#Sociology Dissertation Help | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

maxwell-grant · 5 months ago

Note

What are your in-depth thoughts on THE CHIMERA BRIGADE? Would love to know what you make of it, given its handling and assembly of so much pulp material.

@thedeathalchemist asked: With your first initial thoughts on League posted, I have to ask did you ever get around to reading all of the Chimera Brigade and its sequel/spin-offs?

Anonymous asked: Any advice for how to a fictional character mashup story ala chimera brigade, league, etc?

(So first and foremost huge thanks to Ritesh Babu for being the whole reason for me finally picking this up again and finishing it, our conversations with him and @davidmann95 were crucial for putting this together)

(Also SPOILERS for The Chimera Brigade - this comic is impossible to discuss meaningfully without spoiling it down to the last issue, so go read it first)

The French tradition of booklets and serials certainly didn't have the punch or the sociological freedom of the pulps, but certain of its great figures did survive the Second World War: Fantomas, Arsene Lupin, Rouletabille and even, in a way, Maigret. Why those and not the others.

Why doesn't anyone remember the Nyctalope, or Hareton Ironcastle, or Felifax or Michel Ardent? Which cultural black hole of pre-war French science-fiction were they swallowed up by? And why have our bandes dessinées authors neglected these virtual superheroes that a little touch-up here and there could have modernised? - Serge Lehman

I can very confidently say two things - 1: I've read countless works like The Chimera Brigade that set out to do something similar to what The Chimera Brigade does, and 2: I have never seen a work like The Chimera Brigade, and one that achieves what it does the way it does. This being a superb pulp fiction crossover, who makes most of the others seem like they're not even trying, is maybe the smallest of it's achievements.

It's the kind of project that so very often tends to get lost in the weeds of it's source material, of having it's context overtaking the plot, of devolving into simple sentimental reverence or spiteful potshots at the expense of the story it set up, of being able to construct a story and world convincingly but fumbling at the finish line, and it's so very rare to find one of these projects that is ENTIRELY about the finish line of what the narrative has set-up, especially when they have significant messy real-life history and context to bolt in, which The Chimera Brigade has a ton of.

Pulp nerd crossovers tend to be largely about the novelty of it's characters meeting up, or the unresolved tension between it's characters and the historical context they coincidentally inhabit, or setting up a shared verse to be played in, and thus a lot of them are predictably aimless when it's time to wrap up the story and thus define what the story in question was about. This is even an issue that series creator and co-author Serge Lehman even brings up during the annotations, regarding why he asked his friend Fabrice Colin to co-write the script with him, specifically in part to try and prevent this. I want to make note of what he says here, "confusing fanatic nostalgia for creativity". A thing this set out to avoid, and a thing that helps set this apart from so, so, so many pulp hero crossovers / pulp-in-wartime stories / dissertations about publication-meta-fictional history presented as stories, miles and miles of Wold Newton adjacent stuff I've scoured for days and weeks on end and tried very, very, VERY hard to like so much more than I actually do.

This project does demand a lot of data archival, it demands the laborious Jess Nevins annotations and footnotes to keep track of who's whom or who's meant to be what. It's a story about European superheroes that is focused why European superheroes don't actually exist / completely vanished stillborn around the time the American superheroes first appeared and became a dominant force, specifically drawing on reasons like publishing failures and the fascist incorporation of superhumanity that really did cause these things to vanish. But The Chimera Brigade is a very, very focused project: it's about one thing first and foremost, and it's about one moment first and foremost, and thus the thing that it is about, and the historical moment that informs it, completely defines the purpose of it. Crucially, this is one of the many things this has that makes it so good, that makes it so different from so many other modern takes on pulp fiction or crossovers: the clarity of purpose this has, the point it's making and the unflinching vision it achieves to serve it.

It's a historical pulp nerd project initially entirely centered around a real phenomenon only historical pulp nerds are likely to know anything about, and then it gradually reveals itself to be, in fact, about something everyone has always known about all along, and you were only ever deluding yourself for thinking this was heading anywhere else. You want to talk about European superheroes? You want to talk about European pulp history? You want to know about the absence of the European Superman and why the Americans got to really create that instead? Okay, let's talk about that. Let's talk about European fictional history and see where it goes.

Even before the central question of European Superhero History comes into play, the baseline concept of The Chimera Brigade's worldbuilding is already taking such a smart, clear-eyed, versatile approach to the crossover aspect, starting from really strong pitches and compelling hooks regardless of what context you have for it, that enables it to tie it's pulp characters to the superhero history and political turmoil it will dwelve into, by tapping into The Great Unifier of Marvel Origin Stories: radiation. What if the first superheroes were also created by radiation? If superheroes are so inherently tied to World War 2 and the Atomic Bomb, and pulp heroes are so inherently tied to World War 1, what if we went back further to Marie Curie and the discovery of Radium as the connective tissue between them? What if we set about unpacking the radioactive monster elements inherent to the genre, as they creep into the world before the actual superheroes do? What if the existence of superhumans, in itself, inevitably placed humanity into a cold war / arms race, just as the existence of atomic bombs in our reality did (a.k.a what if The Power Fantasy was actually about what it says it's about, or really was about anything at all)? What does it mean for these constructs to exist at the time they do, to come from the nations they come from, in the way they are made to be?

Everyone here may not have a singular common origin at first, but they really are all tied together, and that in itself allows all these wildly different fictions to exist together in a way that feels cohesive and justified, on top of lending itself to fun sequences and reimaginings of classic characters and visuals and ideas to engage with. And that's an important thing to also highlight first, that this is a very well-crafted and fun comic to read. Don't let all the pulp nerd context scare you, this thing is a hoot.

It does a superb job at being a fun, engaging pulp comic, playing with a Mike Mignola/John Paul Leon-esque artstyle that makes a lot of this feel familiar and dynamic, with a lot of collages that play more experimentally and add a lot to the real-world history aspect of it. Gess and Bessonneau's art lives up to the tremendous task of taking all these characters from very different sources or creators, or at least very convincingly made to feel as if they would have if they existed before this, and paying tribute to replicated history both real and imagined as well as making them all feel like they belong in the same world and even share similar rooms and spaces, to the point that you can't tell which characters were made up for this and which existed beforehand without consulting the collected edition notes.

