Sociology Blogs

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• A Vermont Women’s Prison Story (Slice 2 of the Series) — What happens when cruelty becomes entertainment inside a women's prison? I know, because I lived it. In this next slice
• Breaking the Silence and Giving a Voice to Women in the System — Incarceration should not be the end of the story. As someone who has lived through addiction and the system, I'm breakin
• Addiction & Incarceration: Breaking the Silence and Giving a Voice to Addicts — Incarceration should not be the end of the story. As someone who has lived through addiction and the system, I'm breakin
• Who owns Ghana’s mission schools? — Who really owns Ghana's mission schools? I follow the Wesley Girls' High School Supreme Court case, trace the colonial a
• Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising — I’ve been digging into eighteenth-century trade cards and in this post I ask why barbershops resisted polite advertising
• Qing state capacity — How strong was the Qing state, really? I poke at debates over state capacity, local governance, taxation, and whether im
• Liars, Crooks, and Con Men (Oh My!) — Frauds everywhere you look. I’m digging into the latest grifters, shady operators, and serial truth-benders cluttering p