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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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How can we end the issue of suicide? Realistically
Suicide: The process of purposely ending one’s own life. Is suicide a normal human action? Is it normal for a human being to have a desire to leave the face of the Earth? The answer seems obvious, but clearly, it is not to the 1,000,000 people that commit suicide annually in the world. The main causes…
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Life- Let’s Ignite Fresh Energy
Life. How do you perceive it or understand it? What is this? I think its growth, i.e. expansion, and love? Therefore, all love is life, it is the only law of life. “There is, as it were, an infinite ocean behind, and you and I are so many waves, coming out of that infinite ocean;…
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Why Life is Beautiful
I was thinking of to write, an idea aroused within idea and it was a kind of intuition and revelation that,” To create is nothing rather than to experience”. So after convincing myself to be true to myself and world, and didn’t have to create fake, but to share and express. Slowly like taking shower…
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Life fails to be perfect but never fails to be beautiful
“ Life is beautiful and there’s so much to smile about”- MARLYN MUNROE Life is all about marvellous drift and downs. We all know that a human soul goes through many transformations before it can actually get a human body as by ‘Gift’- that’s why it is asked to treasure this body we have. According…
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Think Again, Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem
While there are a lot of rationales for a person committing suicide, it can be broadly classified into two categories. One of them would be the I-know-I’m-going-to-die-suicide. The other would be I-want-to-see-what-happens-when-I-hang-myself-from-the-ceiling-fan-suicide. In my opinion, the second one is probably more dreadful of the two as the person categorized as such may not have the…
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The problem does not end with the suicide of the person, it haunts all who are attached to him or her, throughout the life
LIFE IS SO BEAUTIFUL – IT IS TO BE LIVED WITH UTMOST HAPPINESS AND ENJOYMENT. A saying which I had heard a few years back in one of the meetings held on the Annual Day in my son’s school. Yes, how true it is, can’t afford to waste the very essence of life which we…
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– Editorial Team, The Sociology Group