). \u00a0Say “hello” if you come by!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also looking forward to\u00a0talks<\/a> at Harvard (for Sex Week)\u00a0and the University of\u00a0Massachusetts\u00a0– Amherst (for a conference on public sociology). \u00a0Both are scheduled for March; I’ll keep everyone updated and try to arrange a SocImages Meet-Up in Boston.<\/p>\n

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New Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>I’m proud to report that two academic papers of mine came out this month. \u00a0The first, in Social Problems<\/em>, uses the case of female genital cutting (FGC) to explore the challenges of building multicultural democracies. \u00a0Called “The Politics of Acculturation<\/a>,” it traces a controversy between anti-FGC activists and physicians who wanted to offer a genital “nick” to Somali immigrants in Seattle.<\/p>\n

The second shows how reporters sometimes have the power to socially construct issues as one-sided, thus creating conditions in which they can act like activists (instead of “objective” observers). \u00a0This paper, published in Media, Culture & Society<\/em>, is called “Journalism, Advocacy, and the Social Construction of Consensus<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Gwen and I also published two pieces together. \u00a0The next in our series of Contexts <\/em>essays<\/a> came out. \u00a0Titled “Land Management and the American Mustang<\/a>,” it includes a picture of a burro! \u00a0You can’t beat that.<\/p>\n

We also submitted a class exercise to TRAILS. In it, we use images to illustrate the social construction of race and racial stereotypes<\/a>. \u00a0It’s been very popular with students.<\/p>\n

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<\/strong>Post Updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Remember that foreclosure firm that mocked people thrown out of their homes at their Halloween party? \u00a0Well, they’re closing their doors after\u00a0Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac declined to give them anymore business<\/a>. \u00a0Bye bye\u00a0Steven J. Baum PC.<\/p>\n

Apparently the company has been getting calls from consumers and reporters regarding the Molson Cosmo\/Playboy ads<\/a> we posted about yesterday. \u00a0It turns out the ad campaign is quite old (2002\/2003) and they would like to distance themselves from it now.<\/p>\n

Also, we’re still trying to figure out exactly what relationship PETA has to the anti-public hair advertisement for the Ministry of Waxing<\/a>. \u00a0Weigh in if you have any insight.<\/p>\n

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Progress on Course Guides:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gwen has added race\/ethnicity, sex\/gender, and health\/medicine sections to her SocImages Course Guide for Introduction to Sociology<\/a>. \u00a0It’s a pretty amazing collection. \u00a0We’ve got guides for Gender<\/a> and Methods<\/a> too.<\/p>\n

Please do volunteer if you’re interested in collecting posts for a guide! \u00a0We’re happy to have as many as we can, duplicates even. \u00a0See our\u00a0Instructors Page<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n

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Best of November:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our fabulous intern, Norma Morella, collected the stuff ya’ll liked best from this month. \u00a0Here’s what she found:<\/p>\n