September 2010
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“When we think of class struggle, too often our imagination gravitates to the...”
– David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital (via digitalpidgin)
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“What’s pissing me off is the whole notion that once you are employed, everything...”
– Ariane’s little world: A person is not their job (via sarahchristine) (via yourdp)
See, the thing is, that within capitalism, employment is an ownership relationship. Within a system of private property relations it is assumed (by some inherent natural force, whether God or otherwise) that you have...
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“A man who doesn’t know he’s in prison can never escape. As soon as you realise...”
– William S. Burroughs (via decayedintelligence)
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“In our societies people compete primarily for material goods, which have no...”
– Thomas Hurka
Hurka is giving a talk on ethics here at Rutgers tomorrow- I hope to go.
(via newleft)
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Facebook founder’s gift to Newark schools: The... →
The donation of $100 million by Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg to the Newark school system is a small episode that reveals something fundamental about American society.
The move, lauded uncritically by the American media, embodies and further enshrines the principle that has come to prevail in the US in recent years: if the population is to have access to education, culture and...
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“Conservatives” cannot grasp that the U.S. economy has spiraled into the black...”
– Is Paying 10 Million People Not to Work Really a Good Idea? (via azspot)
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“We need the living tradition of socialist thought, which appeals to human forces...”
– Leszek Kolakowski (via unburyingthelead)
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“and yes, i recognize the irony: the system i oppose affords me the luxury of...”
– resisting tyrannical government - propagandhi (via emilyswash)
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“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Oktoberfest & Tradition (via Soc Images) →
I think there is an interesting contrast presented in this link (I’ll leave it to you to check it out). Of course, what I find curious is the fact that tradition operates within a constantly changing social world. Thus, what we conceive of as tradition shifts in regards to other aspects, say culture, religiosity, different modes of production, and so on. In regards to these photos then,...
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“In problem-posing education, people develop their power to perceive critically...”
– Paulo Freire (via warispeace)
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“Most scholars will tell you that a lot of the most interesting books they’ve...”
– Geoffrey Nunberg (via azspot)
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Max Weber and the Unbearable Lightness of...
For Max Weber, ”a sociological explanation contained two strands: (1) the interpretation of meaning; and (2) the analysis of causal relationships. The sociologist has to engage in a process of understanding (Verstehen) because action to which actors attach a subjective meaning is the subject matter of sociology” (Ashley & Orenstein, 2001, p. 239).
Of course, the last point could...
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“Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or...”
– Dr. Robert Hare (via azspot)
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“It will never be possible to eliminate the fact that human beings have different...”
– Murray Bookchin (To Remember Spain)
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“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great...”
– Lucy Parsons (via revolutionnow)
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“The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty,...”
– John Steinbeck Cannery Row (via quote-book)
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Canada's Boring Pseudo-Democracy →
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WatchGet a Sociology degree so you can be like this guy!
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TEN THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT RACE →
dropouthangoutspaceout:adailyriot:
Our eyes tell us that people look different. No one has trouble distinguishing a Czech from a Chinese. But what do those differences mean? Are they biological? Has race always been with us? How does race affect people today?
I will probably use this list for the tutorials I’m TAing. Go PBS!
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