#zee sociology

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Hi, I hope you don't mind me asking but why did Zee hate being a nurse? Well, other than her being forced into the role

I don't think she hated it at first. She loved being a professional in a crisp uniform with real rank and authority all her own on the virtue of her education and experience. It's a far cry from being permitted to do more or less whatever she likes because her father is a man with rank and authority. She likes the puzzle of diagnosis, the riddle of keeping people alive, and the profound speed with which medicine advances thrills her. But even as young as she is by the standards of her own kind, she still gets a bit restless. And it's in those times that just how unfuckingfair everything hits her.

When Jack's bored, he can pick up anything he pleases. Natural history, biology, paleontology, leather tanning, winemaking. If he's tired of the city, he can just up and fuck off into the interior to be a stock hand If he wants. No one will stop him. And to a certain extent, she can too if she really wants, but it's just so much harder and riskier. What she is does give her a certain amount of protection, but it's still a hard thing to pull off. So she switches jobs, visits her father or a brother or friends or throws on trousers, and leaves gender behind entirely. But life is still so often a choice between harrowing or stifling.

Patients love her; she's an excellent nurse. She's funny, a bit naughty, and always partial to her own. She can give as much as she gets when speech becomes sparing. She continued in pediatric and community nursing over time, but I think she got heartily sick of nursing during WWI. She climbed the cliffs of Gallipoli half out of spite but still took the hill of Chanuk Bair. She left her gender behind and smashed her brains in with rocks like any other half-starved body on the trench line. She did her part to cut that hill from Turkish hands at bayonet point. She showed a talent and a propensity for violence no one wants to believe exists in pretty young women. The only real victory Gallipoli saw was hers, brought to heel by her brutality. But then the British lost the captured ground almost instantly, and it was for nothing.

She slides back into nursing not long after as Churchill's foolishness finally comes to a close, and she spends the rest of 1916 trying to preserve whatever decency, whatever sanity remains to her and Jack. And that's almost harder for her to do as a nurse, witnessing death after disease after devastating injury, one after another after another. She wanders around as she likes from unit to unit, corset or helmet on and off, but often feels guilty when it's not in a corset because nurses are in much higher demand than any grunt with a rifle. Sometimes, she just can't stand the sight of another broken body. But she does kind of redeem nursing for herself by mid-1917 when the British army commands that dominion nurses can't be trained as anesthesiologists, and she only mentions Canada and Australia. I always think of that as a sly little move on Arthur's part because it puts Zee on a pay and rank basis equal to doctors for the first time and that her forceful personality can go to some real reforming use for the first time in a while.

So yeah, too long didn't read: it's not that she hated nursing so much as she hates misogyny and the front-row seat to senseless violence it granted her.

[caroloftheshells]

lit masterpost

as “a music theorist” a lot of what i read is basically a really specific slice of sociology, which may be of interest to folks here, so: here’s my reading list for comprehensive exams (skimming / intros & conclusions for now and i’m going to try and do more of a deep dive later). starred stuff is on zee lib btw (which, if you recall, still exists but under that new format where you sign up for a personal domain link). non-starred stuff might be on there too; idk (haven’t checked yet; i have some of these in physical form from my library). this stuff is all about genre theory, popular/classical crossover, music recording/production, and economics.

*adorno - current of music

*adorno - introduction to the sociology of music

*attali - noise: the political economy of music

*benjamin - “the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction” [a classic!]

born - rationalizing culture: ircam, boulez, and the institutionalization of the musical avant-garde

born & haworth - “from microsound to vaporwave: internet-mediated musics, online methods, and genre” [really good. plenty of old vaporwave bloggers on tumblr.edu make cameos, which is entertaining, but it’s basically about the construction of diff electronic genres around diff aesthetic values, methods of file-sharing, & community organizational properties]

brackett - categorizing sound: genre and twentieth-century popular music

burgess - the history of music production

chapman - “the one-man band and entrepreneurial selfhood in neoliberal culture”

*drott - “the end(s) of genre”

echard - psychedelic popular music

*eisenberg - the recording angel: music, records, and culture from aristotle to zappa

fabbri - “a theory of musical genres: two applications”

fellezs - birds of fire: jazz, rock, funk, and the creation of fusion

frow - genre

gjerdingen & perrott - “scanning the dial: the rapid recognition of music genres”

holt - genre in popular music

johnson - “analyzing genre in post-millennial popular music”

*kittler - discourse networks 1800/1900

*kraft - stage to studio: musicians and the sound revolution, 1890-1950

kronengold - living genres in late modernity: american music of the long 1970s

moore - “neoliberalism and the musical entrepreneur” [side note. spellcheck did not recognize the term “neoliberalism,” lol??]

negus - music genres and corporate cultures

*ritchey - composing capital: classical music in the neoliberal era

robin - “balance problems: neoliberalism and new music in the american university and ensemble”

robin - industry: bang on a can and new music in the marketplace

sterne - the audible past: cultural origins of sound reproduction

waksman - this ain’t the summer of love: conflict and crossover in heavy metal and punk

*williams - marxism and literature

[wyrmfedgrave]

Pics:

1. Portrait of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, son of General William Bulwer & heiress Elizabeth Lytton. His father died before he could be 'elevated' into the Peerage. So, the honor fell to his son - for his popular literary works!

2 thru 4. Photos of Edward, a prolific writer who gave us the following sayings: "the great unwashed", "the almighty dollar" & "the pen is mightier than the sword!"

1906: The Earth (is) Not Hollow.

In 1871 (some say 1870), E. Bulwer- Lytton published his lost world novel "The Coming Race." Whose very title is supposed to be a Darwinian threat!

