In visual sociology class we were asked to read Chapter 7 of Douglas Harper’s 2012 book “Visual Sociology” and write our thoughts on digital images being impermanent. Our professor used the phrase “fleeting images”. But contrary to what Harper suggested in his text, digital images are not nearly as impermanent as people like to think…
I wrote this thought last November while studying sociological theory and left it in my drafts. I wonder where I was going with this thought. Societies are, for the most part, self-regulating. Each one determines what is and is not acceptable behavior in that society over and above what is written in law. These unwritten…
My thoughts after reading “The Sociological Imagination. Chapter One: The Promise”, by C. Wright Mills (1959). Many of society’s issues seem to be set up, largely influenced by people lacking sociological imagination. Greed. Xenophobia. Racism. Sexism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Classism. They set up a society in which only a few individuals can thrive above mere subsistence…
