Posts tagged sociology:
The Reality: Daunting difficulties for the children promised college scholarships 
fascinating series on the fate of 59 fifth-graders whose collage education were sponsored by two wealthy businessmen in 1988
this is not normal
taken from the Brick City
Focusing On Problems Instead Of Solutions
Author David Bornstein says that when it comes to covering social innovation, the media is doing it wrong. Instead of showing what’s wrong in the world, how about showing how smart solutions can bring about change?
Anarchy and Austerity: Why London Won't Be the Last City to Burn
For 100 years, across the world, more cuts have led to more crime
“With Netflix, people are constantly rating movies,” Thombre told me. “But there’s only oneThe Godfather, and you rate it once.” Predicting preferences in human beings is altogether more complicated. “Even if you like The Godfather, The Godfather doesn’t have to like you back,” he said. “The whole problem of mutual matching makes the problem 10 times more complicated.”
The logical conclusion of our relationship to computers: expectantly to type “what is the meaning of my life” into Google
Detroit Pushes Back With Young Muscles
An influx of young creative types is turning Detroit into a Midwestern TriBeCa
When It Comes to Scandal, Girls Won't Be Boys
women run for office to do something, and men run for office to be somebody
Can Twitter predict the future?
Internet forecasting: Businesses are mining online messages to unearth consumers’ moods—and even make market predictions
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