Isaiah Cohen, in his role as an education sociologist, was the instructor of record for SOC 100 (Introduction to Sociology), SOC 392 (Sociology of Gaming), and SOC 402 (Social Deviance). He had students in the SOC 100 and SOC 402 courses address questions about how and why society is organized as it is, how our …
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How to Share Your Research
Just puffand aim a beamof smoke at nothingbut the fact of satisfaction …What seems a treasurein this world is notfor us to measure.Sometimes it’s quiteenough to marvelat a dream that turnedmere leaves into a pleasure. – Samuel Hazo, “When the Evening Gets Down to Cigars”Occasional verse delivered at a meeting of the Rascals, Rogues, and Rapscallions. …
Love and Interpretation
By the cigars they smoke and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men’s souls. – John Galsworthy, Indian Summer of a Forsyte What if I told you that those who love are the ones who understand the best? We’re often trained to see ourselves as neutral observers who are impartial and …
Ethics and Aesthetics
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want? – Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray What does morality have to do with smoking? Is smoking unethical, or dare we say, sinful? I’m sure …
Critique and Colonialism
Those, who deliberately inhale this noxious poison, are not putting their talents out to the best advantage, nor are they faithful servants of their Heavenly Master. So much might be said in condemnation of the impure and baneful practice of smoking, that an attempt to grasp the whole subject, would far exceed the limits of …
The Gesture of Smoking a Pipe
Have you ever asked someone why they smoke? Maybe they’ll say it relaxes them, or that they enjoy it, or that they really just like being able to talk with other smokers. It all comes down to some sort of enjoyment. The late media theorist, Vilém Flusser argued that this enjoyment isn’t found in the …
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