n individual are

ssues have to do with matters that transcend these local en- vironments of the individual and the range of his inner life

he has his quality and his being. , oe

It is the capacity to range from the most impersonal and remote transformations to the most intimate features of the human self—and to see the relations between the two.

Where does this society stand in human history

is period, that he can know his Own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

It enables him to take into account how individuals, in the welter of their daily experience,

What they need, and what they feel they need, is a quality of mind that will help them to use information and to develop reason in order to achieve lucid summations of what is going on in the world and of what may be happening within themselves. It is this quality, I am going to contend, that journalists and scholars, artists and publics, scientists and editors are coming to expect of what may be called the sociological imagination.

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited ‘to the close-up scenes of job, family, neighborhood;

refers to interaction amongst people by sharing the information within them and receiving it from them.

This kind of addictive behaviour can pose serious issues on an individual’s mental and physical health but people tend to neglect these issues and move on with it.

Social medias enabled people to communicate freely with anyone around the world; they could share their emotions, feelings, ideas and moments through a secure platform that was ubiquitous.

Loneliness among Millennials and Gen Z may also be driven by personal and societal challenges t

curated versions people put of themselves online make it difficult to create real connections with others

social media is thought to be the main contributing factor of loneliness

xacerbate certain pre-existing health conditions, such as anxiety and depression, but it can also increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.

have in-person interactions reported they are in fair/poor overall health, while just 12% of those who have daily in-person interactions are in fair/poor overall health.

en Z (adults 18-22) as the loneliest generation, but also the generation that claims to be in the worst health

Gen Z, feeling the loneliest. Ge

more and more people are focusing on work, living father away from loved ones, and relying on social media interactions as opposed to face-to-face interactions.

with almost 50% of participants feeling lonely.

How do technically-skilled women negotiate the male-dominated environments of technol-ogy firms?

They are also tightly intertwined with gendered expectations: mothers are expected to per-form intensive care work, while fathers provide financial support

No, no, when you put all of our restric-tions aside, which is money, life, car, and bills . . . outside restrictions, that doesn’t make anyone better or less of a mother or father. So, I feel like I’m the best father ever. And I’m gonna keep striving to be that.

e had never recovered from being fired after his longtime employer tried to confirm his employment eligibility,

Janice herself also suffered from an ailment thatshe says “is probably related to growing up near the plants.”

Industry was a loyal friend to her,

She didn’t want to appear to critics as hard-hearted regarding the poor,immigrants, Syrian refugees. They simply shouldn’t be ahead of her in line

he also needed to defend her notionof the line itself.

felt loyal to capitalism

“I wasn’tinterested in a fancy place,” Janice explains, “just serviceable, where we could all come.”

Harold Areno

You don’t have to be shouting it from themountaintops

He wants the whole world tochange so it will be easier for him to grow up.

But don’t let my taxdollars pay you the money to do it. You go out there and shovel that manure on your own

hat’s why she opposesredistribution of tax money from rich to poor. The fix wouldn’t last.

That broke her moral rule:reward for work.

owever, she and others like her speak ofseeing with “my own eyes” parents driving up in Lexus cars to drop their children at agovernmentsupported Head Start program. The government is trying to get her to feel sorry forpeople like that, Janice feels. She’s not having it. Get a job.

“but there’s a positive side to the war—manufacturing missiles, Humvees,sewing uniforms—it’s work

If the company didn’t bring them their milk at ten o’clock, thirty guys wouldwobble the job [stop working]. Now is that stupid or what? It wouldn’t have killed them, oneday. They could have brought their own milk.”

If you have a job, you should apply yourself to it,

The American Dream itself has becomestrange, un-Bibled, hyper-materialized, and lacking in honor.

Janice opposes abortio

Liberals—those associated with the social movements that brought in the line cutters—share a looser,less defined moral code, she feel

hard work confers honor

If people work as hard as she does, it is a betterworld

Work had been a passport out of fear, poverty, and humiliation for her father and others ageneration back

burr under my saddle

honor

Janice is stoutly proud that, like her dad, she never “took a dime from the government

hurch that Janice first learned the honor of work,

e had a third-grade education andsupported a family of eight

he was forced to quit school early to help his father raise agarden to feed a family of twelve

Her high school’s official emblem was a miner’s hardhat,crossed pick, and shovel; its school colors were red, white, and blue.

Janice was a Team Loyalist.

. Each kind of person expresses the value of endurance and expresses a capacity for it.

It was work of an emotional sort

he had learned to tough things out, to endure

boy, she cooked up a storm morning and night and washed for eight in awashhouse.”

“poor but happy

y dad was the oldest of ten, and my mom was the youngestof seven, and everyone married and had kid

six.

Janice is usually the last to leave the office atnight.

