• Abortion and Choice

  January 23, 2003:The Ideology of Population Assistance by Maria Sophia Aguirre and Cecilia Hadley. To find the article link to Population and Famiuly Issues in the left-most frame. Backup.

• Conflict and Cooperation

  • January 21, 2003: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment Muzafer Sherif, O. J. Harvey, B. Jack White, William R. Hood, Carolyn W. Sherif (1954/1961). The creation of and experimentation with in-groups and out-groups. Definitions of norm, small group, competition and cooperation. On Classics in the History of Psychology.

• Critical Race Theory

  January 24, 2003: Relationships to Encourage Education Some critical discussion of a study summarized in the Chronicle of Higer Education.

• Family

  January 25, 2003: Family Institute and Articles on Ethics Catholic. Have only the link up. Will get to essay soon, I hope. But articles could give you ideas for broader themes. jeanne

• Health

  1. Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Research

     • January 23, 2003: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics Link provided by Catholic.net. So expect a right perspective.

     • January 18, 2003: Gene Therapy Human Genome Project. Government Resource. Good basic guide to information on gene therapy and stem cell research, which should help you understand recent progress and concerns with diseases like diabetes and Alzeimer's.

     • January 18, 2003:Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues on Gene Therapy. Human Genome Project. Government Resource. Good source for conceptual linking to our social justice issues.

• Poverty

  • January 25, 2003:The Plight of the Poor in the Midst of Plenty by Jeremy Waldron. Good review of Rawls' philosophy of justice as fairness. Good parallel reading for Critical Legal Studies and Critical Race Theory. Backup.

• Religion

  The Batttle for God: One of the texts for Sociology of Reality (CSUDH)

  • January 20, 2003: The Battle for God By Karen Armstrong. Start of a summary and review file on Armstrong's 2000 book. She's a good writer and many of her topics are very timely. This is one of them. jeanne

  • January 20, 2003: Karen Armstrong: The Life of Buddha. On a Smithsonian Site.

  • January 20, 2003: An Ex-Nun in Search of God - but Biblically none the wiser! Book review by Professor Arthur Noble, who is attached to the European Institute of Protestant Studies, which is connected to the American Bob Jones University. Right Perspective.Backup.

  • January 20, 2003: Robert Fulford's column about The Battle for God "Robert Fulford is a Toronto author, journalist, broadcaster, and editor. He writes a weekly column for The National Post and is a frequent contributor to Toronto Life, Canadian Art, and CBC radio and television." Left Perspective. Backup

    Liberation Theology Texts for Sociology of Reality (CSUDH)
    

    Resources:

  • Catholic Documents by Subject. C None of the documents are up, but you might search the index, and look for them elsewhere. Link added January 25, 2003
  • The New American Bible Online. Catholic.net from the U.S. Bishops Web Site. Link added January 25, 2003.

    Articles and Essays:

  • January 23, 2003: Liberation theology and the great revolutionary fantasy, by Phillip Berryman Review by Paul Gray. Backup.

  • January23, 2003: North American Congress on Latin America Good resource.

• Social Class in the United States

  • January 22, 2003: The Class President By Mureen Dowd. New York Times. Backup.
  • January 21, 2003: A Touch of Class By Paul Krugman. New York Times editorial. Backup.

• Statistics and Methods:

  • January 24, 2003: A First Approach to Understanding Statistics Discussion and essay.

  • January 24, 2003: Relationships to Encourage Education A common sense methods and statistical analysis of a study summary in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

  • January 17, 2003: Interval Measurement Comment with a question on how to use interval measurement in an actual evaluation. Details given.
    January 18, 2003: Added Scott's further questions on interval and ratio measurement.
    January 22, 2003: Added Scott's further questiion on "statistical significance." Essay not yet finishd. jeanne

• Violence and War:

  • January 18, 2003: Joe Millionaire for President By Frank Rich. New York Times. At p. A 35. Backup.

• Work and Workers:

  January 21, 2003.Market Competition and the Organizational Demand for Skills Empirical evidence from Swiss Industrial and Service Enterprises. By Hans Geser. University of Zurich. July 2001.

  1. Work and Adversarialism

     Competition and Its Concomitants in the Corporate World

  2. Work and Motivation

     January 17, 2003: The topic of work fits integrally into our discussions of having to make our own decisions, and to recognize the scale of perspectives on which those decisions are based. At the conservative end of the spectrum on work is theory X that says that workers won't work unless you force them, too. At the liberal end of that spectrum is theory Y that says that workers find satisfaction in their work and will work most effectively if you just give them the chance. And this spectrum of attitudes toward work is at the basis of all management theory.

     Consider our closet at ASC as an example. . . .

  Lived Experience: Emancipatory Narratives

  

  January 18, 2003: Banana Workers Get Day in Court By David Gonzalez with Samuel Loewenberg. New York Times, Business Section, at p. B 1. This tells the story of damage done by the insecticide, DBCP, which has rendered many banana workers in Nicaragua sterile, and/or is alleged to have caused serious illness, such as cancer. Backup.

  Art Shenanigans

  

  • January 22, 2003: Eddie Breen's Piggyback Art

  • January 17, 2003: Interview with God Sent in by Rebecca McLaughlin (UWP). Beautiful scenery. Nice message. Thanks, Mac.

  • Michael Griffin (CSUDH) at West Coast Peace Rallies:
    . . .
    Michael says: "try these - both off the wire - one from cnn, the smaller one,
    the larger from AP, taken from yahoo:"

    "Michael Griffin snaps a photo of an anti-war speaker during a protest against the United States' possible war with Iraq during a demonstration in downtown San Francisco, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2003. Griffin wore a manequin with the likeness of U.S. President Bush (news - web sites) as king of the world. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)"

    Great costume, Michael. Now, I'll really have to hunt up some serious "defense of war" articles to balance the educational scales. I read some good ones last week, but was still too lazy to put them up. Guess you'll keep me on my toes, hmmm? School starts next week. Then you'll have to do some of this homework. By the way, for any of you having trouble making it out, that bumper stick across Dubya's ermine coat says: BLOOD FOR OIL. Don't forget you have to look at both sides: left/right because you have to be prepared to make your own choices. jeanne

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