January 2012
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“Why is sociology absent in public debates … why do sociologists have so little...”
– The Paradox of Sociology (via sociolab)
This paradox is perhaps the most frustrating aspect of being a sociologist, or a sociologist-in-training. For a population that studies society as such, it would appear that society could care less about any notions of ‘self-reflexivity.’
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“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then...”
– Albert Einstein (via occupyallstreets)
Will study social interaction for food: Have any... →
entropyforever:
bodybetraysthemind:
Need a hand here guys, my textbook is very vague on the subject of sociological and ‘common sense’ approaches.
Can anyone give me a clear difference between them?
I already have that the sociological approach starts with a theory and is then tested…
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“The problem today is that we have a lot of ‘anti-capitalism,’ indeed an overload...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via solitaryforager)
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Thanks to those who continue to be interested in sociology. And many thanks to those that create the various images, videos, and words that appear here. This is, in many ways, an idea repository; it is a way for me to catalogue the various things that interest me for later use (for teaching, or otherwise). So, thanks again.
With all that being said, I’ve been busy, and it’s been...
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“Anybody can create community with people who believe just like they do. The true...”
– Lee Barker (Unitarian Universalist, minister, educator)
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“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...”
– Michel Foucault, “Practicing Criticism” (via talajoon)
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1919 silent film depicting Arctic Canada →
saarajetsam:
An extraordinary documentary filmed in 1919 to mark the 250th anniversary of the Hudson Bay Company has been restored for modern audiences.
This is an interesting look at Canadian political economy; its development based on the extraction of particular resources, and thus, the wide variety of phenomena related to that process, such as identity, material conditions, geography, and...
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“The difference between dogs and people is that dogs know how to be dogs.”
– Peter L. Berger, Sociologist (via vagueprofoundphrase)
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“Your very ideas themselves are but the products of bourgeois conditions of...”
– Karl Marx (via themarxistmind)
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“By “nationalism” I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can...”
– George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (via quotemarx)
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“You and I, in fact everyone all over the world, we’re literally African under...”
– - Spencer Wells, PhD, Genetic Anthropologist, Explorer In Residence, National Geographic Society (via wearerising)
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“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via soul-surfer)
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“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
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Indeed, the product of a sociological education.
“It is not the number of victims or the degree of cruelty that is distinctive; it...”
– C. Wright Mills (via cultureofresistance)
“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens” (via fwriction)
“Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total: it pervades the...”
– Erich Fromm (via cultureofresistance)
“Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation. In a...”
– Slavoj Žižek; ‘Violence’, p19 (via caitlinate)
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“The institution of an identity, which can be a title of nobility or a stigma...”
– Pierre Bourdieu - Language and Symbolic Power (via faintestglance)
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Why Socialism? →
Capitalism in Wonderland →
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“But, if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not...”
– Karl Marx
“[Marx] considers that notions of ‘individuality’, ‘equality’, ‘private...”
– David Harvey, Limits to Capital (via bbcity)
“Of all the oppositions that artificially divide social science, the most...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, opening to ‘Critique of Theoretical Reason’ in The Logic of Practice (via robert-brydie)
“I’m not one of those people who think that comedy is your conscience taking a...”
– RIcky Gervais (via bloodprintedonherwings)
“People’s minds and their conceptions of themselves are shaped by their social...”
– George Herbert Mead (via robert-brydie)
“…[T]he relationship between social status and the likelihood of being targeted...”
– Jim Sidanius, Michael Mitchell, Hillary Haley, and Carlos David Navarrete. 2006. Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs: A Social Dominance Perspective.
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“Sociology as a discipline investigates the conditions that lead to inequality...”
– In reply to, “Sociology is just a bunch of left-wing dogma!” (via socmajor)
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
“Yet, functioning members of American and Canadian societies who are unaware of...”
– Ignorance Isn’t Bliss: The Danger of Avoiding Tough News - Culture - GOOD (via sociolab)
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“The conclusion to be drawn is thus that the problematic of multiculturalism -...”
– the universal exception, zizek 2006 p.173 (via zizekianrevolution) 