-
Can we talk about race and inequalities without talking about racism?
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $10 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
Science That Unsettles
NOTE: This article was originally published on realscientists.org in 2017* INTRODUCTION How can we transform societies? How can we help people organize human beings towards the transformation of their society? This process is a science. To be interested in the transformation of the ethics and relations that exist between humans, institutions, and sets of resources…
-
Making the Other: Racism/Racialization as an Alternative Exchange System
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $10 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
Structure and Agency
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $5 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
‘But Some of Us Are Brave’: Theories of the Body that ‘Fuck with the Grays’
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $5 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
How Race/ism and Patriarchy Interact To Shape Inequality
INTRODUCTION Inequality can be best understood in the context of how humans conceptualize ‘equality’. In the United States, a nation that projects an image of democracy and fairness, inequality is framed as a consequence of the typical stratification of ability, effort, and worth. This can also be found in the ways that inequality is framed…
-
Structure & Agency In Contemporary Social Theory
One of the main concerns of theorists of society in the 20th century has been the question of the relation between structure and agency. Describe three different schools of thought in social theory (make sure that you identify the main figures in relation to that question and compare each school’s views on the possibilities of…
-
Labour and The Self
QUESTION(S): What is Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self? How is it shaped by labor processes? According to Karl Marx, an individual’s self-identity influences their local context or is it always the converse? INTRODUCTION Karl Marx’s conceptualization of the self can be best understood through his reflections on the impact of the labor process…
-
Summary of Classical Sociological Theory
QUESTION(S): The basic premise of all classical sociological theory is that the contemporary world is the outcome of a transition from “traditional” to “modern” societies. Explain how Karl Marx, Max Weber, & Emile Durkheim describe this transition. How do they define the consequences of such a transition on western societies? What do they think about…
-
Critical Thinking Series: Education & Colonial Assimilation
Introduction Critical inquiry is understood as a means through which you built and articulate an argument. Morrow & Weston actually do a great job of taking on some of the stigma of ‘arguing’. In their workbook for arguments, Morrow & Weston discuss the ways in which we tend to see arguments as frames of confrontation…
-
An Overview of Dialectics & Historical Materialism
MESSAGE TO READER FROM THE AUTHOR: Below is a summary of Karl Marx’s theorizations of dialectics and historical materialism that I put together. What I review is the main contributions of Karl Marx’s work that contributes to how many critical scholars theorize the place of capitalism and hegemony in what we see as the history…
-
Under Construction: Decolonized Queer Masculinity(ies)
This is something that I have been discussing with close friends and working on what this means for myself. As somebody who is considered an academic in some sense, a lot of figuring this out means I’ve been reading loads of research articles, books, and articles online to look at loads of different perspectives and…
-
Books You Can Read & 3 Docs You Can Watch Instead of Exposing Yourself to the Reactionary Lies in the “Hidden Colors” Films
Introduction So I have been thinking about writing this post for a while & now I’m finally getting to it. In light of a lot of people paying attention to the extrajudicial murders of Black men in the news (& all the Black women being murdered by both the police & Black men but I…
-
What is “colonial science”? What is “decolonial science”?
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $5 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
The Disasters They’ve Become
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
Introspection & Sociological Imagination
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $5 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
2022 Wrap Up & Updates
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
SU’21 Updates
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
“LOST EVERYTHING GOD BLESS!” at the corner of Billionaire’s Row
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
That’s Not What That Means…
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.
-
Race/ism & Epigenetics
To view this content, you must be a member of Hood’s Patreon at $1 or more Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content.