The hubris of good intentions
*I started writing this nearly three years ago, and it has taken me a while to decide whether to post it. I freely admit that it is not without trepidation I...
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Like Butter Scraped Over Too Much Bread
I should have been at work today.
My experiences with computational sociology (so far)
I have been spending my spring ploddingly pursuing my master’s thesis. Inspired by my visit to the NLP crowd, I’ve undertaken a text-mining project, where I’...
When did social workers become timid?
I’ve been working with the mentally atypical and disabled for quite nearly two decades. In this time, I’ve developed a feeling. A sense of discomfort, discon...
The Toll of Emotional Labor
I’ve been doing “emotion work” most of my adult life; a lot of it in assisting the (very) differently abled. Now, with my transition out from direct emotion ...
Gatecrashing the NLP party
OK, so I didn’t really crash any gates. I did, however, have the chance to attend a workshop on natural language processing, hosted by the Interacting Minds ...
Finding a Professional Identity
Some months ago, I wrote about “developing my sociological identity”. My interests are (still) solidly interactional, with maybe a slight focus on how indivi...
I Read: editor procastination, make everyone a cheater, and more
Not a lot of links in this list today, partly due to RSS feed cleanup, partly due to not-as-interesting-to-me stuff crossing my radar.
Developing my sociological identity
The about page of this blog states:
Social work as (re)socialization in practice
One of my lecturers posits that ‘social inclusion’ has an inherent paradox: In seeking to encompass maximal diversity, a normative pressure is exerted upon t...
Commoditization of emotion, and the search for authenticity in the middle class
As part of my course in socialization and everyday life, I’ve had Arlie Hochschild’s Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure1 assigned. As a near a...
Sexism, my children, and I
During the past years, I have become much more attuned to the problems of everyday sexism. From subtle things, like my father expressing the obvious self-evi...
Comments on the proposed changes for working with the cognitively impaired in Denmark
This post has been percolating for nearly half a year — about as long as the blog has been dormant. But now I rear my head from the depths of exam prep and… ...
Social work and power dynamics
The nature of power in social work
Social constructivism and (working with) the cognitively impaired
I was first introduced to the concept of social constructivism while studying to be a social educator. From what I recall of that lecture, most of it blew ri...
How We Dress And Social Signaling
itle: “How we dress and social signaling” tags: [clothes, sociology, style, social signalling] — I’ve been interested in clothes for a good while. While thi...
Why academia?
So. Why not start a master’s degree in educational sociology, six and-a-bit years after finishing a bachelor? Six years as a working stiff, with varied and, ...