Edward was a prolific British novelist, playwright, poet, critic & politician. He served once as a Whig. Then, again as a Conservative!

The reason he was so prolific was the extravagant lifestyle that he & his wife followed...

Edward's "Race" was 1 of the 1st lost world & proto-scifi works. Sadly, this particular book would play a role in the creation of the German Nazi Party!!

Plot: An unnamed American narrator & his engineer friend go spelunking in a cave system below an abandoned mine shaft.

Their rope breaks, killing the friend!!

Then our hero is hunted after - by a large lizard (cave dino)!!

The narrator basically stumbles into the Vril-ya (winged humanoids)! Who learn English by viewing our hero's own memories...

Millions of these Ana (their race's name) live in this netherworld. They had fled there long ago - to escape the Flood!!

Under the Earth, they found vril - an unlimited power! A force controllable by willpower & special staffs...

With vril, their society grew into an utopia! One that has no 'real' laws - as enforcement is impossible.

Instead, they have ritual customs - like mutual guidelines & conventions. A single magistrate resolves the few disputes.

Religion & philosophical speculation is seen as pointless & counterproductive to the Vril-ya's 'happiness'...

But, strangely enough, they do believe in a reincarnation cycle, where the dead "change form!"

The Vril-ya are horrified learning of human civilization. They see our democracy as an ignorant type of government!!

Worse, nation states seem repressive, politics seem like conflicts & our system of capitalism is just plain barbarous!

One day, their prophecies say, the Vril-ya must eliminate the savages above!! Though, they'll take no pleasure in these acts.

Just like they've already made most other underground races extinct...

A Vril-ya youth takes our hero back into the cave system - & mentally forces him to act as 'bait!'

When the dino shows up - the kid kills it with 1 blast of his staff!

Luckily for our hero, Zee (a Vril-ya woman) is falling in love with him. Something that could prove fatal to both of them...

Yet, our narrator only has 'feelings' for a younger Vril-ya 'princess'!! He wants to marry her - to take control of this land & make it a proper democracy!

But, being that the Vril-ya only really respect vril wielders, he's asking to be murdered!!

Worse, he's not allowed to leave! The Vril-ya fear that he would reveal their future plans...

Zee, however, 'clears' the blocked tunnel, allowing him to escape.

Back in the U.S., our hero records his warning (the very book that the reader is holding)!!

Pics:

1 thru 3. Covers for various editions of the book that's a warning against an invasion from the Vril-ya underworld.

Note how tall the women are in regard to all males - human or Vril-ya! But, all of the artists forgot that these folk are winged!!

Criticism: The plot here acts as a framing literary device. The rest of the story is a long description of the Vril-ya society.

There's chapters devoted to the Vril-ya's language, sociology & their failing Arts! Even the Vril-ya's skull shapes (a 'science' back then) are all detailed.

Characterization is extremely thin for everyone. Our hero is a mere reader's surrogate & serves as a mouthpiece for the views of the author's times...

Only Zee, the narrator's would be platonic lover shows any real traits beyond her race's usual 'serenity.'

[titodicks]

please i need to know the most yaoitastic ships of the new cast im lost without chipper

It was hard to choose a winner because this season had such a high emphasis on “women” for some reason, so the male x male ships were quite scarce. However, thanks to my associates degree in sociology with a minor in yaoi studies, i was able to determine that the most yaoitastic ship of the season is Zee x Damien

[sarasa-cat]

Sometime this morning I was being amused by some arts and tech fluff piece in the NYT about how elder Gen Z are into distorted, wonky, unstaged selfies for Instagram— and this involves using the wide angle back camera on a phone so you cannot see the photo as you are taking it and some of them purposefully don’t even look at the photo til later leaving it as a lolsnort surprise. The whole point is to be stupid and contagious (oops wrong Gen) purposefully messy and anti-Instagram perfection.

And the comments on the article were all from older ppl — boomers I assume (bc I recognized some of the commenters handles and know something about some of them) and it was all WHAT THE FUCK ARE WRONG WITH KIDS THESE DAYS NO WONDer ThE WoRlD is In tHE ToILEt. Rrrgggg dumb kids so lazy and stupid!!!

(And contagious).

Anyhow I already knew about this from a few years back (why do I know these trends? Idk?) and when I first noted it I thought —

Okay, hold on here, bc I need to address all my millennial gen friends bc I really do love you so much and have since you all started coming of age and entering my adult (lol university) friends circle — I do have a bunch of my literal best friends in the millennial gen especially in that Xennial crew but also younger than that too —

I thought a few years ago— omfg thank god the gen Zeds (or Zees) are growing up to the point they have an effect on culture bc they (unsurprisingly!) remind me SO MUCH OF GEN X But with modern tech and late 20teens / early 2020s problems.

The humor in gen Z is totally a revamp of gen X humor. Which makes sense. gen Z are technically gen X’s kids.

Ppl can argue whether generation theory in sociology is bullshit or has something to say. Idk. I’m on the fence. But I do see societal swings of certain sorts: like, millennials were boomers revamped in many ways, which made gen X roll our eyes. What-ever.

I’m sure gen x was actually some sort of weird console video game playing revamp of (what the fuck came before boomers? Uh…)

Uhhh wikipedia?

The silent generation. Omfg they were named the SILENT generation in america. Shit you not. The leadership of the civil rights movement and the so called silent majority. From 1951 article in Time magazine:

“The most startling fact about the younger generation is its silence. With some rare exceptions, youth is nowhere near the rostrum. By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the "Silent Generation."”

Yeah, bc the parents of the boomers who came b4 them were called The Greatest Generation lol.

