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Author Archives: peacock

Taking It All In

Posted on November 26, 2011 by peacock
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I took this picture when I was in Vegas and it depicts a male hand putting a disco ball into a woman’s mouth with the tag line, take it all in. This is for a club called “Studio 54″ at the MGM Grand.

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Posted in Visual Portfolio | Tagged bifurcation of consciousness, Dorothy Smith, feminism, Las Vegas, standpoint theory | 1 Reply

Making Spaces

Posted on November 18, 2011 by peacock
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Racism in Ads

Posted on November 10, 2011 by peacock
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I took this picture of this billboard owned by CocaCola on the corner of Eagle Rock and Colorado Blvd. The text reads “Tomahawk to the Temple” and shows a black man executing what looks like a slam dunk.

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Posted in Visual Portfolio | Tagged controlling images, native americans, race, racism, violence | 8 Replies

She’S the Man

Posted on November 3, 2011 by peacock
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Garfinkel is a sociologist known for using breaching experiments in his own work. He uses them because breaching experiments allow a sociologist to examine people’s reactions to norm violations.

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Posted in Uncategorized, Visual Portfolio | Tagged Ethnomethodology, Garfinkel, Gender roles, goffman, symbolic interactionism | 3 Replies

Racism, With a Touch of Sexism

Posted on October 31, 2011 by peacock
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Raffi Torres was Jay Z for Halloween

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Posted in Digital Show and Tell | Tagged blackface, Halloween, racism, sexism | 2 Replies

“Employees Only”- Signs Separating Front and Backstage

Posted on October 28, 2011 by peacock
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The “Chosen Few”?

Posted on October 21, 2011 by peacock
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Posted in Visual Portfolio | Tagged income inequality, mills, Occupy Wall Street, the power elite | 2 Replies

Not Looking in the Mirror

Posted on October 13, 2011 by peacock
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A year without Mirrors

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Occupy Together

Posted on October 7, 2011 by peacock
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Posted in Digital Show and Tell | Tagged 99%, capitalism, false consciousness, marcuse, marx, media, Occupy Wall Street, repressive tolerance, revolution | 2 Replies

Are the Wealthy Happier?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by peacock
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An article about the relative happiness of the wealthy.

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Danielle Dirks, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
dirks@oxy.edu
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