Sixty-one and single,

loyalty

Republican Party

I’m a Republican,” Janice Areno s

Dallas Cowboys fan

he’s also been calling around to everyone she knows to donate food andfurniture to a friend’s relative,

accountant

“dresses Pentecostal,

Harold Areno’s oldest brother, and she herself grew up not far fromBayou d’Inde.

Lake Charles

Lacassane, a land management compan

I feel proud of this country

American flag

which was that educational reformshould be for and controlled by the black community. Black education was abouthaving the power to create ways of life that reflected black values.2

Black-controlledand university-supported education would improve not only the university andthe organizations that it sponsored but the entire black community as well,putting the responsibility for black education in black hand

Current analyses of African and African American culture reflected Europeanvalues, which were inaccurate.17

Lerone Bennett affirmed that this was important becauseeducational institutions had completely excluded the black experience.

Central to this idea was a theme com-mon in the black power movement that there is a distinct "black experience"and that educational institutions should accommodate it.

he first public demands for black stud-ies were made at a meeting on May 8, 1968.1

ompatible with thatgoal

At the University of Chicago, administrators repeatedly rejected any form ofblack studies that had community service as the main objecti

community education was not proposed at Harvard

"community education" and "academic black studies.

Throughout the mid-1960s, students had more contact with the

A black student clubformed at Harvar

provide ourselves a voice in the communit

Association for African and African American Students was founded in196

The idea of black studies also was adopted by faculty members in the educa-tion school who wanted to develop a department of inner-city studies, whichwould include black studies. Education faculty members also proposed a mas-ter's degree in urban studie

Thestudent government authorized a proposal to "investigate" black issues, andthe Black Student Organization for Communication (BSOC

Protests regarding student clubs continued into1968 and were followed by vigorous antiwar protests, which set the stage forblack student mobilization and calls for black studies.

As at many othercampuses, this regulation of student activity provoked protest, resulting in thefirst major sit-in of 1967.

Black Panther rallies

protesting at the University of Illinois at Chicago sincethe campus opened in 1966.

The committeebecame the forum where faculty members would introduce black studies

d hoc,

The campus newspaper reported that admissions quotas andseparate all-black housing would not be granted, but that the university wouldpermit the establishment ofall-black housing via an informal housing transfer.

ll-blackdormitory.

Chicago Student Non-Violent Coordinating Com-mittee (SNCC) gave a speech saying that SNCC headquarters would move tothe city of Chicag

romote black studies

For the most part, these protests were not carried out with the in-tention of forming a Department of Black Studies, but they created an oppor-tunityfor interested individuals to introduce black studies at a later time.

enaissance

hree schools because all are urban researchuniversities, all experienced black student protest, and all had black studiesprograms that suffered in the 19703 and 1980

lack studies survived be-cause its advocates were able to navigate the university s bureaucratic environ-ment and because university budgeting and staffing rules protect academic de-partments in times of remission.

how did black studies programs surviveinside the university

First, how was black studies initially framed and justified

community orientation for black stud-ies prevented its implementation in many universities

he different ideas motivating black studieswere usually linked to different organizational structures, which were not ap-proved by university leaders.

here-fore, it is important to understand how various black studies proposals werejustified by their sponsors

lack studies programs were created andthen flourished within the university.

This chapter looks at how black studies programs survived in the 19705 andipSos

Other programs showedgreat resilience. Professors and program chairs were able to stand their groundand survive. The programs that survived—and most did—are now experienc-ing a renaissance.

less enthusiastic aboutblack studies once civil rights and black power politics receded in importance.

They refused to approve hires or budget increases, even when budgetsrecovered and stabilized in the

The late ip/os were a time of financial crisis in highereducation. Universities continually cut budgets and engaged in sustained hir-ing freezes

not enough to pro-mate the field's growth through the 19705 and 19803

cul-tural studies and gay and lesbian studies.

liberationist,

Soon after blackstudies programs appeared, ethnic studies and women's studies followed.

Black studies benefited from the excitement of the early 19705, the intensetime after King's assassination and the ensuing urban riots.

to pursue novel intellectual agendas, diversify a college sfaculty and course offerings, offer social support for black students, encouragediscussions between blacks and whites, or mollify disruptive students.

Third World Strike

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ociety: These wereunthinkable. It’s not that we OeWeS went out,

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rans youth in other states continue to lobby successfully for gender-neutral facilities or use of those consistent with their identities.1

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Material barriers constrain men’s ability to perceive themselves and be per-ceived as desirable partners if they cannot perform these expected gender roles.6

Yet immi-gration-related barriers reshaped undocumented men’s ability to meet gendered expectations and present themselves as desirable partners.

romantic notions to explain their attraction to each other.

financial constraints produced by illegality

gender roles intersect with illegality’s constraints to heighten first-generation undocumented women’s dependence on their husbands, making them vulnerable to unequal relationship dynamics and even abuse.

gendered dating norms according to which men are expected to be providers and women dependent participants.