Seriously- that is what the press said about Gen X in the 90s- they are losers and slackers and blah blah blah do nothing lay abouts. Yeah, whatever. And then millennials came along and they were the Golden Children who would do everything right. Whatever.

So I am not surprised boomers are shitting on Gen Z while Gen X are eye rolling.

Anyhow- we need more messy shit and less of this staged aesthetic ffs. Yeah, even if messy is an aesthetic.

I just want to have less freaking expectations about the damn professional look that millennials created for women bc it is too time consuming and so entirely not my jam and I was SO PISSED OFF when it became an Expectation(tm).

(Don’t worry millennials- ur still many of my besties. 🌟)

——

Edited to add: despite my earlier post today about the news making me feel stupider, this made me smirk 😏- it’s the real news in america that is just fucking fuck)

[kharisubas40972]

Pyaar Ka Pehla Naam Radha Mohan fame Sambhabana Mohanty on pursuing PhD is sociology alongside acting: “I still have an inclination towards studies” : Bollywood News

Zee TV’s Pyaar Ka Pehla Naam Radha Mohan, which is a romantic drama based in modern-day Vrindavan, has been an audience favourite since its launch last year. With an engaging storyline, dramatic twists and turns as well as relatable characters such as Mohan (Shabir Ahluwalia), Radha (Neeharika Roy), Damini (Sambhabana Mohanty), and Tulsi (Kirti Nagpure), the show has kept the viewers on the edge…

[charleetyger]

On Tumblr about Tumblr: Is Tumblr a Public Sphere?

A public sphere—developed by fancy man (and German philosopher), Jürgen Habermas—refers to the social and technological transformations in society. Put simply, a public sphere needs these three things to, well...actually be a public sphere:

to have UNLIMITED ♾ access to information

EQUAL ⚖️ and PROTECTED 🔑 participation

the ABSENCE 🚫 of institutional INFLUENCE.

(Kruse, 2017. p. 63)

To learn more about zee Gerrrman philosopher, please refer to the video embedded below.

To imitate Cobb from Christopher Nolan's 2010 blockbuster, Inception, let's be inceptive and introspective for a moment—just as (I'm pretty sure) everyone on this site is personally—and let's look at Tumblr as a platform.

'What is Tumblr? What is it known for? Why am I even on this site?'

↗️ are the questions you might be asking yourself. I guess that is my job here today—to answer those age-old questions for ya!

Basically, Tumblr is where people come to hide—most of the time. The anonymity of the site is what has appealed over 518.7 million blog owners as of February, 2021. In conjunction with the fact that the site has less surveillance than other social media sites (like sites that rhyme with Schmeenztergram and Bacefook...), and being one of the first social media sites to use #hashtagging as a community building tool as users don't need to follow each other to see each other's content—I mean, why wouldn't you want to use Tumblr?

Queen — I mean, author of 'Oh, She's a Tumblr Feminist' (2019), explains that Tumblr 'could be understood as a platform that prioritizes aesthetics, amplified through its allowance of user-customized short-form blogs and reflecting its original positioning as a creative community.' (Keller, 2019).

To be technical for just one sec, (i know, ugh, sorry y'all), let me introduce you to a term called... dadadaDAAAA...

✨platform vernacular✨

Keller highlights the fact that platform vernacular recognises the 'ongoing interactions between platforms and users' and the creativity of users to repurpose platform allowances and limitations for particular modes of expression (Keller).

Which, and to put simply, means that Tumblr users will do what they want, when they want, and how they want, all the while making their pages look pretty doin' it. PreTTy badass if you ask me. #BigSlay.

So, let me ask you a question...

Anna Reif's analysis of women's self-presentation under the hashtag #bodypositivie includes a quote from a Tumblr user that reads,

'I am not perfect, I have wobbly bits, bits maybe sometimes I would prefer not to have, but do you know what? I am healthy and healthy in my body and mind and that is all I need.' (#678, 2022, p. 14).

Tumblr, as a public sphere, allows for Tumblr users—such as #678 quoted above— to have that level of EQUAL ⚖️ participation that we talked about previously. Reif's study argues that the analyzed content suggests that 'when users are dedicated to self-acceptance, blog descriptions are empowering for both the users and their audiences' (Reif, 2022, pp. 13-14).

Whilst we don't have time to talk in depth about the restrictions, rebuttals, and negatives of Tumblr as a public sphere in our new aged digital community, I will leave you with this one question—and feel free to drop a reply or comment below...

Is the absence of surveillance on a site such as Tumblr a good thing or a bad thing?

References:

Keller, J 2019, 'Oh, She's a Tumblr Feminist': Exploring the Platform Vernacular of Girls' Social Media Feminisms, Social Media + Society 5.3, 2019.

Kruse, L, Norris, D, Flinchum, J 2017, 'Social Media as a Public Sphere?' Politics on Social Media, The Sociology Quarterly, vol. 59. no. 1.

Reif, A, Miller, I, Taddicken, M 2022, 'Love the Skin You’re In': An Analysis of Women’s Self-Preservation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive, Mass Communication Society, Taylor and Francis Group.

Harnett, G. 2021, 'Jurgen Habermas and the Public Sphere: Simplified,' Grace Harnett. Youtube.

[othersociologist]

The Folk Devil Made Me Do It

I’ve been interviewed by NPR’s Code Switch on the growing political backlash about critical race theory. I discuss my research on moral panics about race. A moral panic is a situation or group positioned as a threat to social values. On the surface, it may seem nonsensical to ban critical race theory from schools, as it’s only taught at specialist university courses. Dig deeper: moral panics have always mobilised against a specific issue, and then moves to scale back other civic rights from minorities or marginalised groups.

[antipodeans]

Nocturne, Wynard Square

Dorrit Black, 1932

Linocut printed in black ink from one block, on ivory laid mulberry paper.

This graphic linocut is influenced by cubism and shows the night view from Black’s art school in Sydney. The black and white contrasts emphasise the streetlight and moon over the street.

[georgeinamerc]

I am. Ashamed. I didn’t know it was George’s birthday but happy birthday to that funky little bean pole I hope he got a hug from Lewis 🥺

Also I realized I like. Have not sent you an ask in forever so sorry I’m so scattered (dealing with some shit atm that’s like. Balancing between having me upset and royally pissing me off) anyway

Have you like. Slept now that it’s all over??? Showered eaten screamed into a pillow cried your eyes out whatver yoh need I told you you were gonna beat these exams and you were all ‘aoh nO i em goeng to failz Zee tests bEcawz I em stoopid’ you’re not this is why you listen to JC I have confidence in you always

-JC

HE DEFINITELY GOT A HUG FROM LEWIS😭😭😭 But like bestie,,,, it's okay!!! I don't remember half of the grid's birthday, it happens 🤷🏻‍♀️

DON'T YOU DARE APOLOGIZE 😤 I literally took forever to get back to you, don't feel bad about it! I know we're both dealing with our own shit and just know I'm here to listen if you need an ear<33

YES I HAVE SLEPT FINALLY!! And I do eat better now! I couldn't eat lunch before exams, my stomach was closed shut so now I'm making up for it!! Thank you for always checking in on me! HAHAHAHHAH NO NO YOU WERE RIGHT it's just that I'm always so pessimistic! OH also! Yesterday my sociology grade was posted and I got 9/10!!! I remember coming home so disappointed and I also complained to you too??? I'm not sure but yep!! That's the only grade that's out yet but I'll keep you updated❤❤❤

BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU?? Are you taking care of yourself? Are you eating well?? Are you getting your beauty sleep?? Are you taking breaks from studying as you should??? Let me know!!!

I LOVE YOU LOTS💕💞💞💞

[historia-vitae-magistras]

Because of an old shitpost- now I wonder what Kiwibird would be like if she had gotten her hands on Matt's... "brownies" and the aftermath of such. Lol

She's one of those shockingly high-functioning stoners who can smoke a joint, write, speak, and think pretty clearly, except she's a bit gigglier, sillier, and buzzy. The girl is so buzzy. Zee, by and large, is a hard-working, ambitious little shit. She'll get up at 5 am to go hunt rats with her old trench knife if one's been at her kiwis again, and she'll work long hours in service of causes from everything from environmentalism to conservation to abolition to sufferage or anything else. Moal or amoral, if she believes in it. But she'll get baked, using the spots method Matt taught her a while back (seriously, it's only NZ and Canada who use that method, and it's kinda fire) and just lay in the sun eating everything in sight. Her personality loses its sharp edges and softens down to that very compassionate, curious core.

Also she turns into a fucking garbage disposal. Y'know those seagulls who will stalk you like they're carrion birds and you're a carcass while staring at your fries at the beach? That's the kiwibird. She has been known to cry when Jack or Matt don't share their snacks fast enough. Will go through the entire cheese platter and down three rolls of hobnobs. She's 'invented' several new types of cheese toastie while on the green.

[barbecuedphoenix]

Well I’ve certainly talked a lot about her in the last post, so maybe it’s time to reintroduce Zee. 

Meet my Guardian from the English server, dear readers. And the leading lady in the fan-fiction that will one day hit this blog. ;) 

(To read the full profile, hit the blue ‘Photo’ button on the side of this post!)

Name: Zephania ‘Zee’ Tantiangco

Age (at the beginning of the story): 23

Birthday: December 29 

Height: 1.53 m (5′ 0″) 

Guard: Shadow

Lineage: Only mostly human. She’s still trying to figure out that last 3%.

Occupation: Annalist. Her primary job is to collate both past and recent field reports brought in by other agents. But now and again, she ventures into the field to carry out detailed recon work, interview witnesses, and/or investigate glaring discrepancies in the paperwork, always avoiding scuffles whenever possible to gather intelligence. Because she’s a scribe by training, she’s occasionally called on to pen public missives and official Shadow Guard statements (using tactical misinformation, though she’s always ambivalent about this). In short, she’s a reporter transplanted to the faery realm.

Skills: Writing in human script, Eldaryan, and cipher (quasi Shadow training) || Espionage (Shadow training) || Basic Kali stick-fighting (Shadow training) || Cooking and food science || Wilderness survival || Minor lucid dreaming potential (Hereditary) 

Weaknesses: Non-allergen asthma (she wears a vial of anti-inflammatory aromatic oils around her neck) || Low cold tolerance || Myopic || Tendency to jump in to help the underdog || Frequently too proud to ask for help herself || Loathes disclosing the full extent of her mistakes, and resorts to duplicity to minimize outside knowledge   

Weapons of Choice: Her pen (sometimes literally) || Twin Kali sticks || Her Swiss Army knife || Grenades made from waste kitchen ingredients and plant materials || Tactical questions and a droll sense of humor || Alibis and improvisation || Curiosity and a single-minded quest for answers 

Familiars: Sigmund (male Sabali), Feng-Huang (female Lovigis)

Crush: Her boss Nevra, who likes to butter her up to take over his paperwork every week. But then again, she punched him in his one eye the day they met, so he might just be evening out the score.  

Background Story: 

A Chinese-Filipino journalism student who was born in the United States, but only recently returned to the country of her birth to study. The majority of her life was spent traveling abroad with her parents: a celebrity chef and the manager who helped build his media empire.