A lot of stories do great work by honing in and highlighting the novelty of clashing wildly different tones and structures and designs against each other, that is actually one of my favorite things to see done well in any kind of fiction, I'm certainly not arguing that visual consistency is a definitive must for any kind of crossover. But I will argue that here, consistency is a must, because this is not a story about the crossover, the crossover is necessary for the sake of what this story is about. You must believe that you are reading about a world that exists, in part because the finale of this is about making you realize that you were, indeed, reading about the world you live in all along.

With the exception of a not-so-disguised figure who makes two small but very crucial appearences (with other characters scattered across a handful of cameos and mentionings), this completely refrains from using any majorly known characters, and it's important that it does so. This has a very tight control over which characters show up in what way, which characters are relevant and which characters are not, in part because this is about real-world history as much as it's about any of the existing characters it's pulling from elsewhere, and so those are chosen more so as representatives of their nations than anything else, picked first and foremost to represent the real historical circumstances driving this war. The cadaverous and inhumanly wealthy Gog to represent fascist Italy, the weaselly and controlling and useless Nyctalope as a condemnation of France's inaction and whose greatest failure was his unwillingness to stop the fascist takeover of Spain, the mechanical men of the Soviet Union, Dr. Mabuse as a living rampant metaphor for Nazi doctrine and dehumanization, and so on.

All these fantasies/metaphors turned literal and on the warpath, constructs that stand for more than just their respective characters or publishers but the imaginations that created them. You have to talk about those to talk meaningfully about these characters, about the history, and about the reasons why there are no European superheroes from that era, about the profound failure of imagination that occurred in Europe at that time. You have to talk about not just the ways Europe's imagination not only failed, but turned for the worst in the worst ways imaginable, for the worst ends possible. This comic is frequently compared to, or pitched as a companion to, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I've covered here, and that's not a parallel I feel is particularly worth getting into (not in the least because this is, obviously, tremendously better written and more thoughtful and purposeful with a fraction of the page count), but I'll say this: if LOEG touches a lot on the idea of fiction as a dangerous, noxious force, largely in terms of stunted moral development and unhealthy attachments to problematic ideas (a thing it can never fully commit to because Moore and O'Neil themselves do have a lot of attachments to it and because it's trying to extend commentary to ALL of fiction), if it's always dancing around the idea of our fictions being unhealthy and problematic and potentially dangerous, The Chimera Brigade picks a subject it very much cannot dance around. Instead of trying to be about all of fiction, it takes a laser-focused approach on the way fiction informs it's central topic. The Chimera Brigade fires a bullet into your heart by just showing the example of how, when and why fiction was used to enable and justify and even perpetrate the slaughter of millions.

There is so much about this comic's final stretch that feels like it shouldn't work, particularly the literalized cockroach metaphor purposefully evoking anti-semitic fiction, but there is no other way this could possibly end other than showing how fiction very much did get weaponized in the name of slaughter. There is no triumph to be had in the European imagination of 1939. There is no way the European superhero can possibly end in anything other than colossal shame and failure, if it allows this to happen. Even if Superman shows up to help, you can't Hope your way out of the Holocaust, not when you're in this historical playground, not when you're talking about the history of the genre. The finale in particular is something I'd like to see being dissected and discussed from a Jewish creator perspective, because so much of it is specifically about that aspect of the superhero myth, but this finale is the big reason why this comic can't be discussed without spoiling it. It would be like trying to discuss Watchmen or Miracleman without spoiling their endings, and believe me, those comparisons are extremely warranted. This ends on even more of a downer ending than those two, and there is no other way this could possibly end.

This comic doesn't just come from a place of great curiosity and historical interest and research, it doesn't just come from a place of love for the medium and it's possibilities, it doesn't just come from a desire to rectify or correct or live up to an ideal within the genre, but it comes from a place of genuine insight and honesty and focus on what it's about, and what it has to say to truly be about that thing. It's a comic that is willing to turn to you and say, "let's take this all the way to the top, let's take this concept where it was actually always going in a way that can never be walked back, no beating around the bush or happy ending, this is what the European superheroes were, this is why they stopped existing after a point. Maybe we could have had them, maybe we could have had superheroes the way the Americans did, but we drove their creators elsewhere by bulldozing their people into mass graves, we deserve this shame and we must confront it, there is no happy ending here, only a reminder of what has been and what must never be again"

It can't pretend this failure, the failure of the European pulp heroes and superhumans, the failures of European society, were redeemed by a different kind of super imagination, and it becomes apparent how much of this is built on the understanding that you do know how this is going to end for everyone and how much all of these characters must dissappear basically forever, The End of the European Superhumans as it displays on the back of the collections, ending the only way it possibly can and with just as horrible of a gut punch for them as it needs to for everyone.

Everyone except the mysterious smiling American strongman with a spitcurl and a suit whose real name can't be legally said, and who is here to bring his family of fellow constructs home so they can take and create The Superhero Genre elsewhere. "Mr.Steele"? Why, he is gonna do just fine from now on.

I was wildly underprepared for how much this would give me to dissect and think about, on it's own and especially in comparison to the kinds of stories that usually attempt what this one is doing. I do know there are sequels and prequels, the sequel doesn't seem like it's any good (you can feel Colin's absence from the first issue) but I do want to check the Nyctalope prequels, and apparently there's a big fancy animated project coming out and I have NO idea how the fuck is that gonna work. But overall this is just a tremendously impressive achievement in genre archaeology and storytelling by every metric, it's astonishing how much this can do with the space it has.

This has genuinely reinvigorated my entire interest in pulp fiction like nothing has in a really long time and I think from this point onwards, any question I get regarding how to tackle a pulp fiction crossover or genre mashup is gonna be answered or prefaced with "read The Chimera Brigade and try to get on that level".

#replies tag #pulp heroes #pulp #the chimera brigade #serge lehman #gess #pulp fiction #comic books

27 notes · View notes

crazylittlejester · 1 year ago

Note

Daily brainrot and today I've got a load of headcanons I've been mulling over because they won't leave me alone.

I know we've all done a college AU at some point in our lives, but I was up at like 3 am last night debating over which academia aesthetic each Link embodies because I may have spent way too much time on the aesthetics wiki recently. Did I procrastinate for an hour to work on this? Yes. I have no regrets. YOLO and all that.

Sky -- Definitely has light academia vibes. The man does not own a single dark piece of clothing, and everything in his closet is very soft and cozy. He double majored in aviation and environmental science, but he's debating transferring over to the biology department to pursue grad studies in ornithology.

