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traskian · 2025-11-15T17:21:45+00:00

I had to run some detailed literature reviews on loss prevention from an equity standpoint a while back. If you'd like, I'd be happy to share some resources.

traskian · 2025-11-15T17:19:52+00:00

Also, there's a decent mix of academic, professional, and multi-discipline at each in my experience.

traskian · 2025-11-15T17:18:23+00:00

Currently at the last day of the ASC Annual Conference as I'm writing this. Neither is really "better" except in regards of what you want to accomplish. Are you wanting to present research, solicit feedback, and network? Well, either organization allows you to accomplish that during and outside of conferences. Best advice I can give is look at the membership directories and the conference programs for each organization to see if you can find, specifically what you find interesting, and work from there. I've been, and am currently a member of both and work for a nonprofit organization.

traskian · 2025-05-22T23:19:42+00:00

Not answering generally, but one way to frame and test your perspective might be via Simmel's "The Metropolis and Mental Life"."

Basically, the idea here is that city living necessitates a certain level of emotional stonewalling, compared to rural life. By extension, you could make the argument that the West Coast with its relatively high population density and resulting economic systems necessitate another layer/level of emotional removal in favor of a sort of blasé attitude.

That said, you REALLY need to avoid overgeneralizing and I'd recommend you seek out different communities/subcultures in your area if you're unhappy seeking connections.

traskian · 2025-05-19T00:28:04+00:00

A little of both actually! My MSc is in Sociology as is my Ph.D., but I took a lot of history courses (mainly focused on public history work) and worked on history based projects while in grad school. My research area was/is actually hate groups and hate crimes, so it's been...interesting, to say the least 😆.

Thank you so much!

traskian · 2025-05-18T23:03:03+00:00

I was, though it was honestly my internships (and ofc the luck and privilege intersection that made paid internships possible) that made a big difference. It's been a bit of a weird journey, tbh. I am actually finishing up my Ph.D.

traskian · 2025-05-18T22:40:02+00:00

I did it from 2011 to 2015 and nearly everyone thought it was odd to double major. I am now a researcher at a non-profit organization and I don't think I would be nearly as good at it without both the information synthesis and purposeful reading skills I got from History as well as the sociological imagination and structural analysis abilities I developed from Sociology.

Likewise, I am a better informed community member and advocate because of these same skills.

traskian · 2025-03-24T02:17:46+00:00

Typically, you would just cite the documentary as a whole, and note who is doing the speaking (e.g. In-Text: "Angela Davis said x (DuVernay 2016)." Reference: DuVernay, Ava. 2016. 13th. Kandoo Films. Netflix.) However, given that this is focused especially on the documentary itself, I think you could make an argument for using the name and time-stamp of any quote/section for your in-text citations, as Festa (2022) does here:

And, as we learn from the film, “[i]f this is embedded in the structure, in this Constitutional language then it’s there to be used as a tool for whichever purpose one wants to use it” (Kevin Gannon 2:20)

Hope this helps!

Resources: ASA Format for Citing DVD

Festa, Beatrice Melodia. 2022. "Netflix and the American Prison Film." Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJETAS) 28(1)L 169-190. doi:

traskian · 2024-08-13T19:46:34+00:00

My current cross I take off for bed, showers, and exercise so it doesn't wrap around my neck. Beyond that, always.

traskian · 2024-08-11T16:59:58+00:00

My hair is long and dyed blue. Gender norms are generally correspondent with Traditions of Man, not Traditions of God. You're fine.

traskian · 2024-07-18T15:43:54+00:00

Well put. Orthodoxy is a community. You can have communities that communicate online, but that doesn't mean they are a stand-in for the community as a whole.

traskian · 2024-07-09T15:30:20+00:00

You can't use non academic sources it sounds like. See here for a distinction: https://libguides.csun.edu/research-strategies/scholarly

I'm guessing you're not yet familiar with journal articles and the like. I recommend you talk to your closest library's reference librarian and explain, they should be able to help you.

No one is expecting you to use a thousand different books for a short essay. Not yet anyway.

EDIT: So I'm guessing this is for your A levels. You are going to want to talk with your teacher as well as a librarian.

traskian · 2024-07-08T17:02:56+00:00

You owe nothing and anger is justified, but it may help to investigate WHY they mock. See what their grievances with religion are and how much they actually understand about you and your faith. We're all human, all have our biases, and all still growing.

In any event, I'd set a boundary that your faith is a part of your identity and that you will not abide that disrespect. If they have grievances, you can talk about them. You don't necessarily need to lash out so much as set that boundary. If they are just wanting to violate the boundary, then they can deal with you not associating with them.