This globetrotting lifestyle, her severe non-allergen asthma, and a know-it-all’s sense of humor that was decidedly unpopular with other children ensured that Zee’s childhood was a solitary one. With friends her age virtually nonexistent, she substituted them with books, writing, her family (including various hired nurses and chaperones), and people-watching during her frequent trips to airports.

Eventually, years of careful physical therapy (and sheer stubbornness) allowed Zee to set up a life for herself in California to study food science: the first step in grooming herself as the successor to her father’s culinary empire (by tacit family agreement). The city she chose was a touch too distant and too colorful for her parents’ taste, but a promise for regular contact (and a hefty credit card line) ameliorated old, parental fears enough to let Zee embark on a new life on the Golden Coast.  

Among instructors, the common opinion was that Zee was a highly-promising student, a force of curiosity in the lab, and a passionate writer with next-to-no fear of traveling. Among classmates, she was ‘that little snob’ who refused to stop correcting lab partners and spoke as though she swallowed a dictionary, while having no clue what to do with herself outside of class, despite her stellar track record. But neither group anticipated Zee abruptly dropping out after three years: the result of one too many private experiments with her freedom (apparently outside of class). With that mercenary willpower that first brought her to California against her parents’ wishes, she severed ties and moved further north-- alone-- to the not-as-balmy city of Seattle. And for a full year-- as far as her confounded family, friends, teachers, and colleagues knew-- she became a ghost. 

Zee eventually returned to the public radar-- as a markedly quieter, more retiring young woman with less of an encyclopedia complex-- after meeting the man who became her dearest friend: a sociology student named Joel, who shared her love of fact-chasing and camping, and was never put off by her reflexive wisecracks or reticence on her history. Joel convinced her to start again at his (smaller) university, seek help for herself, and pursue journalism as a new major after her interest in food science waned during her hiatus. Zee was still working up the courage to break the news to her parents-- that they’ll have to find a new successor for the family business, because journalism sparked a fierce love in her, pulling her into the world instead of benching her as the lifelong observer or rarified entertainer-- when Joel invited her on a last camping trip for their final spring break together as students.

Their destination: the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, where they hope to catch the First Salmon ceremony held by the native tribes there. Joel assured her that it was a going to be a spectacle, and Zee was hard-pressed to refuse, having barely set foot outside Seattle since her sudden flight to the city two years prior. 

They never did come back.  

[kisan512posts]

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Region Coverage (Regional Production, Demand & Forecast by Countries etc.): North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico) Europe (Germany, U.K., France, Italy, Russia, Spain etc.) Asia-Pacific (China, India, Japan, Southeast Asia etc.) South America (Brazil, Argentina etc.) Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, South Africa etc.)

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1 Industry Overview 1.1 Construction First Aid Kits Industry 1.1.1 Overview 1.1.2 Development of Construction First Aid Kits 1.2 Market Segment 1.2.1 Upstream 1.2.2 Downstream 1.3 Cost Analysis 2 Industry Environment (PEST Analysis) 2.1 Policy 2.2 Economics 2.3 Sociology 2.4 Technology 3 Construction First Aid Kits Market by Type 3.1 By Type 3.1.1 Plastic Case 3.1.2 Metallic Case 3.2 Market Size 3.3 Market Forecast 4 Major Companies List 4.Construction First Aid Kits Acme United (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.2 Johnson & Johnson (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.3 3M (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.4 ZEE (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.5 Certified Safety (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.6 Cintas (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.7 REI (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.8 Lifeline (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.9 Honeywell (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.10 Tender (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.11 St John (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.12 Beiersdorf (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.13 Hartmann (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.14 Safety First Aid (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.15 Lifesystems (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.16 First Aid Holdings (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.17 Firstar (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.18 Zhejiang Kanglidi Medical Articles Co Ltd (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.19 Yunnan Baiyao (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 4.20 Longbow (Company Profile, Sales Data etc.) 5 Market Competition 5.1 Company Competition 5.2 Regional Market by Company 6 Demand by End Market 6.1 Demand Situation 6.1.1 Demand in Common Type Treatment 6.1.2 Demand in Special Type Treatment 6.2 Regional Demand Comparison 6.3 Demand Forecast 7 Region Operation 7.1 Regional Production 7.2 Regional Market 7.3 by Region 7.3.1 North America 7.3.1.1 Overview 7.3.1.2 by Country (U.S., Canada, Mexico) 7.3.2 Europe 7.3.2.1 Overview 7.3.2.2 by Country (Germany, U.K., France, Italy, Russia, Spain etc.) 7.3.3 Asia-Pacific 7.3.3.1 Overview 7.3.3.2 by Country (China, India, Japan, Southeast Asia etc.) 7.3.4 South America 7.3.4.1 Overview 7.3.4.2 by Country (Brazil, Argentina etc.) 7.3.5 Middle East & Africa 7.3.5.1 Overview 7.3.5.2 by Country (Saudi Arabia, South Africa etc.) 7.4 Regional Import & Export 7.5 Regional Forecast 8 Marketing & Price 8.1 Price and Margin 8.1.1 Price Trends 8.1.2 Factors of Price Change 8.1.3 Manufacturers Gross Margin Analysis 8.2 Marketing Channel 9 Research Conclusion

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Is moving to Canada the real American Dream?