Time -- He is not in charge of his own wardrobe, okay? Malon picks out his outfits. They match. It's always something tasteful and neutral with a little bit of color, but nothing that marks him as belonging to academia. He's part of the philosophy department and a strict teacher, but the students all love him because he genuinely wants them to do well and lets them know. Most of his work is writing for philosophy journals when he isn't teaching.

Legend -- Has more of a general/miscellaneous aesthetic that leans hard into gender non-conformity. He takes his work with him everywhere and whenever someone asks about it, it goes completely over their heads because they have no idea what he's talking about. There's an ongoing bet about whether his dissertation is about linguistics, sociology, or both.

Hyrule -- I don't think there's a word for his aesthetic, he just gives off "outdoors creature" vibes so hard. He's a cryptid and rarely in the classroom because he's always out doing field work. The most human contact he has is outreach programs with the environmental science and biology departments. No one knows exactly what his grad work is supposed to be because it's incomprehensible combinations of wildlife photos half the time and the other half the time he's off the grid.

Twilight -- This is what happens when cowboys and gothic academia have a kid. It's really freaking weird, but somehow he makes it work, so nobody questions it. He technically works for the agricultural department doing research and outreach programs, but he also haunts the English department and occasionally teaches 100 level literature classes online. The freshmen like him because he rounds grades up.

Four -- An unholy combination of academia and his unique color coding system. You don't know what you're getting until he shows up. He generally wears neutral stuff, but his socks and ties are color coded, much to everyone's chagrin. He's got multiple projects going at any given time and helps out the other departments when they get stuck on details. He's really cagey about his dissertation, but he practically lives in the science & engineering building, so he can't exactly deny that he's doing something in STEM.

Wind -- He tried being fashionable, but as soon as he decided to major in oceanography he was swept away by ocean academia. The amount of blue clothing he has is frankly horrifying, and Warriors is trying to get him to branch out into less garish shades of gray and stop wearing almost exclusively rubber boots as footwear. It's a work in progress.

Warriors -- I think he'd fall under general or queer academia because he'd be fashionable in a mostly-normal-but-also-queer sort of way. Stylish, and fruity. Definitely prefers autumn/winter because that's peak scarf season. He's the kind of guy who manages to casually slip representation into any curriculum you hand him and makes it look natural. He got an assistantship with the history department because the professors love him.

Wild -- 100% chaotic academia and doesn't even have to try. Everything is a mess, but it's his mess, he knows exactly where everything is, and to be honest it's not a safety hazard, so it's fine. Besides, he dresses appropriately for department events, and he's the only grad student that Flora hasn't scared off. No one actually knows which department he belongs to, but he knows something about everything.

IM SO FUCKING OBSESSED WITH THIS YOU HAVE NO IDEA

THESE ARE SO PERFECT AND YOU’RE SO RIGHT ABOUT THEM ALL I LOVE THESE SO MUCH IM SHAKIN EM AROUND LIKE A JAR OF MARBLES

#jes talks #jes ask #linked universe #lu warriors #DAILY BRAINROT #!!!!!!!

19 notes · View notes

coochiequeens · 13 days ago

Text

As someone from Connecticut, I knew as soon as I saw Yale my reaction would be an eyeroll.

By Jennifer Lahl May 13, 2025

About the Author

Jennifer Lahl (MA, BSN, RN) is the founder of The Center for Bioethics and Culture. She has produced several important documentaries that can be viewed for free on YouTube. Follow Jennifer on X: @JenniferLahl

At some of the most prestigious universities in the world, ideas once confined to fringe online communities and personal blogs are now published in academic journals and treated as legitimate scholarship. These aren’t just strange thought experiments—they’re full-blown efforts to “queer” biology, reimagine pregnancy without women, and reshape medical ethics in ways that downplay the health of unborn children. What used to sound like satire is now shaping how doctors are trained and how healthcare is delivered.

I work in reproductive technology, so I read a lot of research on fertility and pregnancy. Most of it is scientific and straightforward. But lately, I’ve been seeing more and more papers that ignore biology entirely in favor of ideology. I wrote previously about one such paper that argued we should question our desire for “normal fetal outcomes” during pregnancy—especially when the pregnant person is taking testosterone as part of a gender transition. The authors actually suggested that helping people have healthy babies might be too focused on “normative bodies,” and that staying on high doses of testosterone while pregnant is fine. It was unscientific and dangerous.

But then I came across a paper that took things even further.

It’s called “Transfeminist Pregnancy: Reproductive Speculation, Genre, and Desire,” written by Carlo Sariego, a Ph.D. candidate in Yale’s joint program in Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Sariego, who uses they/them pronouns, does research exploring gender, sexuality, medicine, and science from a sociological point of view. Sariego’s dissertation, titled “Repro Futures: Transgender Reproductive Politics, Justice, and Time in the United States,” is about dismantling the idea of pregnancy itself.

In this particular paper, Sariego argues that pregnancy isn’t just something that happens to female bodies, and that trans women—biological males—can also “experience” pregnancy through three ideas: transition, performance, and labor. Sariego claims that only by reimagining pregnancy through a “transfeminist” lens can we move beyond outdated ideas rooted in biology.

It may sound bizarre—and it is—but this kind of thinking is becoming more common in academic circles. And because these ideas are starting to affect real-world medicine and policy, they need to be taken seriously—and challenged.

Let’s take a closer look.

The paper argues that “only a transfeminist re-theorisation of pregnancy can reach meaningfully beyond bodily gestation,” and laments that current research on “trans pregnancies” has focused too heavily on trans men and nonbinary individuals “to the detriment of the fertile experiences of trans women.” Sariego asserts that “pregnancy need not imply a cis body,” and proposes that “pregnancy can potentially establish a shared ground between trans and cis women.” In short, the paper claims that men can participate in pregnancy conceptually through three categories: transition, performance, and labor.

This thesis directly challenges basic biology and raises obvious questions about how these ideas could be applied in any real medical setting. The entire paper is speculative and theoretical, making it hard to pin down what exactly Sariego is proposing—or how it might help a physician provide better care to a pregnant patient. Sariego’s challenge to the biological basis of pregnancy ignores the fact that those biological realities form the foundation for how we define women in both medicine and law—and for how we care for pregnant women and their unborn children.

