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Thought I’d take running notes on how the American Sociological Association conference is proceeding - for me, that is. I could wait and do a single wrap-up once the whole thing packs up and leaves town, but I probably just won’t remember anything. So, it’s just as well to jot things down as they take [...]

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From global warming to another worldwide crisis, AIDS.
I’m taking a course on HIV education. I’m enjoying the course because the instructor rightly eschews a purely ‘educative’ approach: one can’t become ‘educated’ or hope to educate others about HIV/AIDS, he argues, without understanding its specifically political and social characteristics. Point well taken, and one I [...]

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