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Call it an American’s Canadian moment. Shortly after a remote work meeting at a local café in early February, Victoria Heath, an American living in Toronto, witnessed something extraordinary. A man approached the barista and asked for water. As he turned to reach for a cup, the man snatched the tip jar. Startled, the café staff tried to convince him to surrender the jar, even offering a few dollars and free food. “I’m sorry Sir, but I have no money,’’ the man said, with obvious remorse, and walked out with the jar. The transgression, to Heath’s surprise, produced no further drama. And in a gesture of sympathy, some patrons found an empty jar, and began to fill it with cash. “This was a surreal thing for an American to witness, because there were no threats or aggression thrown at this man. I’m not even sure the police were called,” Heath later wrote on LinkedIn.“There was just the calm understanding that the man meant no physical harm, and probably desperately needed the money.” With its steel-and-glass towers, cadres of emotionless commuters, and die-hard sports fans, Toronto may look just like any American city. Yet it is moments like Heath’s that drive home a fact that’s hardly a secret: Canada can feel like a world away from the U.S. In 2018, I left China, where I was born and raised, to attend graduate school in Canada. I had just ended a seven-year run as a journalist, at a time when the very profession was looking increasingly grim in an authoritarian state. In moving to Canada, I saw a chance of putting down roots somewhere open and democratic. Like Heath, I often find myself—through the mundanity of everyday life as a newcomer—juxtaposing Canada against its neighbour to the south. Both countries—from working with Americans to my schooling in Canada—have left deep imprints on my personality and worldview.

The author at Beijing International Airport on August 17, 2018. Downtown Toronto. Photo courtesy the author. Used with permission.

For example, I learned colloquial English from watching the American TV series, Friends. For my first master’s degree in China, my thesis supervisor was an American from Kansas. I cut my teeth in journalism at McClatchy Newspapers, an American news organization, and worked for The New York Times in Beijing for almost three years. If my native Chinese culture taught me hard work and conformity, Americans introduced me to another value system, one that prizes critical thinking, ingenuity, and personal liberty. For a long time, I thought Canada was just another America, only with nicer people and colder weather. Since moving to Toronto, I’ve been fascinated by the special relationship between the two. Canadians, in my experience, often struggle to articulate what defines their nation, other than multiculturalism, and tend to frame their identity in a we-are-not-them fashion. “Them”, of course, refers to Canada’s next-door neighbour. “We’re just NOT American,” many Canadians would tell me, before rattling off a laundry list of differences: healthcare system, gun culture, and even national character. Yet whatever Canadians say about their southern neighbour, the U.S. still looms large in the Canadian psyche. Consider my campus life. A Canadian classmate often entertained us with his effortless impersonations of U.S. presidents from Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan. One of our professors once boasted that our graduate program had an acceptance rate close to that of top American universities. And despite their disdain for the American way, some Canadians in my cohort followed American politics even more obsessively than they watched hockey.

The University of Toronto campus. Photo by the author. Used with permission.

“Canadians measure Canada inevitably and overwhelmingly against the United States,” Jeffrey Simpson, a former columnist for The Globe and Mail, wrote in his 2000 book Star-Spangled Canadians. “This Canadian measuring produces a kaleidoscope of reactions, ranging from envy to anger, from inferiority complex to moral superiority, from doubt to defiance.” By contrast, Canada barely registers in the American consciousness. When asked to name the Canadian capital, an American interviewee told BuzzFeed News in 2015 that “It’s either Toronto, or Quebec, or there’s something with Victoria in it?” No wonder author Margaret Atwood compares the U.S.-Canada relationship to a “one-way mirror” through which Canadians see the U.S. but Americans barely see Canada. In 1969, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau famously remarked that being next door to America was like “sleeping with an elephant“ whose “every twitch and grunt” would be felt. Despite the lopsidedness, some argue that the perceived differences are overblown. Take Charlotte, an American classmate of mine in graduate school who moved to Canada after studying in Scotland for years. “I knew I wouldn't have to adapt all that much. I got to move closer to home than I had been throughout undergrad, but without actually being back in the U.S.,” she said, “Canadians frame themselves as different to Americans because they don’t want to admit how similar they are.” Indeed, ask what music and movies people from the U.S. and Canada consume, and the lists would be unsurprisingly similar. Both countries are functioning democracies with large immigrant populations. About 70 per cent of Canada’s foreign trade flows through the world’s longest undefended border to the U.S. Ed Grabb, a sociology professor at Western University, says any attempt at dissecting differences between the two countries must factor in regional variances. To him, the differences can be best understood by dividing the U.S. and Canada into four distinctive subgroups: the conservative U.S. South, the politically and culturally left-liberal Quebec, English Canada, and the U.S. North. “English Canada and the U.S. North are very similar in their attitudes and behaviours,” he told UBC News in 2011. Still, the “we are non-American” camp in Canada is just as staunch in their belief, driven by a sense of patriotism and Canadian pride. North America, they say, is not a monolithic concept. And even between the closest of neighbours, nuanced differences abound, from politics to etiquette and mannerisms. A popular 2000 Canadian beer commercial featuring “Joe”, a character in a typical lumberjack-type plaid shirt, was full of jabs at the U.S. “I have a Prime Minister, not a President. I speak English and French, not American,” Joe delivered his rousing monologue behind a big screen, his voice growing louder as the speech marched on. “I believe in peacekeeping, not policing, diversity, not assimilation … and it’s pronounced “Zed,” not “Zee!”… Canada is the second-largest landmass, the First Nation of Hockey, and the best part of North America! My name is Joe, and I. AM. CANADIAN!” [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pASE_TgeVg8] The chasm is reflected in temperament, too. A stereotypical American is brash, arrogant, and opinionated. Canadians, on the other hand, are thought to be deferential, nice, and risk-averse. The differences—at least according to popular narrative—have been centuries in the making. In envisioning a new republic, America’s founding fathers wrote “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” into the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Following the American Revolution—a triumph over the British colonizers—the mantra sowed the seed for unbridled individualism and a deep skepticism of government overreach. Canada followed a different path. Its constitutional mandates—peace, order, and good government—were prescribed in London for a British colony. Late Canadian novelist Robertson Davies went so far as to label his country a “socialist monarchy.” Unchecked liberty and freedom, the thinking goes, risk undermining the greater collective good. Enter the recent government response to the COVID-19 crisis. While the U.S. at times let bitter partisanship undercut its efforts to muster a strong government response, Canadian politicians of different stripes banded together in a largely collective move to tackle an unprecedented crisis. On a per capita basis, the COVID-19 mortality rate in the U.S. is twice that of Canada’s. Had I attended graduate school in the U.S., what would my life look like now? Would I be able to rebuild my life in Trump’s America where foreign workers and international students alike have been targeted by a ruthless immigration clampdown? Unlike the U.S., Canada hasn’t turned its back on immigrants, many of whom arrive in the country nursing different dreams and ambitions. They help build the economy and add to the strengths of the society. According to the latest available official data published in 2011, among the immigrants residing in the host country six to ten years, the average citizenship rate in Canada was 71 per cent, compared to 24 per cent in the U.S.

