December 2011
21 posts
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“Structures, in the sociological sense, constrain human agency. And for that...”
– Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike - Atlantic Mobile (via linzyxxxxx)
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“Undergraduates don’t have the same problems with writing that older people have....”
– Writing For Social Scientists by Howard S. Becker (via sociolab)
I don’t find writing about Sociology scary, I find it necessary. It’s getting people to listen that’s the hard part.
(via lawsonry)
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“Social reality is ultimately contingent: human beings make (and re-make) the...”
– Elaine Coburn
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“As soon as we begin to look at this, we see how curiously limited is the vision...”
– C.B. Macpherson, The Real World of Democracy
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Maryanne Williamson (via girlwithoutwings)
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“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
– Lord Northcliffe, British publisher 1865-1922
Sociology tumblrs. →
sociolab:
The master list I created. If I missed someone or you want to be on the list, let me know.
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“First, if the environment is defined as the substrate of human culture,...”
– Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (2010, p. 112)
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“When thinking sociologically, one attempts to make sense of the human condition...”
– Zygmunt Bauman, Thinking sociologically (1990)
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“I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead,...”
– Charles Bukowski (Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters)
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“How much of my brain is willfully my own? How much is not a rubber stamp of what...”
– Sylvia Plath (via mirroir)
George Orwell’s guide to the news — RT →
