{"id":67370,"date":"2015-07-31T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=67370"},"modified":"2015-07-31T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:22:22","slug":"this-month-in-socimages-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/31\/this-month-in-socimages-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"This Month in SocImages (July 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SocImages News:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Happy birthday, little blog! \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/24\/happy-birthday-sociological-images-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">You\u2019re\u00a08<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A huge thanks to Jon Smadja for freshening up <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\">the site<\/a> and made it mobile friendly!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. <a href=\"http:\/\/frontdoor.valenciacollege.edu\/faculty.cfm?uid=nspottke\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Boucher Spottke<\/a>\u00a0put together a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B-TbZI3QdOk6OV82NkZ5QTFJMHM\/view\" target=\"_blank\">discussion questions and activities<\/a> to go along with some <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/08\/25\/professors-pet-peeves\/\" target=\"_blank\">SocImages advice to new students<\/a>. A great exercise in analyzing writing!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Our coverage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/02\/nearly-half-of-black-and-latina-stem-workers-mistaken-for-janitors-and-assistants\/\" target=\"_blank\">intersection of sexism and racism experienced by female scientists<\/a> was covered at the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/almost-half-black-and-latina-scientists-report-theyve-been-mistaken-administrative-assistants-or-janitors-180955808\/?no-ist\" target=\"_blank\">Smithsonian<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #444444;\">You like! \u00a0Here are our most appreciated posts this month:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #444444;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/27\/mass-shootings-in-the-u-s-what-makes-so-many-american-men-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mass shootings in the U.S. are on the rise<\/a> (2,400+ likes)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #444444;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/30\/white-american-male-with-a-weapon\/\">White American male with a weapon white American male with a weapon white American male with a&#8230;<\/a> (2,200+ likes)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/11\/americans-own-42-of-all-the-guns-on-the-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Americans own 42% of all the guns on the planet<\/a> (2,200+ likes)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/07\/why-the-no-vote-in-greece-is-a-win-for-working-people-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">The corrupt economics behind Greece&#8217;s troubles<\/a> (1,700+ likes)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/18\/what-percent-of-women-regret-their-decision-to-have-an-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\">Less than 1% of women regret their decision to have an abortion<\/a> (1,700+ likes)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/02\/nearly-half-of-black-and-latina-stem-workers-mistaken-for-janitors-and-assistants\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nearly half of black and Latina female scientists mistaken for janitors or assistants<\/a> (1,400+ likes)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/01\/why-do-people-hate-the-word-moist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why do people hate the word &#8220;moist&#8221;?<\/a> (1,000+ likes)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/28\/are-drag-queens-doing-girlface\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are drag queens doing &#8220;girlface&#8221;?<\/a> (1,000+ likes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">Thanks everybody!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s pick:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/22\/trigger-warnings-the-big-picture-changing-our-culture-of-social-control\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trigger warnings, the big picture: Changing our culture of social control<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/23\/the-invisibility-of-black-pain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slave families&#8217; desperate efforts to reunite during Reconstruction<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top comic:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/19\/why-people-become-sociologists\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why people become sociologists<\/a>, by Charles Schultz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top post on Tumblr this month:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/socimages.tumblr.com\/post\/122271562290\/millennials-are-no-less-racist-than-generation-x\" target=\"_blank\">Millennials are no less racist than Generation X and hardly less racist than Boomers<\/a>\u00a0(5,300+ notes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Social Media \u2018n\u2019 Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/socimages\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Sociological-Images-Seeing-Is-Believing\/8399768839\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/socimages.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/socimages\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a>. \u00a0I&#8217;m on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lisawadephd\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and most of the team is on Twitter:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\" target=\"_blank\">@lisawade<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/gwensharpnv\" target=\"_blank\">@gwensharpnv<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/familyunequal\" target=\"_blank\">@familyunequal<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/JayLivingston\" target=\"_blank\">@jaylivingston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/07\/30\/white-american-male-with-a-weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\">hard summer so far<\/a>, but let&#8217;s not let July 2015 go without one more time reveling in the <a href=\"http:\/\/earthsky.org\/space\/pluto-charon-new-horizons-flyby-updates-july-2015\" target=\"_blank\">joy of discovery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/07\/21.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67578\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/07\/21-500x221.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"500\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/07\/21-500x221.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/07\/21.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SocImages News: Happy birthday, little blog! \u00a0You\u2019re\u00a08! A huge thanks to Jon Smadja for freshening up the site and made it mobile friendly! 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