Morning commuters in Toronto, one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. Photo by the author. Used with permission.

Of course, Canada is not perfect. Many problems plaguing the U.S., including racism and homelessness, also afflict Canada. Still, the country feels different—safer and more accepting. I feel at ease speaking Chinese on Toronto’s Yonge Street, in a multicultural city where one’s skin colour and accent rarely bring frowns. And while people expect me to be respectful, no one forces me to “act Canadian.” As I set out to plan my life in Canada during an unprecedented pandemic, I’m also watching anxiously from afar the escalating tensions between and my birth country and the U.S., as Beijing and Washington jockey for greater influence globally. Now the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating a nasty race between the two powers, with each side touting their self-proclaimed exceptionalism in governance. Sadly, aggression is emerging as the new currency in global geopolitics. It has bruised Canada, following its arrest of a Chinese tech company executive in Vancouver in 2018 on behalf of the U.S. In the aftermath, Ottawa is confronted with both Beijing’s ire and indifference from Washington. For many immigrants living in the U.S., the aggression can be just as excruciating. A Chinese friend, who is about to start his PhD at an Ivy League university, packed all his belongings in preparation for the worst when the Trump administration recently threatened, unsuccessfully, to revoke visas for international students whose courses were entirely online due to the pandemic. Last week, he reached out to me with an unusual request. “Many of my Chinese classmates in D.C. want to immigrate to Canada. Do you have time to chat?” he asked on Facebook messenger. Over a one-hour Zoom chat, he, along with his peers, some of whom work for international organizations like the IMF and the World Bank, showered me with questions about life in Canada—as well as its immigration policy. To them, neither the U.S. nor China feels like home. Now, two years into my new life in Canada, I still think back to these parting words from a former American colleague: “Congratulations, you’re achieving both the Chinese Dream and the American Dream—moving to Canada.”

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NCERT Class 12 Sociology Chapter 7 Mass Media and Communications

NCERT Class 12 Sociology: Social Change and Development in India 

Chapter 7 Mass Media and Communications 

NCERT TEXTBOOK QUESTIONS SOLVED : Q. 1.Trace out the changes that have been occurring in the newspaper industry? What is your opinion on these changes? Ans.: It is often believed that with the growth of the Television and the internet the print media would be sidelined. However, in India we have seen the circulation of newspapers grow. New technologies have helped boost the production and circulation of newspapers. A large number of glossy magazines have also made their entry into the market. The reasons for the growth in Indian newspapers are many.

1.There is a rise in the number of literate people who are migrating to cities. The Hindi daily ‘Hindustan’ in 2003 printed 64,000 copies of their Delhi’s edition, which jumped drastically in 2005, to 425,000. The reason was that of Delhi’s population of one crore and fprty seven lakh, 52% had come from the Hindi belt of the two states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Of this, 47% have come from a rural background and 60% of them were less than 40 years of age.

2. The need of the readers in the small towns and villages are different from that of the cities and the Indian language newspapers cater to those needs. Dominant Indian language newspapers such as Malayala Manorama and the Eenadu launched the concept of local news in a significant manner by introducing district and whenever necessary, block editions. Dina Thanthi-, another leading Tamil newspaper, had always used simplified and colloquial language.

3.The Indian language newspapers have adopted advanced printing technologies and also attempted supplements, pull outs, and literary and nice booklets.

4.Marketing strategies have also marked the Dainik Bhaskar group’s growth as they carry out consumer contact programmes, door- to-door surveys, and research. Thus, modem mass media has to have a formal structural organisaiton.

While English newspapers, often called National Dailies’, circulate across regions, vernacular newspapers have vastly increased their circulation in the states and the mral interland. In order to compete with the electronic media, newspapers, especially English language newspapers have on the one hand reduced prices and on the other hand brought out editions from multiple centres.

Change in the role of newspaper production-role of technology.

Many feared that the rise in electronic media would lead to a decline in the circulation of print media. This has not happened. Indeed it has expanded. This process has often involved cuts in prices and increasing dependence on the sponsors of advertisements who in turn have a larger say in the content of newspapers.

Newspapers have become a consumer product and as long as numbers are big, everything is up for sale.

Q. 2. Is radio as a medium of mass communication dying out? Discuss the potential that FM stations have in post-liberalisation India? Ans. : 

1. With the advent of TV, internet and other audio visual forms of entertainment, people started believing that radio will bean outdated form of mass communication but this thinking proved wrong.

