April 2011
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“This is an absolutely vital point that cannot be overemphasized: value is...”
– David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (via digitalpidgin)
Apr 1st
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March 2011
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Mar 31st
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“Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such...”
– Albert Einstein. In my humble opinion, sociology has, as a discipline, a primary responsibility of exploring and examining the various concepts that make up our reality, and shape our daily lives. By practicing sociology, then, one is able to critically reflect on the function, purpose, or...
Mar 31st
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“Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible...”
– Edward Bernays - Propaganda (1928)
Mar 31st
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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not...”
– Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (via leftliberty)
Mar 31st
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Mar 31st
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Mar 29th
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Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart... →
Mar 29th
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CFR.org - GDP and Economic Policy →
Mar 29th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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NY TIMES: Thatmywife costings →
youmightfindyourself: The researchers, after controlling for all other attributes (height, weight, attractiveness, etc.), calculated how much extra income (relative to the income of the average online male dater, $62,500) a man would need to overcome the racial barrier. Here are some of the estimates (there weren’t enough data to do all the interracial permutations) of how much each extra income...
Mar 26th
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Mar 25th
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Mar 24th
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“We know that we shall not obtain the victory of woman suffrage in a short time,...”
– Clara Zetkin, as quoted in Angela Davis’ “Revolution and Womankind: On Clara Zetkin’s Selected Writings” (from Davis’ book: Women, Culture and Politics) Davis go on to discuss the questionable politics of the vote (because we’ve all read our Emma Goldman) explaining its significance for working...
Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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“I think the roots of this antagonism to science run very deep. They’re...”
– Ann Druyan
Mar 21st
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Economists And Psychopaths →
One of the most studied fields of applied game theory is economics. Kudlow embraces a particular theory of economics that might best be described as economic Darwinism, a zero sum game where for every winner there’s a loser. Tellingly, the theory originated with studying the actions of poker players, each of whom is assumed to want to take all the other guys’ chips. Decades of subsequent social...
Mar 21st
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Mar 21st
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Mar 21st
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Mar 19th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 17th
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A slight name change: from Zouave to Sociologic. This way, I hope, that those who are looking for more sociologically related things will be able to find them here. Update your bookmarks, and such!
Mar 17th
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“It has always seemed strange to me … the things we admire in men, kindness and...”
– John Steinbeck (via thesteppenwolf)
Mar 17th
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Mar 10th
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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
– Gloria Steinem (via kari-shma) Welcome to sociology…
Mar 10th
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Mar 7th
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Mar 2nd
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