Even more concerning is the way Sariego misrepresents existing legal language to support their argument. For example, in the paper’s introduction, Sariego cites Texas House Bill 2690 and claims it defines a woman as “an individual with a uterus, regardless of any gender identity.” But that’s not what the bill actually says.

Here’s the full definition from HB 2690, The Woman and Child Safety Act:

“Woman” means an individual whose biological sex is female, including an individual with XX chromosomes and an individual with a uterus, regardless of any gender identity that the individual attempts to assert or claim.

Sariego’s misrepresentation of the bill by inappropriately truncating the definition distorts the legislative context and weakens its perceived credibility. It’s also worth noting that HB 2690, which was never passed, aimed to criminalize abortion-inducing medication. That has nothing to do with reimagining who can get pregnant. Since abortion can only be performed on pregnant women, the bill’s relevance to Sariego’s argument is questionable at best.

No matter where you stand on abortion, this bill has nothing to do with so-called “trans pregnancies.” Misrepresenting it doesn’t help the argument—it just makes the reader less likely to trust the author’s conclusions.

From there, Sariego lays out the “problem” as they/them see it: that reproductive medicine is “stuck,” in part, because “reproductive science and medicine are shaped by rigid gender roles” and that transgender pregnancies are underexplored—especially when it comes to trans women. Sariego claims that “anti-trans and gender-critical feminists use reproduction to argue for a ‘sex-based’ theory of pregnancy.”

But might that be because pregnancy is sex-based? It requires a female to produce an egg and a male to produce sperm. There’s no way around that. Yet Sariego insists we should reject the idea that “the view that pregnancy is exclusive to female bodies.”

To support this view, the paper divides pregnancy into three “sub-genres”—transition, performance, and labor—meant to help us reimagine pregnancy “beyond the cis/trans divide.” But these categories are abstract, ideological, and disconnected from biology. They don’t help us understand how to better care for patients. They simply shift focus away from evidence-based medicine and toward ideological storytelling.

Still, Sariego structures the paper around these three categories. So let’s take a closer look at each of them—transition, performance, and labor—to understand what they’re really arguing, and why these claims fall apart under scrutiny.

Transition

Sariego frames gender transition as analogous to pregnancy, suggesting that both involve bodily change, transformation, and the emergence of new possibilities. In this view, pregnancy and gender transition create solidarity between cis women and trans women because both undergo what Sariego calls a “process of becoming.”

See the rest of the article

#Yale #Men can't get pregnant #If a scientist is ok with women taking harmful substances during pregnancy for the sake of ideology they should lose their credentials #Carlo Sariego #Sociology and Women Gender and Sexuality Studies #Biology is outdated #Transfeminist #Not all women have a uterus but all women have XX chromosomes #A man tried to advocate for TIMs by referring to proposed anti choice legislation from Texas #The dude can't tell the difference between gender roles and biological functions

5 notes · View notes

brattyfemmebaby · 7 months ago

Note

Do you think it’s a good decision for me to make my goal to become a historian of lesbian fashion or maybe anthropologist of lesbian fashion? It’s been my dream since high school but now I’m in college and I’m doubting I’ll be able to make money in the lesbian academic world and that’s a scary decision to try to make. Asking you cause you’re the only lesbian academic in a similar field I think to the one I want to go in to that I know of.

hey sorry this got lost in my ask box and i’m just now seeing it!!

i wish I could say “go for it!” but unfortunately the answer is yes but also no. Let me explain. I think your goal is absolutely wonderful!! definitely shoot for that but understand the likelihood of developing a career doing only lesbian fashion history will be difficult. this also totally hinges on if you want to be faculty and teach or do something else. also remember that working in education means low paid jobs in general.

for me, my career in student affairs was not only deeply fulfilling but allowed me to do my butch/femme and other research work on the side- taking speaking gigs to supplement my income. my bachelors degrees are in photography/graphic design and sociology with a gender studies focus. my masters is in student affairs. i spent ages 19-31 working in and later running diversity programming while making very little money. just this year i was able to leave higher education and start public speaking and consulting full time. that means i had to build my name up in the lecture circuit for about 10 years before it became sustainable! keep in mind that i run a generalized DEI consulting firm and that is what pays my bills- not the butch/femme work that is my true passion. shameless plug but hey yall book me at your college to come talk butch/femme stuff!!

your best bet is to diversify your academic specialization. i can only use myself as an example so obviously you’d do this in your own way (also note i intentionally decided not to become faculty but to work in student affairs); i am a butch/femme expert BUT also publish research on rural lgbt college student development, am a DEI public policy expert, have published white papers aiding institutions in structuring diversity centers to actually serve students, and in the last few years, i became a grant administrator and expanded my area of specialty to include creating DEI initiatives for marginalized student athletes. all that was work i enjoyed but wasn’t the what im most passionate about. this cultivated variety of skills allows me to be marketable much more easily than “butch/femme expert” would.

so, yes! focus on lesbian fashion, but ensure you have another skill. for example if you go the faculty route, write your dissertation on your area of interest but ensure you’re on another research team for something more general and be ready to teach anthropology 100 for many years before you can teach a special topics course on lesbian fashion and while you write a book on the topic. there’s SO much more specific advice i’d be happy to offer if you want to dm me because it all depends on what way you want to track it.

side note;i’ve followed Eleanor Medhurst on tiktok and her website for a long time and read her first book, Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion this summer. definitely look at their work and reach out because she may have great connections to share!

sorry this was so long! hope it helps in some way!!

#ask

3 notes · View notes

hjemne · 1 year ago

Text

Girl help I've accidentally done psychoanalytics for my history & literature dissertation.... Do I just go for it or scrap what I've got entirely and try a different approach? Psychoanalysis is a valid form of literary analysis, right? Sociological social psychology can be historical, right? I need to do some form of discourse analysis but I just cannot work out how to fit it all together ahhhhh

#Freud my worstie i hate that I've done this #but also #god send help #rambles

7 notes · View notes

academic-assistance · 2 years ago

Text

Delve into the intricacies of society with our Sociology Dissertation Writing Service. Our expert team is dedicated to unraveling societal complexities through well-crafted dissertations. From formulating research questions to conducting in-depth analyses, we'll guide you every step of the way. Unleash the power of sociological inquiry and make a meaningful impact with your research. Elevate your academic journey with our specialized service and contribute to a deeper understanding of the world we live in. Embark on your sociological exploration today!

