Sociology: do anything and call it work

Summing up years of someone else's work in one sentence. Mostly from sociology, because I'm almost 15 years deep down in the field. Following the steps of lolmythesis.com-senpai.

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Sociology is actually super important for peace because fixing governments doesn't fix broken people, but nobody listens to us so John D. Brewer wrote this book to prove we're relevant.

Sociology (BSA) (2012): 159-166.

Book Review Symposium: J Brewer, Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach

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Peace research needs to get its shit together and form a professional association in Australia so we can stop letting defense nerds be the only "experts" on the news who think war is just a game of Risk.

Social Alternatives 24.3 (2005): 62-64.

Professionalising peace research in Australia: some suggestions for the future.

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Australia's peace movement is actually huge and legit, but everyone ignores it, so the author is writing this so we can finally stop being so violent.

Social Alternatives 3.1 (1982).

Salient Themes of the Australian Peace Movement.

[loltheirscience]

The author interviewed 40 people in Northern Ireland to prove that people who actually live through a conflict might know more about fixing it than some random "professional" with a degree.

Theorising civil society peacebuilding: the practical wisdom of local peace practitioners in Northern Ireland, 1965–2015. Routledge, 2021.

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Peace studies in Australia is dying because of money and politics, so the authors are using sociology to explain why their specific research group might actually survive.

University of Melbourne, Initiative for Peacebuilding, Australia

Sustaining Peace Studies: A Sociological Inquiry into the Future of Peace Studies in Australia

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Tech is still a boys' club, and while working from home is nice, robots might take our jobs before we can fix the vibes.

The digital transformation of labor. Routledge, 2019. 235-253.

Identifying the digital gender divide: How digitalization may affect the future working conditions for women.

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The internet helps Egyptian women get jobs, but the law doesn't care and they still need to learn how to use a computer.

Economics and Law 2.2 (2020): 33-49.

Egyptian female entrepreneurship as driving factors in the digital era, a hope or a challenge

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Digital tools make running a business way easier for women in Turkey, but being a girlboss doesn't magically fix sexism or the fact that she still has to do all the housework.

Premium E-Journal of Social Sciences (PEJOSS) (2024): 8(44), 963–979.

Perakende ve E-Ticaret Sektörlerinde Dijitalleşme ve Kadın İstihdamı

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Lebanese women selling stuff online are exhausted because being your own boss just means you never stop working and still have to do all the housework.

Université la Sagesse, Lebanon

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Indonesian officials and religious leaders can't agree on whether vaccines are "holy" enough, so everyone is just confused and nobody wants the shot.

University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom & Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia)

Uncertainty and the ‘Halal’ Status of Vaccines in Indonesia

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Trans people in Thailand and the US both get screwed over by the same imperialist bullshit, just in slightly different flavors.

Journal of Health and Social Behavior 66.1 (2025): 75-91.

Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States.

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Trans health research is usually a depressing mess written by cis people who think they're broken; we should probably try actually talking to trans people and focusing on something other than just how much life sucks.

International journal of transgender health 25.4 (2024): 619-622.

Ensuring an inclusive, trans-led future for the field of trans health.

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Thai trans women are stressed because society is a mess, but they're dealing with it.

Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 11.2 (2024): 1124-1138.

Discrimination, health, and resistance for Thai transgender women.

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Trans people in southern New Mexico can't get decent healthcare because the system is a mess, so maybe we should actually listen to them for once.

Wellbeing, Space and Society 8 (2025): 100245.

Experiences of transgender individuals with medical care in southern New Mexico: An argument for a diverse and intersectional trans informed care.

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The healthcare system in the Philippines is so cisnormative and inaccessible that trans people have to build their own DIY medical networks on social media just to survive, and honestly, the government should probably take notes.

Social Science & Medicine 336 (2023): 116284.

Contending with precarity: Digital pathways to sexual and reproductive healthcare among transgender Filipinos during the COVID-19 pandemic

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The Philippine healthcare system is so transphobic and colonial that trans people basically don't exist in medicine, so we need to stop ignoring them and actually fix this shit.

Global Health Research and Policy 7.1 (2022): 35.

Intersectionality and the invisibility of transgender health in the Philippines. 

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Trans people in the Philippines have to choose between their healthcare and literally everything else because the system is rigged, so we should probably fix that.

University of the Philippines, Philippines

Transgender Health Dilemmas: An Intersectional Analysis of the Therapeutic Itineraries of Transgender Communities in the Philippines