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About TSP Features Editor’s Desk Roundtables Changing Lenses Clippings Office Hours Discoveries Teaching TSP There’s Research On That Contexts Council on Contemporary Families Social Studies MN Sociological Images A Backstage Sociologist Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies Cyborgology Dispatches from a Dean Economic Sociology Engaging Sports Families as They Really Are Feminist Reflections Girl w/ Pen Give Methods A Chance Give Theory A Chance Graphic Sociology New Books in Sociology Public Criminology Sociological Eye Sociology Improv Sociology Source Sociology Toolbox The Color Line ThickCulture World Suffering Toggle navigation Home Suffering Compassion Well-Being Resources About Us Home Suffering Compassion Well-Being Resources About Us Ron Anderson June 14, 1941 - December 21, 2020 Ron Anderson, an innovative scholar of technology and society, and a dear and generous colleague to all who were privileged to know him, passed away on December 21, 2020. Born in Sikeston, Missouri, Ron spent much of his childhood in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where his father started a hospital and served as personal physician to the court of Emperor Haile Selassie. After earning his psychology B.A. from La Sierra University in 1962, Ron moved to Stanford for graduate study in sociology, where his Ph.D. advisor was John Meyer. Upon his arrival in Minnesota as an Assistant Professor in 1966, Ron quickly took the lead in building a collaborative research infrastructure for his department, college, and university. Keep Reading. 25% Increase in Alcohol-Related Deaths in 2020 Mahala Miller on March 25, 2022 Four green glass bottles dripping with condensation. Image used under CC0. This week The New York Times covered … Read More Show Me the Money: Employees Not Only Want Better Pay, They Want Status Scott Schieman on March 8, 2022 Image: An image of white hands shuffling money, with a black background. Image via pixabay, Pixabay License. Over 50 … Read More Happy New Year? Evan Stewart and Sociological Images on January 19, 2022 This piece is reposted, with permission, from Sociological Images. As the new year brings in a new peak … Read More Diaper Desperation Nikoleta Sremac on January 13, 2022 Image: Shelving in front of a house in New Orleans with “Community Baby Supplies” sign and boxes of clothing, … Read More Chronic Pain is More Than A Personal Problem Hannah Schwendeman on November 23, 2021 Image: A white woman sits on a bed in pajamas, her arms clutched around her midsection in pain. Image … Read More Inequality and Access to Mental Health Care Mahala Miller on November 16, 2021 Image: A black woman sits on the floor, leaning against a sofa, in a low-lit room. Her head is … Read More Global Rise in Negative Emotions including Pain Ron Anderson on February 16, 2020 Books by Steven Pinker and Hans Rosling, among others, and reports from the World Bank and the UN, all argue … Read More The Global Refugee Crisis and its Resolution Ron Anderson on February 13, 2020 By 2020 the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) reported 71 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, half of whom qualify … Read More Website Overview Ron Anderson on February 14, 2019 This site is the new home for Ron Anderson’s website World Suffering & Compassionate Relief of Suffering.  Ron Anderson, an … Read More Where in the World is Suffering Extreme? Ron Anderson on February 15, 2018 The Gallup World Poll reveals the worst pockets of global suffering. On … Read More « 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 » WelcomeThis website offers short articles and resources on both global suffering and suffering-alleviation. For more detail on the topics addressed click on the “About Us” link above.Ron Anderson, EditorRecent Posts25% Increase in Alcohol-Related Deaths in 2020Show Me the Money: Employees Not Only Want Better Pay, They Want StatusHappy New Year?Diaper DesperationChronic Pain is More Than A Personal ProblemTagsaddictionAngerbullyingchronic painCompassiondepressiondisastersdiscriminationGold RulehatehatredHealing hatehomelessnessHumanitarianismhuman rightsIdentity politicsimmigrantsmeaningMeaning in lifemental healthmigrantsnationalismopioidspainPersonal Compassionpersonal sufferingpopulismprejudicepurposerefugeesResponsibilitySelf Compassionservice-learningsocioeconomic health disparitiessocioeconomic statussociology of healthSufferingviolencewarWar & ViolenceWell-Beingwhite nationalismWorld Humanitarian SummitWorld Sufferingxenophobia Login CC Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike