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How can we use the sociology of networking in more constructive ways than spreading fear? The media are each day full of shocking images of racial conflicts and police killings in the USA and the New Nationalism of #Brexit and Trump, see: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3061574/the-new-nationalism-of-brexit-and-trump-is-a-product-of-the-digital-age (by Douglas Ruhkoff) and Friedman's column in my previous blog. It is sad to… 
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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
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A paracity is an organic structure which can encompass a large number of human individuals. It has some things in common with our current urbanised areas however a paracity is not bound to space. It can live off a currently existing city and inhabit the same space. It can be seen as a second layer on top of a society. A paracity lives off another city like a parasite off its host.
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A two-day postgraduate workshop that explores, defines and practices digital sociological research Are you curious about Digital Sociology? Consider, or already conducting, a postgraduate study on the subject? Want to explore the relations between Data, Society and the Self? Want to meet digital sociologists? Come and enjoy two days of roundtables, masterclasses, a research workshop…
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There is a big debate happening in the on-demand economy. W2 vs 1099. It’s the wrong framework. Neither are the right long term answer. We need a new classification.
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Families, they say, are becoming more socially egalitarian over all, even as economic disparities widen. Families are more ethnically, racially, religiously and stylistically diverse than half a generation ago — than even half a year ago.
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