Like being able to have more doors open to where I could get a better job and stuff like that.

arly date he was pulled over by police and forced to reveal that he did not have a driver’s license and was undocumented.

he lacked a valid Social Security number.

he still internalized negative feelings about his undocumented status.

the weight of saving the world and fixing our past mistakes on their small shoulders,

this demographic juggernaut is on

Hear

With

is emerging as the next big thing for market researchers, cultural observers and trend forecasters?

“millennial,”

the ‘fear of missing out’ (FOMO)

including anxiety, depression, loneliness, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and addiction

negative impact of excessive use of social networking sites on the health and wellbeing of users

reate a sense of belonging and redefine their way of being.

replacing the things that can be achieved in an in-person conversation—the nodding of the head, the contact of the eyes, the tiny gestures that

LOL”s are very rarely evidence of the real thing;

Her LOL functions as, essentially, a punctuation mark

Key within these common patterns was the relationship between identity and consumption, including drug consumption. Commodities, whether they be clothes, music, cars, drinks, or drugs, can be important symbols of an individual’s identity and boundary markers between his or her social group and other groups

Our research seeks to reverse this relationship, to query the ways in which drug use itself and participation in drug using scenes shapes young Asian Americans’ ethnic identities, and to examine how these practices mediate the ways in which they understand and speak about their lives as Asian Americans or as first- or second-generation immigrants

Within the San Francisco Bay Area, which is the home of one of the larg-est populations of Asian Americans in the United States, Asian American youth have become a prominent feature of the music, dance, and club scenes

Sister Fay and the other women, now seated at one end of the men’s table, turn theconversation to government welfare, out-of-wedlock births, addiction, and the reluctance towork for your living.

between him and Donny McCorquodale.

he women now seat themselves ar

petite, svelte, youthful forty-five, with shoulder-length dark hair, gold studearrings, a pink cotton top and flats; casual dress and intense dark eyes

Jackie Tabo

On

. According to Eichhorn, a media historian at the NewSchool, this is certain to have some kind of profound effect on the development of identity

Butsomewhere in my mind the vision of sh being spewed into water had lodged itself, resurfacing more than twenty-ve years later.

ate Eichhorn worries that coming of age online might impede ourability to edit memories, cull what needs to be culled, and move on.

from oilcontributed only 14 percent of the state’s budget revenue, down from 42 percent

Theindustry is highly automated. To build a petrochemical plant, you need many constructionworkers for a temporary period, and then their job is over

The more oil, the more jobs. The more jobs, the more prosperity, andthe less need for government aid

manner is friendly, energetic,purposeful.

Dr. Paul Templet,

But for each ofthem, there was something else, I was coming to realize, that was even more important. Taxes,church? That seemed part of it.

was still way over on my side of it, saying to myself, if the Louisiana environment is insuch a mess, I hope these politicians talk about cleaning it up. If not, why not?

If they call for smaller federal government, how do they propose to fix theproblems that form part of the Great Paradox that has brought me to Louisiana?

Acadiansettlers—later called Cajuns—in southwest Louisiana

Politics hadn’t helped, they felt, and the Bible surely had

Stricter regulation would be good,” Harold replies. “We’re not against industry,” Annetteclarifies. “We were happy when industry came. It brought jobs. We were glad for Harold to getone. But for decades now, they’ve done nothing to clean up the bayou or compensate us tomove.

But whenthe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers twice dredged the nearby ship channel to ease the passageof commercial ships, “they scooped the toxic sludge from the bottom and pasted it on the banksright and left, without marking where they put it

he health unitcame down on my nephew for not keeping his hogs away from the bad water, but they didn’t donothing about the bad water.

It killed the cypress and grass from here clear out to the Gulf. And you still can’t eat thefish or drink the water.”

She has recently won a lifetime achievement award as custodian at nearby SulphurHigh School. “I clean up after teenagers,” she says with a playful roll of her eyes.“I remember sitting under the cypress for shade in the heat of the summer. The mosshanging on it was green then.

Eventually seven boatloads of Cajuns arrived inNew Orleans Harbor, many of whom then migrated to the swamplands of southwest Louisiana,mingling with and partly displacing the Atakapa Indians. His parents had little schooling, asHarold recounts, because French was banned from schools, and French speakers werediscouraged from attending. Harold himself only got through the eighth grade

Acadians—or Cajuns, as they came to be called

You could drink the water then

bayou.

But in addition to losing his youth, his trees, and many in his family, Harold has lost a way oflife.