Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Bawendi had failed Chemistry exam in college

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Why do you think most college students regard binge drinking as a normal rather than a deviant behaviour?

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🔵 Margarita with a Straw: Female Sexuality, Same Sex Love, and Disability in India | Economic and Political Weekly

https://www.epw.in/engage/article/margarita-straw-female-sexuality-same-sex-love-and#:~:text=Through%20its%20frequent%20attempts%20of,within%20Margarita%20with%20a%20Straw

Do we identify women with disability as sexual beings? Have films reiterated disability and sexuality as incongruent identities, or has the trend been undergoing a transition? Margarita with a Straw (2014) raised these relevant questions about women’s disability and sexuality in India, and further identified the extent to which Bollywood has misconstrued identities and glorified femininity by adding to the negativity associated with women’s disability in India.

🔵 Gandhian concept of village development and India's development policy | Gandhi's Views | Articles on and by Mahatma Gandhi

https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/village_development.html

Good governance demands respect for human rights, rule of law, strengthening of democracy, promoting transparency and capacity in public administration. The responsiveness of the state and its institutions to the needs and aspirations of the people, and inclusive citizenship are imperative to good governance. Democracy depends upon the equality of all human beings, their right to participate in social and political transformation and the right to development, to live in dignity. Panchayat Raj is a system and process of good governance. Villages have always been the basic units of administration in India since ancient times. The Gram Sabha can become the cornerstone of the whole Panchayat Raj institutional set-up, thereby the Indian democratic system. So in this paper focus is on Gandhian concept of Panchayat Raj. This is useful to development of India. So in 21st century this concept becomes powerful in the Nation.

Importance of Democratic Decentralization:

Gandhi's concept of democratic decentralization bears the stamp of his passionate belief in non-violence, truth and individual freedom. He calls it Panchayati Raj or village Swaraj. He wants to see each village a little republic, self-sufficient in its vital wants, organically and non-hierarchically linked with the larger spatial bodies and enjoying the maximum freedom of deciding the affairs of the locality. Gandhi wanted political power to be distributed among the villages in India. Gandhi preferred the term ‘Swaraj’ to describe what he called true democracy. This democracy is based upon freedom. Individual freedom in Gandhi’s view, could be maintained only in autonomous, self-reliant communities that offer opportunities to the people for fullest participation.1

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🔵 4. Introduction to Queering Gender and Sexuality – Erick Jackaman

https://transingabout.com/trans-studies/queering-gender-sexuality/

What is a queer perspective of gender?

Understanding that gender has multiple meanings eg.
Internal (gender) identity
Outward expressions (of gender)

System of how social life is structured
Gender expressions, norms and identities vary across time, space and culture

The way we experience gender and how gender functions in society is inextricably linked to other aspects of ourselves, such as race, class, disability, age etc.

Gender can be understood as something we “do”, rather than something we are – Candace West and Don Zimmerman

Gender can be understood as “performative”, meaning that it emerges in and through behaviours and interactions rather than those (gendered) behaviours being reflective of an inner gender core – Judith Butler

Gender can be viewed as “biopsychosocial”, that is, continuously understood and (re)produced through interactions between our biological, psychological and social worlds.

Gender is not simply the social counterpart of “biological” sex.
Rather, a queer perspective would view gender and sex as intrinsically interconnected – Judith Butler and Anne Fausto-Sterling

Gender is not a binary, but rather encompasses a wide range of expressions, including (but not limited to) femininities, masculinities and non-binary expressions of gender.

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What would happen if present patterns of migration, both internal and international, reversed themselves? How would your hometown change? What would be the effect on the nation's economy? Would your own life change?

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🔵 Overcast Minds : Caste Consciousness and Academic Performance | Economic and Political Weekly

https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/19/special-articles/overcast-minds.html

Children from historically disadvantaged castes face systemic hurdles in education in India—ill-equipped schools, poorly trained teachers, discrimination—leading to high failure and dropout rates. Children from disadvantaged castes also face subtler psychological impediments. One such impediment is consciousness of negative stereotypes. Via an experiment, this study illustrates how CASTE CONSCIOUSNESS could affect academic performance, and finds that children from disadvantaged castes perform poorly in tests when made aware of their caste and reservation status than otherwise. The study underlines the need for reform in how India implements its reservation policy to narrow some of the inter-caste differences in educational attainment.

Inherited caste identity is known to block the progress of many Indians from historically disadvantaged castes (Thorat and Newman 2009). In the sphere of education—which is critically linked to other life outcomes, such as employment, income, health, and standard of living, disadvantaged castes continue to face hurdles in access to schooling and skill attainment despite remedial affirmative action programmes by the national and state governments.1 Case studies document that schools serving disadvantaged caste communities are poorly staffed, with teachers having inadequate subject knowledge and training (Subramanian 2017). Studies also detail the discrimination children from underprivileged caste groups experience at school, including being segregated during school lunches, denied access to drinking water, subjected to casteist slurs, and asked to do menial tasks seldom asked of pupils from traditionally privileged castes (Balagopalan and Subrahmanian 2003; Nambissan 2009; Subramanian 2017). Children from disadvantaged castes are also known to suffer prejudice within classrooms—with teachers silencing them, and seating them in the back while reserving front seats for students from traditionally privileged castes (Nambissan 2009).

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Q. "Sociology without History is rootless and History without Sociology is fruitless." Elaborate. (20M)

Please post your answers scanned in black and white mode as PDFs on @SociologyCivils.

Thank you!
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🔆 Monday Question 🔆

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Would a society based on free love tend to be long-lasting? What social forces would make it stay together or fall apart?

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What social movements are most visible on your campus? In the community where you live? What do you think these groups need to do to be effective?

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How brave you are for slowing down.
For not finishing that to-do list.
How courageous you are for not crossing that finish line, because your body said "enough.”
How fearless you are for choosing the quiet of your soul, over those voices driving you always towards more.
How rebellious you are for
honoring your own natural rhythm,
going against the culture’s breakneck speed.
We tend to make heroes of those hungry with ambition, relentlessly doing, producing always more
We applaud those who refuse to stop or rest. Who push themselves so hard in the name of achievement, that they sacrifice their body and soul and heart in the process
We celebrate those who are ill or aging but never show it, never slow down, never reveal a moment of vulnerability.
This drivenness can be heroic, at times. It can be necessary for our survival or the greater good.

But,
I want to make heroes of those who slow down.
I want to make heroes of those who listen to their bodies, who do not strive for more than what the soul truly needs.

I want to applaud those who may not be driven towards success as we know it, but instead are nurturing something deep and subtle within their soul
I want to celebrate those brave enough to cease all doing, even for a second, and sit with the ache in their hearts. A task many find harder than summiting the highest peak.
I want to make heroes of those who honor their limitations.

It is truly an act of courage and rebellion to do any such thing, in a world demanding you resist your own self, your own rhythm, your own soul..

So We finally hear the call towards what serves our soul, and what then will serve the world. Nothing more, nothing less.
A hero is simply someone brave.
So come, be softly brave.
Be a new, quieter kind of hero.
Few may applaud, it’s true, but your soul certainly will ..

~ Leyla Aylin ~

What is Israel's reserve army and who can join it?

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Choose a religious tradition other than your own. How would your religious beliefs , rituals, and experience differ if you had been raised in that tradition?

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