Nicki Lisa Cole
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Austria
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iPhone or iExploit? Rampant Labor Violations in Apple's Supply Chain
Are Apple's production quotas and profit margins actively obstructing positive change in its supply chain? → Read More
What I Learned From the Mining Community That Produced My Engagement Ring
Fair trade certification has improved gold mining conditions, but current oversight mechanisms still leave workers vulnerable. → Read More
What You Need to Know About Immigration and Crime
Are immigrants a dangerous threat to the U.S., as Donald Trump has suggested? Scientific research says absolutely not. → Read More
What is Cultural Relativism?
What is cultural relativism? This article offers an introduction to and some history of the concept, as well as why it matters. → Read More
Black Friday: Where We Shopped, What We Bought, and What it All Means
How many people shopped in stores and online over the Black Friday extravaganza? How much did they spend, and what did they buy? Get the answers here. → Read More
Why Are Middle Age White People Dying at Greater Rates Than Others?
Middle age white Americans are dying at far greater rates than other groups, and are mostly dying of drug and alcohol related causes, and suicide. Why? → Read More
What is Cultural Hegemony?
What is cultural hegemony? A sociologist explains Antonio Gramsci's concept, and why it's relevant to understanding inequality in today's world. → Read More
What's the Difference Between Macro and Micro Sociology?
Macro- and microsociology have differences in scope, method, and levels of analysis, but both are valuable to the field of sociology, and even complementary. → Read More
Can the Electronics Industry Provide a Living Wage? Not While Corporations Set the Rules
People are fighting for a living wage in global electronics supply chains, but corporations and the WTO stand in their way. → Read More
What Are Applied and Clinical Sociology?
What are applied and clinical sociology? A sociologist explains these practical counterparts to the academic study of society. → Read More
Apple's Supply-Chain Workers May Be Risking Cancer to Build Your iPhone
A new report details serious labor violations at a major Apple supplier, and evidence of worker exposure to cancer-causing benzene. → Read More
Keep Child Labor and Slavery Out of Halloween Chocolate
Child labor, slavery, and poverty have no place in our Halloween candy. This year, choose fair or direct trade chocolate. → Read More
What is Discourse?
Discourse, the structure and content of our thought and communication, has powerful implications for people's rights, safety, and well-being. → Read More
11 Fascinating Facts About Halloween
Facts about Halloween spending and activities, from National Retail Federation, with some color sociological commentary about what it all means. → Read More
On the Process of Production and the Hidden Costs of Doing Business
How does chocolate get made, and who is involved in this global process? This slide show provides an overview, and a look at the hidden costs behind chocolate. → Read More
Michel Foucault: A Brief Biography and Intellectual History
Michel Foucault's contributions to how we understand knowledge and power are still widely relevant today. Get to know the man and his work. → Read More
What Are the Human Costs of iPhone?
Think Apple's labor problems are over? Think again. iPhone is dirty with exploitation and labor law violations. → Read More
Unmarried Women Are More Politically Liberal. Here's Why.
A 2015 study by a team of social scientists found that women who have never been married have a greater sense of "linked fate" to women as a group. → Read More
How Much is Apple's Brand Worth?
What's in a brand? A study of Apple's reveals what makes it so powerful economically and culturally. → Read More
What Are the Consequences of Defunding Planned Parenthood?
Republicans are moving to defund Planned Parenthood. Let's take a look at the gigantic economic costs of doing so, and the social costs too. → Read More