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		<title>RIP Harold Garfinkel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Michele Ford When you get on an elevator, what do you do? Chances are, you turn around and face the doors. But why? Social order demands that you do. Harold Garfinkel, an influential American sociologist who died on April 21st, sought to study social order in part through &#8220;breaching experiments&#8221; in which the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesociallens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5164328&amp;post=1245&amp;subd=thesociallens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So long, Cabrini Green</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Michele Ford It seems innocuous enough&#8230; an apartment complex just northwest of downtown Chicago, constructed between 1942 and 1962, and home to approximately 15,000 people.  But Cabrini Green wasn&#8217;t an ordinary apartment complex; to many, it represented everything that was wrong with public housing in American cities. Cabrini Green was the scene of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesociallens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5164328&amp;post=1241&amp;subd=thesociallens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is going on in North Africa and the Middle East?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Michele Ford It all started in mid-December, when a fruit vendor in Tunisia set himself on fire to protest mistreatment by police and municipal officials.  A month of protests later, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was in exile and a unity government had been formed.  The Jasmine Revolution had succeeded. Only days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesociallens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5164328&amp;post=1235&amp;subd=thesociallens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty, Nutrition, and Obesity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Michele Ford I recently found myself engaged in a rather heated discussion with a friend who was lamenting the quality of food that she can buy with her relatively meager paycheck.  She was justifiably upset that the best calorie value  for her money was off-brand macaroni and cheese which she could buy for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesociallens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5164328&amp;post=1228&amp;subd=thesociallens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India to conduct census of caste membership</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah Michele Ford Much like the United States, India conducts a decennial national census; their next census will be conducted in 2011. As part of the 2011 census, the Indian government is bringing back something that has only been done once before, under British rule in 1931: there will be a second census, conducted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesociallens.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5164328&amp;post=1224&amp;subd=thesociallens&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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