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An Interview with Dr. Noel Packard: Survey of a Cluster of Pre-Internet Networks
In this exclusive interview Dr. Noel Packard – guest editor of an issue of American Behavioral Scientist entitled “Survey of a Cluster of Cold War Networks” which has been renamed “Survey of a Sample of Cold War Networks”. She discusses her research on Cold War-era military networks, their role in shaping today’s global communication systems,…
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Meet the Professor: Dr. Stephanie Wilson, Sociologist, Educator, and Co-founder of Applied Worldwide
Stephanie: Sociologist, Creator, Researcher 2. As a co-founder of Applied Worldwide, could you briefly explain the organization’s mission? Stephanie: Our mission is to build a bridge between the discipline of sociology and everyday life to improve the well-being of society. As a sociologist, I see endless ways that sociological knowledge could benefit society, but our…
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Interview with Assistant Professor Katie Durante, University of Utah, Department of Sociology
1. If you had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be? Integrity, light-hearted, responsible 2. Can you discuss some of your key findings regarding racial and ethnic inequality in the criminal legal system and how it has evolved over the years? One of the areas of research I focus on is racial…
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An Interview with Jaime Grunfeld, LMHC, Author or Aliya, The Girl From Ukraine.
Short Bio: Jaime Grunfeld, LMHC, was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where his parents, who lived in Hungary, fled after its invasion by the Nazis. As a teenager, he came to study at Yeshiva in Westchester County, NY, where he graduated in Talmudic Law. Returning to Brazil, he married and joined the family’s…
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Interview with Dr. Christina Jackson: Insights into Sociology, Activism, and the Journey Ahead
Short Bio: Dr. Christina Jackson, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Stockton University, specializes in urban sociology, social welfare, and inequality from sociological and public health perspectives. Beyond academia, she’s an engaged scholar-activist, facilitating and consulting with community partners and creative groups on topics like anti-violence, gentrification, housing, food justice, and racial justice. She’s co-authored…
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Author Spotlight: An Interview with Diane Meyer Lowman, the Writer of The Undiscovered Country: Seeing Myself Through Shakespeare’s Eyes
Diane is an award-winning essayist, memoirist, and poet. She served as Westport, CT’s inaugural Poet Laureate from 2019 to 2022. Her essays have appeared in numerous publications, including O, The Oprah Magazine; Brain, Child; and Brevity Blog. She also writes a regular column titled ‘Everything’s an Essay.’ Her first memoir, ‘Nothing But Blue,’ was published…
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History of the Hippie Movement
The Hippie movement is also spelled as a hippy movement. This event is actually a part of a countercultural movement that refused to accept the normal customs of the American lifestyle. Eventually, this movement became so widespread that it even reached Canada and Britain, the movement that once started in the college campus in the…
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what was the Greenback Movement in America
Greenback movement occurred for two decades that is from the year 1868 till the year 1888 in the United States of America. This movement was basically supported by the farmers who wanted a good amount of paper money to be in circulation. In order to kindle their interest, the U. S government did issue more…
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Communism and Socialism: Meaning and Differences Between Them
As per the classic definition prevalent, Communism is related to a community who own all the resources and in this system, every person works and gets as per his needs only but in Socialism, there is a discussion of societal problems and it is basically related to the functioning of the entire human society. It…
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Capitalism and Socialism: Meaning and Differences Between Them
Capitalism is a formal system of government wherein the country’s trade is under private ownership and they do the trade with the sole purpose of earning profit but under Socialism, the production, distribution, and regulation of the products should be done by a group as a whole and not individually. Capitalism propagates economic freedom which…
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Fascism and Socialism: Meaning and Differences Between Them
Fascism deals with the economic problems prevalent in the world whereas socialism is associated with the social issues in the society. As fascism is closely related to the nation, therefore, it gives more prevalence to the national problems instead of the individual or the community whose issues are dealt with by socialism. The main aim…
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Bourgeoisie: Meaning, History, and Facts
Bourgeoisie: It is a socially defined class, which refers to the people with a certain financial capital who belong to the middle class. Originally, with the first developments of urbanization, the people of the city i.e. the merchants and craftsmen opposed to the ones of the rural areas. And this created space for the rise…








