Content tagged sociology

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Weirdly long, eloquent, and informative Craiglist post about friends and the Australian concept of “mateship” that I somewhat endorse. gulfstream/2312

“Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white … gulfstream/1721

Malcolm Gladwell on the college admissions process. gulfstream/1846

Eurasians are more beautiful, healthy, intelligent, etc.? (Nice theory, not very convincing.) gulfstream/1945

new book (in French) on the sociology of boxing. I like boxing. gulfstream/473

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Cities and Ambition

The Christmas Bonus excerpted from Doormen by Peter Bearman

JoelKotkin.com - The Myth of 'Superstar Cities'

Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School