#Sociology Dissertation Writing Service #sociology dissertation help

0 notes

mercurialbadger · 1 year ago

Text

When we are talking about charity, there must exist a level of certain precaution to not let your emotional turmoil result in subpar actions. If empathy is a natural response to seeing people in pain, then it makes sense to liken it to a kneejerk response, much different from a graceful strike of a soccer player.

Very often, personal face-to-face ingroup charity is used to displace the actual efforts at improving people's conditions, and if your organization lacks political oversight or a certain analytical capacity, you might have serving the community replaced with individual help which eventually accumulates every bias and/or ends up being co-opted by some cult.

I am seeing especially egregorious horrific examples of that on Twitter right now, so I will use them to illistrate a point that is otherwise too global and deep-rooted.

In order to understand how this approach does its harm, you need to understand cause and effect, past and future.

THE CAUSE

We are talking about a clique that talks about investing in trans community by helping homeless and/or unemployed trans women by "paying their bills" for some months before they "get up on their own legs". Thankfully, it's a US based clique, so a lot of sociological studies exist to demonstrate the current situation with trans rights.

Let's investigate the causes of queer people being unemployed and/or homeless. The obvious systemic cause is trans-/homophobia, which results in people losing their capabilities immediately after leaving their parents/coming out to them (see e.g. https://doi.org/gq37kh), or otherwise follows the patterns of stigmatization, exclusion and victimization. If we address more widespread political economy of this vulnerability in the USA, topics of mental health, such as PTSD burnout, substance abuse and sexual abuse - including significantly from within queer community - emerge as vulnerability categories (https://doi.org/ggsjt6). As for how inventive abuse from within "community" is, one might refer themselves to the concepts of "hot allostatic load" and "identity abuse" (https://doi.org/ggmdcd).

Failures of t4t ethos and "community short-circuit" also have been described as sources of chronic homelessness among queer youth (https://doi.org/mpx8).

One must be especially mindful of the fact that level of education is an important - if not the most important - predictive factor of queer homelessness, effects were described in depth by Rachel M. Schmitz in the dissertation work "ON THE STREET AND ON CAMPUS".

While the effects identified the author ascribes to better socioeconomical standing of college students majorly, author both identified " experiences of homelessness" as "uniting people through a shared sense of struggle and conflict", and notably gives credit to educational endeavor of academia as vastly superior to "street experience", and studies in countries with accessible education still identify low education level with risks of anxiety and depression. (https://doi.org/mpx3) (https://doi.org/mpx4)

As Negura notes, "Ultimately, the three concepts—‘social support’, ‘social capital’ and ‘social bonds’ — are complementary. These terms are used here to understand the same reality of mutual help amongst people, from different social perspectives."

CONSEQUENCES

The most recognized effect of homelessness is anxiety and depression. Recent works identify that both of these health effects are significantly resolved through providing housing, however meta-analysis of the works being done is very complicated by poor methodology of studies: short follow-up, making it impossible to judge the homelessness outcomes, and high group heterogeneity. (https://doi.org/mpxx)

Among the outcomes of homelessness specifically in queer people, "utopian thinking" is seen, in accordance with England, 2022, "an inevitable part of community responses: to improve the present it, it is necessary to look beyond the present and to an alternative in which queerness does not only survive, but is valued, celebrated and encouraged".

To a materialist that would mean death of the community as a utopianism-free endeavor, but it is not, however, it should be noted that imperfect solutions to the crisis provide fertile soil to these cognitive failures.

Actual observations of the long-lasting effects of experienced homelessness are, indeed, lacking, but so far there's no data that homelessness and unemployment actually have significant lasting damage in the queer population, nonetheless remaining the risk factor in their duration.

One, however, important effect of escaping and avoiding homelessness is resiliency. As Cronley, 2017 notes, "Rather than understanding how youth are surviving in extremely adverse environments, research applies socially normative models of behavior to their actions such that conclusions of deviancy and marginalization are inevitable" and "youth rely on informal social networks to survive on the street and that spirituality, mental health, and creativity are associated with improved coping". Once again we are drawn to connections to education systems within this approach.

And therefore we must remember establishment of education systems during historical cases.

PAST

Expansion of educational processes has long been demonstrated to be a driver of establishing new or maintaining old hegemony.

One might remember Huguenots, who existed both in France and in Netherlands. Often, for example in Van der Lem's "Eighty Years War", Erasmus of Rotherdam is remembered to be as a reason for catholics' loss in the region - humanism, moderateness and church reforms were indeed the ideas of his. It's not easy for me to believe, considering how Netherlands were absolute leaders in amount of exterminated heretics during the 1520-1540, therefore you cannot imagine the humanism and spirit of mercantile freedom helping very much.

But comparing the historical evidence between French Huguenot fighting and Netherlands' Huguenot fighting, one stark difference is seen immediately without even examining the evidence - it's the material amount of Evidence piled up.

Netherlands of XVI century was ultimately a literature-centric country: rational argument, presented with necessary charisma and efficiency, put into the easy epistolary style allowing for open discussion - all that erased the differences between catholics and protestants.

And using this positional leveling, protestants spent 10-20 years before, well, protesting with continuous work of printing press, while catholics of Netherlands continued, thinking themselves safe, sat complacent, only satisfying the demands of the already intellectual public.

Indeed, you can not let a worldly peasant work with biology, err, theology, lest they will be mistaken and fall into the tenets of sin themselves. A good example of this "Don't give the North Korean kids iGEM distribution" was dutch translation of La Bouclier de la Foy by Nicole Grenier, which the translator prefaced with an easy explanation that you should never actually argue with heretics, the priestly class knows best.

In France, enjoying the closeness of Rome, literacy was synonymous with military industry, err, Raytheon, wait, wrong, Catholic Church.

Of course it was literacy ultimately sympathetic to the plight of the layman, and easily putting itself into their shoes - «Les disputes de Guillot le porcher et de la Bergère de S. Denis en France contre Jehan Calvin prédicant de Genesve» is exactly about the lower classes destroying Kalvin himself with facts and logic.

And, like this, simply by virtue of being able to work with higher reasoning in lower genres, you can win the Hegemony.

The ultimate victory of feminism in 1917 also answers a lot about where did soviet feminists come from - from the intermediate spaces where people of higher class can interact as equals with people of lower class, without financial or institutional power relationship between them. An example is, of course Pavlov teaching women's courses and creating a whole host of women physiologists, actual hymnasia and schools, such as in Sonya Yanovskaya case.

