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 »
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.
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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”.
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Posted in notes on the human condition, tagged addictions, age, airbrush, American Idol, Americans, Anna Nicole, anorexia, arthritis, back pain, batty, bodies, Brian Oxman, Brittan's Got Talent, Brittish, cardiac arrest, career, Carpenter, case study, celebrities, celebrity-obsessed culture, chronic pain, CNN, comeback, complications, concert, consequences, crazy, cripple, cure, death, debilitated, dependence, died, disability, doctors, dolt, doped up, drugs, eccentric, electrolytes, Elvis, entertainer, expectationsdemands, fans, feeble, fishbowl, fitness, frail, frenetic, Gans, handicap, heart attack, heath, hectic, human, idolized, ill, illness, infirmity, injuries, interaction, Jackson Five, kilter, King of Pop, larger than life, lazy, life, lifestyle, Los Vegas, management, Marilyn, medical, medical community, mental, Michael Jackson, Monroe, nutty, off beat, offbeat, overdose, pain management, painkillers, paparazi, perfection, performer, physical, prescriptions, Presley, pressure, public, quick fix, relief, rumors, sick, sickly, Simon Cowell, singer, singing, slacker, Smith, societal standards, spokesman, stage, stamina, stardom, stars, substance abuse, superstar, surgery, Susan Boyle, Terri Schindler Schiavo, tour, treatment center, weak, weight, world on June 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Why is it that we’d rather tolerate celebrities who are dangerously doped up than accept the fact that they’re human?
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