Sociologists followed a Wisconsin graduating class for over 45 years and found that when career circumstances change for the worse, social ties tend to break. Hard times may be temporary, but the isolation may be permanent. Learn how to fight back.
Archive for July, 2009
Job Loss Breaks Social Ties — Starting Over
Posted in health, notes on the human condition, tagged church, effect, luck, mental, people, personal, circumstances, recovery, community, model, religious, fear, pride, consequences, spiritual, bonds, economic, identity, illness, loss, development, skills, researchers, chronic, breakdown, others, connection, outgroup, UCLA, distance between, job loss, social lives, US News and World Report, repercussions, reach out and touch someone, don't be a stranger, job, closing, relocating, out of business, involvement, participation, disconnect, sociologists, isolation, workforce, unemployed, layoff, laid off, notice, friends, fair weather, rejection, cave, artificial, friendships, commonalities, socialize, club, PTA, organization, service, group, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, restructuring, Jennie E. Brand, reciprocal, social contract, 35 percent less likely, study, activities, Wisconsin high school graduates, 1957, Social Forces, long-term impact, reconnect, how to, apart, displaced, reestablish, normalcy, blessings, differences, groups, youth, professional, superficial, hard times, chips are down, difficult, challenges, job market, hermit, retreat, safety net, support group, meeting, lives, livelihood, affect, individuals, regroup, sever, break, lose, example, lonely, leave, join, commitment, effort, longitudinal, social science, charity, membership, nonprofit, implications, shorten, attendance, miss, prime of life, comparisons, envy, competition, caregiver, diagnosis, role, data, Bowling Alone, team, downsized, employees, tough times, cope, tough people, respond, needs, exclude, dignity, regain, connectedness, Easy Street, appearances, keeping up, Joneses, starting over, trials, hardship on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harvard Professor Plays the Race Card
Posted in notes on the human condition, tagged perception, success, power, control, letting go, society, life, negative, circumstances, recovery, assumptions, blame, reality, community, values, past, hostility, character, hate, education, beliefs, economic, racism, academia, university, history, studies, identity, school, professor, ethnicity, victimization, victimhood, free, Chicago Tribune, police, officer, law enforcement, home, door, assumption, black, skin color, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, neighborhood, present, ascribe, Henry Louis Gates Jr., treatment, self fulfilling prophecy, vector, ideas, virus, transmit, next generation, individual, person, promoting, dangerous, painful, intruder, belong, names, get to know, recognize, barrier, rationalize, creed, color, profile, stereotypes, awareness, profiling, victim, transference, projection, house, Cambridge, forgiveness, neighbors, breakdown, African, American, experience, authority, taking charge, forget, multiculturalism, Harvard, relationships, perceived, influence, attribute, characteristics, interpretation, teach, accuse, detox, antidote, ourselves, others, views, recollection, limiting, background, perpetuate, hurtful, harmful, reinforce, butterfly effect, attitudes, fanning the flames, difference, expectations, baiting, goading, plight, research, cooperate, connection, determinations, personal power, generalizations, identify, consciousness, racialization, outgroup, outcome, skew, abuse, perceptual filter, emotional intelligence on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Victimhood never flatters anyone. A Harvard Professor of African and African American studies allegedly baits officer into arresting him in front of his own home, and then cries “foul”. Does the esteemed professor have a basis for the racism claim? Learn how to make a break with the “blame game”.
To Own or be Owned: A Virtual Reality Check
Posted in media, technology, tagged media, energy, price, deficit, business, Green, books, power, control, society, life, personal, social, assumptions, chaos, reality, analog, programming, television, rates, China, productivity, systems, model, change, Big Brother, future, news, rumors, trends, apathy, children, education, consequences, debate, pain, injury, controversy, cultural, history, world, physical, age, planet, myths, Kindle, globe, Internet, newspapers, data centers, clean, tech, load, demand, reading, sites, Amazon, cost, usage, web, net, ebook, e-reader, virtual, sense of place, deprived, tangible, snapshot, time capsule, experiences, gadget, device, computer, PC, software, hardware, cell phone, Facebook, NYT, Circuit City, shared, George Orwell, privacy, 1984, Animal Farm, sever farm, backbone, keyboard, paper, ecological, impacts, Walter Cronkite, fine print, contracts, ownership, delete, content, magazines, entertainment, gatekeeper, editor, white space, margins, eyestrain, addiction, headache, backlit, LCD, screen, view, monitor, contact, ads, issues, complex, high technology, advances, claims, transform, annotations, literature, censor, censure, library, growth, electric, generate, trains, coal, Century, smokestack, ash, dirty, pollution, recycle, realities, e-book, ereader, evolution, progress, flicker, refresh rate, brain, eyes, optic, alter, shift, physiological, grids, networks, operate, eco-friendly, responsible, free, unsustainable, intrusions, written, attention span, limiting factors, photograph, sacrifice, printed, word, Sony, disconnects, exchanging, losing, loss, overload, predecessors, generation, turn of the Century, 21st Century, Eye Fatigue, Computer Vision Syndrome, health effects, fatigue, sleep, ADD, electromagnetic, development, stunt, learning, kids, cell phones, CRTs, neurological, burning, consumers, production lines, video, watching, insomnia, risk factors, flat panel monitors, mind, response time, display, texting, talking, teens, advertising, competing, pirated, unauthorized, copies, downloaded, rights, copyright, publisher, on demand, digital divide, Libraries, Orwellian, offsets, balkanization, letter, sociology, tactile, dependency, distributed, adverse, dumbing down, practice, information, plugged in, electronic leash, grapevine, MySpace, duality, citizen, journalism, threatens, capacity, liberty, freedom, materiality, look back, sentimental, nostalgia, deceptive, static, tradeoffs, creative control, hoaxes, complacency, gullible, wary, distrustful, disinformation, social capital, herd immunity, mentality, cap and trade, RSI, repetitive strain, carpel tunnel, wrist, hand, touch, chronic, disabilities, disabled, occupational, musculoskeletal disorders, BlackBerry thumb, orthopedic, ergnomics, ergonomists, back, elbow, finger, CVS, EMF, electroshock on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Amazon recalls illicit digital e-books, and with them our notion that we can ever really own anything “digital”. This and other dangerous realities of the e-universe.
-
Archives
- November 2009 (1)
- October 2009 (2)
- July 2009 (4)
- June 2009 (1)
- May 2009 (2)
- November 2008 (2)
- October 2008 (1)
- August 2008 (2)
- June 2008 (1)
- May 2008 (1)
- January 2008 (3)
- August 2007 (1)
-
Categories
- economy (5)
- faith (1)
- health (3)
- media (4)
- notes on the human condition (7)
- politics (11)
- technology (4)
-
Pages