Masonic secret societies, where jews could freely talk to christians and nobles mingles with commoner bourgeois were this driver in bourgeois revolutions, universities drove February and October revolution, and even in the USA the connectedness to high-socioeconomic status, what is called "bridging social capital" remains a primary predictor of success of people from oppressed groups. (https://doi.org/gqmpxx)

FUTURE

As such, I cannot see a way for personal charity - bonding social capital, excising queer people from support networks and from solidarity with marginalized, destructive to both people outside of it and to attempts to build a queer community — to be excused in modern conditions.

Build new platforms to, instead of elevating select voices, sing together.

#charity #Education #empowering #Resiliency #queer community #iris.txt

5 notes · View notes

lboogie1906 · 9 months ago

Text

Dr. Edward Franklin Frazier (September 24, 1894 – May 17, 1962) was a sociologist and author, published as E. Franklin Frazier. His 1932 Ph.D. dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed the historical forces that influenced the development of the African American family from the time of slavery to the mid-1930s. The book was awarded the 1940 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. It was among the first sociological works on African Americans researched and written by an African American person.

He was born in Baltimore as one of five children of James H. Frazier, a bank messenger, and Mary (Clark) Frazier, a homemaker. He attended the Baltimore public schools, which were legally segregated in those decades. Upon his graduation in 1912 from the Colored High and Training School, he was awarded the school’s annual scholarship to Howard University

He graduated with honors from Howard in 1916. He was a top scholar, pursuing Latin, Greek, German, and mathematics. He participated in extracurricular activities including drama, political science, the NAACP, and the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. He was elected as class president in both 1915 and 1916.

He attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he earned an MA. The topic of his thesis was New Currents of Thought Among the Colored People of America. During his time at Clark, Frazier first began to study sociology, combining his approach with his deep interest in African American history and culture. He spent 1920–1921 as a Russell Sage Foundation fellow at the New York School of Social Work.

In 1948 he was elected as the first African American president of the American Sociological Association. He published numerous other books and articles on African American culture and race relations. In 1950 he helped draft the UNESCO statement The Race Question.

He wrote a dozen books in his lifetime, including The Black Bourgeoisie, a critique of the Black middle class in which he questioned the effectiveness of African American businesses in producing racial equality. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

3 notes · View notes

knifearo · 1 year ago

Note

Hello!

Would I be able to use your posts on aromantic identity for a sociology undergraduate dissertation project?

Its aim is to better represent what both aromanticism is, and what it means to us within academic literature within sociology, as there is a jarring deficit, particularly in comparison to the rising literature on asexuality that often conflate the two.

As an aroace researcher this is an important issue to me, particularly as throughout working on this dissertation I have faced conflict born from ignorance from my academic staff, and I want more people to know and understand what ‘aromantic’ is, so that we are not afterthoughts or footnotes in discussions of queerness and identity.

What I would like to do is to be able to use your posts as examples of how being aromantic is discussed and shared in online aro communities.

If you are willing and interested, I can provide links to an information sheet (explaining the project in more detail) and a consent form for you to sign.

The consent form so that my university knows that I am doing this with explicit permission. If you choose to consent and sign the form, please send the signed form to my university email: [email protected]

Any questions please feel free to message me back here, or via my email! <3

hi!!!!! that sounds super interesting! so cool to see research expanding into our community. would love to see the information sheet + all that! i'd be more than happy for you use my posts if they're going to be helpful :)

#yayyyy aromanticism! <2 #ask #talking

4 notes · View notes

religion-is-a-mental-illness · 1 year ago

Text

By: Christopher F. Rufo

Published: Mar 19, 2024

Harvard professor Christina Cross is a rising star in the field of critical race studies. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, secured the support of the National Science Foundation, and garnered attention from the New York Times, where she published an influential article title “The Myth of the Two-Parent Home.”

Cross’s 2019 dissertation, “The Color, Class, and Context of Family Structure and Its Association with Children’s Educational Performance,” won a slate of awards, including the American Sociological Association Dissertation Award and the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, and helped catapult her onto the Harvard faculty.

According to a new complaint filed with Harvard’s office of research integrity, however, Cross’s work is compromised by multiple instances of plagiarism, including “verbatim plagiarism, mosaic plagiarism, uncited paraphrasing, and uncited quotations from other sources.”

I have obtained a copy of the complaint, which documents a pattern of misappropriation in Cross’s dissertation and one other academic paper. The complaint begins with a dozen allegations of plagiarism related to the dissertation that range in severity from small bits of “duplicative language,” which may not constitute an offense, to multiple passages heavily plagiarized from other sources without proper attribution. (Cross did not respond to a request for comment.)

The most serious allegation is that Cross lifted an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Stacey Bosick and Paula Fomby titled “Family Instability in Childhood and Criminal Offending During the Transition Into Adulthood” without citing the source or placing verbatim language in quotations. Here is the paragraph from Bosick and Fomby:

We use data from the PSID and two of its supplemental studies, the Child Development Supplement (CDS) and the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS). PSID began in 1968 as a nationally representative sample of approximately 4,800 households. Original respondents and their descendants have been followed annually until 1997 and biennially since then. To maintain population representativeness, a sample refresher in 1997 added approximately 500 households headed by immigrants who had entered the United States since 1968. At each wave, the household head or the spouse or cohabiting partner of the head reports on family household composition, employment, earned and unearned income, assets, debt, educational attainment, expenditures, housing characteristics, and health and health care in the household. In 2015 (the most recent wave available), the study collected information on almost 25,000 individuals in approximately 9,000 households.

And here is the paragraph from Cross, with identical language italicized:

This study draws on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1985-2015) and its two youth-centered supplements, the Child Development Supplement (CDS) (1997-2007) and the Transition into Adulthood Supplement (TAS) (2005-2015). The PSID began in 1968 as a nationally-representative sample of nearly 5,000 U.S. households. Original sample members and their descendants were followed annually until 1997 and have been followed biennially since then. To maintain population representativeness, in 1997, a sample refresher added approximately 500 households headed by immigrants who had entered the United States since 1968. At each wave, the household head or the spouse or cohabiting partner of the head reports on household composition, and household members’ employment, income, educational attainment, and health status. In 2015, the study collected information on nearly 25,000 individuals in approximately 9,000 households.

