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Calling All Social Psychologists
via Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing by Lisa on April 12, 2008
This clip, from the newly televised This American Life, shows what happens when (mostly) black women and (mostly) white men living in racially-segregated Chicago are brought together and the social rules of decorum are suspended. It is highly, highly disturbing. I'd love it if some social psychologists could comment on what we see happening here!
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Use of holocaust imagery in weird MTV campaign
via Sociological Images by gwen on May 06, 2008
... I think this could be compared to the PETA posters in a discussion about history and who has the right to use it how. Will everyone see these images as offensive? Is any use of the Holocaust as an example or comparison automatically offensive? Would campaigns that use the Holocaust be as offensive to people if they used the genocide in Rwanda instead? Who gets to claim the right ...
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Pregnancy Romance Novels
via Sociological Images by gwen on May 11, 2008
... that the women are pregnant but still very skinny everywhere but in their “baby bump,” as the tabloids call it these days. This might be a starting point for a discussion of changing ideas of pregnancy–that the amount of weight you’re “supposed” to gain has decreased, that pregnant women ideally say thin everywhere else, and that they’re supposed to lose the weight immedi...
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Which Military Would You Join?
via Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing by Lisa on March 10, 2008
Click here to watch an American and a Swedish military recruitment commercial back-to-back.Maybe Wendy can comment on the differences in recruitment techniques? There certainly seemed to be a lot more glory in the American version, and a lot more holy-crap-war-sucks in the Swedish version.Thanks to Julie C. for this tip!
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Gender Politics In Life And Time
via Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing by Lisa on March 31, 2008
This famous Life Magazine cover from 1971 trumpeted the feminist movement:Six years later, in 1977, Time Magazine reminded us that gender difference (and inequality?) was genetic and, thus, out of our control:And don't miss the famous 1978 Hustler cover that appeared the very next year!.
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Fruit Is Hot
via Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing by Lisa on April 03, 2008
It seems the food-and-sex-themed images just won't stop coming! In these astroglide ads, women (and men?) are nothing but a slick, tasty slit and hole (found here):And Andrew sent these Puma ads (found here) (look closely):Also in sexualized food: mustard and ketchup are sexy, do you desire white meat?, hot dog!, and a whole slew of examples.
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Catholic Schoolgirl Outfit for Your Dog
via Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing by Gwen on April 07, 2008
One of my students took a picture of this outfit at the mall--I believe she said it's for sale at Spencer's. For the sexy Catholic school-dog of your dreams!Thanks, Blanca M.!
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Modernizing Alvin And The Chipmunks
via Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing by Lisa on April 10, 2008
Alvin and the Chipmunks was remade in 2007. Are these chipmunks modernized? Urbanized? Racialized? All of the above?
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Suicide by Butter
via Sociological Images: Seeing Is Believing by Gwen on April 10, 2008
These images are from a fake PSA series created, as best as I can tell, by Brandon Knowlden. According to him,It's no secret that the American culture is known for overindulgence. Thispublic service campaign dramatizes the effects of poor eating in a way we canall understand.It's interesting the way food and eating are linked to suicide and terrorism. Also, the two images with men make it...
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