sociology

東浩紀の著書『動物化するポストモダン』に関する東氏と宮台真司の対談

Quoted: Mosio is a play on the word "Mociology", a mash up of "mobile" and "sociology", which is defined as "the study of human behaviour in a mobile world and the study of mobile device/phone lifestyles." It was coined in 2005 by Ralph Simon, a leading mobile content expert..

This book looks worth checking out.

Quoted: Slate is publishing two excerpts from Tim Harford's new book, The Logic of Life, which is premised on the notion that if we want to understand our world—or how to change it—we must first understand the rational choices that shape it.

Benoit College's "Mindset List", describing the worldview of this year's entering freshman class. For example, freshmen entering college this year will not have actually heard some one "ring it up" on a cash register.

I don't think we need a study to tell us how booze affects human sexual behavior...

Quoted: What a new study on alcohol and fruit flies can tell us about how booze affects human sexual behavior.

As long as this doesn't turn into a false sense of entitlement, I think it's great that younger generations are making demands that allow them to have lives outside work...

Quoted: Not too long ago, the generation gap meant parents didn’t understand why ripped jeans cost twice as much as regular ones or why every other word coming out of their child’s mouth was “like.” Now the gap means employers don’t understand why twentysomethings straight out of college expect a high salary and lots of vacation time.

Quoted: PhysOrg news: Gossip more powerful than facts in shaping opinion: study

Fascinating stuff.

Quoted: Gregory Clark believes that the Industrial Revolution occurred because of a change in the nature of the human population.