2. In 2000, AIR’s programmes could be heard in two-third of Indian household in 24 languages and 146 dialects, over some 120 million radio sets. The advent of privately owned FM radio stations in 2002 provided a boost to entertainment over radio. 

3. In order to attract audiences, these privately run radio stations sought to provide entertainment to its listeners.

4. As privately rim FM channels are not permitted to broadcast any political news bulletins, many of these channels specialize in ‘particular kinds’ of popular music to retain their audiences. One such FM channel claims that it broadcasts ‘All hits all day’.

5. Most FM channels which are popular among young urban professional and students often belong to media conglomerates. Like ‘Radio Mirchi’ belongs to the Times of India group, Red FM is owned by Living Media and Radio City by the Star Network. But independent radio stations engaged in public broadcasting like National Public Radio (USA) or BBC (UK) are missing from our broadcasting landscape.

6. The use of radio m movies—In the two films ‘Rang de Basanti’ and ‘Lage Raho Munna Bhai’ the radio is used as an active medium of communication although both the movies are set in the contemporary period. In ‘Rang de Basanti’ die conscientious, angry college youth, inspired by the Legend of Bhagat Singh assassinates a minister and then captures All India Radio to reach out to die people and disseminate their message.

7. The potential for using FM channels is enormous. Further privatization of radio stations and the emergence of community owned radio stations would lead to the growth of radio stations. The demand for local news is growing. The number of homes listening to FM in India has also reinforced the worldwide trend of networks getting replaced by local radio. Q. 3. Trace the changes that have been happening in the medium of television. Discuss. Ans. :

TV programming was introduced experimentally in India to promote rural development as early as 1959. Later, the Satellite Instructional Television

Experiment (SITE) broadcasted directly to community viewers in the rural areas of 6 states between August 1975 and July 1976.

These instructional broadcasts were broadcasted to 2400 TV sets directiy for 4 hours daily.

In 1991, there was one state controlled TV channel Doordarshan in India. By 1998, there were almost 70 channels. Privately run satellite channels have multiplied rapidly since mid-1990s, while Doordarshan broadcasts over 20 channels there were some 40 private television networks broadcasting in 2000. The staggering growth of private satellite television has been one of the defining developments of contemporary India.

The Gulf War of 1991 (which popularized CNN), and the launching of star-TV in the same year by the Whampoa Hutchinson Group signalled the arrival of satellite channels in India. In 1992, Zee TV, a Hindi based satellite entertainment channel, also began beaming programs to cable TV viewers in India. By 2000, 40 private cable and satellite channels were available including several that focused exclusively on regional-language broadcasting like Sun-TV, Udaya-TV, Raj-TV, and Asianet.

While Doordarshan was expanding rapidly in the 1980s, the cable television industry was mushrooming in major Indian cities. The VCR greatly multiplied entertainmentoptions for Indian audiences, providing alternatives to Doordarshan’s single channel programming. Video viewing at home and in community-based parlours increased rapidly. The video fare consisted mostly of film-based entertainment, both domestic begun wiring apartment buildings to transmit several films a day. The number of cable operators also increased significantly.

The coming in of transnational television companies like Star TV, MTV, Channel V, Sony and others, worried some people on the likely impact on Indian youth and on the Indian cultural identity. But most transnational television channels have through research realized that the use of the familiar is more effective in procuring the diverse groups that constitute Indian audience. The early strategy of Sony .International was to broadcast 10 Hindi films a week, gradually decreasing the number as the station produced its own Hindi language content. The majority of foreign networks have now introduced either a segment of Hindi language programming (MTV India) or an entire new Hindi language channel (Star Plus). Star Sports and ESPN have dual commentary or an audio soundtrack in Hindi. The larger players have launched specific regional channels in languages such as Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi and Gujarati.

Localisation of STAR TV- in October 1996, STAR Plus initially an all English general entertainment channel originating from Hong Kong, began producing a Hindi language belt of programming between 7 and 9 PM. By February 1999, the channel was converted to a solely Hindi channel and all English serials shifted to STAR World, the network’s English language international channel. Advertising to promote the Hindi channel included the Hindi slogan: ‘Aapki Boli, Aapka Plus Point).

Both STAR and Sony continued to dub US programming for younger audience as children appeared to be able to adjust to the peculiarities that arise when the language is one and the setting another.

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The Dark of the Dawn: Bhore Ke Andhere Mein.

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Dhrubo Jyoti, Desraj Kali, Manoranjan Byapari and Sheoraj Singh Bechain in conversation with Harish Trivedi. Transformative Dalit literature has an inspirational role to play in the battle for justice and equity. Iconic writers and journalists who struggled with extreme poverty, prejudice and illiteracy and went on to become highly regarded litterateurs speak of the trajectory of their careers, the hardships and humiliation they faced and the victories and redemptions of literature. Sheoraj Singh Bechain teaches Hindi in the University of Delhi and is the author of several books, including the chilling autobiography Mera Bachpan Mere Kandhon Par. Manoranjan Byapari, a Bengali writer and sociology political activist, learnt to read and write while in jail at the age of 24. He has written over a dozen novels, a hundred short stories and numerous essays. His autobiographical novel, Interrogating My Chandal life, has won several awards. Dhrubo Jyoti is a Dalit and genderqueer person who works on issues of caste, gender and sexuality. Desraj Kali is a Punjabi novelist whose work focuses on the Ghadar movement, the literature and culture of Punjab and Dalit issues. In conversation with writer, editor and critic Harish Trivedi, they discuss their writing in the context of the personal and the political, and the many dimensions of Dalit literature. This episode is a live session from day 2 of ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2019.