This was not a one-off error. Later in the paper, Cross lifts another full paragraph from Bosick and Fomby, with minor word substitutions, without placing the copied language in quotation marks or properly citing the authors. Cross cannot plead unfamiliarity with the source: Fomby served on Cross’s dissertation committee, making the offense even more egregious.

Elsewhere in the paper, Cross borrows language from other academic sources, sometimes citing the authors but failing to place the verbatim language in quotations, and other times failing to cite the source at all, creating the false impression that it was her own work. For example, Cross lifts verbatim language from “Examining the Antecedents of U.S. Nonmarital Fatherhood,” by Marcia Carlson, Alicia VanOrman, and Natasha Pilkauskas—the last of whom also served on Cross’s dissertation committee—without the use of direct quotations, as required. Here is the paragraph from Carlson et al.:

To adjust for biennial interviewing starting in 1994, we assign the previous year’s reported values (adjusting earnings for inflation) as the missing year’s values for the time-varying covariates during noninterview (i.e., odd) years in the 1994–2006 period.

Cross directly copies this language, including the idiosyncratic use of parentheticals, with minor word substitutions, suggesting a certain amount of deliberateness. Cross writes, again with identical language italicized:

To adjust for biennial interviewing starting in 1997, I assign the previous year’s reported values (adjusting income for inflation) as the missing year’s values for the time-varying covariates during noninterview (i.e., even) years in the 1998-2012 period.

According to the complaint, Cross repeats this pattern of plagiarism in at least one other paper, “Extended family households among children in the United States: Differences by race/ethnicity and socio-economic status,” published in the academic journal Population Studies in 2018. The complaint alleges that Cross again uses material from others, including the same passages from her dissertation advisors, without proper attribution.

This complaint raises a number of pertinent questions. First, do the allegations rise to the level of “plagiarism”? To answer that question, one might turn to Harvard’s own policy, which states: “If you copy language word for word from another source and use that language in your paper, you are plagiarizing verbatim . . . you must give credit to the author of the source material, either by placing the source material in quotation marks and providing a clear citation, or by paraphrasing the source material and providing a clear citation.”

Second, what is happening at Harvard? We have seen an explosion of plagiarism allegations against prominent scholars and administrators in recent months, all associated with critical race studies and “diversity and inclusion” programs. Former president Claudine Gay, chief diversity officer Sherri Ann Charleston, DEI administrator Shirley Greene, and now star professor Christina Cross have each come under fire for alleged plagiarism.

This raises several additional questions. Did these scholars manage to earn positions at Harvard without a comprehensive review of their work? Why are Gay, Charleston, and Greene, in particular, still employed at Harvard, given the seriousness of the questions raised about their academic integrity? Harvard’s own policy recommends serious consequences for students who have committed plagiarism. Are professors held to a lesser standard?

Finally, given Harvard’s long-standing support for DEI policies and affirmative action programs, it is reasonable to ask whether scholars such as Gay, Charleston, Greene, and Cross rose through the ranks on their merits or, at least in part, on their identity and their politics.

Further investigation is needed. Independent researchers currently looking into plagiarism at Harvard should scrutinize not only these programs but also a control group in other, more substantive disciplines to determine whether plagiarism correlates with left-wing racial disciplines or is widespread throughout the university.

Time will tell. My sources say that more allegations are coming.

As it's already well established that the domains these people operate in - anything ending in "Studies"; Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Women's Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Race Studies, Media Studies, etc - are fraudulent, it's safest to assume that anyone with such units on their academic record is a fraud and plagiarist by default, and until proven otherwise.

#Christopher Rufo #Christopher F. Rufo #Christina Cross #Harvard #Harvard University #plagiarism #academic corruption #academic fraud #higher education #DEI bureaucracy #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #equity #inclusion #religion is a mental illness

2 notes · View notes

ahecworld · 2 years ago

Text

Every GK Question Paper Be Like #memes #funny #comedy #exam . Best Affordable Online Academic Assignment Writing Help Service From AHECcounselling . You can get Top Class Assistance From Expert Writers Of AHECounselling & Submit Your Project With The Best Content. . Our Best Specialised Subjects 🔰 Business Studies, 🔰 Management, 🔰 Marketing, 🔰 Accounting, 🔰 Finance, 🔰 Economics, 🔰 Research proposal, 🔰 Thesis statement, 🔰 Literature review, 🔰 Dissertation, 🔰 Programming, 🔰 Psychology, 🔰 Sociology, 🔰 Engineering, 🔰 Project Management, 🔰 Statistics, 🔰 Law, 🔰 History, 🔰 Computer Science, 🔰 Pharmacy, 🔰 Biosciences, 🔰 Nursing, 🔰 Lab reports, 🔰 Financials statement, . We are available 24/7 to help you and to give our 💯%. E-mail 📧:- [email protected] Whatsapp number- +91 92148 59550

2 notes · View notes

rankedtutors · 2 years ago

Text

Hello, Scotland university and college students! 👋

Are you struggling with your assignments? Do you need professional help to ace your exams? Do you want to save time and money while getting the best grades?

WhatsApp Group Link: CLICK HERE

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you need Assignment Help Experts UK/USA/CANADA WORLDWIDE! 🙌

We are a team of experienced and proficient tutors who can help you with any academic task. Whether you need assistance with essays, online exams, dissertations, proposals, research papers, creative writing, or any other subject, we have got you covered! 🙌

We have expertise in various disciplines, such as engineering, business, economics, IT, law, psychology, history, philosophy, sociology, and many more. We can solve all assignments of AUS, UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany and USA universities. We know how to score well in all universities. Perfect knowledge of referencing is our key to success. 🚀

We guarantee you:

- 💰 30% discount on your first order

- 💸 100% money back if you are not satisfied

- 🕒 On-time delivery of your work

- 📝 High-quality writing that is plagiarism-free

- 📊 Free Turnitin report to prove originality

- 🔧 Revision facilities to ensure your satisfaction

- 📞 24/7 availability and support

Don't stress over your assignments anymore. Let us handle them for you and deliver the best results. Contact us today by clicking the link below and get a free quote. 😊

Some of the universities and colleges we can help you with are:

- University of Edinburgh

- University of St Andrews

- University of Glasgow

- University of Aberdeen

- University of Dundee

- University of Strathclyde

- Heriot-Watt University

- University of Stirling

- University of the West of Scotland

- Edinburgh Napier University

- Robert Gordon University

- Glasgow Caledonian University

- Queen Margaret University

- Abertay University

- University of the Highlands and Islands

- Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

- Glasgow School of Art

- SRUC Scotland's Rural College

- New College Lanarkshire

- City of Glasgow College

#college #assignment help #a+#essay writing #home tutors #essay #assignmentexperts #assignmentwriting #physics #discussion #scotland #research paper #dissertation #mba #mbacollege #online tutoring

2 notes · View notes

renatoferreiradasilva · 26 days ago

Text

Ph.D. Research Proposal Title: Culture, Ethics, and Statecraft: The Paulista Coffee Elite and the Cultural Foundations of Political Economy in Brazil (1870–1930)

1. Research Question and Thesis

How did the cultural and ethical worldview of the Paulista coffee elite shape their political strategies and help institutionalize a model of state intervention that prioritized elite interests in Brazil’s early republican period?

