Category: Sociologizing
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Secrets DO make friends
Happy new year, dear blog readers! I haven’t posted since last year, yes. Took a little break. But, no worries, here I am back to get it in, in 2011! First post of the year, a bit about Wikileaks by the homie, Slavoj Zizek. It’s a fun and interesting read about the whole dripping drama…
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Analog Girl in a Digital World
On the front page of the NYTimes is an article about the role of technology and student learning/teacher’s teaching. The article has an alarming affect, I was nervous about my use of the nets and computer devices as soon as I reached the bottom of page one. And then I continued. The author, Matt Ritchel,…
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Culture of Sociology
A month or so ago the New York Times published a piece on the comeback of the “Culture of Poverty” in research, and latently, in popular social imagination. A month or so ago, I really wanted to write about this; my anger and frustration with the limiting perspectives in the discipline I “belong” to or…
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Making Cake
A cake is hard to make. It is a calculated science of measurement and timing. That’s why I’ve never baked one, at least from scratch. But making cake has another meaning, in hip hop, it means to make lettuce, cheddar, skrella…money. This is also a science. It is also a calculated science of measurement and…
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Un-Warren-ted Assumptions
Last week, wrote a bit about the Filipino nurses in California, via California Nurses’ Association (CNA) filing a lawsuit against California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) about hiring discrimination against Filipino nurses. After the news of this discrimination suit spread through local and national circuits, Warren Browner, the CEO of CPMC released the below letter to…
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Can’t get a break: Story of Filipina migrant workers
Often, in the spheres of the Global Forum of Migration and Development and/or the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency, icons of migrant workers are those that look like the pictures below. Smily. Shiny. Happy. Eager. But in the real world, the one that’s not smily. Not shiny. Migrant workers are dealing with some really complicated issues.…
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Hostage
Headlines about the Philippines peppered many of today’s international news circuits (NY Times, Reuters, BBC, Examiner, etc.) with the words “gunman”, “hostage”, “standoff” and “(insert number here) dead.” The most I’ve seen the Philippines on the news since the presidential race. 55-year old Rolando Mendoza was recently laid off as a senior police officer in Manila,…
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