Author: Sociology Group
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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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WITCH HUNTING IN INDIA – ITS ORIGIN AND WHY IT MOSTLY TARGETS WOMEN
Abstract: This paper is an attempt to provide the relevant information regarding the origin of witch-hunting in India and the factors which make it a crime affecting mostly women. Contemporary India still faces the wrath of witch-hunting particularly in the tribal-dominated areas. It holds back the country on the path to progress. In modern times, the…
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CAPITALISING THE NEW FACE OF MASCULINITY
Introduction: “This primordial investment in the social games (illusio) which make a man a real man – the sense of honour, virility, ‘manliness’, or, as the Kabyles say, ‘Kabylness’ (thakbaylith) – is the undisputed principle of all the duties towards oneself, the motor or motive of all that a man ‘owes to himself’, in other…
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An Interview with Barbara Bryan, Author of ‘Topanga Canyon: Fire Season
1. If you had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be? Logophile, Risible and Evolving. 2. Can you tell us about your earliest memory or experience with horses and how it influenced your lifelong love for them? It was a pony ride in New York City’s Central Park when I was five.…
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Question of agency: Interactionism, Structuralism and Male gaze
Introduction: Contributing to the debate of structure and agency, Erving Goffman and Talcott Parsons differentiates in their perspectives but their theories do not necessarily run parallel or opposite to each other, instead there are points of confluence. I would also argue that reading their work side by side enables one to understand more comprehensively the…
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An In-Depth Conversation with Susan McLeod, Author of ‘Seasons of Life’
Short Bio: Susan McLeod resides with her husband John in Alplaus, New York. She is originally from Southold, Long Island, New York. In the fall of 1975, she moved to Troy, New York, attending Hudson Valley Community College’s Nursing Program, and received her A.A.S. In 2007 she obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Russell Sage College…
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Discovering the Poetry of Lindsey Martin-Bowen: ‘The Book of Frenzies’ Uncovered
Short Bio: Lindsey Martin-Bowen teaches Criminal Law and Procedure (online) at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon from January 2019 through June 2022. Until August 2018, she taught writing, literature, and Criminal Law at MCC-Longview and taught literature and writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas City 18 years. The BOOK of FRENZIES is her…