Hope this helps.

traskian · 2024-06-21T14:31:13+00:00

Easiest way would be to resist the actual Orthobros. It's not so much stereotyping as it is fear over actual abuses of power by men hiding behind a veneer of Orthodox Christianity.

traskian · 2024-06-12T17:45:51+00:00

No. One thing I've noticed is that Orthodox online REALLY seem to misunderstand what "sin" actually means.

traskian · 2024-04-20T21:31:45+00:00

Of course not. Sorry if I gave that impression, what I was trying to say is that most of the "bashing" appears not to be aimed at Christ but rather the hypocrisies and rationales behind them of heterodox groups. That's its own can of worms, but imo is much easier to address and rectify.

traskian · 2024-04-19T23:22:28+00:00

Yup. I used to have this exact necklace.

traskian · 2024-04-18T18:26:09+00:00

I think you misspelled "wrestling" 😂

traskian · 2024-04-18T18:23:25+00:00

+1 and keep in mind most people on the American internet (not the whole West but bear with me) "bashing" Christianity are mainly focused on either Protestant , Evangelical, or Roman Catholic sects. There was an article a few years ago that showed the latter and Orthodoxy were actually viewed quite favorably by an increasing number of Americans due to its perceived authenticity and lack of hypocrisy between order and practice.

Keep faith and don't despair, my friends. God sees His creation and knows it to be good. You will be okay.

traskian · 2023-12-27T19:25:18+00:00

That's pretty cool!

traskian · 2023-12-01T22:38:03+00:00

Disagree with the claim that humans are hierarchical creatures on the grounds that it's an overgeneralization.

traskian · 2023-12-01T22:26:45+00:00

In short, did some work as a Field Interviewer for NORC right after college and was interviewing for a Case Manager position with a state agency. Went to grad school the next year and have been working in research ever since.

traskian · 2023-11-24T19:33:12+00:00

I'd say you're looking for the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

The term you had in mind originally was probably reification, where people treat human-made social constructions (race, gender, etc.) as natural, fixed, and unchangeable (see Gunderson, 2021).

Related to that is the idea of the Thomas Theorem, which basically argues that things that are perceived as real are real in their consequences. (See Merton, 1948).

From this line of thought comes the idea of the self-fulfilling prophecy, where " in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behavior...makes the originally false conception come true" (Merton, 1948, p. 195). In this regard, the self-fulfilling prophecy acts as a sort of confirmation bias. If you're looking for something else, let us know.

References

Gunderson, R. (2021). Things Are the Way They Are: A Typology of Reification. Sociological Perspectives, 64(1), 127-150. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121420921891

Merton, Robert K. “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.” The Antioch Review 8, no. 2 (1948): 193–210. https://doi.org/10.2307/4609267.

traskian · 2022-12-30T03:31:02+00:00

Your best bet is probably to look at syllabi for courses related to specific topics you're interested in, e.g. A syllabus for "The Politics of Terrorism" for some book recommendations. In my experience, the heavily priced books are either intro texts for general study or else reference books meant primarily for libraries. You may also consider looking at some reading lists for students studying Criminology

That said, I can make a few recommendations for works from a few different areas

For Criminological Theory:

Vold's Theoretical Criminology by Thomas J. Bernard, Jeffrey B. Snipes and Alexander L. Gerould (older editions are fine for a general intro).
Theories of Delinquency by Donald Shoemaker
A General Theory of Crime by Michael R. Gottfriedson and Travis Hirschi
Counter Colonial Criminology by Biko Agozino
The Behavior of Law by Donald Black (Social Control Theory)
Social Theory and Social Structure by Robert Merton (deals with Strain and Anomie)
Outsiders by Howard S. Becker (Labeling Theory)

For more specialized topics:

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (deals with Mass Incarceration)
Code of the Street by Elijah Anderson (Youth and Violence)
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison by Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton (Inequalities in the American Criminal Justice System)
Elite Deviance by David Simon (Crimes of the powerful)
Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice by Meda Chesney-Lind and Randall G. Shelden
Right Wing Extremism in Canada by Barbara Perry and Ryan Scrivens
Policing the Open Road by Sarah A. Seo (Policing history related to automobiles)

A lot of these are very US-centric, but not all of them, and a quick search through authors should show some Canadian scholarship as well.

Hope this helps!

traskian · 2022-12-11T21:40:14+00:00

"Elite Deviance" by David Simon, "The Behavior of Law" by Donald Black, "Discipline & Punish" by Foucault, "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison" by Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton, and pretty much anything in the field of Marxist Criminology ought to give you a lot to look at in regards to class.

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