This dissertation argues that between 1870 and 1930, the Paulista agrarian elite developed and enacted a distinct cultural-political logic that viewed the state not as an autonomous entity, but as a moral extension of their economic and civilizational project. Through an analysis of symbolic practices, ethical discourses, and elite institutions, I explore how this worldview culminated in the Taubaté Agreement (1906) and laid the groundwork for enduring patterns of elite-state relations in Brazilian political economy.

Rather than treating economic crises and state interventions as merely material phenomena, this project theorizes them as products of cultural formations and class hegemony. It situates the Brazilian case within global debates on elite reproduction, symbolic legitimacy, and the cultural construction of state power.

2. Intellectual Contribution

This project contributes to multiple academic conversations:

It offers a cultural and historical sociology of elite formation and political economy in Latin America.

It reframes the Taubaté Agreement not as a technocratic measure, but as the product of an elite cultural project that moralized state intervention.

It integrates Gramscian and Weberian theory with Simmelian insights to offer a multi-dimensional account of state capture and elite hegemony.

It contributes to global comparative studies of agrarian elites and oligarchic statecraft.

3. Theoretical Framework

This dissertation draws on a constellation of thinkers—Simmel, Weber, Bourdieu, Marx, and Gramsci—to build an interpretive model that links economic interest, symbolic power, and the historical production of elite hegemony.

3.1. Georg Simmel: Cultural Totality and Meaning Simmel’s notion that historical meaning emerges only within a “total cultural form” informs my treatment of the Paulista elite's worldview as an aesthetic and ethical form. Their defense of coffee valorization is framed not merely as economic lobbying, but as a symbolic performance of class destiny.

3.2. Max Weber: Ethics and the Rationalization of Domination Weber’s insights help situate the moral discourse of the coffee elite as part of a broader logic of legitimation. Their sense of stewardship over the nation and belief in their civilizing mission reflect a distinctly modern form of moral capitalism.

3.3. Karl Marx: Class Domination and the Role of the State From a Marxian perspective, the Taubaté Agreement represents a case of state capture by agrarian capital. The state acts not as a neutral arbiter but as an instrument of class domination, facilitating the redistribution of public resources to preserve elite profit rates during capitalist crises.

3.4. Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony, Consent, and the Cultural State Gramsci provides tools to understand how domination becomes accepted as common sense. The Paulista elite operated not only through coercion or influence, but through the cultural construction of consent. Newspapers, agricultural societies, and educational institutions functioned as private apparatuses of hegemony, producing a worldview in which public subsidy appeared patriotic and necessary.

3.5. Peter Temin, Ronald Dore, and Chalmers Johnson: Comparative Cultural Economies Temin’s argument that national economic performance is shaped by deep cultural norms informs the comparative dimension of this study. The cohesion of the Paulista elite—through kinship, social clubs, and press influence—mirrors the elite consolidation seen in Meiji Japan. Ronald Dore’s contrast between “duty-based” and “contract-based” societies helps to frame the Paulista paternalist ideology as akin to the Confucian duty-oriented rationality of Japanese industrial elites. Chalmers Johnson’s work on MITI highlights how elite planning can be moralized through nationalist narratives, a logic comparable to how São Paulo's coffee elite justified state intervention in defense of the nation. This comparative framework broadens the significance of the Brazilian case and situates it within a global history of elite-driven developmentalism.

4. Methodology and Sources

4.1. Archival Research The project will draw on:

Documents from the Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo

Proceedings of the Sociedade Rural Brasileira

Parliamentary debates and government reports (1890–1930)

Personal letters and memoirs of coffee elites (e.g., Guinle, Prado, Tibiriçá)

Newspapers (O Estado de S. Paulo, Correio Paulistano)

4.2. Analytical Techniques

Discourse analysis of elite moral language and metaphors of authority

Sociological profiling of intergenerational elite networks

Comparative historical analysis with other agrarian state-building cases (U.S. South, Meiji Japan, French agrarian policy)

5. Chapter Outline

Chapter 1: Coffee and the Nation: A Cultural Cartography of the Paulista Elite (1870–1890) Explores elite formation through rituals, education, the press, and the symbolic role of coffee in national identity.

Chapter 2: Crisis and Moral Panic: Narratives of Overproduction and Political Legitimacy (1890–1906) Analyzes how economic crisis was framed as moral and civilizational threat, justifying extraordinary intervention.

Chapter 3: The Taubaté Agreement as Cultural Act Examines the ethical language and ideological infrastructure behind the elite campaign for state subsidies.

Chapter 4: Coffee, the Republic, and Regional Hegemony (1906–1930) Traces how the moral economy of coffee was institutionalized in public policy and regional favoritism.

Chapter 5: Comparative Epilogue: Agrarian Elites and the Moralization of the State Places the Brazilian case in dialogue with global patterns of elite-driven statecraft, especially in Meiji Japan, the U.S. South, and early 20th-century France.

6. TimelineYearMilestone1Coursework, language refinement, theoretical seminars2Field research in Brazil; archival work3Drafting chapters 1–3; workshop presentations4Drafting chapters 4–5; article submission5Final revisions; defense preparation; dissertation submission

7. Fit with the University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is uniquely suited to support this project. Faculty in history, sociology, and Latin American studies offer expertise in political economy, state theory, and cultural analysis. The university’s commitment to interdisciplinary training and critical theory, alongside its archival and digital humanities resources, make it an ideal intellectual home for a project that bridges empirical rigor and theoretical ambition.

Keywords: elite formation, political economy, state capture, coffee, Brazil, hegemony, cultural history, Gramsci, Marx, Weber, Simmel, Peter Temin, Japan

0 notes