July 2011
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“Dare to think!”
– Immanuel Kant (via heartmindspirit)
Jul 30th
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Everyday Sociology Blog: You Might be a Marxist →
Jul 30th
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Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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“Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made, and it can...”
– Nelson Mandela (via squashed)
Jul 27th
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“Marxists want nothing more than to stop being Marxists. In this respect, being a...”
– Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right (via theguywhoinventedfire)
Jul 27th
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Jul 27th
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Is sociology ruining your fun? » The Editors' Desk →
linzyxxxxx: One of the features we introduced in Contexts was the student column “What I Learned.” Kind of in that vein, I just came across a little commentary written for the undergraduate sociology newsletter by one of our own, Contexts research assistant Alex “Sweet Al” Casey. Perhaps we can’t take credit for it, but the piece is written with a certain flair and takes the kind of big view on...
Jul 27th
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“I think the trouble with being a critical thinker or an atheist, or a humanist...”
– Ellen DeGeneres (via cwnl)
Jul 26th
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Jul 21st
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Jul 19th
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Jul 17th
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Internet use affects memory, study finds. →
There is a great quote at the end of this article where Dr. Sparrow says, “Human memory… is adapting to new communications technology.”  Well, of course. Our consciousness is shaped by the social, and thus, the makeup of our material existence. The things that are external to our own consciousness – that structure it, shape it, confine it, and mediate and condition it – will come to affect...
Jul 16th
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Jul 16th
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Fame top value among youth TV shows. →
Jul 16th
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The Global Sociology Blog: A Documentary on... →
globalsociology: As regular readers of this blog know, I am a big fan of Zygmunt Bauman, who was my sociologist of the semester a couple of terms ago. So, it makes me very happy that someone finally made a documentary about him, with the great title “The Trouble with Being Human These Days”. Here is the…
Jul 16th
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Wonder Woman's biggest problem - Imgur →
Gender stereotypes.
Jul 14th
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Jul 8th
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thesociologist: Christopher Lasch, 1932-1994. “At first glance, a society based on mass consumption appears to encourage self-indulgence in its most blatant forms. Strictly considered, however, modern advertising seeks to promote not so much self-indulgence as self-doubt. It seeks to create needs, not to fulfill them; to generate new anxieties instead of allaying old ones.” (quote via...
Jul 7th
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“..Board of Directors have to make certain kinds of decisions, and those...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky) Here we see the importance of structure. Of course there is a profound amount of agency within the human experience. How that agency is limited, however, is the most telling example of how a system operates, and to what ends it functions.
Jul 7th
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“… the relations between people are fundamentally shaped by the way a...”
– Wallace Clement, Understanding Canada: Building on the New Canadian Political Economy
Jul 7th
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“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are...”
– Alan Watts (via cwnl)
Jul 6th
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“The notion that activity itself is pleasurable, is a utility, has sunk almost...”
– C.B. Macpherson, The Real World of Democracy
Jul 2nd
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Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations... →
Jul 1st
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Exclusive: How (And Why) An NBA Team Makes A $7... →
The political economy of an NBA franchise.
Jul 1st