April 2011
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People often ask me why I enjoy sociology so much. The only response I’ve been able to come up with is this:
When I was a child I participated in the time-tested and parent-hated game of “Why?”
See: Louis CK on “Why?”
Most questions could only be answered to the end of my parents’ intellectual ability (more likely, patience). These were often questions of a...
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“The big lie about capitalism is that everyone can be rich. That’s impossible....”
– Michael Rivero (via fucknobigbrother) (via gonzodave)
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“Organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, assume an...”
– Gary Teeple, The Riddle of Human Rights
Truth.
(via redguard)
I have nothing but the utmost respect and gratitude for my former MA thesis supervisor. Great to see others posting his work.
Anonymous asked: Can you expand on your comment (below) that the technological movement reaffirms the notion of isolated individuals (paraphrased)? It seems the recent advances of the Internet have dramatically altered some of the isolating and pacifying effects of the tv and radio eras. In particular I'm thinking of information sharing and community building fostered by online technologies. Virtual...
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“Concepts of the social are never fully referential, in the sense of identifying...”
– Trevor Purvis & Alan Hunt
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Corporate tax cuts not delivering on job... →
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“The alienation of the worker from his product means not only that his labor...”
– Karl Marx (via theguywhoinventedfire)
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“There is no better phenomenon to study, if anyone is seriously interested in...”
– Glenn Rikowski via @jennifermjones (via mxmlsm)
Sadly, far too true.
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“History is a nightmare from which none of us can awaken.”
– Stephen Prometheus in Carl Jung’s Odysseus.
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“The United States has done for Freedom and Democracy what the Soviet Union did...”
– Stephen Zunes, Progressive (via gonzodave)
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In Praise of Marx →
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“Some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal”
– Albert Camus (via heartmindspirit)
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“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession....”
– Cornel West (via newleft)
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Slavoj Zizek: “Neoliberalism is in Crisis” →
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What is Social Darwinism →
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends...”
– Upton Sinclair (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
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Stephen Colbert ruins high tea. →
Class, culture, and social norms.
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“If capital is privately controlled, then people are going to have to rent...”
– Noam Chomsky (via azelie)
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WatchCultural Differences: From Sudan to America
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“Because when we find ourselves believing that killing a man makes us more of a...”
– Jay Smooth, founder of New York City’s longest-running hip hop radio program, WBAI’s Underground Railroad and video blogger. (via spunkywarcannon)
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Sociological therapy?
For whatever reason, it seems that the posts in which I actually provide my own content (as opposed to simply re-blogging) receive the most attention from other Tumblr users—for those that simply lurk, I can’t be sure.
With that said, however, coming up with new posts regarding various sociological phenomena is a lot of work. It requires thinking. As most of us probably already know,...
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“We have come to know that every individual lives, from one generation to the...”
– C. Wright Mills The Promise of Sociology (via sozoh)
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“Marxism is about leisure, not labor. It is a project that should be eagerly...”
– Terry Eagleton, “Indomitable,” a review of Eric Hobsbawm, How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011, Little, Brown, January 2011, London Review of Books, 3 March 2011, page 14. (via j2parman)
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“Most often love does not choose a body as its object unless an emotion, such as...”
– Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust) 